The first cases turned up ten miles down the road from where Atta and other 9-11 jackers were staying, and there is no other reasonable source for such stuff those guys would have had other than Saddam Hussein.
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The woman who's husband died of it in SOuth Florida....is suing the government for $50 million dollars. Says it was there fault.
My 5 year contract was cut short by 3 years as a direct result of these attacks (There was more than one antrhax attack). My company folded and ten people lost their jobs because of it.
Once a perp is identified, I intend to file for damages.
Keep in mind, the postal service has investigated anthrax threats for many years, but they almost always turned out fake. Until this one.
I agree. I think it was a carefully planned death cultist who mailed the letters, then got on a plane out of the country.
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I doubt the DIRECT involvement of al Qaeda or Iraq...notwithstanding the "Death to Israel", "Death to America", and "Allah is Great" at the end of the letters.
Those phrases are pretty much "standard" Left Coast rhetoric: the kind you'll see on signs in San Francisco,etc.
I've read the FBI microbiology (David Beecher's)report, and it is clear there was no "additive": just very fine particle size-obtainable in a flash dryer,or (perhaps) a bead grinder.
I always THOUGHT clumping would keep the stuff from being effective, and that is true if you are talking about a battlefield weapon, but fine powders will aerosolize when disturbed by air currents.
I'm sure most mailrooms - especially in Florida- had AC running - or fans, at the very least.
Beecher cited one case in his report, in which overseas researchers carelessly dropped a little piece of infected brain tissue on steps. Ordinary foot traffic ground it fine enough to disperse,and to contaminate a large area.
My theory all along is that Hatfill somehow was compromised to SUPPLY Al-Qaeda or whoever---maybe even unknowingly or indirectly. It's just too convenient that the attacks ended the minute he became the target. Al-Qaeda continued to function in the U.S. (as seen in the Buffalo stings) well after 9/11.
Does anyone besides me remember a National Enquirer feature just days after 9/11 tell all by a woman who had been in the sack with OBL? I remember she insulted his size, insulted his entire performance. It was hilarious at the time, but I've always wondered if that could have triggered the attacks.
The anthrax strain was a highly weaponized one.
The only possibilities that make sense is that a person in the military/industrial complex wanted to wake us up to the threat; or,
Saddam gave a very small sample to al-Qaeda and he decided to not give them any more after the US starting beating the war drum against Iraq as well as Afghanistan.