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Hmmm, letters delivered to Nguyen on or just before Sept. 8th. Wasn't that also the date that the letter was sent to the doctor in Nairobi from Atlanta?

I was looking today at the excerpts from the al Qaeda jihad manual that the DOJ has now put on its Web site. The manual recommends forwarding a letter through an intermediary.

There are many strong indicators that Iraq is the source of this anthrax and that Al Qaeda and/or the Talibastards are responsible for the mailings. This from Saddam's former nuclear weapon's chief:

A top Iraqi military scientist who defected to the U.S. in 1994 said late Monday that he's absolutely certain his former boss Saddam Hussein is behind the wave of anthrax attacks that have swept the U.S. in recent weeks.

"This is Iraq," said Dr. Khidhir Hamza, in an interview on CNBC's "Rivera Live." "This is Iraq's work."

"Nobody (else) has the expertise outside the U.S. and outside the major powers who work on germ warfare," Hamza told "Rivera Live." "Nobody has the expertise and has any motive to attack the U.S. except Saddam to do this. This is Iraq. This is Saddam."

The Iraqi weapons expert told CNBC that his homeland had developed the capability to weaponize anthrax even before he defected to the U.S. 7 years ago and continues to maintain that capability.

"I have absolutely no doubt," he said. "Iraq worked actually even before the Gulf War on perfecting the process of getting anthrax in the particle size needed in powder form to disseminate the way it is being disseminated now."

I also recently saw Hamza on CNN saying much the same thing with one important addition, one that I've posted on several times. The anthrax strain also points to Iraq. According to Hamza it was the Ames strain which Iraq had weaponized.

There is a lot of BS going around that this might be from the former U.S. military stockpile, held secretly for 35 years by some right-wing nut who used to work in the program or had access to the goods. There were even reports floating around this week that the current anthrax was "nearly indistinguishable" from what the U.S. weaponized.

Nice try, but the U.S. weaponized the Vollum IB strain and not the Ames strain.

Then there are the "theories" that the right-wing nut purchased some weapons grade anthrax from the Russian mafia. Again, the strain isn't right. From all I've read the Russians weaponized much more virulent strains than Vollum IB or Ames.

I seem to recall there were also reports of some Pakis being arrested in New Jersey and that hazmat teams took a lot of stuff out of their apartment in plastic bags.

Hopefully we will learn more once the Afghan phase of the war is finished.

According to published reports, Janco told police he overheard the men talking on Sept. 8 about delivering letters to a Vietnamese immigrant in New York City named "Kathy." When Janco heard of the death of 61-year-old Kathy Nguyen on Oct. 31, he reportedly contacted the police.

This is very odd....he remembered the conversation, he remembered the DATE of the conversation, almost two months later? I wonder what made that conversation so memorable BEFORE the first anthrax case became public, and before 9/11?

Interesting info & comments here... you know I'm a "link-lunatic," so I'll cross-link yours to these:

Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare- Survival Skills, Pt. II