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Allan, here is an excerpt from a new bioterror novel by Penguin Books Australia (which I post after communicating with their rights department).

While I thought “Faithful Spy” by NYT correspondent Berenson was riveting, this entry is notable too given the author was head of security for Olympic 2000 games and had access to classified threat assessment.

Excerpt from The Beijing Conspiracy:

Chapter 1: THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON DC

‘We will strike you when you least expect it, beneath Eternity
where the windmill has been stolen. This is the first of three
warnings. If you do not heed these warnings and if Allah, the Most
Kind, the Most Merciful wills it, we will be forced to implement the
final solution.’

The mood in the White House war cabinet was tense. The briefing
had been hastily convened in the cramped Situation Room beneath
the Oval Office in the West Wing. The video being viewed was
grainy, but the features of sixty-year-old Dr Khalid Kadeer were
clear enough. Like the Hydra of Greek mythology, al-Qaeda had
grown another monstrous head, and the terrorist mastermind was
calm and chillingly confident. Unlike his thinner and more familiar
colleague, Osama bin Laden, the Muslim Uighur from the Xinjiang
Autonomous Region in western China was powerfully built. He was
tall and his demeanor was menacing. His dark, oval face was etched
with the lines of a lifelong Islamic struggle against the West and the
Han Chinese, and his narrow, hooded eyes were black and coldly
calculating. An elegantly embroidered doppa, the traditional headgear
of his Uighur people, covered his fine, grey hair.

Kadeer spoke quietly, inviting President Denver Harrison and the
members of his war cabinet, the most powerful group of men and
women in the world, to dismiss the warning attack as nothing more
than rambling Islamic bravado. Agent Curtis O’Connor wasn’t so
sure. Kadeer was a brilliant microbiologist who had trained at Harvard
University. O’Connor knew Kadeer was very focused.

Curtis O’Connor, an expert on bioterrorism and one of the CIA’s
most knowledgeable agents on Islam, Central Asia and al-Qaeda,
was seated in one of the advisor’s chairs that were placed along the
dark panelled wall of the White House Situation Room. He was
forty-three, fit, with a solid physique and tall, standing at 178 centimetres.
His thick, dark hair was roughly brushed into place. His face
was tanned and his blue eyes were mischievous, although looks could
be misleading. Originally from Ireland, Curtis O’Connor was very
much his own man, and he had one of the sharpest minds in the CIA.
Some time ago he’d concluded that the President and his advisors
were in a state of denial over the war in Iraq. Somehow, he thought,
he would have to influence a change to the dangerous and arrogant
course the Administration had charted for his adopted country and
for the wider western world. O’Connor had little time for presidents
and prime ministers who started wars on false premises, or for sycophantic
advisors and generals who did their bidding, and he had
even less time for religion and the fundamentalists who misused it,
whatever their creed.

‘The West is increasingly using this so-called war on terror to
persecute Muslims all over the world,’ Kadeer continued. ‘Innocent
women and children are being slaughtered in Iraq, in Lebanon, and
in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. Other government
authorities, like those in Beijing, have followed the lead of the United
States, Britain and Australia, using the war on terror to eliminate
Muslim Uighurs they perceive as a threat. You don’t see this in the
West, but China executes more people every year than the rest of the
world combined. Torture and imprisonment is at the whim of the
communists in Beijing, as is the blocking of the internet. Freedom
of speech is non-existent, yet you will flock to the Beijing Olympics
and show support for a murderous regime. It was the same in 1936,’
Kadeer said, a touch of sadness in his voice. ‘The Berlin Olympics
were opened by Hitler and the Third Reich used sporting teams
and the Nazi salute to glorify their regime. You seem to have forgotten
that the Olympic charter is concerned with the harmonious
development of man and the promoting of a peaceful society and
the preservation of human dignity.’ With stunning irony, Kadeer
warned, ‘If you do not change course, where Hitler failed, Islam
will succeed.’

Curtis O’Connor wondered if the first attack might be biological
and if the athletes and the Games might be the target. ‘Beneath
Eternity where the windmill has been stolen’ didn’t sound like a
bacteria or a virus, but O’Connor knew that among the terrorists on
the United States’ most-wanted list, the Muslim scientist and philosopher
had few peers, and no one was in a better position to exploit the
dark, microscopic world of bioterrorism. Despite the disdain on the
faces of President Harrison and the rest of his cabinet, O’Connor
had a feeling that somewhere within the coded first warning was a real
and present danger that the West would ignore at her peril.
***
The President’s thin mouth turned down as he struggled to comprehend
Kadeer’s message. He seemed to be taking the threat to a sinister new level.

‘The Prophet, peace be upon him, predicted that the end times
would be very near when you, the Mushrikeen, and the Jews amongst
you “swarmed against Islam from every hill”. You are swarming
against us today from every hill in all the four corners of the earth. If
your leaders persist with the destruction of the Muslim people; if you
continue to humiliate the Prophet, peace be upon him, your civilisations
will be destroyed in the final solution, as it is predicted in the
noble Qu’ran.’ The Muslim microbiologist closed his holy book.

‘September 11 was the forerunner of much worse to come. Very
soon you will be given your first warning and we will attack you
beneath Eternity. This will be followed by a second and a third warning,
and if you do not heed these warnings from Allah, the Most
Kind, the Most Merciful, you will perish when the single strand
meets its double.’

Anyone wanting on or off the anthrax ping list, let me know.

The perps.....(real suspects..not us!) are still at large living openly in country supposedly friendly to the USA. This country starts with the letter “P” and ends in “stan”. And those responsible for stealing the original spores in November 1990...at a well known mid western university who later destroyed their collection.....were students there at the time, learning to give shots to puppies and kitties.

It will be the one year anniversary of the locating of the actual perp, thanks to a liberal weenie university here in the eastern part of our country, and I immediately notified the three federal agents who interviewed me. They had not been able to find him, and it took me almost another year to do so.

I figure that it would take special ops 365 days to sally up to him and get in his freezers. Country “P” is in turmoil right now and we might as well nab his sorry heiney as not.

Details....at 11......

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On page 4 of his opinion, Judge Walton cited a passage from the ruling in the Wen Ho Lee case:

The Supreme Court has noted in the context of privilege in grand jury cases that it "cannot seriously entertain the notion that the First Amendment protects a newsman's agreement to conceal the criminal conduct of his source, or evidence thereof, on the theory that it is better to write about a crime than to do something about it.

The media has been wrong about almost everything regarding the anthrax attacks. They helped pressure the FBI into investigating Dr. Hatfill and then they make it seem like it was all the FBI's idea. In reality, the FBI had checked out Dr. Hatfill in November of 2001 and found no reason to suspect him. It took SIX MONTHS of pressure from conspiracy theorists, the news media and some politicians until they got a hearing with some Senate Staffers where the FBI was accused of covering up for Dr. Hatfill. One week later, the FBI performed their first public search of his apartment and he became a household name.

Ed at www.anthraxinvestigation.com

Thanks.

At last, some news.