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To: freeperfromnj
Do you know exactly when he wrote it?

No, I don't. Hatfill copyrighted an unpublished novel about four years ago, called "Emergence." From the sound of it, the current book must be a work-in-progress, since it was on his hard drive.

Ask yourself some common sense questions.

If Steve Hatfill murdered five people, at least one in a death penalty state, how likely is it he would really write a novel to explain how he did it?

If Steve Hatfill, single guy, soldier of fortune, murdered five people in perhaps the most forensically distinctive killings in history, and had been publicly identified as a key suspect last year, and had freely travelled abroad during that period on business, would he still be here?

If the FBI really believed Steve Hatfill was the anthrax killer and had a secret anthrax lab, why did they search his Ocala storage locker in t-shirts and shorts?

If they really believed that Steve Hatfill had a secret lab for making the most sophisticated weaponized anthrax ever seen and a possibly unknown number of accessories in the military biodefense program, would the FBI really have left him on the loose for almost a year, and would they have let him travel overseas, or, if they were hoping to lure him into giving himself and his lab and his collaborators away, would they do it by staging a photo op search of his house, complete with TV news helicopters?

If the government seriously thought Steve Hatfill had killed five people and caused several billion dollars of economic loss last year, would they really have hired him back from the private sector to a $150K/yr job as a biowarfare preparedness trainer last month?

Is it really likely that Steve Hatfill had the means and motivation to stage an anthrax attack on the offices of the 9-11 terrorists' landlord within at most a few days of the hijackers' Delray Beach location being disclosed by Attornee General John Ashcroft?

Is there any reason to discount the conclusion of the staff of AMI and Bob Steven's treating physician (as reported in the New England Journal of Medicine) that the source of the AMI anthrax was a suspicious package which was received, but not opened, about one week *before* 9/11?

Is there any substantive reason to discount the post facto diagnosis of cutaneous anthrax in one of the 9/11 hijackers made by a Florida emergency room physician, and confirmed by Johns Hopkins scientists?

Does it seem likely to you that if the government were facing a hugely embarassing bioterrorism scandal emanating from within the "military-industrial complex," that it would choose exactly the time when we are trying to build up support for an attack on Iraq to foreground that embarassment into public consciousness, as opposed to burying the scandal, or dispatching it last year so it would be "old news" by now? Or does it seem more likely to you that the coincidence of this crisis in the domestic suspect theory of the anthrax with the new focus on Iraq has been engineered for a reason which will shortly become apparent?

Did the man you saw on television yesterday calling for his accusers to put up or shut up look either homicidal, suicidal, or in any other way mentally abnormal?

32 posted on 08/12/2002 10:42:28 AM PDT by The Great Satan
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To: The Great Satan
Have you looked at Dr. Phillip Zack?
39 posted on 08/12/2002 3:29:47 PM PDT by Plummz
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To: The Great Satan
Excellent, Satan. I'm especially gratified to see that there is at least one person other than myself who remembers that employees at American Media said the package with the white powder in it arrived approximately Sept. 8th of last year. They had reason to recall it, because because the letter was some sort of rant against a celebrity, and it contained an inexpensive Star of David along with the powdery substance.

The AM letter was discarded and never recovered. There was at least one other letter that was never recovered: the one that went to CBS news. Dan Rather's assistant discarded it.

If Atta and his gang were involved with the anthrax attack — and the circumstantial evidence is pretty strong that they were — they obviously had one or more accomplices who did not die on those planes. They may have mailed the first one (this is the significance of the pre-9/11 arrival of the AM letter), but the others were definitely mailed after the hijackings.

I also think it is worth pondering why the anthrax attack stopped. One logical reason could be that the Atta gang was dead and their accomplice(s) were caught up in the DOJ's sweep of Muslim men last winter.

57 posted on 09/10/2002 4:39:55 PM PDT by Wolfstar
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