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More than twenty years ago I was involved in COMINT for the U.S.Navy. So naturally when the anthrax attack occurred I followed what was going on and paid close attention to details that would occasionally appear. I will share what I have found with all of you.
1. The first person to receive an anthrax laced letter (he later died of the anthrax) was a Photo Editor at the National Enguirer’s Florida headquarter’s. (Everyone else was a liberal Democrat in the Washington D.C. area.)
This puzzled me. Then later this came out: his wife was a landlady to two of the 9-11 terrorists.
Any homocide detective would have been all over this connection. I wonder about the FBI, if they ever looked into it.
2. All the envelopes containing anthrax were mailed from Newark, New Jersey, home to many of the attackers of the first terror strike agaisnt the World Trade Towers.
Ramzi Yousef, the bomb maker, was a cousin to Khalid Sheik Muhammed, number three guy in Al Qaeda. Yousef was carrying a forged Kuwaiti passport later identified as having been made by Iraqi intelligence. Saddam Hussein is known to have supplied funds for the first World Trade Towers attack (something most people don’t know).
3. The German government, in its attempts to forge closer ties to Iraq, gave Iraq’s Department of Agriculture a kilo of the Ames type agricultural anthrax. This was to help Iraq control the disease among its cattle herds. (This was revealed publicly about 2 years ago. Whether the gift was the result of a request by Saddam’s government wasn’t revealed.)
When the then Minister of Agriculture was later interviewed by our American military (maybe DIA?) he told the intriguing story of how the anthrax never made it through the front doors of his building. Saddam Hussein’s personal guards intercepted the package on the steps outside.
4. Prague. Everybody has heard the story about Mohammed Atta meeting with the head of Iraqi Intelligence and being handed a package.
What most people don’t know is that the Al Qaeda member who disputes this wasn’t even it Europe when it happened! He was in Afghanistan, where he was captured on a battlefield.
So who would you believe? Czech Intelligence or some Al Qaeda puke!
This is the info I’ve gleaned from the news these past six years. I’ve made up my mind and have a pretty good idea why President Bush mentioned WMD.
The interview seems to be on the political side of how to protect the populace from a future attack.
Not necessarily about solving the one in 2001.
If anyone out there has read it.....does he address the destruction at ISU???
bookmarking for later read
There was some funny powder on the pages.
Fascinating topic and thread. Thanks to all.