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Anthrax Terror [CIA Building Case 2001 Anthrax Attacks were Terrorism]
The Washington Times ^
| 12-26-03
| Gertz/Scarborough
Posted on 12/26/2003 9:04:11 AM PST by cgk
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:11:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
[history]
The CIA has been quietly building a case that the anthrax attacks of 2001 were in fact the result of an international terrorist plot.
U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports tell us the information showing a terrorist link to the anthrax-filled letters sent by mail in the weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks is not conclusive. But it is persuasive.
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TOPICS: Anthrax Scare; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amerithrax; amesstrain; anthrax; anthraxattacks; antraz; billgertz; cia; hatfill; iraq; iraqsurveygroup; jenniferlopez; jihadinamerica; rowanscarborough; terrorism
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posted on
12/26/2003 9:04:13 AM PST
by
cgk
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; Badabing Badaboom; Shermy; JustPiper
ping........
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posted on
12/26/2003 9:06:13 AM PST
by
cgk
(Kraut, 1989: We must brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie & rage.)
To: cgk
This has been my contention all along. Financial devestation from the WTC attacks and the Post Office attacks, and Political decapitation from the hits on Washington.
3
posted on
12/26/2003 9:08:00 AM PST
by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(I may have been born, poor white trash, but Fancy is my name.)
To: cgk
When were the letters intially mailed? Right after or before 9-11?
4
posted on
12/26/2003 9:08:25 AM PST
by
KantianBurke
(Don't Tread on Me)
To: cgk
A report last month to the U.N. Security Council by its Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission concluded that traces of anthrax recovered from a bomb in early 2003 were of the same strain Iraq declared in 1991 it had weaponized.What bomb????
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posted on
12/26/2003 9:09:40 AM PST
by
lasereye
To: big ern
I used to be able to spell Devastation
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posted on
12/26/2003 9:11:23 AM PST
by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(I may have been born, poor white trash, but Fancy is my name.)
To: KantianBurke
The first letters that are considered by the media to be a part of the attacks were postmarked Sept. 18th.
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posted on
12/26/2003 9:13:22 AM PST
by
cgk
(Kraut, 1989: We must brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie & rage.)
To: cgk
So when do they apologize to the Prof?
8
posted on
12/26/2003 9:13:44 AM PST
by
DannyTN
Very thorough (and interesting) timeline can be found
here: all documented information.
Excerpts:
September 4, 2001 (approx.):
On approximately this date, a "weird love letter to Jennifer Lopez" is sent to The Sun, a tabloid with offices in Florida. "But inside the oddly-worded letter was what was described as a 'soapy, powdery substance' and in the pile of that a cheap Star of David charm." The letter was handled both by Ernesto Blanco, who contacted anthrax, and Bob Stevens, who died of anthrax. The letter was thrown away, so it's not known if it contained anthrax. [Newsweek, 10/8/01] Could the letter have been part of a pre-9/11 series of anthrax attacks reported by the New York Post (see before September 11, 2001)? The only specific target mentioned by the Post was Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. [New York Post, 11/1/01] Bob Stevens was admitted to a hospital on October 2; the period between anthrax exposure and symptoms can be up to eight weeks. The anthrax attacks targeted media outlets, sending both real and hoax letters. Could this have been part of that series? Newsweek also reports a Middle Eastern intern working at the Sun that summer left a curious farewell e-mail. [Newsweek, 10/8/01]
before September 11, 2001:
In a story seemingly unreported anywhere else, the New York Post later claims that a series of hoax anthrax letters is sent out from Indianapolis, Indiana, at some point not long before 9/11. The FBI allowed the Post to see copies of these letters, which had handwriting and other features remarkably similar to the later letters containing real anthrax. [New York Post, 11/1/01]
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posted on
12/26/2003 9:17:26 AM PST
by
cgk
(Kraut, 1989: We must brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie & rage.)
To: DannyTN
I assume that if and when they do apologize to Hatfill, it will be as insignificant as clearing Richard Jewel.
10
posted on
12/26/2003 9:19:05 AM PST
by
cgk
(Kraut, 1989: We must brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie & rage.)
To: cgk
I think we all know that Gertz gets some of the best leaks from spooks who want things to leak. The question is, why this? And why now? There is a strong whiff of pre-emptive CYA here, as if they suspect there is more coming soon and they want to be on record as not agreeing with the FBI theory. Gulp. |
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posted on
12/26/2003 9:19:07 AM PST
by
Nick Danger
( With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.)
To: Nick Danger
as if they suspect there is more coming soon and they want to be on record as not agreeing with the FBI theory. Gulp I was thinking the exact same thing. Gulp is right.
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posted on
12/26/2003 9:20:24 AM PST
by
riri
To: cgk; genefromjersey; Badabing Badaboom; JustPiper; freeperfromnj; flutters; Dog; Sabertooth; ...
Ping
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posted on
12/26/2003 9:24:35 AM PST
by
Calpernia
(Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
To: cgk
Of course the letters were from Islamic terrorists, and they were almost certainly from a foreign country. The letters themselves spell it out about as plainly as humanly possible. Anyone who would believe otherwise is either an idiot or a virulent America-hating liberal.
14
posted on
12/26/2003 9:26:51 AM PST
by
jpl
To: Nick Danger
NO NO NO NO NO
The first man to die when fishing, no no , he went hunting, no no, he drank from a pond, Yea thats it. He drank from a pond. And all this time I thought it was terrorists, how silly of me .
To: Calpernia
Thanks for the ping Cal..
16
posted on
12/26/2003 9:29:25 AM PST
by
Dog
To: cgk
It seems probable that "an organization" must have been behind the anthrax mailings - because anyone who would be capable of formulating the substance would be incapable of misspelling "Penacilin".
Additionally, the fact that it's taking a government agency years to conclude that a terrorist was behind an act that, by its very nature, constituted "terrorism", is no great source of confidence in the future.
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posted on
12/26/2003 9:29:27 AM PST
by
The Duke
To: lasereye
This might be it?:
From this article, published Dec. 3, 2003:
On another issue, UNMOVIC said advanced testing and analysis indicated a strain of anthrax found on R400 bombs Iraq declared it had unilaterally destroyed was the same strain it had earlier declared to have weaponized.
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posted on
12/26/2003 9:31:12 AM PST
by
cgk
(Kraut, 1989: We must brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie & rage.)
To: keri; Mitchell; okie01; aristeides; TrebleRebel
ping
19
posted on
12/26/2003 9:32:28 AM PST
by
Allan
To: Van der Waals
ping
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posted on
12/26/2003 9:33:24 AM PST
by
Allan
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