Posted on 10/21/2007 7:36:55 AM PDT by TrebleRebel
Page 609 of this volume is quite intriguing in it's claim. Page 610 is unfortunately restricted in Google Books
http://books.google.com/books?id=Zts-QdpDiWUC&pg=PA342&dq=healthcare+admin:+Wolper&sig=VRk6LDm6m3PXsNqXDZZ7uUtLgXs#PPA609,M1
"Bioterrorism Preparedness" , in by John D. Blair, Cynthia A.Holubik, Robert K. Keel, Angela M. Roberson, and Steven R. Tomlinson Chapter in HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION, by Lawrence F. Wolper
"After participating in several al Qaeda attacks and eventually leading his own cell in Yemen, Shafal was asked to return to Afghanistan to become a cadre member in the training camps. His charismatic leadership and technical proficiency resulted in his becoming one of Osama bin Laden's lieutenants. In 1998, he slipped across the U.S. Canadian border with a false passport and falsified student visa. Meanwhile, anthrax powder also was crossing the border.
Anthrax is the biological weapon of choice for terrorists. This supply was developed and produced for al Qaeda by five scientists from the former Soviet Union's extensive bio-warfare effort. The scientists were paid $2 million each for their work. During the collapse of the Soviet Union, they smuggled both samples of several key weaponized biological agents, including anthrax, and copies of the detailed operational plans and procedures for growing and weaponizing anthrax."
ping
Where's my million bucks?
ping
Money talks nobody walks. Everyone has his price, screw the rest of the world. There are far too many people out there who are only concerned about the here and now. Life is short, they want to live it to the peak, and the hell with the rest of mankind, that’s the attitude you are dealing with. No shortage of those types out there.
from russia with love.
Maybe page 610 begins “this fictional account is what the Federal Admin most fears............”
But it seems too specific to claim that it got smuggled in 1998. We really need access to page 610.
Maybe Sandy Burglar can purloin a copy?
COMING UP THIS WEEK
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - 5 hours ago
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on
the anthrax scare of six years ago.
link for hearings:
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071021/NEWS03/710210347
I don’t credit the treatise discussion. The timeline is inconsistent with Ayman’s emails to Atef in the Spring of 1999 in which he was just turning to the recruitment of specialists. Moreover, it is inconsistent with the poverty that characterized the email correspondence between ayman and the Yemeni cell — he lashed out at them in 1999 for buying a new fax machine when they already had two. (The head of the cell suggested he had no choice but to quit — he wouldn’t have bought the new one if the other two weren’t broken).
TrebleRebel, could you, while we’re on the subject, post the press release about the Newsweek story in December 2001 about help from one or more Russian bioweapons scientists? Jeffrey Bartholet is an esteemed journalist - 4 years as Newsweek’s foreign editor and in 2006 he became the DC bureau chief. Maybe his report hit the mark even if this treatise discussion does not.
I’d have to see the actual treatise — page 610 and footnotes — to make any sense of the discussion.
In contrast, I credit the discussion below (except that at one point the name Atef appears when the name should be KSM)
Anthrax Mystery: Evidence Points to al-Qaida
Thursday, June 7, 2007
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/6/6/163931.shtml?s=lh
Discussions of such devices in that country must always be held highly suspect!
I was going to poke fun at the thought that Ayman cared for the nicety of local regulations, but maybe it would be interesting to look back at the email from Ayman that journalist Cullison interpreted as being to the Yemen cell and consider whether it instead was to folks in London. As I recall its substance, it would fit the London cell, where two members were in open dispute with Ayman and resigning. The London cell definitely did a lot of faxing.
Guarantee you no one was doing a lot of faxing or photocopying inside Yemen. They have some pretty hardcore “no graven image” types there who’d kill you on the spot. Makes it hard to do business there.
Here’s the press release re the Newsweek report by a senior writer who served 4 years as foreign editor before becoming the DC Bureau Chief in July 2006. If it is true, it was very tightly held because I’ve not yet ever seen any corroboration.
A U.S.-Based Al Qaeda ‘Sleeper Cell’ Was Poised to Launch a Post-Sept. 11 Attack on a Major Washington Target; Would-Be Terrorists Went Underground or Fled U.S.
Evidence Indicates Al Qaeda Had Russian Help Developing Anthrax;
Al-Zawahiri Believed Involved in Bin Laden’s Biological Weapons Program
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ — A U.S.-based cell of the Al Qaeda terror network nearly launched an attack on a major target in Washington, D.C. after September 11, Newsweek has learned. Intelligence sources say a Qaeda “sleeper cell” in the U.S. was poised to launch the attack — perhaps against the Capitol Building. The sources believe that the FBI, in its sweep against visa violators and other illegals of Mideast backgrounds, picked up members of a “support cell” tasked with providing logistics help to the people actually carrying out the mission. Intelligence sources say the would-be terrorists then went underground or fled the country. Investigators have not yet been able to identify the plotters from among the hundreds of people caught in the FBI dragnet; they’re not even sure they are still in custody, according to a Newsweek Special Report in the December 17 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, December 10), written by Senior Writer Jeffrey Bartholet and reported by Newsweek Correspondents in Afghanistan, Washington and the Middle East.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20011209/HSSA004 )
The war in Afghanistan has produced a hodgepodge of disturbing
intelligence that investigators are still trying to sift and analyze. Perhaps
the most alarming evidence gathered so far concerns Al Qaeda efforts to
develop biological weapons. According to intelligence sources, U.S.
operatives in Afghanistan have collected information that one or more Russian scientists were working inside Afghanistan with Al Qaeda operatives. One well-placed source tells Newsweek that evidence from the scene indicates that the renegade Russians were helping Al Qaeda to develop anthrax, and that spores of the deadly disease may actually have been stockpiled by the terrorist group. While intelligence sources say they believe any such stockpiles were destroyed in U.S. bombing raids, it is not known how much, if any, of the anthrax ever made it out of Afghanistan.
There were probably 60 to 70 of them, plus their dependents. For the most part they were living 10 to 20 people per townhouse and you'd see them walking the streets day and night to escape the congestion inside the houses.
They flew the coop on 9/11.
Could be anywhere now.
1. Here is the email exchange and on its face is represented to be an exchange with the Yemen cell which was active that year.
TO: Ezzat (real name unknown)
FROM: Ayman al-Zawahiri
FOLDER: Outgoing Mail—To Yemen
DATE: February 11, 1999
Noble brother Ezzat …
Following are my comments on the summary accounting I received:
… With all due respect, this is not an accounting. It’s a summary accounting. For example, you didn’t write any dates, and many of the items are vague.
The analysis of the summary shows the following:
1- You received a total of $22,301. Of course, you didn’t mention the period over which this sum was received. Our activities only benefited from a negligible portion of the money. This means that you received and distributed the money as you please …
2- Salaries amounted to $10,085—45 percent of the money. I had told you in my fax … that we’ve been receiving only half salaries for five months. What is your reaction or response to this?
3- Loans amounted to $2,190. Why did you give out loans? Didn’t I give clear orders to Muhammad Saleh to … refer any loan requests to me? We have already had long discussions on this topic …
4- Why have guesthouse expenses amounted to $1,573 when only Yunis is there, and he can be accommodated without the need for a guesthouse?
5- Why did you buy a new fax for $470? Where are the two old faxes? Did you get permission before buying a new fax under such circumstances?
6- Please explain the cell-phone invoice amounting to $756 (2,800 riyals) when you have mentioned communication expenses of $300.
7- Why are you renovating the computer? Have I been informed of this?
8- General expenses you mentioned amounted to $235. Can you explain what you mean? …
TO: Ayman al-Zawahiri
FROM: Ezzat
FOLDER: Incoming Mail—From Yemen
DATE: February 17, 1999
Kind brother Nur al-Din [al-Zawahiri]:
… We don’t have any guesthouses. We have bachelor houses, and the offices are there too. We called it a guesthouse hypothetically, and we don’t have any bachelors except Basil and Youssef. And Abd al-Kareem lives at his work place.
If I buy a fax and we have two old ones, that would be wanton or mad.
Communication expenses were $300 before we started using the mobile phone—and all these calls were to discuss the crises of Ashraf and Dawoud and Kareem and Ali and Ali Misarra and Abu Basel and others, in compliance with the orders.
Renovating our computer doesn’t mean buying a new one but making sure that adjustments are made to suit Abdullah’s [bin Laden’s] work. There were many technical problems with the computer. These matters do not need approval.
There are articles for purchase that are difficult to keep track of, so we have put them under the title of general expenses …
The first step for me to implement in taking your advice is to resign from … any relationship whatsoever between me and your Emirate. Consider me a political refugee …
2. As for 9/11, I tend to favor the 911 Commission Report, to include its discussion of Falls Church Imam Aulaki, who was picked up in Yemen this summer by Yemeni security forces at the request of the CIA, after being monitored for years by US and British intelligence. He fled the country in March 2002. As for other support personnel, there would be no need for more than have been identified in the Commission report.
Don’t expect anything from the hearing of interest to the Amerithrax investigation.Gerald W. Parker, DVM, PhD, MS, from the Homeland Security Department will testify as he has previously on biopreparedness, to include medical countermeasures. You’ll hear about Project Bioshield, but nothing about whether the bloodhounds are barking up the wrong tree. It will be about how they are spending your money, not on solving the crime. One of the scientists behind the opinion re the hijacker’s leg lesion is the least constrained by a boring official title. But her testimony can be expected about spending priorities also.
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