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Suspicious Powder Found in Mass.; Eight Police Departments North of Boston Receive Envelopes...
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Posted on 09/04/2002 12:13:10 PM PDT by RCW2001

Suspicious Powder Found in Mass.
Eight Police Departments North of Boston Receive Envelopes Containing Unidentified White Powder

The Associated Press

B O S T O N, Sept. 4 — Eight police departments in towns north of Boston received envelopes Wednesday containing an unidentified white powder, authorities said.

"They came in regular mail, I don't if there was anything with them," said Jennifer Mieth, a spokeswoman for the state department of fire services, which was coordinating the response.

State police identified the towns as Hamilton, Peabody, Salem, Middleton, Topsfield, Marblehead, Wenham and Lynnfield.

"We've sent HAZMAT teams to respond," Miethe said. "Police departments have been advised to follow the procedures that have been long established," including not opening the envelopes and putting them in protective bags.



TOPICS: Anthrax Scare; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: hazmat; hoax; hoaxletters; letters; police; powder
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1 posted on 09/04/2002 12:13:11 PM PDT by RCW2001
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To: RCW2001
seires sdnuos siht
2 posted on 09/04/2002 12:15:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: RCW2001
White Powder???? Probably not Anthrax, just a prankster....
NeverGore
3 posted on 09/04/2002 12:16:47 PM PDT by nevergore
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To: RCW2001
Powdered sugar from all those donuts maybe?
4 posted on 09/04/2002 12:17:21 PM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: RCW2001; okie01; archy
"Hamilton, Peabody, Salem, Middleton, Topsfield, Marblehead, Wenham and Lynnfield."

Holy Smokes! Each one of those names matches a suburb or school name in Harare, Zimbabwe!

5 posted on 09/04/2002 12:21:27 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
Quick Robin ,to the bat cave
6 posted on 09/04/2002 12:28:15 PM PDT by goose1
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To: RCW2001
Sounds like they better check the evidence lockup.
7 posted on 09/04/2002 12:30:07 PM PDT by steve50
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To: RCW2001
I expect a whole slew of hoaxes, culminating on and around 9/11, perpetrated by pathetic, socially inept losers craving attention. (Which is why I plan to have an airtight alibi on those days...)
8 posted on 09/04/2002 12:33:45 PM PDT by TrappedInLiberalHell
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To: RCW2001
.rewohs a ekat ot emiT
9 posted on 09/04/2002 12:42:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: TrappedInLiberalHell
Most the hoaxes will be carried out by municipal employees terrified that monies will go away if no terrorism hits their end of the $lop trough. Look for lot's of such stuff for months to come.
10 posted on 09/04/2002 12:51:39 PM PDT by blackdog
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This could be a twist on the "divert the police" tactic. Just send baking soda to every police station in the area, and wait for it to hit the news. In the ensuing panic and loss of command and control, hit a few banks, or maybe a research facility, depending on your end goal.
11 posted on 09/04/2002 1:11:05 PM PDT by vollmond
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To: RCW2001
BOSTON HERALD.com (AP): "SUSPICIOUS POWDER SENT TO 10 NORTH SHORE TOWNS" (NOTE: The powder was sent to 10 police departments. At least one of the notes sent with the powder contained the words "black September.") (090402)

GOOGLE Search Term: "BLACK SEPTEMBER"

12 posted on 09/04/2002 1:48:22 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Shermy
"Hamilton, Peabody, Salem, Middleton, Topsfield, Marblehead, Wenham and Lynnfield."

Holy Smokes! Each one of those names matches a suburb or school name in Harare, Zimbabwe!

Hamilton, Topsfield, Marblehead, Wenham: Ritchie Rich horse towns.

Lynnfield: Ritchie Rich suburb.

Salem, Peabody: Working middle class.

A strange, strange mix of towns with absolutely no significance whatsoever except that they're fairly nice towns, all of them.


13 posted on 09/04/2002 1:52:07 PM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost
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To: Cindy
From a web site in your google search : "In November members of the Black September terrorist group--who took their name from the civil war of September 1970--avenged the deaths of fellow fedayeen by assassinating Prime Minister Tal in Cairo. In December the group again struck out against Hussein in an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the Jordanian ambassador to Britain. Hussein alleged that Libya's Colonel Muammar al Qadhafi was involved in a plot to overthrow the monarchy"
14 posted on 09/04/2002 3:29:35 PM PDT by piasa
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To: Lion's Cub; Travis McGee; Mitchell; Shermy; Cincinatus' Wife; Howlin
Hmmmmmmm, Massachussetts is an interesting place in the scheme of things. Notice how the east coast, America's political power center, seems to be the center of attention for the most interesting of the hoax letters as well as for the real letters?

There is a woman scientist who is a close associate of Rosenberg who hails from Massachussetts. She is in fact the woman who originated the theory of anthrax being used as a weapon in Zimbabwe. There's no coincidence that she and Rosenberg are tight as a Dutch Boy's finger in a levee. Rosenberg, of course, is desperate to finger an American in order to push for her, and Castro's, pet project of forcing the US to submit to international inspections of US research labs.

I don't know much about Nass but I suspect she is also an activist who also wants to frame an American scientist to suit their agenda. Apparently her report appeared in the "Physicians for Social Responsibility Quarterly." Do you know anything about this group?

"Meryl Nass, M.D. : Dr. Nass, at the time of publication, was affiliated with Wing Memorial Hospital, Palmer, Massachusetts and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA USA. Her continued work on anthrax is available at her web site http://www.anthraxvaccine.org, Physicians for Social Responsibility Quarterly 1992: 2-198-209 "

So, do these activists stand to gain more in more ways than just as leftist peace activists? Do they have something to gain financially too, perhaps through Clinton administration efforts to push the anthrax vaccine via Bioport, or are they pure ideologues hellbent on an American connection and willing to push hysteria and frame some of our best scientists to do it? Would an 'anthrax researcher,' if judging by her article, be capable of producing anthrax or stealing samples of it to frame someone who is obviously a threat to her and Rosenberg's agenda?


Lookie, lookie what came up when I looked up the "Physicians for Social Responsibilty":

WPSR Delegation to Iraq Report
Appendix I: Delegation Members
The following individuals participated in this trip to Iraq:
Laurence Michel Aboukhater
Melbourne, Australia: Member of the Australian Arabic Council and the Aboriginal Reconciliation Commission. Executive member of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria.

Ramzy Baroud Seattle, Washington, USA: Palestinian writer and journalist - syndicated columnist for newspapers around the world. Special columnist to the Gulf Times and Arabia OnLine.

Allan Connolly, M.D. Vancouver, B.C., Canada: Psychiatric physician and peace activist. Member of Physicians for Global Survival, the national chapter of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

Dan DeLong Seattle, Washington, USA: Staff photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper.

Geraldine (Gerri) Haynes, R.N. Seattle, Washington, USA: Trip organizer. Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility Executive Board member & Chair, Middle East Task Force, pediatric hospice consultant, and grief counselor.

Robert (Bob) Haynes, M.D. Seattle, Washington, USA: Member, Board of Sponsors, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility. Cardiologist in private practice and member of the University of Washington clinical faculty.

Deryk Houston Victoria, B.C., Canada: Artist and activist.

Larry Johnson Seattle, Washington, USA: Foreign desk editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper.

Evan Kanter, M.D., Ph.D. Seattle, Washington, USA: Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and social activist. Vice President of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility. Acting Instructor, University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Research Fellow, Seattle VA Medical Center. Specialty in the neurobiology and clinical treatment of posttraumatic stress disorders.

Wolfgang Kluge, M.D. Seattle, Washington, USA: Cardiologist. Member of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and member of the Board of Directors for Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Busso Volker Lemme Seattle, Washington, USA: Retired Landscape Architect, entrepreneur and businessman.

Benjamin Luna Portland, Oregon, USA: Third year student at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine.

Irene Macinnes Vancouver, B.C., Canada: Social worker and organizer for the Pastors for Peace-sponsored medical caravans to Cuba.

Leonard Moore, M.D. Ottawa, Canada: Family practitioner completing a fellowship in Population Health.

David Morgan Vancouver, B.C., Canada: National President of Veterans against Nuclear Arms.

Linda Morgan Vancouver, B.C., Canada: President of the British Columbia branch, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Jim Pence Vancouver, B.C., Canada: Former Chair of the Justice and Peace unit of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster.

Bre Nicole Reiber New York, New York, USA: Executive assistant, Physicians for Social Responsibility of New York City.

Miriam Ryle London, England, UK: Film director.

Bert Sacks Seattle, Washington, USA: Engineer, Iraqi activist. Fifth journey to Iraq as a member of Voices in the Wilderness. Responsible for preliminary work in Iraq for this group.

Jillian Skeet Vancouver, B.C., Canada: Coordinator of End the Arms Race and founding member of the Campaign to End Sanctions Against the People of Iraq.

Magdalena Szuszkiewicz Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Third year medical student at the University of Maryland. Working to establish a PSR chapter at the U of Maryland.

Kawsar Talaat, M.D. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA: Pediatric resident, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility Middle East delegate 1997. Completed an externship in pediatric infectious disease in Egypt, 1997.

Anwar S.E. Wadi Gaza City, Gaza, Palestine: Psychologist. Anwar was turned back at the Iraqi border as he had an Israeli stamp on his passport.

Grant Wakefield London, England, UK: Freelance production and camera assistant.

Sue Wareham, M.D. Canberra, Australia: General and family practice. National President of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) and the Regional Vice-President for South East Asia Pacific of IPPNW.

Zoughbi Zoughbi Bethlehem, Palestine: Director, Palestine Center for Reconciliation, Wiâam. Masters Degree in Peace Studies from Notre Dame University and worked for the Middle East Council of Churches.

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I SMELL A NEST OF RATS. WOULDN'T IT BE INTERESTING IF ROSENBERG'S FRIENDS HAD BEEN GIVEN A PRESENT BY CERTAIN STATES FOR WHOME THEY HAVE BEEN CARRYING WATER TO 'DISTRUIBUTE' IN THE US FOR JUST SUCH A PURPOSE AS TO INTERFERE IN US RESEARCH ON THWARTING BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS?
15 posted on 09/04/2002 4:08:14 PM PDT by piasa
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To: Lion's Cub; Shermy; Fred Mertz; doug from upland; All
Look who the person who came up with the Zimbabwe anthrax paper is, the one Rosenberg used to accuse Hatfill:

http://www.parkviewhospital.org/nass.htm

Look what organizations she belongs to. Look at the list above to see how our friends at the Seattle newspaper, Iraq, the Federation of American Scientists, and these peace groups are related. So much for Kristof.

16 posted on 09/04/2002 4:17:07 PM PDT by piasa
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A person who specializes in internal medicine is an authority on anthrax in Zimbabwe? I think not.
17 posted on 09/04/2002 4:18:24 PM PDT by piasa
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Hamilton, Topsfield, Marblehead, Wenham: Ritchie Rich horse towns.

No horses in Marblehead...five Yacht Clubs and numerous jackasses though.

18 posted on 09/04/2002 4:27:56 PM PDT by Geronimo
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To: Travis McGee; Alamo-Girl; Lion's Cub
Interesting how all of these people were heavily involved - and cited as 'experts' by the media, in trying to prevent US troops from getting the anthrax vaccine, and how all of these people also happen to be avid supporters of Hussein's regime and well left of center, yet managed to snooker Republicans as well as Democrats and play them like a drum. I used to be critical of the vaccine, but now that I see who is who and how they have been involved in that whole episode, I am now thinking I've been snookered by Hussein too.

Preventing US troops from being protected by that vaccine is extremely convenient for a country which has an interest in making sure we would be vulnerable to the one weapon he has aplenty... biological weapons. Keeping US troops and civilians vulnerable until the time was ripe to make a strike on the US is also rather handy.

More than ever I believe the anthrax cases, and the events of 9/11, lead back to Iraq.

"As with GWS, however, the scientific evidence is so lopsided that Rep. Shays and the media feel compelled to invent experts to oppose the vaccine. One such is Dr. Meryl Nass, who has testified before Rep. Shays's committee. Although dozens of newspapers have identified her as an anthrax-vaccine specialist, she is nothing more than a Maine physician who argues for the existence of GWS and another syndrome the mainstream medical community rejects, multiple chemical sensitivity. She's also a member of the activist, antimilitary group Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Gannett News Service reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner John Hanchette, himself a GWS advocate turned antianthrax-vaccine crusader, calls Nass a "much-published expert on anthrax," failing to mention that her only publication in a major medical or science journal was a letter to the editor. Nass admits that her expertise on anthrax is simply self-learned, but she makes up for it with a loud voice, a sturdy soapbox, and spicy comments that activists and reporters like to hear. She has been made an expert precisely because she says outlandish things that actual experts in the field would never say." - SOURCE

19 posted on 09/04/2002 4:33:40 PM PDT by piasa
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To: mrustow; codebreaker; aculeus; Senator Pardek; wirestripper; Poohbah
fyi, see my comments above on Dr. Nass, Iraq, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Hatfill case
20 posted on 09/04/2002 4:39:24 PM PDT by piasa
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