FBI anthrax probe revisits former Detrick researcher

The Associated Press ^ | 5/16/2004, 6:32 p.m. ET | DAVID DISHNEAU

[freeperfromnj]

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP)

[ScaniaBoy]

Am I the only one who didn't know that the suspect connected to Ft Detrick was an Egyptian born man namned Assaad??

I was under the impression that we were dealing with home grown right wing white supremacist nuts.

The things one learn on this site!

[bigghurtt]

I live on Detrick and didn't know they were talking to an Egyptian now...I know they were talking to Hatfill before, but this is a pretty important development I think.

[Plutarch]

This development was likely prompted by their finding Ayaad Assaad's name in Nick Berg's notebook, but it is just a complete coincidence.

[spyone]

Plutarch...stop messing with us...jokin' right?

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

There was a thread here a couple weeks ago about (Iraq?) having several people quarantined with what looked like anthrax; there was children among them.

Did any of you see that? I have no heard anything since.

[steve86]

Iraq anthrax? thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1134467/posts

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

Iraq anthrax? thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1134467/posts


Yup. That's the one. It struck me odd that I had not heard anything beyond that thread, then this thread comes along.

[Shermy]

They said the agents also seemed interested in an analysis of the letter's syntax by Donald W. Foster, an English professor at Vassar College, who wrote about it in the October issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

No...ya gotta be kidding me...no...Foster again? The FBI takes this crank seriously? No, it can't be...fears that those we expect to care for us don't are coming true...unbelievable...

I mean this is a joke, right?

[fiftymegaton]

--He said he also discussed with them his theory of how one could make the type of anthrax used in the attacks by forcing steam from a hot, liquid mixture through a nozzle and collecting dried residue from the condensation. --

I find it somewhat hard to believe this guy never worked with anthrax. I guess he only THOUGHT about working with anthrax.

[ScaniaBoy]

This development was likely prompted by their finding Ayaad Assaad's name in Nick Berg's notebook, but it is just a complete coincidence.

Hey, I am going away for a couple of weeks and won't be able to follow FR.

Don't leave me hanging - was that a joke or not????

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Plutarch]

This development was likely prompted by their finding Ayaad Assaad's name in Nick Berg's notebook, but it is just a complete coincidence.

Don't leave me hanging - was that a joke or not????

Just a joke guys. But why does it sound so plausible?

[spyone]

'Cause of your mastery of the English language and the weirdness of the Nick Berg story...what do you think is with him anyways? Do you believe this lone ranger plotline?

[weegee]

There WAS no Anthrax.

Witness this logic (using arguments of the left):

We have searched Iraq for WMDs and have not shown sufficient evidence to give enough credence to silence those in the pro-Saddam/anti-war movements.

Here in the US, there have not been the restrictions on inspectors looking where they want for a biological weapon but they still have not determined any US origin.

Ergo, there was no anthrax (just as there is no Osama bin Laden, if there was we should have found him by now).

[weegee]

Have the contents of the fourth contaminated letter ever been released? Was it a photocopy of the previous letters or something different?

[Palladin]

I still think it was Hatfill.

[paleocon patriarch]

Paging Lt. Col. Philip Zack.
Paging Dr. Marian Rippy.

[Plutarch]

the Nick Berg story...what do you think is with him anyways?

Well, as I posted on 5/12, before we knew that Nick's email password just happened to have been used by 9/11 terrorists:

There are several unusual aspects to this case. The first is the vague and implausible rationale for a Jewish Nick Berg to be risking his neck in Iraq; the second that Nick Berg's father just happens to be a far out leftist; the third that he was arrested and detained by Iraqi authorities, and investigated by the FBI.

According to Occam's Razor, one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

The one entity that explains everything is that Nick Berg was in Iraq to further a leftist cause. Any other explanation requires a multiplicity of unusual coincidences.

FBI saw Berg….

The password leak to the hijackers seals it. If that is a coincidence it is one in 100 million. The odds are a lot better than 0.000000001 that Nick and Pa were ANSWERing the call together, Pa overtly and Nick covertly.

[spyone]

hmmm....you think so? The media spin is he was a Bush supporter...the first thing that came to my mind was he was Mossad.