Powell UN presentation, strong hints at nexus: 2001 anthrax attacks, Al Queda, Iraq

White House website ^ | 2/6/03 | Wolfstar

[bulldogs]

Must be a present for North Korea.

[bulldogs]

Must be a present for North Korea.

[aristeides]

And once we've occupied Iraq, we'll have documentary evidence of Iraqi operations, as well as testimony from participants. Nazi Germany is probably the state whose workings historians understand best, because almost all the secrets of that state were made public after its military defeat.

[Fred Mertz]

You do excellent work, Wolfstar. Thanks!

[B-bone]

Good job.

The same thought struck me in listening to Colin Powell when he mentioned anthrax. The first thing he talked about was the senate office building anthrax. I agree with you, I don't think this inclusion was an accident or just an illustration.

To many coincidences in both timing and location of the outbreaks.

Given what we needed to do to get ready, we needed cover until we dealt with Afghanistan and were ready to deal with Iraq.

We'll see what President Bush has to say at 4:30.

[WestCoastGal]

I have never believed it was an American. There were too many coincidences between Mohammed Atta and the first person (Bob Stevens) to die in Florida at the American Media building. Mr Stevens wife rented the condo to Atta and the AM building is not far from the condo. Atta and his roommate go to drug store with red hands. There were reports that Atta met with the Iraqi intelligence officer many months prior to 9-11. Why?? Was anything given to Atta?? Now, that would be a smoking gun for those who need it.

[wayoverontheright]

So, what are the odds of there NOT being an Iraq – Al Queda connection to the anthrax attacks that began concurrent with the 9/11 hijackings?

I for one, do not need for there to be a connection to al-Qaeda in order to see the need to take out Saddam Hussein.

We are trying to eradicate terror. Let's face it the whole Middle East is enamored with terror as a weapon. In order to defeat terror, the whole ME must suffer a consequence so dire that they will not think of attacking us again.

Such a consequence can be accomplished with a minimum of dead arabs only by dealing them a severe psychological blow.

The requirements are:

1-Annihilate the Middle East's most feared military.

2-Saddam Hussein must be killed or humiliated, we should make no apologies that our mission is punitive in nature.

3-Seize controlof Iraqi oil. This is the part that will have a tremendous psychological effect on the arab world and serve as a cathartic consequence. Control of this oil eliminates the only leverage they've had with us and will realign the whole ME dynamic in our favor.

[Wolfstar]

Thanks, "Fred." As I said in an earlier post, we all have a role to play in this war. All of us on FR are contributing to the education of the American public.

[okie01]

Thank you, Wolfstar, for going to the trouble to extract and organize the material. And thanks for the ping, Shermy.

Secretary Powell drew the outlines of a picture that many of us have suspected for over a year. Eventually, the media will outdo themselves and fill in the colors-by-the-numbers.

The clock has been running on this operation since shortly after 9/11. The alarm goes off and we're going into Iraq, soon. We should be prepared for retaliation, here at home.

[Wolfstar]

Eventually, the media will outdo themselves and fill in the colors-by-the-numbers.

With all due and sincere respect, don't hold your breath. The only thing the media care about is making a buck. Any attempt to actually inform the American public on vital issues is purely incidental.

[polemikos]

Anthrax = Islamic Terrorism

Any scenario other than Islamic terrorism means ALL of the following are just coincidences.

SERIOUS CONNECTIONS

- The most serious bioterror attack in America began only days after 9-11

- The letters all mention standard Islamic catch-phrases.

- Florida Dr. Tsonas treated Ahmed al-Haznawi for a severe leg lesion in late June.
  Dr. Tsonas is now convinced it was cutaneous anthrax.

- Two Johns Hopkins biodefense experts (Dr. Thomas Inglesby, Dr. Tara O'Toole) agree with Tsonas.

- FL hijackers inquire about crop-dusters and dispersal characteristics of chemical loads.

- Atta attempted to obtain a loan to buy a plane and convert it into a chemical transport.

- Moussaoui, the "20th hijacker", had tech info on airliners, crop-dusters, and wind patterns.

- Mohamed Atta went to a drugstore with red, chemical-burned hands mid-2001.
  Druggist thought Atta was suffering from exposure to a chemical with basic pH, possibly bleach (used to kill anthrax).

- Allah Rakah, detained by FBI, for placing suspicious bag of letters in his car with FL license plates

- Atta met twice with Colonel Muhammed Khalil Ibrahim al-Ani, a "very senior" Iraqi 'Special Ops' agent.
  (one report says the Czechs confirmed they had video...spycraft SOP)
  (another report claims that a vacumm bottle was passed to Atta during the meeting)

- Ziad Jarrah also met with an Iraqi agent in 2001 in the UAE.

- Marwan al-Shehhi also met with an Iraqi agent in 2001 in the UAE.

- Iraq is the ONLY hostile country known to have succeeded in weaponizing anthrax

- Iraq conducted military exercises simulating the dispersal of anthrax spores from crop-dusters

- The anthrax coating is silica, a material used by Iraq on biological agents.
- Chemical and biological weapons are effectively dispersed from crop-dusters

- The terrorists had two operational hubs: Hamilton, New Jersey and Delray, Florida. Anthrax was found in both areas.

JUST COINCIDENCES??

- The wife of the Sun tabloid's editor rented two apartments to two hijackers In Florida.

- The intials of the ringleader, A-T-T-A, are highlighted in letter 3a (Brokaw).

- Marwan al-Shehhi went to Huber Drugs (with Atta) with severe chest congestion.
  The pharmacist sold him a bottle of Robitussin initially, and later antibiotics.

[Wolfstar]

Excellent list. Only one thing to add/modify:

First on your list: "The most serious bioterror attack in America began only days after 9-11."

Actually, when the news of the anthrax victim from AMA first broke toward the end of September 2001, AMA employees said that a letter with a brownish-white powder had arrived the week of 9/8/01. That was contemporaneous with the event, when their memories were fresh. I have no reason to doubt them, because no information has ever been published to refute them (to the best of my knowledge). So best evidence indicates that the first anthrax letter was mailed in South Florida a few days BEFORE the 9/11/01 hijackings.

Given (a) the timing of the attacks, (b) everything we've since learned about Iraq, Al Queda, and

[The Great Satan]

Good job. I do not believe the issue behind the secrecy and gamesmanship here is evidentiary. I believe the administration has all the evidence it needs to implicate Iraq in 9/11 and the subsequent anthrax threats. They are playing hide-and-seek with that evidence, hence Amerithrax, and hence the peek-a-boo games over the Atta-al-Ani meeting. It is entirely logical that they do so, under the circumstances. All you have to do to figure it out is postulate that 9-11 was an Iraqi operation, backed up with a WMD blackmail threat, and deduce the logical consequences. You will find that everything makes perfect sense viewed in the context of that scenario. It's utterly simple, utterly obvious once you get it -- but then, all the best theories are.

[Wolfstar]

"...but then, all the best theories are."

[Wink and LOL] Yep, it does make a great deal of sense. I don't think Powell's emphasis on anthrax and the attack on our Capitol was so much evidentiary in nature as diplomat-speak for letting the world know what the administration knows or strongly suspects. A shot across the world's bow. And the true rationale for going into Iraq. The president, himself, said it today. Hussein has the means and the hatred to endanger the American people. "He will be stopped."