Neocons Pressured FBI to Blame al-Qaeda for Anthrax Attacks

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Neocons Pressured FBI to Blame al-Qaeda for Anthrax Attacks
Submitted by Chip on Tue, 2008-08-05 22:08.

Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com


It was another example of sloppy work on the part of the neocons to blame Muslims and add fodder to their total war campaign. As the Daily News reported over the weekend, neocons in the Bush White House repeatedly put pressure on FBI Director Robert Mueller to “prove” the 2001 anthrax attacks was the work of Osama bin Laden and his cave dwelling terrorists, an impossible task at best due to the fact the anthrax used in the attacks was a weaponized strain produced by the U.S. military.

“After the Oct. 5, 2001, death from anthrax exposure of Sun photo editor Robert Stevens, Mueller was ‘beaten up’ during President Bush’s morning intelligence briefings for not producing proof the killer spores were the handiwork of terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, according to a former aide,” James Gordon Meek writes for the New York Daily News. “They really wanted to blame somebody in the Middle East,” a retired senior FBI official told the newspaper. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/02/2008-08-02_fbi_was_t...

Bush and Cheney lamely attempted to pin the attack on al-Qaeda and its lap dance loving jihadists. “There may be some possible link” to Bin Laden, Bush declared on October 15, 2001. Cheney said Osama’s cave dwellers were trained “how to deploy and use these kinds of substances, so you start to piece it all together.” Bush and Cheney did not bother to explain how distant terrorists, supposedly living in remote caves in one of the most backward regions on the planet, managed to get their hands on a bioweapon substance manufactured at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

By the time Bush and Cheney were making their ludicrous statements, the FBI knew the anthrax mailed to media outlets was a military strain. Osama and crew “couldn’t go from box cutters one week to weapons-grade anthrax the next,” an ex-FBI official told the Daily News.

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1. I posted this on another thread...

It seems like certain websites are getting carefully scrubbed of information relating to Jerome Hauer:

Hauer ignored one report by Barbara Rosenberg (on possible anthrax suspects), but he certainly knew who she was. He first met her on April 10, 1998, at a "roundtable on genetic engineering and biological weapons" under President Clinton. The small group of outside experts and cabinet members present there included: William Cohen (at the time Secretary of Defense), CIA boss George Tenet, Craig Ventner (Celera), Joshua Lederberg (Rockefeller University, Defense Science Board), Thomas Monath (Oravax/Acambis, former CDC and USAMRIID), Hauer, and Barbara Rosenberg. In November 2001, Hauer was still ignoring the investigations by Barbara Rosenberg, who had already worked out a list of possible anthrax suspects, scientists who would have been able to gain access to the original Ames strain from USAMRIID, Fort Detrick. http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport.htm

Among the suspects on this list were Battelle and the Battelle Memorial Institute administrators, who supplied the Dugway anthrax proving facility in Utah, where the only virtually identical Ames strain of silica-impregnated hyper-weaponized anthrax was found: http://www.stlimc.org/print.php3?article_id=1295 Meanwhile, Hauer in November started an initiative known as "De-Mystifying the Biological Weapons Debate," and as a member of this group he claimed at the time that the suspects for the anthrax attacks included "Osama Bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network and sympathizers to US right wing extremists" http://www.basicint.org/BWreport.htm

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