The Russian spy poisoning, & the '01 anthrax letter murders.

[Philosoraptor]

I don't have a list of any supposed similarities between the two unsolved crimes, except for the fact that someone in the Russian government sure is suspected of having killed that former KGB spy with a rare, hard to find radioactive poison, supposedly.

The 5 famous anthrax murders right after nine eleven, are to this day unsolved, and the
anthrax was supposedly rare and hard to find. Five innocent people died, and two cryptic letters with death threats and virulent anthrax were sent to Democrats Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle, and to certain media, and media celebrities, it's a famous and still unsolved case that seems to have been forgotten in the corridors of time.

It has long been suspected, but not officially stated that someone in our own government sent those fatal letters, with cryptic messages to throw off the cops, but as I said, this is speculation.

It is also a historical but little known fact that george w. bush and dick cheney both called up Leahy and Daschle to tell them in no uncertain terms not to dwell too deeply into investigations of the anthrax attacks or nine eleven, unless I hallucinated all that, and if I'm wrong on details, please correct me. Why would bush and cheney call those two men and say that?

The murdered spy, who said Putin poisoned him before he died, made me recall the little remembered anthrax letter murders and terror threats, and the fact that the perps are still 'out there' free to kill again.

I'd like to hear what some of you think about the anthrax murders case all these years later.

[Virginia Dare]

1. I think that just like the case with the Russians...

the anthrax attack was designed to shut people up.

[datadiva]

2. There was a post a couple of days ago

about the FBI being involved in the anthrax thing. Maybe if you do a search you will find it. I think it also made the greatest page if I recall correctly.

[Warpy]

3. The anthrax was easy to find, meaning it was very quickly

traced to the CIA lab at Ft. Detrick.

Weaponized anthrax is hard to HANDLE, so hard to handle it's doubtful that it could have been put into those envelopes outside a high level containment lab. There would have been massive environmental contamination and many more deaths if it had been.

The anthrax mailings, like the polonioum 210 poisoning, were likely government conducted warnings for people to shut up.

[Shipwack]

4. What I never understood is,,, Why Polonium?

I mean, the KGB (or whatever name they use these days) must have a thousand ways of killing someone, in ways quiet and spectacular. Big splash? Bomb in the car, or icepick to the head. Small splash... some untraceable poison that looks like a heart attack or stroke. But using polonium is something out of a bad James Bond flick...

[riderinthestorm]

5. I'm not sure polonium is really that rare. It's used in a lot of common everyday products

it's lethality comes from being ingested. Someone put it into Litvenenko's food and he ate it.

[Shipwack]

6. I'm not saying that it's hard to get... it just seems overly complicated...

There are easier ways of killing someone.