Posted on 03/23/2002 12:09:09 PM PST by ex-Texan
Report: Links Between Sept. 11 Hijacker, Anthrax
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida doctor who treated one of the alleged Sept. 11 hijackers last June for a dark lesion on his leg said after reviewing his notes weeks after the attack that the lesion was consistent with anthrax, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
The newspaper said a new memorandum prepared by experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Biodefense Strategies about Dr. Christos Tsonas' assertion had renewed debate about a possible link between the hijackers and anthrax-laced letters that killed five people in the United States in October and November.
But it quoted an FBI spokesman as saying exhaustive testing had failed to link the alleged hijackers to anthrax and nothing new had emerged to indicate otherwise.
The Times said Ahmed Alhanzawi went to the emergency room of Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last June and told Tsonas a dark lesion he had on his leg had developed after bumping into a suitcase two months earlier.
He was accompanied by Ziad Samir Jarrah, the paper said. Both Alhanzawi and Jarrah -- among the 19 men identified by U.S. officials as hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks -- died together with the rest of the 44 people aboard United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Three other hijacked airliners smashed into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people.
Tsonas said he cleaned the wound on Alhanzawi's leg and prescribed an antibiotic. He had no thought of anthrax, a disease extremely rare at the time in the United States and unfamiliar to many doctors, the Times said.
After federal investigators found the medicine among Alhanzawi's possessions, they went to Tsonas in October with pictures of the two men and the doctor's own notes from the June emergency room visit.
"I said, 'Oh, my God, my written description is consistent with cutaneous anthrax,"' Tsonas recalled, according to the Times.
Tsonas could not immediately be reached for contact.
Johns Hopkins biodefense center experts, who interviewed Tsonas, said the anthrax diagnosis was the most coherent interpretation of the available data, the Times said.
"Such a conclusion of course raises the possibility that the hijackers were handling anthrax and were the perpetrators of the anthrax letter attacks," it quoted the memorandum as saying.
Federal investigators have said they are targeting someone with knowledge of science, possibly a scientist with military links, in their hunt for those behind the anthrax attacks.
The Times quoted FBI spokesman John Collingwood as saying the possibility of a link between the alleged hijackers and the anthrax attacks had been fully investigated months ago.
"Exhaustive testing did not support that anthrax was present anywhere the hijackers had been. While we always welcome new information, nothing new has in fact developed," the Times quoted Collingwood as saying.
Thank God for a free society!
The truth always will come out
at least
when the government thinks it is OK.
God BLESS the obedient media!!
That, or some militia, redneck types.
Isn't that some of the crap the FBI was saying a few months ago?
FBI stooges, things are going to change for you.
Awaiting your early reply!!
Nog
Considering all the "coincidental" links that surfaced between the Atta-gang and the distribution of the anthrax, I never, ever, understood why the lone right wing wacko theory took hold in some circles.
The newspaper said a new memorandum prepared by experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Biodefense Strategies about Dr. Christos Tsonas' assertion had renewed debate about a possible link between the hijackers and anthrax-laced letters that killed five people in the United States in October and November.
This clearly demonstrates that the 9/11 hijackers were domestic terrorists.
I'm so glad the FBI has this under control.
The FBI got a tip from Richard Jewel.
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Federal investigators have said they are targeting someone with knowledge of science, possibly a scientist with military links, in their hunt for those behind the anthrax attacks.
The Times quoted FBI spokesman John Collingwood as saying the possibility of a link between the alleged hijackers and the anthrax attacks had been fully investigated months ago.
"Exhaustive testing did not support that anthrax was present anywhere the hijackers had been. While we always welcome new information, nothing new has in fact developed," the Times quoted Collingwood as saying.
End Quote From Article
Ok well HELLO - this Doctor said and I quote here from another source - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7784-2002Mar23.html
"The memo concluded the most likely diagnosis of the man was anthrax"
But yet the FBI is acting like there is no connection? How stupid is this...are the for real. What f*cking idiots. I am soooo confused as to how the Bush Administration is allowing this crap to continue. What the hell are they smoking over there at the FBI headquarters? Obviously some of the stuff the DEA has been raiding from peoples houses.
whatever
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