Yeah, and Chretien is more likely to cover this up than our own govt. Here's the ship:
Posted on 04/28/2003 10:28:14 AM PDT by Shermy
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - A crew member of an Egyptian merchant ship has died in northern Brazil, almost certainly from anthrax, after opening a suitcase suspected of containing the substance which he was taking to Canada.
A spokesman for Brazilian federal police in the Amazon state of Para said on Monday an autopsy of the Egyptian man, whom he named as Ibrahim Saved Soliman Ibrahim, showed that he had died after vomiting, internal bleeding and multiple organ failure.
"He was the victim of anthrax," said Castro, adding that police were 90 percent certain that Ibrahim had died of anthrax.
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.
Ibrahim had traveled to Brazil from Cairo to join his ship, the Wabi Alaras, which loaded bauxite in the Amazon to take to Canada.
"We imagine that this is about bioterrorism and Brazil was just used as a point of transfer," said Castro.
Ibrahim died before his ship sailed to Canada, where it was quarantined by authorities last week.
Canada was alerted about the ship through Interpol.
Castro said Ibrahim had been given the suitcase in Cairo by an unidentified person and was due to deliver it to somebody in Canada. But he doubted Ibrahim knew what the content of the bag was otherwise he most likely would not have opened it.
"He opened it because he was curious," Castro said.
After the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, five people died in still-unsolved anthrax mailings.
Be on the lookout for two white/evil Right Wing Chistians driving a white van from Egypt to Canada with Anthrax aboard.
PC Moose promises to have a sketch of the evil white van on CNN, the NY Slimes and the Washington Post in 3-4 weeks.
From article: 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.
Doesn't appear that that could have happened.
Yeah, and Chretien is more likely to cover this up than our own govt. Here's the ship:
the first mate had died from anthrax and was left behind in Brazil.
Interesting that the crew still wanted to go onward to Canada.....
LOL, my thought exactly.
They had time. Ibrahim died on April 11th, and this story wasn't reported till late last week.
By the way, note that Ibrahim died at the climax of the Iraq war. Plus, the decision to send the anthrax through him must have been made at least several days earlier. Maybe around the time the Iraq war started.
But, given the time it takes for anthrax to kill, he presumably was exposed to the anthrax several days before he died, very likely while he was still in Egypt.
Rather than genetically match this strain of Anthrax to that delivered to Congress in 2001, perhaps our fearless FBI will merely go arrest some domestic White, right-wing male like Hatfill.
No doubt the same female "scientist" who said that she "knew" which domestic American carried out the attacks will once again start making the TV talk show circuit again.
I mean, it has to be a domestic attack, right?! Who cares about *evidence* when there is a stereotype to demagogue!
your country will become a target of terrorism.....
the terrorists are seeing you as an ally now....they know that they will have few impediments in bringing in biological weapons etc...
they know that some of your leaders have trashed the Americans....
look at the SARS debacle..and that was supposedly a naturally occurring epidemic.look at the damage it has caused just in a few short weeks.. ..
can your country afford more of these situations....
you are either with us or against us....but your fence-sitting is an open invitation to terrorist...
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