The Anthrax Mailer: An al Qaeda Operative

Phoenix News ^ | 3/5/04 | Kenneth J. Dillon

[mrustow]

It is also possible that he is from another Arab country and arrived more recently. He did not necessarily have any direct connection with the September 11 hijackers, at least one of whom evidence now suggests had been handling anthrax. As for his location, Trenton and JFK Airport would quite likely to define his initial range; together they suggest that he is located in northeastern New Jersey. If so, heading to Trenton to drop off the letters would be a logical way to throw suspicion on Pennsylvania or at any rate away from his true location while not getting noticed for out-of-state license plates. A New Jersey license plate around JFK Airport, in contrast, is nothing unusual. Shooting down an airplane at JFK would be better than doing so at Newark Airport, which would have tended to disclose his northeastern New Jersey location.

The last sentence is a non sequitur, in order to push Dillon's theory that an AQ operative shot down AA flight 587 with a shoulder-fired rocket, on November 12, 2001. He then returns to that belief in his conclusion. I thought that theory was nuts when I first heard it in 2002. I don't anymore. But still, Ken Dillon is a wildly speculative thinker, hardly a friend of Occam.

The Russians may have obtained the Ames strain via espionage, then worked on it to bring it up to one trillion spores per gram. However, that explanation requires two difficult steps.

And those steps would be ...?

[Shermy]

Off topic...Here's an article from October 26, 2001...Scott Ritter was from early on denying possible Iraqi anthrax involvement.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/10/25/194259.shtml

[Shermy]

Scott Ritter blames right wing "McVeigh Groups" for Anthrax Faux and Friends ^ | 10-19-01 Don't blame Saddam for this one

Saddam Hussein's American Apologist - From the November 19, 2001 issue: The strange career of former U.N. arms inspector Scott Ritter.

[knak]

FYI:

Secret Anthrax Report

[FreeAtlanta]

Wouldn't it be interesting if it turned out that Ritter mailed the letters for uncle (figure of speech) Hussein? Maybe, he got some of that $40 mil for more than being an apologist?