That other terrorist attack on U.S. soil

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Anthrax Letters: Made in the USA

Barbara Hatch Rosenberg is a widely recognized expert on anthrax and biological warfare. She is making some shocking charges against the U.S. government, its military and its FBI investigators.

Dr. Rosenberg insists that the anthrax attacks of last fall were clearly done by someone working within the U.S. government biowarfare projects. She says the FBI quite likely knows who mailed the anthrax letters and asks why the government is afraid to arrest the suspects they have identified. She suggests that the government is holding back because the true story behind these anthrax letters could then become public--damaging powerful forces within the government and the military.

The evidence from the anthrax attacks of last fall leads to the doorsteps of U.S. military laboratories and the CIA. And the FBI appears to be waist deep in a cover- up.

On September 18, a few days after the World Trade Center attacks, someone started mailing letters containing anthrax spores. The spores can infect people with a deadly disease.

Ultimately, four anthrax letters were recovered. Two had been sent to the Senate offices of leading Democratic senators, Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. Two had been sent to media offices in New York-- the Post newspaper and Tom Brokaw at NBC News.

The letters did not kill their intended targets, but the anthrax material was so sophisticated that the spores passed through the envelopes and infected people all along their path--including secretaries and postal workers. Five people are known to have died from inhaling spores from these letters, and 13 others were infected but survived. Authorities believe a fifth letter killed a photo editor in Florida, but the letter was never found.

President Bush quickly suggested on TV that the Islamist al-Qaida organization might be behind the anthrax attack. The Wall Street Journal wrote (Oct .18): "By far the likeliest supplier is Saddam Hussein." Everyone remembers how these anthrax attacks were used to fan support for the U.S. war against Afghanistan and Iraq. And this has continued: As recently as March 23 the New York Times ran a front-page story blaring, "U.S. Says it Found Qaeda Lab Being Built to Produce Anthrax." Such reports have repeatedly proven to be false--no evidence has ever connected these attacks to foreign forces.

Evidence gathered by Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg and her colleagues reveals that the anthrax used in these attacks came from U.S. military stockpiles --and U.S. officials must have known this, almost from the beginning.

Dr. Rosenberg is a molecular biologist and research professor of environmental science at the State University of New York. For more than a decade she has been involved in the Federation of American Scientists' (FAS) Chemical and Biological Weapons Program, where she now serves as director.

http://www.revcom.us/a/v23/1140-1147/1145/anthrax%201145.htm

[Ban Hammer 14,662]

Probably the same reason "the incident has been downgraded in the national memory" - because it wasn't Islamic terrorists who did it.

The number of scientists worldwide with expertise and access to anthrax materials is probably close to 50 or 100.

How would an Islamic terrorist chopf##k get access to anthrax? And if they did, wouldn't they use it wisely and kill lots of people with it? Come on, it just doesn't add up.

anthrax occurs naturally in the world. got a bathtub and about 100k of financing and a mid level college grad could make it.

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anthrax occurs naturally in the world. got a bathtub and about 100k of financing and a mid level college grad could make it.

The strain used was rare. Read my last post. Whoever did it had military access to the strain.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

it was a terrorism attack..and the country went into panic mode....i did the cisds for the usps..and they called constantly as did any company that had baby powder spilled in their shithouses

Agreed - if the unabomber and the guy who set fire to SUV dealerships are classed as terrorists - the Anthrax thing sure is.

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anthrax occurs naturally in the world. got a bathtub and about 100k of financing and a mid level college grad could make it.

The strain used was rare. Read my last post. Whoever did it had military access to the strain.

i was answering mawilson's question "How would an Islamic terrorist chopf##k get access to anthrax?"

that answer was entirely unrelated to your post.

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anthrax occurs naturally in the world. got a bathtub and about 100k of financing and a mid level college grad could make it.

The strain used was rare. Read my last post. Whoever did it had military access to the strain.

i was answering mawilson's question "How would an Islamic terrorist chopf##k get access to anthrax?"

that answer was entirely unrelated to your post.

Ah, ok. So, do you agree with that assessment? And what do you suppose was the motive behind it?

[Ban Hammer 14,662]

anthrax occurs naturally in the world. got a bathtub and about 100k of financing and a mid level college grad could make it.

The strain used was rare. Read my last post. Whoever did it had military access to the strain.

i was answering mawilson's question "How would an Islamic terrorist chopf##k get access to anthrax?"

that answer was entirely unrelated to your post.

Ah, ok. So, do you agree with that assessment? And what do you suppose was the motive behind it?

i don't care.

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it was a terrorism attack..and the country went into panic mode....i did the cisds for the usps..and they called constantly as did any company that had baby powder spilled in their shithouses

Seriously. I worked in a USPS processing and distribution facility at the time. Tons of money, time and resources spent over that mess and every powdery substance that showed up anywhere in the building or in anyone's mailbox, not to mention the USPS workers and others who were killed by that "prank." A coworker of mine found the ricin package in the mailstream in 2003. That news story kinda dried up and blew away too, huh?

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anthrax occurs naturally in the world. got a bathtub and about 100k of financing and a mid level college grad could make it.

The strain used was rare. Read my last post. Whoever did it had military access to the strain.

i was answering mawilson's question "How would an Islamic terrorist chopf##k get access to anthrax?"

that answer was entirely unrelated to your post.

Ah, ok. So, do you agree with that assessment? And what do you suppose was the motive behind it?

i don't care.

You don't care that Americans died from it?

[Ban Hammer 14,662]

anthrax occurs naturally in the world. got a bathtub and about 100k of financing and a mid level college grad could make it.

The strain used was rare. Read my last post. Whoever did it had military access to the strain.

i was answering mawilson's question "How would an Islamic terrorist chopf##k get access to anthrax?"

that answer was entirely unrelated to your post.

Ah, ok. So, do you agree with that assessment? And what do you suppose was the motive behind it?

i don't care.

You don't care that Americans died from it?

i don't care to engage in conspiracy theories.

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Ahhh, conspiracies... theories... always looking to quack the possibilities up a bit, no??

Sorry... there's an Army recruitment ad on TV now.

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anthrax occurs naturally in the world. got a bathtub and about 100k of financing and a mid level college grad could make it.

The strain used was rare. Read my last post. Whoever did it had military access to the strain.

i was answering mawilson's question "How would an Islamic terrorist chopf##k get access to anthrax?"

that answer was entirely unrelated to your post.

Ah, ok. So, do you agree with that assessment? And what do you suppose was the motive behind it?

i don't care.

You don't care that Americans died from it?

i don't care to engage in conspiracy theories.

The known knowns show that it had to have been someone with high military clearance and that the list of possible people would be very short. That's not conspiracy...that's fact. Why isn't that information brought forth?

[Ban Hammer 14,662]

anthrax occurs naturally in the world. got a bathtub and about 100k of financing and a mid level college grad could make it.

The strain used was rare. Read my last post. Whoever did it had military access to the strain.

i was answering mawilson's question "How would an Islamic terrorist chopf##k get access to anthrax?"

that answer was entirely unrelated to your post.

Ah, ok. So, do you agree with that assessment? And what do you suppose was the motive behind it?

i don't care.

You don't care that Americans died from it?

i don't care to engage in conspiracy theories.

The known knowns show that it had to have been someone with high military clearance and that the list of possible people would be very short. That's not conspiracy...that's fact. Why isn't that information brought forth?

but of course

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I must disagree with Charles (big surprise there!). Microbiology labs have it hard enough as it is obtaining institutional use permits for infeccious disease-causing agents. And even within permitted labs, not all associated with the lab are allowed to be near the bacterial hood.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The known knowns show that it had to have been someone with high military clearance and that the list of possible people would be very short. That's not conspiracy...that's fact. Why isn't that information brought forth?

Something I'm a little curious about - not really related to this.

Were charges ever filed in regards to the LSD experiments conducted on unknowing participants by the CIA in the 1960's?