Posted on 11/28/2001 4:24:32 PM PST by t-shirt
Also remember not to give up any of your rights for a false sense of security.
By the way, I'm SO glad Bush is using the military tribunal approach! None of MY rights have to be given up, and I support Bush in doing whatever he and his advisers think is necessary to make our country secure. Even if it pisses off all the right people.
Anthrax Scare Gives UN Pact a Fresh Edge (Globalism Empowered By Terrorism)
Group [Greenpeace Germany] Says U.S. Expert Believed Behind Anthrax Attacks Reuters
Posted by Oldeconomybuyer:
November 28, 2001
BERLIN (Reuters) - The anthrax attacks in the United States were probably the work of a member of a U.S. biological warfare program, the magazine of environment pressure group Greenpeace Germany reported Wednesday.
The magazine said its article was based on information from a U.S. delegation source at the U.N. biological weapons conference in Geneva that began last week. The attacks have killed five people.
``The U.S. delegation believe it is an inside job... Their members also have more information than has been made public,'' Kirsten Brodde, a reporter for the magazine, told Reuters.
The magazine said: ``It seems the attacker ... wanted to force through an increase in the budget for U.S. research on biological weapons.''
It speculated that the attacker, who used anthrax-laced mail, had probably wanted to cause panic rather than kill anyone.
U.S. investigators have still not determined who was behind the attacks, but Attorney General John Ashcroft has signaled the authorities were inclined to believe they had a domestic source.
The attacks occurred in the aftermath of the September 11 suicide plane attacks on New York and Washington and prompted initial accusations by President Bush that Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden may been responsible.
Asked about the magazine article, an FBI spokesman reiterated that investigators were pursuing a number of leads but no arrests appeared imminent.
A spokesman for the U.S. delegation in Geneva said he did not have any information about the article.
The magazine is linked to the environmental lobby group and shares its offices, but it said it was financially and editorially independent.
Click Here For Some Startling Numbers
No wonder we don't hear much about polls anymore.
Especially if it pisses of the right people. :)
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aebc4a26794.htm
Personally, after having been under the boot heel of Sasquatch @ DOJ for eight long ones, running block for every little social peccadillo of Klintoon and executing every hair-brained stunt the administration could cough up under color of law, it’s even a wonder these flunkies could even find their butt with both hands, a flashlight, road atlas and a GPS…
Much less a terrorist flinging anthrax all over the place.
A Google search gives no indication that the supect, Allah Rakah, was ever released. Reportedly, Rakah had been under surveillence for several days before he was arrested. On that basis, it looks like we've had at least one of the anthrax perps in custody for three weeks now. Interesting, no?
"It had not occurred to Leaphorn earlier that Baker was not, in fact, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. . . . something about him suggested a quick, inquisitive, impatient intelligence. Leaphorn's extensive experience with the FBI suggested that any of these three characteristics would prevent employment. The FBI people always seemed . . . trimmed, scrubbed, tidy, able to work untroubled by any special measure of intelligence. O'Malley was still talking. Leaphorn looked at him, wondering at this FBI policy. Where did they find so many O'Malleys? He had a sudden vision of an office in the Department of Justice building in Washington, a clerk sending out draft notices to all the male cheerleaders and drum majors . . . ordering them to get their hair cut and report for duty."
In other words, they aren't very big on brains, they aren't creative, they aren't imaginative, they cover their butts and wear neat clothes and neat haircuts, they climb the career ladder by doing what they're told, and that's about the extent of it. Ordinarily, the only cases they break are when an informer comes in and tells them who did it.
Wasn't it just the other day where we were questioning the mettle of our youth? Instead of going down to the recruiters and asking "Dude, when can I go and shred some ragheads, dude?", they're staying at home hoping that those who already had the balls to join and fight will do it all for them.
This is another of x42's "Me First" legacy. grrrrr.
EW DELHI: Sketches and calculations to make a helium-powered balloon bomb filled with anthrax have been found from the Kabul office of an NGO headed by Bashiruddin Mehmood, one of the two Pakistani nuclear scientists detained in Islamabad for questioning on their alleged links with Osama Bin Laden, The Economist has said.
Such a balloon bomb was capable of showering deadly anthrax over areas as vast as New York or Washington.
The "most chilling" items found from the Kabul premises included small bags of white powder and the "mass of calculations and drawings" of weather balloons with arrows indicating the suggested height of 10 km or 33,000 feet, said The Economist in its print edition.
The premises located in the "wealthiest district" of Kabul belonged to the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN), whose president is a leading nuclear scientist and a plutonium technology specialist Mehmood, who along with another scientist Abdul Majid were detained again on Tuesday in Islamabad for questioning, The Economist said.
The two men, who are alleged to have made frequent trips to Afghanistan and met Laden on two occasions, have denied the charges.
"Since UTN was run by one of Pakistan's top scientists, a man with close links to the Taliban and, it is said, close ideological affinities with Laden, the circumstantial evidence points to only one conclusion, the paper said.
"Whoever fled this house when the Taliban fell was working on a plan to build a helium-powered balloon bomb carrying anthrax," the journal said.
In Islamabad, Pakistani authorities ruled out any link between two nuclear scientists and anthrax attacks in the US.
"There are no linkages established at all with any anthrax-related capability between the scientists and those people (al-Qaeda)," military government spokesman Major General Rashid Qureshi told reporters.
Despite the clearance, the two scientists remained in custody on as yet unspecified charges.
Qureshi said there were certain rules retired scientists were supposed to observe, which include "prevention from making certain statements and also travelling."
"Frankly, beyond that I am not privy to any other details."
Qureshi denied any knowledge of reports that US officials had also questioned the two scientists in custody.
"I do know that the investigation is being carried out by Pakistan authorities. I am quite sure that information is being shared if it of any value (with the Americans)," he said
Good. I am going to show this post to the guys wearing the lampshades in the living room corner, and to the repair van that has been blocking my driveway for the past week.( The plus side is that crime is down in the neighborhood.)
Anyone remember the guy who shot all the people in their cars outside the CIA in 1993? His name was Mir Aimal Kasi. After the shootings he fled to Pakistan, where he was ultimately captured and returned to the U.S.
Hmmmmm............
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