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2004-08-06 Home Front: WoT

Doctor Connected to Search of Homes in Anthrax Probe Faces Assault Charges

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Posted by Steve 2004-08-06 10:10:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Edward Jay Epstein has an interesting question:

http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/ReverseEngineeringAnthrax.htm

Question:

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States reports that a Californian-trained biologist named Sufaat in 2001 spent "several months attempting to cultivate anthrax for al Qaeda in a laboratory he helped set up" in Afghanistan and that this same biologist provided housing for at least two of the 9-11 hijackers in his Kuala Lumpur condominium. Does the Commission connect this anthrax project in 2001-- or the quartering of 9-11 hijackers by the anthrax-scientist-- to the terrorist attacks on America they investigated?

Answer:

No, the Commission makes no connection between the 9-11 attacks and the multiple anthrax attackers that began a week or so later. Indeed, the only mention of anthrax is the reference to Sufaat on page. 168. The Report does not even touch on other possible links between anthrax and the 9-11 hijackers, such as an emergency room doctor in Florida reporting to the FBI that he had treated one of the hijackers for a black lesion that resembled anthrax.

Posted by danking70 2004-08-06 11:33:06 AM|| 2004-08-06 11:33:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 the headline makes it sounds like the Doc was part of the search team, aka Govt authorities, aka part if the Bush administration who is now facing assault charges because he's part of the BushCheneyHalliburtonCoFascistHitler Brigade. My news service on my pager also made it sound like this doctor was part of the search of homes, just like this headline does.

If they can word any story, any story at all the partisan press will spin it to attack the Bush administration. I don't thing I'm reading too far into this either. Or am I?

Posted by Chris W. 2004-08-06 11:33:59 AM|| 2004-08-06 11:33:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I think this is yet another example of the FBI avoiding the obvious, because it's too painful for some of the PC FBI officers to believe that Iraq intelligence officers, or for that matter, any ME Muslim to be the only terrorist "evil doers" in the USA. First they ruined the career of Dr. Hatfelt[sp?]. Now it's this other doctor. What about connecting the dots to ME'ers? No, no, no because the FBI wants to nail a white male for the anthrax come hell or high water to prove that ME'ers are not the only "evil doers" in the land. Stupid.

Posted by rex 2004-08-06 11:48:53 AM|| 2004-08-06 11:48:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I am all over this, like ugly on an ape.
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As for the suggestion that the lack of activity for PREEMPTION was due to a change in administrations, the site very clearly demonstrates that the company ran out of gas in 1998. Please note in my link three that I also speculate as to the qualifications of this doctor. In at least one news story that I have read he has been described as a "self-proclaimed expert in WMD". His CV shows zero work that would lead one to call him expert. I speculate on a number of the statments in his CV, in fact, that have proved difficult to corroberate.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-08-06 1:45:16 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-08-06 1:45:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Please note in my link three that I also speculate as to the qualifications of this doctor.

Dr. Berry is a licensed M.D. albeit his initial medical training was done at an off-shore medical school. He is listed in the AMA Directory.
http://dbapps.ama-assn.org/iwcf/iwcfmgr206/SESSION_ID=352659/SESSION_AR=45/frm_name=aps_result?action_detail.x=hello&row=0&key=3&amap=N&form_type=r

His specialty is listed as Family Medicine, but that would not preclude him from working in an Emergency Department. It's only been since 1980 or so that Emergency Medicine has beome recognized as a "specialty" and applying for such accredition is entirely voluntary. With the shortage of physicians as it is and ER being a non-sexy, poorly paid "specialty" I'm sure Dr. Berry would not have had any problem being hired for ER work and carrying out his duties well enough.

The reason Dr. Berry may have marketed himself as knowledgeable in Bio/chemical weapons is because ER docs would be the medical professionals most likely to see these cases as they came up. I don't think there's a WMD sub specialty in med school, if that's what you are getting at, #4.
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic864.htm

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/8721-5.asp

Who knows? maybe you and the FBI are right...this guy is the one...to profit off anthrax vaccination? to drive home the dangers of anthrax weaponry because he was ignored by authorities?

But my gut feeling is that the anthrax scare will have a ROP connection when all is said and done.

Posted by rex 2004-08-06 2:24:33 PM|| 2004-08-06 2:24:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Sorry, the AMA doctor finder link I provided got timed out. Information on:
Kenneth Michael Berry MD

Physicians -- Update your data
Location:WELLSVILLE, NY 14895

Office Phone:585-593-1100

Primary Specialty (Self Designated) (note):
FAMILY MEDICINE

Medical School:
AMERICAN UNIV OF THE CARIBBEAN, SCH OF MED, PLYMOUTH, MONTSERRAT
Residency Training:
ST JOSEPH'S MED CTR, FAMILY MEDICINE
WILSON MEM REG MED CTR, GENERAL SURGERY

Posted by rex 2004-08-06 2:36:28 PM|| 2004-08-06 2:36:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 rex, I'm not arguing that he's not an M.D. His CV is, at best, incomplete, and at worst, inaccurate. My belief is that an expert in WMD should appear on the Net as an author or speaker or something. This is a guy whose sole appearance on the net is a vanity website that he set up.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-08-06 3:23:09 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-08-06 3:23:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 that's probably how our efficient FBI found him. Somebody googled him up

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-06 3:26:42 PM|| 2004-08-06 3:26:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Tell me about it.

Posted by R Jewel Wealthy 2004-08-06 5:50:11 PM|| 2004-08-06 5:50:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 This guy is a zero. The American Univ of the Caribbean is a fifth pathway school -- guys from the East Coast go there when they can't get into a US medical school, and they then try to transfer to an American med school (the "fifth pathway") prior to graduation. Used to work some (the Carter administration tried to make it mandatory for US med schools to accept fifth pathway transfers, but the med schools told them to shove it). But in the last decade or so transfers are almost completely shut down.

So our bright boy graduates from AUC. He is NOT going to get a good residency in the states in any specialty. St. Joseph's Med Ctr -- which St. Joe's, there are a number of them. He did a community hospital residency in family medicine, probably a free-standing residency not affiliated with a university. Ick. Training is mediocre, more like an apprenticeship, with (mostly) a non-dedicated teaching staff and relatively few opportunities to distinguish himself.

Regardless, he gets a certification in family medicine. I'd like to know what the 2nd residency was all about. The AMA page doesn't specify the order of residencies done, so I don't know if the surgery residency was first (and he asked to leave) or second. But he's not a certified surgeon, so he obviously didn't complete it. And "Wilson Memorial Regional Medical Center" isn't a stellar residency, either (Googled it to Johnston City, NY).

Rex is correct, there is no specialty training in WMD per se. Physicians with expertise in biologicals generally would be infectious disease specialists. For any, the Emergency Medicine docs would be expected to have good, basic knowledge in triage and treatment, but they wouldn't be expected to have in-depth knowledge as to pathophysiology, research, etc.

Rex is also correct in noting that, especially for small hospitals in rural America, a family medicine doc who wanted to be an ER "specialist" could be one. Emergency Medicine as a specialty is a new idea, but their residency programs are cranking out graduates. Those new docs tend to cluster in better-supported, more desirable places to live. But if he wanted to be an ER doc in Wellsville, he could do it.

This is getting long. Chuck, I'll e-mail you with more.

Posted by Steve White 2004-08-06 6:19:48 PM|| 2004-08-06 6:19:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Here' a photo of Dr. Berry-he'd fit the type of guy the FBI would suspect from the get-go:
http://www.preempt.net/

Posted by rex 2004-08-06 6:56:08 PM|| 2004-08-06 6:56:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 My tin foil hat was sending a strange signal, so I looked at the picture at the link rex provided and read the attached fluff graf. Either the link is full of inaccuracies or the guy seems qualified:

"Kenneth M. Berry is president of the American Academy of Emergency Physicians and a member of the board and special counsel to the chair of the Board of Certification Â in Emergency Medicine. He serves as director of emergency services at the Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville, NY. Berry is also a fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice, the American College of Forensic Medicine and the American College of Forensic Examiners. He has considerable experience in forensic investigations of aircraft accidents, including the case of the July 1996 TWA flight 800 crash in Long Island, NY. Berry is a member of Phi Sigma Tau, the National Honor Society of Philosophy, and has written many papers and given numerous lectures on bio-ethics issues. He has a multi-instrument rating as a commercial pilot, and is an aviation medical examiner with the Federal Aviation Administration. Berry is a graduate of Fairfield University and the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. He held several medical student clerkships predominately at the Yale University School of Medicine."

Very interesting guy.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-08-06 8:10:11 PM|| 2004-08-06 8:10:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 multi-instrument rating?

ima always been able to look at the speedometer and the radio dial within the scan. Also have been known to take in the temperature guage (if it working that day).

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-06 8:27:17 PM|| 2004-08-06 8:27:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 means he owns a watch as well...

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-06 8:51:12 PM|| 2004-08-06 8:51:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I think that it should read "multi-engine" rating. An instrument rating is a separate rating. Could be in singles or multiengine aircraft. My guess is that if he is multi-engine rated he is also an instrument rated pilot.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-08-06 10:04:24 PM|| 2004-08-06 10:04:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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