2001 Anthrax attacks trace back to U.S. Army lab
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 11:09am.
FBI destroyed the samples
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 10:41pm.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/45521/Evan Derkacz at 9:17 AM on December 14, 2006
According to Sherwood Ross, the 2001 Anthrax attacks on congress "likely" emanate from an U.S. Army lab by someone with access to a special suit allowing the perp to manufacture weapon grade Anthrax without danger. According to Dr. Francis Boyle who drafted the U.S. Biological Weapons Convention of 1989:
"I believe the FBI knows exactly who was behind these terrorist anthrax attacks upon the United States Congress in the Fall of 2001, and that the culprits were U.S. government-related scientists involved in a criminal U.S. government biowarfare program..."
Before the culprit could be pinpointed, the FBI destroyed the samples. Read on to find out how the FBI agent in charge of the investigation was connected to the Moussaoui case...
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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/3940Plus loads of links at the Alter-net site
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Ooo I like this one...
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 10:45pm.
OK, lets look at the "facts" once again..... then maybe we can draw....
Posted by: Prophit on Dec 14, 2006 11:18 AM
.... some conclusions:
1. The ONLY person in FLORIDA to get that anthrax and died from it was a guy named Stevens. FACT His occupation was photographer reporter for the illustrious National Inquirer. FACT 30 days before he received the anthrax he published a photo of Jenna Bush falling down drunk in front of a club in Boca Rotan, FL. FACT One month later he is dead from the Anthrax FACT
2. Immediately after the attack on him, the anthrax appears at the newspaper offices, in the mailrooms of the congress and people start dying. FACT
3. The Anthrax letters were only addressed to democrats FACT
4. The anthrax was determined to be a bioweapon from the Ames Army bioweapons facility in Ames, Iowa. FACT (It was in the papers).
5. No one has been identified or caught as the perpetrator. FACT
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UCLA Dept. of Epidemiology
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/Bioter/detect/antdetect_letters.html"Amerithrax" Timeline
In order to get the big picture, I must include a bit of history, so I will begin at Bush41 Presidency and work forward.
During GHW Bush's Gulf War the miltary ordered 30 million Cipro tablets to protect troops against biological weapons.
Col. Arthur Friedlander of the U.S. Army's research center in Fort Detrick, Md., began testing Cipro, in combination with an anthrax vaccine -- on monkeys exposed to the aerosol anthrax.
Published results 1993, Journal of Infectious Disease
1997
Leahy's Law : The ability for congress to withhold funding from entities committing gross violations of human rights.
The law first appeared in the fiscal year 1997 Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, and has been attached to all subsequent acts.
The Leahy Law in the 2001 Foreign Operations Appropriations Act (Section 563 of Pub.L. 106-429) states:
“ None of the funds made available by this Act may be provided to any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible evidence that such unit has committed gross violations of human rights, unless the Secretary determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that the government of such country is taking effective measures to bring the responsible members of the security forces unit to justice.
1998, BioPort wins an exclusive $29 million contract with the Department of Defense for controversial anthrax vaccine, increased by the Pentagon to $49.8 million and advances Bioport $1.7 million to cover it's debts. Bioport's largest investor, Saudi Fuad El-Hibri, friend of bin Laden family, former M & A manager of Citigroup, and with major shareholder Carlyle Group.
1998, U.S. FDA and the Centers for Disease Control -- working under a presidential directive, look for existing drugs to use after a mass exposure to anthrax.
1999, the CDC asks Bayer to have Cipro labeled for use in inhalational anthrax. Bayer is also asked to provide data that showed how safe Cipro is and results in children for treatment of inhaled anthrax.
Inhaled anthrax was almost nonexistent in this country, and Bayer could skip time-consuming human clinical trials.
"The DOD had done the critical studies," says L. Barth Reller, chair of the FDA advisory committee.
Sept 18, 2001
Seven letters
One to American Media in Boca Raton FL (30 days before published a photo of Jenna Bush falling down drunk in front of a club in Boca Rotan, FL), second to New York Post, third Tom Brokaw at NBC, fourth to ABC news, fifth to Dan Rather at CBS, postmarked Sept 18, 2001 in Trenton, NJ.
In October 2001, press reports reveal that White House staff had been on the powerful antibiotic Cipro since the September 11th terrorist attacks. White House staff, and President Bush as well, began taking Cipro nearly a month before anthrax was detected on Capitol Hill.
October 2, 2001 “anti-terrorism” Patriot Act is introduced in Congress, but is not well received by all..
October 3, 2001 Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D) says he doubts the Senate will take up this bill in the one week timetable the administration wants. As head of the Senate, Daschle has great power to block or slow passage of the bill. Attorney General Ashcroft accuses Senate Democrats of dragging their feet.
On October 4, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D) accuses the Bush administration of reneging on an agreement on the anti-terrorist bill. Leahy is in a key position to block or slow the bill. Some warn that “lawmakers are overlooking constitutional flaws in their rush to meet the administration's timetable.” Two days later, Ashcroft complains about “the rather slow pace …over his request for law enforcement powers… Hard feelings remain.”
October 9,2001
Two more letters
The sixth and seventh letters to Daschle and Leahy were postmarked October 9,2001 and contained a more refined and dangerous anthrax medium.
October 12, 2001 Iowa State (Ames Lab) college staff members removed the anthrax specimens from the laboratory and destroyed them. Dr. Jim Roth, an assistant dean, had contacted the F.B.I. and the Centers for Disease Control before killing the specimens. Both agencies approved the destruction.
October 15, 2001
The Daschle letter was opened on October 15, 2001, on the 6th floor of the Senator's Hart Senate Office Building, and all 18 people within the area of Daschle's office tested positive for anthrax, as well as 7 of 25 who worked on the 5th floor as an open staircase linked the two offices.
Leahy's letter was misread by an optical scanner and diverted to the State Department on Oct 15th, infecting a postal worker. At that time all mail was sealed in plastic to be searched latter.
The unopened letter was found on Nov 16, 2001 and opened in a lab setting Dec6.
22 cases of anthrax were most likely from these 7 letters and cross contamination during mail processing.
October 16, 2001 CNN/Health reports: Ninety offices of Planned Parenthood and at least 80 clinics of the National Abortion Federation receive envelopes containing powdery substances (not anthrax)
October 25, 2001
The Washington Post reports that the spores in the Daschle letter had been using technology so sophisticated that it almost certainly came from the United States, Iraq or the former Soviet Union.
Office of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said, the bacterial spores that caused anthrax outbreaks in Florida, New York and Washington belong to Ames strain.
The Ames strain did not come from the sleepy Iowa college town of the same name, or from anywhere else in Iowa. It was a Texas strain, cultured from a Texas cow in 1979, federal officials now say.
The National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames serves as the diagnostic center for the entire nation; it is a repository for all manner of germs and diseases that afflict American livestock. That is why the U.S. Army wrote to the N.V.S.L. in late 1980 requesting a sample of an anthrax culture.
The Ames (Iowa State) lab made a subculture of the anthrax and sent it to the Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases --USAMRIID -- at Fort Detrick, near Frederick, Maryland..
Five labs received the Ames strain from USAMRIID, Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah; Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio; the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque; the Canadian DRES; and Porton Down, UK.
CIA defensive biowarfare program has involved the use of Ames-strain anthrax. Battelle is a contractor at Dugway, which acknowledged making a powdered form of anthrax.
The trick of weaponizing anthrax is to make it breathable.
Purifying and concentrating the spores requires real laboratory skill. The pharmaceutical industry is the leader in this technology, and the interest in generating tiny particles for that purpose has only been the last 10 years.
Although a few 'persons of interest' have been investigated, no arrests have been made, and no one has been held accountable.
Complete 911 Timeline
The Anthrax/Patriot Act Timeline
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anthrax?
Submitted by jbenet on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 12:11pm.
What anthrax?
Like torture? What torture?
Re destroyed interrogation video tapes.
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Steven Hatfill awarded $5.8 million in anthrax lawsuit
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 6:33pm.
Your tax dollars at working bribing this man to keep his mouth shut.
Yahoo-Steven Hatfill's antrax settlement
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The deal requires the Justice Department to pay $2.825 million dollars up front and buy Hatfill a $3 million annuity that will pay him $150,000 each year for 20 years.
"Our government failed us, not only by failing to catch the anthrax mailers but by seeking to conceal that failure," Hatfill's lawyers said in a statement. "Our government did this by leaking gossip, speculation, and misinformation to a handful of credulous reporters."
The statement also blamed journalists for not questioning the motives of the government's statements or its tactics.
"As an innocent man, and as our fellow citizen, Steven Hatfill deserved far better," they said.
The Justice Department said the settlement was in the best interest of the nation.
"The United States does not admit to any violation of the Privacy Act and continues to deny all liability in connection with Dr. Hatfill's claims," Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said in response to the settlement.
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