Posted on 12/29/2001 12:00:48 PM PST by elenchus
Did President Clinton's principal military supporter, retired Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, betray America and subject us to the anthrax threat and other bioterrorism attacks?
In the most important piece of investigative journalism to date on the bioterrorism threat in general, and the anthrax attacks in particular, author and political scientist Edward J. Epstein (in a Wall Street Journal editorial article) attempts to trace the possible source of the anthrax which has killed several Americans, terrified a nation and cost billions of dollars. The trail leads Epstein to a tangled web of active and shell corporations apparently owned by "Fuad El-Hibri, a Lebanese Arab with joint German-U.S. citizenship; his father, Ibrihim El-Hibri; and possibly other undisclosed investors." In the course of forming those companies, establishing them in America, becoming an American citizen and creating the companies which controlled both America's anthrax vaccine and possibly the world's principal stock of the deadliest strain of anthrax, El-Hibri appears to have made a large payout to Admiral Crowe, former Chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, of stock in one or more of the web of companies, according to Epstein.
Our analysis of the timeline shows that it was around this time that Admiral Crowe endorsed President Clinton for his first term as President of the United States, and then was nominated by Clinton to be Ambassador to Britain and Northern Ireland.
Among others he reports on, Epstein recites the following El-Hibri corporate acquisition stages leading to control of the deadly strain of anthrax that poses the greatest threat to America and the west--as well as America's source of the anthrax vaccine:
"David Franz, who headed the biological-research program at Fort Detrick between 1987 and 1998, said that when the Army wanted to conduct defensive experiment on the Ames strain, it had to obtain the "information" from a British military lab that did experiments with Ames anthrax in the powdered form. Evidently, the virulent Ames strain had been sent from the U.S. to Britain, and, after the U.S. destroyed its stockpiles in the 1970s, samples had to be obtained from the British facility at Porton Downs, specifically from the Center for Applied Microbiology and Research (CAMR). Martin Hugh-Jones, a scientist at Lousiana State University who received a sample from CAMR in the 1990s, recalls that it was marked "October, 1932." So the matching sample traces not only to the U.S. but to Britain.
"The security of the British anthrax bacteria is complicated by its privatization. In 1993, at the time it was supplying the virulent Ames strain sample, CAMR was privatized by the British government and became part of Porton Products Ltd. Porton Products was owned by Speywood Holdings Ltd., which, in turn, was owned by I&F Holdings NV, a Netherlands Antilles corporate shell owned by Fuad El-Hibri, a Lebanese Arab with joint German-U.S. citizenship; his father, Ibrihim El-Hibri; and possibly other undisclosed investors...."
Epstein continues:
"Even more intriguing, Mr. El-Hibri's interest in anthrax vaccines did not stop with CAMR. In 1998, he arranged a leveraged buyout of the Michigan Biological Products Institute. MBPI, which originally had been owned by the state of Michigan, held the exclusive contract for providing the U.S. government with anthrax vaccine. While its vaccine worked well against the Vollum strain of anthrax (used by Russia), it was more problematic against the Ames strain. So it had conducted tests with the virulent Ames strain on guinea pigs, mice and monkeys with mixed results. BioPort's spokeperson confirmed that it had access to the virulent Ames strain for testing on animals.
"To take over MBPI, Mr. El-Hibri became an American citizen, and gave retired Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a large block of stock in Intervac, one of the corporations involved in the maneuver. The controlling shareholder was the same I&F Holdings used to take control of the British biotech lab, CAMR.
"He then renamed the company BioPort. BioPort, which controlled America's anthrax vaccine, was apparently of some interests to scientists in Afghanistan since an environmental assessment report of its planned laboratory renovations was turned up in the house of a Pakistani scientist in Kabul."
Epstein's investigative piece passingly mentions the El-Hibri stock payout to Admiral Crowe, but overlooks the fact that Crowe was the highest level military leader to endorse Clinton in 1992. Soon after this endorsement, President Clinton nominated Admiral Crowe to be U.S. ambassador to Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Crowe served in the United States Navy for 47 years, retiring in 1988. His assignments included Commander in Chief of the Allied Forces, Southern Europe; Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe; Command in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command; and Commander, Middle East Force, based in Bahrain. At the time of his nomination by Clinton, he was counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in the District of Columbia, professor of Geopolitics at the University of Oklahoma and Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
It has been reported that Admiral Crowe has owned as much as 13% of BioPort stock and that it was under his watch as a member of the Joint Chiefs that Saddam Hussein was given anthrax to use against the Iranians (although neither of these points could be independently verified at the time of this writing). For a number of internet reports on these topics see: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=crowe+anthrax+hussein
Epstein also overlooks the ironic fact that in the year 2000, President Clinton awarded Admiral Crowe the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian award. (http://www.vnis.com/vetnews/veterans/veterans2000/veterans2000-160.htm#2)
Epstein's original Wall Street Journal editorial is available at: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001637
Let me be completely clear. I never, repeat never, solicited any official of this Administration to install or promote a mandatory inoculation program.
Did he look right at the panel and wag his finger?
I guess it could depend on what "solicited" means...
His ease of travel exceeded that of high ranking Communist party members - as it should have - the Romany have been doing this for a number of centuries as a matter of survival.
Hillary's father is supposedly one of the Blythe cousins anyway. Her marriage to Bill is similar in its genesis to the Communist "control" system, but it is nothing more than your basic, old fashioned, arranged marriage of one Romany family to another Romany family.
Bill's number one problem has been to deny his ethnic and historical heritage; he should have known better; after all, in America, even the Gadje are gypsies.
I have acquaintances that wonder whether the same Clinton left the USSR as entered. His phobic guarding of medical records leaves one to wonder.
This must be the DemonRats boilerplate Statement of Intimidation passed down from the Head Cheese Hisself, the Elf Endowed: "Let me be completely clear. I never, repeat never, had sex with.." yadda yadda yadda.
You will notice none of the major dailies in the US was attacked. As suspicious as that is in a time of declining advertising revenues, I think the critical difference is tabloid verses unbound, two fold.
We might also notice that in the US almost all tabloid style dailies or weeklies use an 8th grade language standard.
The other targets were broadcast television networks! You will notice that no cable network was attacked. This is because the attackers were the type who don't waste money on cable when perfectly good broadcast tv is around.
That means the attackers were billionaries like Russ Perot, or cheapskates like Mr. Atta!
These people were not targeted for "what" they said - rather, they were targets of convenience which were simply "known" to the attackers!
I have donned my tinfoil hat as I sit here sipping my Bombay Sapphire on the rocks.
Yes Indeed!
The Enemy is now Within - don't you agree abwehr??
...OK, "8th Graders" attacked the EDITORIAL OFFICES of the NEW YORK POST that had been running the most damgaging of the CLINTONS' Former White House Political Advisor DICK MORRIS' Exposing Columns about them not to mention the November 1999 Front Page Story that stated that JFK Jr was going to announe his run for the New York Senate Seat against HILLARY ...which only his plane suddenly entering the Atantic Ocean at high speed stopped.
...yeah SURE.
...as he was picking up his Communist Funding for his Anti-US Demonstrations he was organizing for the front of our American Embassy in London, England...?
WHY?????
Excellent thread.
Interesting. Cite handy?
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