This is what Mr. Seikaly was in a position to know in Fall 2001:
DIA Doc Confirms OBL’s Plans To Penetrate US Biodefense
December 19th, 2007
A 1998 Defense Intelligence Agency document produced to Judicial Watch four years ago confirms Bin Laden’s plans to penetrate US biodefense. It describes OBL’s biological aspirations in association with the late Arab Chechen fighter Ibn Khattab. The means by which a worldwide caliphate was to be established was by terror, “latent penetration,” and control over nuclear and biological weapons. After 9/11, Ibn Khattab was killed by a poison letter. The infiltration that occurred, as had occurred with Bin Laden’s former head of security and intelligence, Ali Mohammed, was pretty obvious, at least with the benefit of hindsight. Six years after the anthrax mailings, perhaps the suppression of information in Amerithrax may be due in part to a profound embarrassment and fear of legal liability, rather than due merely to the confidentiality required in a criminal and national security investigation. It’s hard to tell.
The head of Judicial Watch explained:
“A smoker of a document came across my desk in the form of a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Intelligence Information Report (IIR) declassified and released to Judicial Watch on October 30, 2004, in response to a Freedom of Information Act open records request we made in January 2000, concerning the decision of the Clinton administration to bomb in August 1998 the al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan and suspected al Qaeda terrorist training camps in the vicinity of Khost, Afghanistan. …”
He explained that the typed document was derived from handwritten documents obtained through a classified intelligence project with the unclassified nickname “Swift Knight.” According to the report, the documents were written during the first two weeks of October 1998.”
The document stated in part:
SUBJ: SWIFT KNIGHT - USAM BEN LADEN’S CURRENT AND HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES
WARNING: THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE
BEN LADEN STAYED IN KHARTOUM, WHERE 700 AFGHAN ARABS WERE CONCENTRATED. FROM THIS GROUP, HE CREATED THE NUCLEUS OF THE TERRORIST FUNDAMENTALIST POLITICAL ORGANIZATION “AL-KAIDA”. AMONG THE MEMBERS WAS HIS PERSONAL FRIEND, AMER [(KHATTAB]), A JORDANIAN CHECHEN WHOSE REPUTATION WAS DISTINGUISHED EVEN IN THEIR OWN CIRCLE FOR UNMOTIVATED BRUTALITY. IN 1995, KHATTAB APPEARED IN CHECHNYA TO CARRY OUT A SPECIAL MISSION ASSIGNED TO HIM BY USAM BEN LADEN TO ORGANIZE TRAINING CAMPS FOR INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS. ..
THE MEANS BY WHICH THE ABOVE GOALS [AT MINIMUM, TO OVERTHROW FAKHD IN SAUDI ARABIA] ARE TO BE MET ARE VIA TERROR, ETHNIC CLEANSING, “LATENT PENETRATION” (NFI), AND CONTROL OVER NUCLEAR AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS (JIHKHAD). FURTHER, RADICAL ISLAMIC (PREDOMINANTLY SUNNI) REGIMES ARE TO BE ESTABLISHED AND SUPPORTED EVERYWHERE POSSIBLE, INCLUDING BOSNIA, ALBANIA, CHECHNYA, DAGESTAN, [ETC]
[ETC.]
“VOLUNTEERS” FROM WHAT THE DOCUMENT REFERRED TO AS BEN LADEN’S ‘CHARITY SOCIETIES’ FROM PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN ***
A DIRECT ROUTE HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED TO CHECHNYA FROM PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN THROUGH TURKEY AND AZERBAIJAN.
***
THE NEW PROGRAM INCLUDES TOPICS IN– “DIVERSIONS” WITH THE HELP OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, INCLUDING BACTERIOLOGICAL, AND INCENDIARY MIXTURES.
I believe NFI, which appears in parentheses, after the phrase “latent penetration,” may be World Bank-speak spoken by Wadi al Hage standing for non-conventional financial intermediary or NGO, non-governmental organization. He uses the same “nfi” designation in his correspondence from that time period. It is merely an additional confirmation Bin Laden planned to use the infrastructure and cover of charities in seeking to weaponize anthrax.
As we recall from Soviet era previously classified films, the Politburo itself was in the business of directly funding the Communist party in this country. What we didn't see is that they also funded Commies without a clear and open relationship to that party in this country.
That the relationships existed is beyond all doubt!
You'll notice that a lot of the former USSR resources in this country have ended up gravitating to George Soros ~ but I think that's more a case of "I need a job" than any strong ideological commitment ~ and that opinion is based on my familiarity with the mind-set of folks in the vast non-profit organization community found in the Washington DC area ~ these guys mail a lot of stuff and have every problem imaginable so I had much more than my fair share of dealing with them..
Whatever the case, there's a residual Communist structure in the US and its supporters, if not the structure itself, continues to have access to funding.
Some of these guys continue with their old relationships with YPSL. Their reasons are varied ~ friendship, to keep track of known "troublemakers" in their own past, or maybe even ideological interest.
Think of the Bernadette Dohran gang ~ she continued to have outside contact through all those years. Her closest friends knew where she was and didn't turn her in ~ YPSL members from the 1970s and 1980s maintain similar contacts and closed mouths.
The worst thing YPSL ever got involved in before the Postal strike was sponsoring some of the Weatherman bombings, and I bet every single YPSL member wishes they'd never heard of that group.
Then there was the Postal strike. Although it might seem somewhat strange to have so many of these YPSL guys employed at one spot you have to remember they were getting older, forming families, having babies, needing medical insurance and incomes, and the USSR was already cutting off everybody's money (and by the early 1990s even the funding to the Communist party in the USA itself).
I never did figure out who in management up in the New York Region made it possible for these guys to get jobs at that place. At the same time the Personnel Director (Employee and Labor Relations) at the Detroit Post Office was the brother of the Mayor of Detroit, and he (Young) was an official USSR Communist Party Politburo paid "agent". (NOTE: Detroit was where the USA sent USSR and East Bloc defectors to work after their intelligence value was used up. So one might suppose the Commies in the USSR had an interest in keeping an eye on these people).
The Postal Strike served to bring YPSL into public view again and highlighted the fact that USPS still had a Commie problem.
Having already gone over the repeated attempts they made to kill PMG Bolger, let's leap ahead to the Anthrax Attack.
When the Anthrax Attack happened, some in the residual Communist party apparatus, e.g. most likely Barbara Hatch Rosenberg and her friends, all openly Commies, or so far Left that even the Commies thought them to be Commies, moved out smartly to derail the FBI/Postal investigation of the matter. That's when they started pointing to Dr. Hatfill.
Having seen the look of terror on the face of the former Deputy Director of the USSR Biological Warfare program (who worked in the same building) at the time the Anthrax Attack was announced, I'd say Rosenberg wasn't the only person in the former USSR Commie food chain who feared "one of their own" had done the job!
It's interesting that one of their assets in CIA was "sacrificed" with a transfer to the FBI to assist in the matter.
That's how anxious that whole apparatus was about this event. No doubt they will eventually let us know if it was some of their stuff that was used.