Egyptian Sailor Dies in Brazil From Anthrax- Brazil Police

He wouldn't have had to.

It's also possible the mission called for someone to simply open and abandon the briefcase in a subway tunnel and just let the stopping and passing trains do the rest- as was done in the subway in Japan.

The article specifically said he was carrying a suitcase full of anthrax.

Which article? Where?
I haven't read anything that said the suitcase was full of anthrax.
(Or even, for that matter, that it is established the suitcase contained anthrax.)

Good questions. Also, why such confusion over where he died? Also, besides Shermy's article stating that the Egyptian died in the hotel, it has this additional information:

Ibrahim died in the hotel were he was staying on April 11. Several health workers who found his body were taken to a hospital after becoming ill but are now out of danger.

It's just odd to have such very different stories.

Any of you see this info-heavy site before?

Al Qaeda, Anthrax & Ayman

I just saw that site too! You know who operates it?

the highly weaponized stuff, like the 2001 stuff sent to Congress, needs a significant development program behind it. Iraq had such a program.

Any of you see this info-heavy site before?

Looks familiar. Ask Pokerbuddy if he knows something about it.

Thanks for your post and clarifications, pokerbuddy....it took awhile to load, and I'm perusing it now.

If that is your work on that website, I'm most impressed. Thanks for the link. I also agree with this: it's more important what we hear from Interpol than from Mr. Fowler.

Here's an article from the "Gazeta" in Santarem, the closest city to Porto Trombetas.

http://www.gazetadesantarem.com.br

Port Trumpets - Anthrax can have killed immediate Egyptian Bacterium Anthrax can to have been cause of death of immediate (official that it substitutes the commander), Ibrahim Sayed Soliman Ibrahim, of Egyptian origin, on board the ship Wadi Alarab, of flag of Egypt, in Port Trumpets, last day 11, the city of Oriximiná.

The ship arrived at Brazil originating the port of Teneriffe (Spain), with 31 members of the crew to the edge and followed trip for Port Alfred (Canada), with a bauxite shipment, of the Mining River of the North. According to information, Ibrahim embarked in the locality of Fazen-dinha, in Macapá, to relieve another mate that entered in vacation. It travelled of Egypt the São Paulo and there for Macapá.

The ship arrived in Port Trumpets in day 10, and the following day, per the morning received inspection from the agents of the Federal Prescription, Federal Policy and of the Docenave. In the same day, for return of the half day the commander of the ship asked for the presence of the agent of the Docenave and doctors. Looked for for its colleagues pertaining to the crew, Ibrahim was not seen in none of the workstations to the edge.

Its body was found inside of its berth, that was locked. Folloied agent of two nurses of the hospital of Port Trumpets, arriving had evidenced there that Ibrahim already was died. But exactly thus, its body was taken for the hospital, where it gave entered for return of the 15 hours.

After chemical preparation, by the doctors of the hospital, its body was directed for Belém, in that one exactly day, for airmail, for autopsy in the Legal Medical Institute. according to managing of the IML, doctor Malcher Luis, the autopsy examination was still not concluded. The body of immediate Ibrahim continues conserved, in the refrigerator of the IML waiting the conclusion of the examinations, "it had death for septicemia, the etiológico agent still has even so not been identified. Still we are searching, and we do not have forecast for its conclusion ", informed Macher, explaining that this type of examination depends on the culture formation, even so is having celeridade of the laboratories for where they had been led.

"As well as it can be, can not be Anthrax. However a series of factors must be led in account ", emphasized. What it raised the suspicion, for the gravity of the situation, was the determination of the Federal Policy, in Pará, to suspend the inspections in other ships, anchored to the plaza of Port Trumpets, until the arrival of a team of the National Agency of Sanitary Monitoring (Anvisa), for the procedures of routine, with new sanitary inspections, in the anchored ships, even so the federal agents, as much of the PF as of the Federal Prescription, they remain in Port Trumpets. The many occured epidemics in the past in the Brazilian littoral cities, historiadas through registers epidemiologists, indicate the presence of etiológicos agents and of some of its vectors, whose origin points with respect to other continents, in special the African and, in this context, the ships had played a prominence role.

Nowadays still they are detected with frequency, for the sanitary monitoring the occurrences of toxic-infections between members of the crew and passengers of boats and workers of the port areas, provoked for the water or food ingestion contaminated for.causing etiológicos agents of illness. The improvement of the standard of sanitary quality of a port depends on the conjugação of some factors, between them the fulfilment of the institucional paper of the agency of competent public health, as well as of the obligations attributed to the companies administrators and excessively responsible for the diverse areas of the port terminals, increased of the contribution of the involved community.

Porto Trombetas - Antraz pode ter matado imediato egípcio

A bactéria Antraz pode ter sido a causa da morte do imediato (oficial que substitui o comandante), Ibrahim Sayed Soliman Ibrahim, de origem egípcia, a bordo do navio Wadi Alarab, de bandeira do Egito, em Porto Trombetas, no último dia 11, no município de Oriximiná. O navio chegou ao Brasil procedente do porto de Teneriffe (Espanha), com 31 tripulantes à bordo e seguiu viagem para Port Alfred (Canadá), com um carregamento de bauxita, da Mineração Rio do Norte.

Segundo informações, Ibrahim embarcou na localidade de Fazen-dinha, em Macapá, para render outro imediato do navio que entrou em férias. Ele viajou do Egito a São Paulo e de lá para Macapá. O navio chegou em Porto Trombetas no dia 10, e no dia seguinte, pela manhã recebeu inspeção dos agentes da Receita Federal, Polícia Federal e da Docenave. No mesmo dia, por volta do meio dia o comandante do navio pediu a presença do agente da Docenave e de médicos. Procurado por seus colegas tripulantes, Ibrahim não foi visto em nenhum dos locais de trabalho à bordo. Seu corpo foi encontrado dentro do seu camarote, que estava trancado. Agente acompanhado de duas enfermeiras do hospital de Porto Trombetas, lá chegando constataram que Ibrahim já estava morto. Mas mesmo assim, seu corpo foi levado para o hospital, onde deu entrada por volta das 15 horas.

Depois de preparado, pelos médicos do hospital, seu corpo foi encaminhado para Belém, naquele mesmo dia, por via aérea, para autópsia no Instituto Médico Legal.

Segundo o diretor do IML, médico Luís Malcher, o exame de necropsia ainda não foi concluído. O corpo do imediato Ibrahim continua conservado, na geladeira do IML aguardando a conclusão dos exames, "ele teve morte por septicemia, embora o agente etiológico ainda não tenha sido identificado. Ainda estamos pesquisando, e não temos previsão para a sua conclusão", informou Macher, explicando que este tipo de exame depende da formação de cultura, embora esteja havendo celeridade dos laboratórios para onde foram levados. "Assim como pode ser, pode não ser Antraz. Contudo deve-se levar em conta uma série de fatores", enfatizou.

O que levantou a suspeita, para a gravidade da situação, foi a determinação da Polícia Federal, no Pará, de suspender as inspeções em outros navios, ancorados ao largo de Porto Trombetas, até a chegada de uma equipe da Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (Anvisa), para os procedimentos de rotina, com novas inspeções sanitárias, nos navios ancorados, embora os agentes federais, tanto da PF como da Receita Federal, permaneçam em Porto Trombetas.

As muitas epidemias ocorridas no passado nas cidades litorâneas brasileiras, historiadas através de registros epidemiológicos, indicam a presença de agentes etiológicos e de alguns de seus vetores, cuja origem apontam para outros continentes, em especial o Africano e, nesse contexto, os navios desempenharam um papel de destaque. Nos dias de hoje ainda são detectadas com freqüência, pela vigilância sanitária as ocorrências de tóxico-infecções entre tripulantes e passageiros de embarcações e trabalhadores das áreas portuárias, provocadas pela ingestão de alimentos ou de águas contaminados por agentes etiológicos causadores de doença.

A melhora do padrão de qualidade sanitária de um porto depende da conjugação de vários fatores, entre eles o cumprimento do papel institucional do órgão de saúde pública competente, bem como das obrigações atribuídas às empresas administradoras e demais responsáveis pelas diversas áreas dos terminais portuários, acrescida da contribuição da comunidade envolvida.

Another Brazilian article at #237

Al Qaeda, Anthrax, and Ayman Zawahiri
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze43v8m/

Great site, a lot of good detail. Thanks.

I saved in my "Reference" bookmarks.

There are no amount of facts, that some people can't ignore.

"BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - A crew member of an Egyptian merchant ship has died in northern Brazil, most likely from anthrax, after opening a suitcase suspected of containing the substance which he was taking to Canada."

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=HXNJBRM25FNSECRBAE0CFEY?type=worldNews&storyID=2645469

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FoxNews:
Report: Anthrax in Suitcase Kills Egyptian Heading to Canada
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85388,00.html

Monday, April 28, 2003

BRASILIA, Brazil — An Egyptian ship crewman has apparently died from exposure to anthrax (search) contained in a suitcase he opened, Reuters news service reported Monday.

They always add qualifiers, but in the earlier article nothing was mentioned about anything, except that the sailor likely died of anthrax, the later articles each mention with varying degrees of emphasis that he opened a suitcase with anthrax in it, which he was planning to carry to Canada.