Troubling Anthrax Additive Found; Atta Met Iraq

ABC News ^ | 10/28/01 | ABCNews.com

[VA Advogado]

I'll tell you one thing I know for sure and that is that Halliburton Energy is a HUGE supplier of industrial bentonite. Cheney used to be what, the CEO of Halliburton? This is only going to fuel the fires of conspiracy. You watch.

[philman_36]

WARNING...this IP address 63.93.248.2 has a virus according to my virus software! Stay away if you have no protection.
This "script kiddy" shouldn't play games at times like this.

[philman_36]

This is only going to fuel the fires of conspiracy.
Seems like you started the fire though, doesn't it!
Remember...Only you can prevent "conspiracy fires"!

[VA Advogado]

Neo-Nazi and other extreme Right Wing groups are known to be very happy about the attacks on the WTC. They are also very gleeful about the negative and parnoid effects those attacks have had on the feeble minded members of society.

Link please.

[philman_36]

[VA Advogado]

Seems like you started the fire though, doesn't it!

Hardly. Even a knuckle dragger like yourself will eventually learn about the Halliburton Energy/bentonite connection. There are a number of bentonite mines in Wyoming as a matter of fact. I can only see trouble for Cheney with the left and right wing tin-foilers if this amounts to something. Whatever you do, don't tell Klayman. :)

[philman_36]

Even a knuckle dragger like yourself...
Ah haha >>>in my best Eddie Murphy laugh<<< Oh, that's a good one!

[Sreen Name]

After all, extreme Right Wingers are too STUPID to be able and pull something like this anthrax scare.

I don't think people were defending militia groups so much as they were pointing out the obvious lack of (non-political) evidence against them.

[r9etb]

What you're both saying is: It's entirely possible that groups within the U.S. have their own reasons for desiring the sort of unrest that the Anthrax has indeed caused.

And such a thing is indeed a plausible way to "further the revolution" that both right- and left-wing fringe groups claim they want. And of course, Saddam would be more than happy to deal with people who are in the market for somthing that futhers his cause.

The strategy of anthrax for a domestic revolutionary group is simple: anthrax begets strict controls, which turn people against the authorities. This makes it easier to peel off some of the more volatile among the otherwise law-abiding citizens. (We have plenty here at FR, and I'd venture to guess that the Democratic Underground has its own version.)

Then it's on to something different, with an eye toward stricter government controls, and so the cycle goes.

The tactics themselves are Mao's. I can easily see how the people using anthrax could be domestic: right-wing, left-wing, even both. It wouldn't surprise me in the least.

[VA Advogado]

Anything more you would like to me to know about?

[r9etb]

This makes no sense. Extreme right-wing groups detest government intervention into people's lives

I don't particularly buy that particular comment. But ultimately it's irrelevant if those folks consider themselves to be revolutionaries. If government intervention will drive "patriots" into their fold, wouldn't that be a victory for them?

My reference point for the idea of right-wing involvement is the ill-fated Republic of Texas thing a few years back. Those guys really believed their little revolt would spark The Revolution.

It didn't of course. But the train of thought beyond that is fairly obvious: the "patriots" just weren't mad enough yet. Well, what better way to make them mad at the gov't than to goad them into "repressive responses?"

I don't really have an opinion yet as to who's really behind it. Suffice it to say that I'm unwilling yet to rule out domestic sources on the left or right.

[philman_36]

Anything more you would like to me to know about?
A fellow knuckle dragger like yourself wouldn't understand.

[Fred25]

Look, smart rich guys are going to have contacts in both government and industry. That is nothing new. Poor dumb guys aren’t going to have any contacts at all, and that’s nothing new.

[lawdude]

Oh come-on. Ever' one knows it was us rite wing, fringe, friggin lunatic, crackpot, nut, freak, religious zealot, murderin' conservatives!

[jerod]

See reply #39

[rwfromkansas]

There was something else that was found in there that was an additive, silicon I think if I heard the tv right.

[gatex]

"Halliburton Energy is a HUGE supplier of industrial bentonite..."

Since it is clay, why would it result in conspiracy talk.

Bentonite is also used in cosmetics and as a food additive---

Will the cosmetic companies and food companies be in the conspiracy ?

[daviddennis]

"The web page you are trying to access doesn't exist on Yahoo! GeoCities." It would appear that GeoCities deleted it, most likely because the page violated their terms of service.

Unfortunately, there appears to be no record of this page in Google's cache, and I have been unable to find it through looking for the page title or anything else more or less useful-looking. So I'm with BlueCat on this one.

D

[blam]

"Poor dumb guys aren’t going to have any contacts at all, and that’s nothing new."

LOL. Poor dumb guys don't understand that though. That's why everything seems to be a conspiracy.

[Nogbad]

What is completely clear now is that
not only could a lonely crackpot NOT have made or obtained this grade of anthrax,
it couldn't even have been made in a major university.

However, to all you tin foil hat right wing conspiracy theorists:

KEEP HOPING!