Posted on 10/12/2001 4:24:52 PM PDT by Nora
*** THANKS TO THE SUPPRESSION of news critical of Bill Clinton while he was in the White House, most Americans are unaware of a significant anthrax incident that took place in Arkansas in the early 1990s with no Muslims involved. The Review was among the few journals that reported the story, summarized here from our "Arkansas Connections"]
1991: Arkansas State Police investigator Russell Welch, who has been working with IRS investigator Bill Duncan on drug running and money laundering at Mena, develops pneumonia-like symptoms. The Washington Weekly described the incident in 1996: "On the weekend of September 21, 1991, Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch met with IRS Investigator Bill Duncan to write a report on their investigation of Mena drug smuggling and money laundering and send it to Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh . . . Returning to Mena on Sunday, Welch told his wife that he didn't feel too well. He thought he had gotten the flu . . . In Fort Smith a team of doctors were waiting. Dr. Calleton had called them twice while Welch was in transport and they had been in contact with the CDC. Later the doctor would tell Welch's wife that he was on the edge of death. He would not have made it through the night had he not been in the hospital. He was having fever seizures by now. A couple of days after Welch had been admitted to St. Edwards Mercy Hospital, his doctor was wheeling him to one of the labs for testing when she asked him if he was doing anything at work that was particularly dangerous. He told her that he had been a cop for about 15 years and that danger was probably inherent with the job description. She told Welch that they believed he had anthrax. She said the anthrax was the military kind that is used as an agent of biological warfare and that it was induced. Somebody had deliberately infected him. She added that they had many more tests to run but they had already started treating him for anthrax.
Earlier Welch had written in his diary, "Should a cop cross over the line and dare to investigate the rich and powerful, he might well prepare himself to become the victim of his own government . . . The cops are all afraid what they know for fear that they will lose their jobs."
After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
If Clinton had not pardon and released 16 convicted terrorist in August, 1999, the message to terrorist world wide would be much different.
If Clinton had kept his promise, an estimated 7,000 people in New York and Washington, D.C. that are now dead would be Alive today.
Yes, now your chronology is complete. Thanks!! Hopefully your post gets the attention it deserves.
You would have known about this several years ago and throughout the interim period and as recently as a week or two ago if you are not purposely avoiding Republican Complicity in this matter.
Asa Hutchinson was the Western District U.S. Att'y that covered up the Mena operation.
Want links to some of that? Even Depositions?
My comment on the article was not in any way made in surprise, but I always love information.
"Unfortunately for the CIA, back in 1988 a DEA officer, Ernest Jacobsen, testified to the House Subcommittee on Criminal Activities that in May 1984, four CIA officials met with DEA officials regarding Seal's impending flights. They knew exactly Seal's identity. Later in his testimony, Jacobsen describes an actual meeting between Seal and CIA officials. Then there is the C-123K, about which the CIA's report is so vague. The facts on it are well established. It slipped from the hands of Southern Air Transport (a well-known CIA front), landing eventually in Seal's lap. When he finished his flights, the plane miraculously returned to Southern Air Transport and met a spectacular demise in Nicaragua after Sandinista fire brought it down, revealing one Eugene Hasenfus on a CIA flight to resupply the Contras. In its Nov. 8 report, the agency is adamant that it was never engaged in drug trafficking, money laundering or "arms smuggling" at Mena. Again, we have lawyerly balderdash."
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