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2005-11-29 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Ray Robison 2005-11-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I know of a man (link) who has done a fair bit of thinking on the subject of anthrax, Saddam, and September 11.

There's a scene in Dr. Strangelove that comes to mind. The Soviet ambassador has just revealed the existence of the Doomsday Device. President Muffley asks for the good Doctor's opinion on whether such a weapon is feasable. Dr. S. goes on for sometime about technical arrangements, and then observes, "Of course, the entire point of such a weapon is lost... if you keep it a secret. Why didn't you tell the world, EH?"

The letters weren't attacks, really, but an advertisement of a credible deterrent.

And this link is a useful technical primer. The most significant thing wasn't the anthrax, really, but the advanced coating on the spores in the Daschle and Leahy letters.

Posted by Rory B. Bellows 2005-11-29 01:52|| 2005-11-29 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't forget the piece in Uday's "Babil":

At this stage it is possible to turn to biological attack, where a small can, not bigger than the size of the hand, can be used to release viruses that affect everything. This attack might not necessarily be launched by the Islamists. It might be done by the Zionists or any other party through an agent. The viruses easily spread by air, and people are affected without feeling it.

Date published? September 20th, 2001.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-29 07:35|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-29 07:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't forget this could be a rope-a-dope. Might not Iran supply the anthrax if it could be pinned on Saddam.

Posted by bruce 2005-11-29 07:39|| 2005-11-29 07:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't forget this little bit of info before it disappears down the memory hole: Report raises question of anthrax, hijacker link
A memorandum issued by a prestigious research center concluded that one of the September 11 hijackers might have been infected with cutaneous (skin) anthrax when he sought treatment at a Florida hospital before the attacks.

The first anthrax attack occurred in Florida.

Posted by ed 2005-11-29 08:12|| 2005-11-29 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 The main problem with the information which we have is that it requires us to accept that the FBI was correct in some of its analysis but not in all of it. For example, we believe that they got the strain of anthrax correct but that Drs. Hatfil and Berry had nothing to do with the attacks. Once we get to a place between "the FBI is entirely wrong" and "the FBI is entirely correct", what we choose to believe is a matter of faith and not fact.

The Florida attack suggests someone with little knowledge of America, a letter mailed to the American Media, Inc. An attack upon American media, surely a terror target if there ever was one.

The deaths of Kathy Nguyen and Ottilie Lindgren remain unexplained as do the many similar hoax letters received by all of the original targets around that time.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2005-11-29 10:55|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2005-11-29 10:55|| Front Page Top

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