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1 posted on 11/14/2003 9:51:51 PM PST by joinedafterattack
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To: joinedafterattack
It isn't about Saddam Hussein or Iraq.
2 posted on 11/14/2003 10:50:13 PM PST by RLK
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To: joinedafterattack; FoxFang; FITZ; moehoward; Nea Wood; Joe Hadenuf; sangoo; ...
BumpPing!
3 posted on 11/14/2003 11:03:23 PM PST by JustPiper (Illegals require a microchip, let's pitch in !!!)
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To: joinedafterattack
Holy moly, I was just in Mindanao last month. I am glad I missed this.
4 posted on 11/14/2003 11:06:41 PM PST by Mark17
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To: XHogPilot
bump
5 posted on 11/14/2003 11:28:18 PM PST by XHogPilot
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To: joinedafterattack
possible residues of a "tetanus virus-carrying chemical was among those found" in Sunday's raid, along with a "bio-terror manual".

Well, if the 'manual' described it as a 'tetanus virus chemical', I'm a lot less worried. Tetanus = a symptom caused by a toxin produced by a specific Clostridium bacterium. Sounds a bit over-hyped.

OTOH, I've known quite a few sharpshooters who couldn't spell 'bullet'.

6 posted on 11/14/2003 11:57:50 PM PST by struwwelpeter
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To: joinedafterattack
lots of people are vaccinated against it.
8 posted on 11/15/2003 12:19:45 AM PST by Pro-Bush (Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
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To: joinedafterattack
Pardon me, but tetanus is caused by the bacterial species called Clostridium Tetani which produces a neurotoxin that causes painful muscular contractions. It is not caused by a virus. I think you can look it up. I just confirmed it by referencing a medical dictionary.

This just shows how ignorant the "media" are when discussing serious matters. They do excel at fear mongering. The DPT vaccine protects against that threat in pediatric patients, and for those older than seven years old, a different vaccine uses Td as it's name. In both cases, the capital "T" refers to tetanus due to the aforementioned bacterial species.
11 posted on 11/15/2003 12:32:11 AM PST by neverdem (Say a prayer for New York both for it's lefty statism and the probability the city will be hit again)
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To: joinedafterattack
jihad bump
12 posted on 11/15/2003 12:37:49 AM PST by Dajjal
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To: joinedafterattack
"possible biological weapons"

Anything is possible.

21 posted on 11/15/2003 10:35:21 AM PST by blam
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To: joinedafterattack; Cindy; Shermy
Speaking of al Ghozi :

During his clandestine operations Sufaat is said to have met several times with Fathuir Rahman Ghozi, an extremist Indonesian militant living in the Philippines and suspected of having organized an attack last December against the U.S. embassy in Singapore. ------ "Al Qaeda's Malaysian Links ," Intelligence Online POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE; TERRORISM / MALAYSIA; N. 425 March 14, 2002

so who's this Sufaat guy?

Well, he's this guy:

Sufaat was arrested in December last year following a petition filed by the FBI against a French-Morocan citizen Zacharias Massaoui, who is believed to be the first Al-Qaeda operative charged in court. In the pettition, Yazid Sufaat’s name was mentioned as a business sponsor of Massaoui, who was entitled to a salary of US2000 for representing the import export company of Sufaat. ------- "Alleged Al-Qaeda Operative Sufaat Denies Terror Charges," Islam Online ^ | April 14 2002 | Kazi Mahmood

So, what about Sufaat? Seems he was into bioweapons research :

[Abdur] Rauf's money demands may have led to a falling-out with Zawahiri, who appears to have decided to explore other options for obtaining bacteria and lab equipment, said Rohan Gunaratna, an al-Qaeda expert with the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore.
Gunaratna said al-Qaeda leaders also collaborated with Yazid Sufaat, a member of an allied Southeast Asian group called Jemaah Islamiyah, in purchasing equipment for the Kandahar lab. Sufaat, who once studied chemistry at California State University at Sacramento, has been in custody since late 2001.
"Rauf was financially driven, and al-Qaeda didn't entirely trust him," Gunaratna said.
-------- "Suspect and A Setback In Al-Qaeda Anthrax Case - Scientist With Ties To Group Goes Free," Washington Post ^ | October 31, 2006 | Joby Warrick

So who is this Abdur Rauf?

In December 2001, as the investigation into the U.S. anthrax attacks was gathering steam, coalition soldiers in Afghanistan uncovered what appeared to be an important clue: a trail of documents chronicling an attempt by al-Qaeda to create its own anthrax weapon. The documents told of a singular mission by a scientist named Abdur Rauf, an obscure, middle-aged Pakistani with alleged al-Qaeda sympathies and an advanced degree in microbiology.
Using his membership in a prestigious scientific organization to gain access, Rauf traveled through Europe on a quest, officials say, to obtain both anthrax spores and the equipment needed to turn them into highly lethal biological weapons. He reported directly to al-Qaeda's No. 2 commander, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and in one document he appeared to signal a breakthrough.
"I successfully achieved the targets," he wrote cryptically to Zawahiri in a note in 1999. Precisely what Rauf achieved may never be known with certainty. That's because U.S. officials remain stymied in their nearly five-year quest to bring charges against a man who they say admitted serving as a top consultant to al-Qaeda on anthrax -- a claim that makes him one of a handful of people linked publicly to the group's effort to wage biological warfare against Western targets. ------- "Suspect and A Setback In Al-Qaeda Anthrax Case - Scientist With Ties To Group Goes Free," Washington Post ^ | October 31, 2006 | Joby Warrick

25 posted on 11/04/2006 2:54:06 AM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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