I’m sure this won’t deter Ed in the least. He’ll still insist that the FBI are about to arrest the real suspect - the one they’ve kept hidden from senators, congressmen, judges, FBI agents assigned to the case, DOJ officials who empaneled Amerithrax grand juries and everyone else. Come to think of it, who in the FBI DOES know who Ed’s super-secret suspect is?
Getting serious for a second - it’s interesting that the LA Times piece does not mention the leaked Detrick email produced by Fox News a month or 2 back.
The guy must have said either said something stupid or is posting with another account though, because he got banned pretty much right away.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/mukasey-takes-heat-but-not-like-gonzales-did-2008-07-09.html
Mukasey takes heat, but not like Gonzales did
The Hill, DC - 11 hours ago
Yesterday, Leahy inquired about the status of the investigation into the anthrax mailings but Mukasey just said it was active investigation and declined further comment.
Separately, KSM’s assistant al-Hawsawi, the 911 logistics person who had the anthrax spraydrying documents on his laptop, has apparently asked for the attorney who first announced Ayman’s intent to use anthrax against US targets.
At the trial of the Albanian returnees in 1999, at which prominent islamist attorney Montasser Al Zayat was key defense counsel, an Egyptian journalist with the newspaper al-Hayat, Salah, spoke with EIJ military commander Ahmad Mabruk. Mabruk was among 100+ defendants in the 1999 Egyptian terrorism trial and was Zawahiri’s confidante and right-hand man. Mabruk had been imprisoned for 6 months in Russia with Zawahiri shortly before the launch of Zawahiri’s anthrax program. (Mabruk, who was the head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad’s military operations, told Al-Hayat the plan was on a computer disk confiscated from him during his arrest by the CIA in Azerbaijan. The disk later was reportedly handed over to the Egyptian authorities. Mabruk said he assumed that, upon learning of his arrest, Bin Laden and Zawahiri would change the dates and locations for the attacks outlined in the plan. Mabruk revealed that Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri had compiled a list of 100 targets worldwide that were linked to United States or Israel.
According to Road to Al Qaeda, by prominent Islamist lawyer Al-Zayat, the disc contained “the names of group members all over the world. The computer revealed to the authorities the location of group members living overseas, including new members that were not known to the Egyptian authorities, as well as some information about Al-Qaeda members.” Al-Zayat, who represented some of the defendants, said in 1999 that Zawahiri would likely use biological and chemical weapons against the United States in retaliation for the rendering of Egyptian Islamic Jihad leaders.
Al Zayat is Zawahiri’s friend and the lawyer for the blind sheik. In the Spring and Fall of 1999, authorities intercepted telephone conversations he had with the blind sheik’s liaison Sattar. Al Zayat formerly shared a law office with the head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad’s Civilian Branch relating to Special Operations, Shehata, who was Jaballah’s brother-in-law. In 1999, Al-Zayat maintained an e-mail correspondence with the Egyptian Islamic Group leader, Taha (the blind sheik’s successor). Al Zayat’s former law partner, Shehata, traveled with Ayman, to include Yemen, Sudan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Dagestan.
Al Zayat estimated that 20 Al Qaeda members had been extradited up to 1999 due to US pressure. He expected that Al Qaeda would resort to biological and chemical weapons because of this constant extradition pressure: “The United States will intensify its pursuit of Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri in the coming stage to arrest them. It is not an easy task, especially in light of information that Bin Laden’s organization has biological and chemical weapons. I believe that he will resort to these weapons and use them against US targets because of the constant pressure on him.”
The Vanguards of Conquest issued a statement to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty in March 1979. “We declare to the entire world our rejection of any truce with the Egyptian regime. Our battle is essentially with the US and Israel. Any truce with the regime of Hosni will constitute Mubarak will constitute a truce with the US and Israel.” Anthrax later would be sent on the anniversary of the approval of the Camp David Accords