Anthrax investigators focusing on strain from military facility (Possible Suspect:Mike Failey)

Miami Herald , Knight Ridder ^ | Seth Borenstein, DAVID KIDWELL

[muawiyah]

When Alibek defected that left 53,000 people "exposed". When he convinced the other guy to defect, that left the same 53,000 "unemployed" and without incomes in an economy which was collapsing. Besides that, the "program" was located in laboratories and other facilities far removed from the flesh pots of Moscow.

Do any of these 53,000 want to kill someone? - The question maybe ought to be to ask if any of them DON'T want to kill someone!

[Don Joe]

"Failey may be in luck. He may now be able to bring a legal suit against the media, a la Richard Jewell. Can you say 'big-bucks settlement'?"

Richard Jewell was a hero who caught the ugly end of "no good deed shall go unpunished", but this guy looks like a drunken hothead.

[aristeides]

If Janco is being charged with making false statements, that makes it seem much more likely that there is nothing to his story. Pity we don't have a source for the article.

[aristeides]

You say Alibek convinced Pasechnik to defect. I don't deny that that's possible. According to Alibek's account in his book, he did approve Pasechnik's trip abroad, on which he defected. But Alibek claims he was totally unaware of Pasechnik's plan to defect. Is there evidence that Alibek was involved in the defection -- which preceded Alibek's (the book gave me the impression that the two defections were a couple of years apart)?

[Yeti]

It went to several universities, government contractors, and military institutions in England and Canada.

But we assume the security breach was at Dugway. Reminds me of the drunk looking for his keys under the streetlamp.

Cop: "Where did you drop them?"

Drunk: "Over there somewhere," pointing to the shadows.

Cop: "Then why are you looking here, under the streetlamp, when you know you dropped them over there?"

Drunk: "Because I can't see over there, it's too dark."

[muawiyah]

We are playing with words here. I could do or say something rather unintentionally that would convince you to defect.

In any case, I have always been under the impression Ken left first, or at least made up his mind about what he had to do first. Am I in error? If so, that's readily corrected.

There are folks who think Ken defected just for a higher income. There are others who say he did it out of principle. My own thought is that he found himself in a rather dangerous place and needed no esoteric reasons to leave it!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Mitchell]

If Janco is being charged with making false statements, that makes it seem much more likely that there is nothing to his story. Pity we don't have a source for the article.

I know. It sounds like a real article, but the truth is that I have no way of knowing. The Usenet poster could have made mistakes transcribing it (or conceivably even made it up). It might not be an article at all, but the poster's personal summary of what he remembered reading. Even if it is a real article, we don't know the reputation of the newspaper or wire service it's from, so we can't judge reliability.

This is one reason FR is such a resounding success; all the discussions are based on attributed articles that you can make some kind of judgment about.

Anyway, I'll keep my eyes open for a real source on the Janco situation.

[t-shirt]

There's no way in hell the government is going to charge Janco with making false statements(they believed him or they'd never have arrested the men) if they did he could sue and get this into civil court where he could have the Pakistanis subpoenaed and brough into court and where the whole case could be brought to light.

The last thing the government wants at this point is to find that any foriegners were involved in the Anthrax murders because this could lead to a grass roots political uprising for immigration reform and mass deportation of illegal aliens and terror linked foriegn individuals.

For globalism to be achieve mass immigration and terror attacks must continue......(along with other factors that push forward globalism aka the movement towards world government--things like: gun control via mass shootings , property rights destruction via enviromentalism, So called "free Trade", destruction of American manufacturing and industry; detruction of the American trucking indutry, destruction of the family farmer; militarization of law enforcement, etc...