Posted on 10/13/2001 9:03:35 PM PDT by OKCSubmariner
EXCERPTED:
A broadening national bioterrorism investigation turned toward St. Petersburg late Friday after NBC officials disclosed that a New York employee has contracted anthrax.
A woman who opens the mail for news anchor Tom Brokaw was diagnosed with a skin form of anthrax several days after she opened a letter that contained white powder and was postmarked from St. Petersburg.
The New York Times on Friday received a letter with a white powder and the St. Petersburg Times received one earlier in the week. All three letters were postmarked in St. Petersburg.
Federal law enforcement officials said late Friday that all three letters postmarked St. Petersburg tested negatively for anthrax.
[However, the test for the letter sent from St. Petersburg to the Brokaw aide must have been unsuccessful (too small a sample size?) because the aide in fact did contract Anthrax. This point was made by Ted Kopel on ABC Nightline last night. This calls into question the negative test results for the other two letters since they were also sent from St. Petersburg and may not have had inadequate sample size].
An assistant to NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw contracted the skin-based form of anthrax after opening a "threatening" letter to her boss.
Officials quickly said there was no known link to either the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks or the more serious inhaled form of anthrax that killed a supermarket tabloid editor in Florida last week. The 38-year-old NBC employee was being treated with antibiotics and is expected to recover. The letter was postmarked in St. Petersburg on Sept. 20 and opened Sept. 25, authorities said.
St. Petersburg Times columnist Howard Troxler opened his letter at his desk Tuesday. As he did so, a white powdery substance, resembling sugar or salt, spilled out.
Troxler stopped opening the letter. Authorities were called to the newspaper's offices in downtown St. Petersburg. Police put the envelope in an airtight container and drove it to a state health lab in Tampa for analysis. Firefighters covered Troxler's desk with a plastic sheet and yellow emergency-scene tape reading "caution."
Health officials found no signs of anthrax or bacteria in the powder. The envelope and a letter inside also tested negative.
The letter had no return address and was postmarked St. Petersburg. It bears a code 337, then a space, then 1.
Anything that is mailed in Seminole, Largo, Bay Pines, Gulfport, Pinellas Park or any St. Petersburg neighborhood goes through the main post office on First Avenue N and is stamped with a 337. [Actual envelop shown in article and the zip code is visible as 33701 and the postmark can be made out as early (0?) October 2001 for St. Petersburg]
The cryptic letter misspelled Troxler's name and had little punctuation. It said:
"Howard Toxler ... 1st case of disease now blow away this dust so you see how the real thing flys. OKLAHOMA-RYDER TRUCK! Skyway bridge-18 wheels." [Oklahoma-Ryder Truck capitalized for emphasis by FR poster, original version did not use capital letters]
Plus, the bloody trolls have done so much, I don't think that many of our congressmen or other leaders have done in the past or could do anything that would shock us now.
The bloody clinton's just wasted their blackmail leverage by breaking all the rules, laws, and moral rules that anyone is our country has, themselves.
So I don't think anyone who has a past that's in those stolen fbi files has too much to worry about.
KILL ZONE is by far the best book on the subject. It asks and answers the right questions; not who the operatives were but who ORDERED the coup.
Boy Bush is still infinately better than an Al Gore but he is who he is.
What would be the purpose of a news story about a case that wasn't Anthrax, where the "powder" tested negative, being mixed in with a statement about "OKC". Could that be simply an effort at disinformation?
A pre-emptive propaganda strike by those who suppressed the truth about OKC to rule such thinking out? Kind of like the recent media efforts to prop up Clinton's reputation, like all the recent tales of his supposed efforts against Osama?
I have no conclusions about what went on at OKC but I have no doubt that the public stories of many such disasters in the Clinton era were not accurate and this is time for all involved to come clean.
This does not mean that the Ames strain anthrax went from the lab straight to a domestic or foreign terrorist who then put the powder onto an envelope and sent it off.
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No the particular anthrax strain is eponymous with a laboratory in Ames, Iowa.
36 posted on 10/13/01 11:26 PM Central by Hillary's Lovely Legs ^
Nope, I was right the first time. I just got off track on msg because I am still trying to get used to the new format always making me go to the last page and then I have to go back to first page and try to remember where I was. LOL!
This phase of the terror campaign is having exactly the effect OBL planned for it to do. As a bonus that perhaps he could not entirely have anticipated, the authorities' credibility is now shot. That will have a significant multiplier effect on the psychological impact of the next major attack.
Pray that they catch these people because, if they don't, we're going to look back on these edgy, nervous weeks as a brief honeymoon phase, a respite between horrors.
So far as Clinton is concerned, I think there has been, and will continue to be, a concerted effort on the part of many in the media to make him into a successful president. He was hardly that, and I think we're going to be reminded of it for many years to come.
You're right about the disasters of the Clinton presidency not "being reported accurately," and about the need for the government to come clean. It's also time for Americans to grow up a little and for the news media to start using their brains (if such a thing is even remotely possible).
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