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Here is the Right-Wing Anthrax connection (1998)
Amarillo Globe News ^ | Feb 22, 1998

Posted on 10/28/2001 4:43:11 PM PST by MichaelDammit

.....William Leavitt Jr. of Nevada and Larry Wayne Harris of Lancaster,Ohio, will remain in jail at least until a preliminary hearing Monday

Agents also seized other biological material in Ohio from houses owned by Harris, a former Aryan Nations member. That material was still being tested at Fort Dietrick, and those tests will not be completed before Monday.

.....Harris, 46, pleaded guilty in 1995 to wire fraud after his arrest for obtaining three vials of freeze-dried bubonic plague bacteria through the mail. He was put on 18 months of probation.



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To: L_Von_Mises
Hoaxes have been around for a long time. As for Harris he wrote a book about the possibility of Bio-Warfare("Bacteriological Warfare: A Major Threat to North America," ) and supposedly knew an Iraqi woman who was working on Anthrax, he also reported the women were bringing it into the us hidden inside them. I don't know whether he is a wacko or looking for fame or what but I will bet $1000 that he has been under surveillance since the anthrax letters broke...

http://www.servtech.com/~montgome/cw980221.htm

http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/bioweapons/Larry_Harris_Followers_Beware.htmlhttp://www.emergency.com/antrxhox.htm

http://www.infowar.com/wmd/99/wmd_030599a_j.shtml

Ken Alibek, ex russian.

http://cryptome.org/bioweap.htm
21 posted on 10/28/2001 7:58:58 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: MichaelDammit
Here is a link to the Las Vegas Review-Journal Online Archive
22 posted on 10/28/2001 8:09:05 PM PST by CyberNag
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To: MichaelDammit
Aryan = Nazi = National Socialist = Socialist = Left Wing.


Check out the big brain on M.D.!!!
23 posted on 10/28/2001 9:36:48 PM PST by vox1138
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To: Mak90kidoflincolnNE
John has a Brown Mustache, John has a brown musache.

The Chair is against the wall, Repeat: The chair is against the wall.

You know that these were code phrases broadcast to the French resistance just before the D-Day landing Red Dawn just copied them

24 posted on 10/28/2001 9:48:16 PM PST by tophat9000
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To: MichaelDammit
bump
26 posted on 10/29/2001 9:07:47 AM PST by Free the USA
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To: CyberNag
The sequence of events and additional details in that case [also from your link]:

Timeline
August, 1997: The FBI informant - a cancer researcher with a criminal record, he has 1981 and 1982 felony convictions for extortion - allegedly meets Larry Wayne Harris at a Denver science convention.

January, 1998: The FBI informant allegedly meets William Job Leavitt Jr. The three were working on a project to test a device to supposedly "deactivate" viruses and bacteria, the criminal affidavit filed Feb. 19, 1998, says. The men also had contacted the source "some time ago" about testing E. coli and Bacillus subtilis bacteria, and on Tuesday told the source they had other organisms to test, including Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus Anthracis, the FBI said.

Monday, Feb. 16, 1998 - evening: In an interview with the AP, Daniel Burns, managing editor of KVBC-TV said chief photographer Mark Renfro ran into Leavitt and Harris at a Radio Shack in Las Vegas Monday night. The men were shopping for a police scanner and were looking for radar detectors and globe-shaped static electricity toy.

They conversed and the men tried to get the station to interview them about Iraq.

"They started to explain that they were conducting research and had done a lot of research on chemical warfare and were familiar with what was going on in Iraq, and if we wanted to do a story on them we should contact them," Burns said.

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1998 - noon: Source says he met with Harris and Leavitt and that Leavitt told the source he had "military grade" anthrax in flight bags in the trunk of a Mercedes registered to a Gary M. Gerwin of Palm Springs, Calif. Source says he saw in the trunk eight to 10 black leather flight bags marked with "Biological."

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1998 - afternoon: The cancer researcher calls the FBI. He says he has been contacted by two men claiming to be carrying enough anthrax in the trunk of a Mercedes to wreak havoc on an entire city.

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1998 - 3:15 p.m.: FBI records a 3:15 p.m. phone call from Leavitt to the source. Leavitt calls to set up 7 p.m. meeting at a local restaurant so the source could provide testing equipment, according to the FBI.

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1998 - 6:30 p.m.: FBI agents on surveillance watched Leavitt and Harris leave Room 921 of the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino west of The Strip, the FBI said. Leavitt was carrying a white Styrofoam cooler, which he put in the Mercedes trunk, according to the FBI. Leavitt and Harris were accompanied by a third, unidentified man. Leavitt and Harris drove off in the Mercedes; the third man left in another car, the FBI said.

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1998 - 7:06 p.m.: Leavitt and Harris arrived at the unidentified restaurant at 7:06 p.m. and met with the source outside, telling him they wanted to do the testing as quickly as possible, according to the FBI. Leavitt and Harris then left the restaurant in the Mercedes, followed by authorities on the ground and in the air. A SWAT team also followed the men.

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1998 - evening: The men were observed driving to an office complex in Henderson, Nev., just outside Las Vegas. The FBI source also drove there. Agents momentarily lost sight of Leavitt and Harris in the complex - located at 12501 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson. Agents then saw someone carrying a white cooler towards Building D.

Agents descended on the building and arrested Leavitt and Harris as they left the office. Through the window, the agents could see the cooler sitting inside the office, according to the FBI.

With the consent of the building occupant, FBI agents entered the building and picked up the cooler and 40 petrie dishes from a shelf near the cooler. The source said that he had seen Leavitt take two items out of the cooler.

The Mercedes was sealed in plastic and transported to Nellis Air Force Base. FBI technicians found that material in the car appeared to be "anthrax or anthrax precursors."

Meanwhile, the FBI interviewed the third man seen with Leavitt and Harris at the hotel. It wasn't clear from the affidavit what that man's role was, if any, in the testing of the anthrax. But the man did tell agents that Harris showed him a vial wrapped in cardboard and that Harris told him it contained enough anthrax to "wipe out the city."

Thursday, Feb. 19, 1998 - 11:15 a.m.: The FBI announces the arrest of Larry Wayne Harris and William Job Leavitt on charges of conspiracy to possess and possession of the biological agent.

Thursday, Feb. 19, 1998 - 3 p.m.: Larry Wayne Harris and William Job Leavitt appear in court. Federal Magistrate Roger Hunt will decide Monday whether bail should be set for Larry Wayne Harris and William Job Leavitt Jr. on the felony charges in the Henderson incident.

Thursday, Feb. 19, 1998 - afternoon: Gov. Bob Miller received a briefing from Bobby Siller - the special agent in charge of the Las Vegas FBI office - Thursday afternoon, and said he had been assured there was no further threat to the Las Vegas area. He said the Mercedes had been released from Nellis to the FBI.

Yet people flooded the lines of Las Vegas radio talk shows with concerns about their safety and questions about what the men were intending to do.

Friday, Feb. 20, 1998 - afternoon: Ronald Rockwell, the FBI informant spoke to television and newspapers and said he was just scared when Leavitt and Harris, who were interested in what he portrayed as his disease-fighting machine, said they had the deadly bacteria.

Leavitt's defense branded a twice-convicted extortionist and scam artist who went to the FBI when a business deal turned sour.

Saturday, Feb. 21, 1998 - morning: The testing on the alleged anthrax was done by scientists at an Army laboratory at Fort Dietrick, Md. They found it was a non-lethal anthrax vaccine for animals and not a serious health threat.

Saturday, Feb. 21, 1998 - afternoon: At a press conference the FBI announces the test results and adds that it took approriate action given the information it had.

Saturday, Feb. 21, 1998 - evening: William Job Leavitt Jr. is released from jail on his own recognizance. The FBI serves a search warrant on Leavitt's property.

Monday, Feb. 23, 1998 - afternoon: Monday afternoon, charges against Leavitt and Harris of conspiracy and possession of a biological agent for use as a weapon were dismissed. However, in Columbus, Ohio, federal authorities charged Harris with violating the probation terms of a 1995 conviction for fraudulently obtaining bubonic plague toxins.

Friday, March 6, 1998: A federal magistrate in Ohio releases Harris who was arrested in the Las Vegas anthrax scare and jailed for allegedly violating his probation. Federal Magistrate Mark Abel said prosecutors failed to show that Harris violated probation by claiming he had military-grade anthrax and by producing infectious disease, bacteria or germs in his Ohio home. Abel said there was enough evidence to hold a hearing on whether Harris was continuing to tell people he used to work for the CIA, another violation of his probation. The hearing was not scheduled.

27 posted on 10/29/2001 10:38:28 AM PST by Asmodeus
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To: chance33_98
"Timothy McVeigh operated according to this model. His bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building was originally conceived of by CSA, although it is not clear that McVeigh knew of CSA s earlier plot." Face it, the left wing clintonites made it easy for terrorists to operate against this country with impunity. When will they investigate him and his minions to see how purposeful it was? Surely the smartest man in the world couldn't have made so many "mistakes" that we really believe it was a coincidence that they all happened to have an effect on our national security.
28 posted on 10/29/2001 11:15:40 AM PST by monkeywrench
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To: Always Right
What the heck does the Aryan Nations have to do with the Right Wing?????

Nothing. Nazis=Right Wing is strictly a manifestation of the left, especially the ADL.

National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) called for short, Nazi.

29 posted on 10/29/2001 1:45:07 PM PST by Silvertip
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To: MichaelDammit
The RaHoWa is here and the enemy is Islam.

Arab Islamic terrorists --> NBC supply.
Domestic hate groups --> distribution.
American public --> consumption.

30 posted on 10/29/2001 1:59:16 PM PST by Silvertip
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To: Asmodeus
Excellent timeline....thanks....now I see the whole picture.
31 posted on 10/30/2001 7:15:41 PM PST by MichaelDammit
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To: MichaelDammit
From the Downside Legacy, for the discussion:

http://www.examiner.com/daily/0220anthrax.html Cleveland Plain Dealer Michael Sangiacomo “… Harris and William Leavitt, who owns biology laboratories in Logandale, Nev., and Frankfurt, Germany, were charged Thursday with conspiracy to possess a biological agent for use as a weapon. .. Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler said Thursday that Harris joined the group in the early 1990s and left in 1995.. In a 1996 interview on "The Intelligence Report," a shortwave radio program produced by Wolverine Productions, Harris talked at length about how to reconstitute dehydrated anthrax and bubonic plague bacteria and distribute them in major U.S. cities through the exhaust systems of cars and airplanes... According to an FBI affidavit made public Thursday regarding the arrests of Harris and Leavitt, the FBI said that last summer Harris described plans for the New York attack. "Harris told a group of plans to place a 'globe' of bubonic plague toxins in a New York subway station, where it would be broken by a passing subway train, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths. Harris stated that the Iraqis would be blamed for that event." .... “

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/chemhar.htm Interview with Larry Wayne Harris by David E. Kaplan Senior Editor, U.S. News & World Report 9/2/97

“…USN: There’s a lot of material available on the Net on biochemical agents -- formulas, where to order recipe books, and so forth. How do you feel about that?

LWH: You haven’t seen anything yet. Wait ‘till you see what’s getting ready to go on the Net. The people I’m talking to... they’re going to post step-by-step instructions how to obtain anthrax, how to disperse it...

USN: Doesn’t that worry you?

LWH: Not at all. It’s deterence. If you know that everyone in the neighborhood has an atomic bomb, civility returns to the neighborhood very quickly.

USN: So, do you think your associates might use these weapons against the government? LWH: If they arrest a bunch of our guys, they get a test tube in the mail... How many cities are you willing to lose before you back off? At what point do you say: ‘If these guys want to go off to the Northwest and have five stated declared to be their own free and independent country, let them do it?" ….”


32 posted on 10/30/2001 7:36:17 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
Ya know... now that stuff is turning up all over the world the LibNewsChannels have kinda slunk back into their caves.... Thanks for the DSL info
33 posted on 11/02/2001 12:32:34 PM PST by MichaelDammit
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To: Silvertip
Rahowa? Smells like the putrid stench of Identity to me.

Crawl back into your hole, klukker.

34 posted on 11/02/2001 12:43:27 PM PST by Who is George Salt?
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To: Sunshine55
hey SS55

Greetings to a fellow cowtown dweller

How about those Bucks?

35 posted on 11/02/2001 12:48:57 PM PST by WhiteGuy
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To: Always Right
Sure there is, the left hates all white people

even themselves

36 posted on 11/02/2001 12:50:02 PM PST by WhiteGuy
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To: Mak90kidoflincolnNE
I always thought the quote was "john has a long mustach"

and it WAS from the movie "The Longest Day"

37 posted on 11/02/2001 12:52:25 PM PST by WhiteGuy
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To: MichaelDammit
The Far Right has been obsessed with bio-weapons for quite some time:

In 1993, Canadian customs officials stopped white supremacist Thomas Lavy as he came into their country from Alaska. He was carrying guns, $98,000 in cash and a small container of ricin. Two years later, FBI agents and U.S. Army chemical warfare specialists raided Lavy's cabin in the Arkansas Ozarks and discovered a large quantity of castor beans (used to synthesize ricin). He was arrested. A few days later, he hanged himself in his jail cell.

Four members of a Patriots Council in Minnesota, a tax-protest group, were arrested in 1995 for plotting to kill a federal marshal. They had produced ricin in a home lab and planned to smear it on the door handles of the marshal's vehicle.

In 1995, the same Larry Wayne Harris of Lancaster, Ohio, received a mail-order shipment of the bacterium that causes bubonic plague. Authorities learned of the order only because officials at a Rockville, Md., lab reported him because they believed Harris was overly anxious about obtaining the material.

The radical anti-abortion group "Army of God," has been sending letters to abortion clinics with a message saying, "You have been exposed to anthrax."

38 posted on 11/02/2001 12:58:25 PM PST by Who is George Salt?
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To: MichaelDammit
The ONLY instance of a biological agent being used by an extremist group in America happenned to be a LEFTWING group known as the Animal Liberation Front. And yes they did use anthrax!

Why aren't these left wing nut cases ever raided by the BATF??? Why is it always the right wing groups??? I think it's an excellent question...
39 posted on 11/02/2001 1:01:22 PM PST by RebelDawg
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To: MichaelDammit
You're quite welcome! I'm glad they have changed their tune. Larry Wayne Harris is probably the biggest reason anyone would even think a right wing extremist was behind the anthrax terror. He did, after all, make some mighty threatening remarks along the way...
40 posted on 11/02/2001 1:09:05 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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