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“That’s because the man 15 feet from Alibek doesn’t know the first thing about making spores.”

He’s not suspected of being the processor. He is suspected of having, for example, accessed the biochemistry information. When they sent 100 federal agents to simultaneously interview 150 people the day and minute they searched Ali’s residence, those people were supporters of Ali’s charity. Similarly, when they later obtained the health records of another pious fellow in North Carolina, where Ali’s DC group had a branch, they weren’t looking to see if he had measles. They were looking to see if he had been prescribed, for example, Cipro. Just as a single example, the man arrested here regularly mixed with silica which is how they made the Dugway simulant. By not reading outside your field, your conclusion was predetermined.

“There are coincidences everywhere. Anthrax being sent to the lady who rented the hijackers apartment husband’s workplace. The arrest of the guy who co-authored a paper on the NY lady who died of anthrax.”

To dismiss them as mere coincidences is unfounded given the connections that existed.

“I’m not saying Al-Timni wasn’t invloved - all I’m saying is being 15 feet from Ken isn’t any more of a coincidence than the two coincidences I cite above.”

And Ali Mohammed didn’t really have access to classified information at Ft. Bragg. Right. Those cables from the Joint Chiefs could just be left forgotten in the FBI storage warehouse. There is no mistake that the FBI can be deemed to have made — with the benefit of hindsight — that begins to compare with the mistake people are making when they overlook the infiltration that has occurred here. I mean how much plainer does Al-Timimi’s attorney have to spell it out?

“Or isn’t any more of a coincidence than Greendale school and Greendale in Rhodesia...” Greendale School was not a coincidence. It was the code known by the CIA to have been used by Ayman Zawahiri. In May 2001, in explaining what he was doing to longtime followers, he used “school” as code for EIJ as he commonly did. The Green Team was the code used for the team sent by military commander Atef to Somalia led by Saif Adel. It had been almost a decade since Stan Bedlington had been with the CIA — his interpretation of Greendale was wide of the mark. As for the Jenny code, that was in fact the code used by Ramzi and wedding in fact is the code for event. So it has always been either EIJ or someone knowledgeable enough to frame the EIJ — such as someone steeped in threat assessment. That includes two associated with widely publicized searches. But that’s why you don’t see them hassling drunk bowlers who didn’t know anything about Zawahiri’s plans to weaponize anthrax for use against US targets.

Although you won’t find it mentioned on Ed’s page in which he attempts to point the finger at the guy who thought anthrax was a virus, in a filing unsealed this month, Dr. Ali Al-Timimi’s lawyer wrote: “Al-Timimi “was considered an anthrax weapons suspect.” Dr. Al-Timimi’s counsel summarizes:

“we know Dr. Al-Timimi:

* was interviewed in 1994 by the FBI and Secret Service regarding his ties to the perpetrators of the first World Trade Center bombing;

* was referenced in the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing (”Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US”) as one of seventy individuals regarding whom the FBI is conducting full field investigations on a national basis;

* was described to his brother by the FBI within days of the 9-11 attacks as an immediate suspect in the Al Qaeda conspiracy;

* was contacted by the FBI only nine days after 9-11 and asked about the attacks and its perpetrators;

* was considered an anthrax weapons suspect;

[redacted - passage presumptively IMO about Amerithrax investigation]

* was described during his trial by FBI agent John Wyman as having “extensive ties” with the “broader al-Qaeda network”;

* was described in the indictment and superseding indictment as being associated with terrorists seeking harm to the United States;

* was a participant in dozens of international overseas calls to individuals known to have been under suspicion of Al-Qaeda ties like Al-Hawali; and

* was associated with the long investigation of the Virginia Jihad Group.

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The conversation with Al-Hawali on September 19, 2001 was central to the indictment and raised at trial. Al-Timimi called Dr. Hawali after the dinner with Kwon on September 16, 2001 and just two hours before he met with Kwon and Hassan for the last time on September 19, 2001.

“]911 imam] Anwar Al-Aulaqi goes directly to Dr. Al-Timimi’s state of mind and his role in the alleged conspiracy. The 9-11 Report indicates that Special Agent Ammerman interviewed Al-Aulaqi just before or shortly after his October 2002 visit to Dr. Al-Timimi’s home to discuss the attacks and his efforts to reach out to the U.S. government.”

[IANA head] Bassem Khafagi was questioned about Dr. Al-Timimi before 9-11 in Jordan, purportedly at the behest of American intelligence. [redacted ] He was specifically asked about Dr. Al-Timimi’s connection to Bin Laden prior to Dr. Al-Timimi’s arrest. He was later interviewed by the FBI about Dr. Al-Timimi. Clearly, such early investigations go directly to the allegations of Dr. Al-Timimi’s connections to terrorists and Bin Laden — [redacted]”

The letter by Al-Timimi’s counsel attached as an exhibit is equally meaty. An example of an additional detail is that in March 2002, Dr. Al-Timimi spoke with Dr. Al-Hawali (Bin Laden’s sheik who was the subject of OBL’s “Declaration of War”) about assisting Moussaoui in his defense.

The filing and the letter exhibit each copy the daughter of the lead prosecutor in Amerithrax. That prosecutor has pled the Fifth Amendment concerning all the leaks hyping a “POI” of the other Amerithrax squad, Dr. Steve Hatfill.