Brokaw, Daschle Letters Cited Attacks (Text of Letters)

New York Daily News ^ | 10/18/01 | GREG B. SMITH and RICHARD WEIR

[kattracks]

Notes opened with '9-11-01'

he anthrax-laced letters sent to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle both began with an ominous reference to the Sept. 11 date of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, investigators revealed yesterday.

Scrawled in block letters on a single sheet of unlined paper, the letter to Brokaw — postmarked Sept. 18 — says in its entirety:

"09-11-01
This is next.
Take penacilin now.
Death to America
Death to Israel.
Allah is great."

In the letter, the word penicillin is misspelled and underlined.

The letter received by Daschle at his Senate office building in Washington on Monday was remarkably similar, saying:

"09-11-01
You can not stop us.
We have this anthrax.
You die now.
Are you afraid?
Death to America
Death to Israel.
Allah is great."

Both letters were postmarked Trenton — and the writing on both also seemed to be similar, strongly indicating they were sent by the same person.

Federal investigators said yesterday they have "substantive leads" that could help them determine where the anthrax in the letters came from, though they wouldn't discuss specifics.

Meanwhile, investigators said there is no evidence yet that New York has been exposed to as deadly a concentration of anthrax as the more potent one that appears to have swept through the Senate offices in Washington.

Less Dangerous

Investigators believe the letter sent to Brokaw contained a grade of anthrax that can be picked up by direct contact with small cuts, causing cutaneous anthrax — considered far less dangerous than inhaled anthrax. The Washington spores were produced in a more sophisticated way, allowing them to waft through the air.

"They're very different situations," said New York City Health Commissioner Neal Cohen, who is overseeing the testing of workers at NBC and ABC.

The national anthrax scare started in Florida when an editor for the supermarket tabloid company American Media died after inhaling anthrax spores. Investigators have since found anthrax on his office keyboard and in the firm's mailroom.

Brokaw's letter was opened by an NBC office worker, who dumped out the material. The letter was then shown to Brokaw's assistant, who later tested positive for cutaneous anthrax. She has taken antibiotics and is recovering, network officials say.

No other cases have been reported at the network, and at least 500 other NBC workers have tested negative for anthrax exposure.

That contrasts with Washington, where 31 Capitol staffers tested positive for anthrax exposure yesterday — and the anthrax was believed to be in a much more potent pure form.

At ABC, the 7-month-old son of a producer contracted what appears to be cutaneous anthrax after a visit to the news office Sept. 28.

But officials noted that two weeks after the infant showed signs of anthrax, no other ABC employee has reported similar symptoms.

To make sure, health officials are testing about 100 ABC employees. The results are expected in the coming days.

[choppersrule]

not so nutcase to me.

[VRWC_minion]

A disturbing and little-known aspect of the Nazi slave labor system was the involvement of big business. Many of the most respected German corporations had no scruples about using concentration camp labor. A company’s decision to use slave labor was voluntary. By the end of 1944, one half a million ghetto and concentration camp inmates were chained to hundreds of corporations. The greatest offenders were either state-owned enterprises – such as BRABAG, the Herman Goring Works, and Volkswagen – or munitions and arms makers, such as Junkers, Messerschmitt, Heinkel, Krupp, Dynamit Nobel, and Rheinmetall-Borsig. By 1943, almost every major private corporation was complicit, including BMW, AEG-Telefunken, Siemens, Daimler-Benz, Schering, and the component firms of IG Farben, namely Bayer, BASF, Hoechst, and Agfa. German divisions of American firms were equally guilty, such as Ford and General Motors’ Opel. Link

[VRWC_minion]

Archives Suggest Bayer-Nazi Link

But now, some 55 years after the fact, Kor thinks she may be about to solve the mystery. Going through a recently published book that chronicles Nazi documents from the Auschwitz archives, she made a startling corporate connection.

In a summary of a letter from a doctor working for the huge German pharmaceutical company Bayer, she read about Bayer experimental drugs to be tested on Auschwitz prisoners. If true, it means that Kor and others were essentially used as laboratory animals.

Bayer is one of the best known and largest pharmaceutical and chemical companies in the world. But what’s turning up in these long-forgotten archives puts the company in a much different light.

For example: One of the SS doctors at Auschwitz, Dr. Helmut Vetter, a longtime Bayer employee, was involved in the testing of Bayer experimental vaccines and medicines on inmates. He was later executed for giving inmates fatal injections.

[VRWC_minion]

In an effort to control the global chemical and pharmaceutical markets, these corporations formed the IG Farben Cartel already at the beginning of this century, sponsored the rise of Hitler to power and were the driving economic force behind the Second World War and Hitler’s effort to conquer the world. Hoechst, Bayer and BASF were the organizers of the giant industrial plant IG Auschwitz using as their forced labor camp the Concentration Camp Auschwitz, the largest crime site of human history. At the 1947 Nuremberg Tribunal 24 of the managers of Hoechst, Bayer and BASF and other IG Farben executives were accused of the following crimes against humanity: · planning and leading the war · mass murder · conducting criminal experiments on innocent inmates of concentration camps · grand theft and plundering · slavery and other crimes. The US lead prosecutor Telford Taylor said in the Nuremberg Tribunal against these IG Farben executives: “Not the Nazi lunatics but these accused are responsible for this war. And if they are not punished for these crimes the harm they will do to future generations is much greater than Hitler could ever have done if he were alive.” The IG Farben Cartel was dismantled and split by the Nuremberg Tribunal into the daughter companies Hoechst, Bayer and BASF. With the help of Nelson Rockefeller, their former business partner and US Undersecretary of State after the war, all convicted IG Farben managers were released from prison already in 1952 and reassumed positions in the highest levels of German industry. The prediction of Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor Taylor soon became true. In post-war Germany the positions of chairmen of Hoechst, Bayer and BASF were held by war-time IG Farben directors and former members of the Nazi party for over a quarter of a century after the second world war. Hoechst, Bayer and BASF lost no time to build up other political leaders to serve their interests in post-war Germany. Between 1959 and 1969 Helmut Kohl worked for the “Verband der Chemischen Industrie”(Association of Chemical Industry), the largest lobby organization of 3 the chemical-pharmaceutical industry. This industry systematically promoted Helmut Kohl’s political career thereby continuing to instrumentalize the German government for their global expansion plans. And their investment paid out. Now, fifty years after the Nuremberg Tribunal split the criminal IG Farben Cartel into Hoechst, Bayer and BASF each of these three daughter companies is 20 times larger than the IG Farben empire ever was.

[browardchad]

Theory #2 is a good one, but #1 implies that these already-processed spores can be grown in the field. My understanding (from all the garbled info out there) is that the bacteria can only reproduce in some sort of liquid media, and then has to be re-manufactured into a powdered form, which would mean sophisticated equipment at various locations.

My guess is that there is a finite quantity of this stuff, but that's it's being used to maximum psychological advantage.

[VRWC_minion]

which would mean sophisticated equipment at various locations.

If people can make designer drugs in the basement they can accomplish this.

[Straight Vermonter]

What I got from this article is that the FBI should be using the misspelling of penicillin as a clue. Handwriting, misspellings and language peculiarities are all leads. I did a look on Google and got only 10 cases of this misspelling. One of them was from this distubing poem.

[goodieD]

that occured to me as well.

[OrioleFan]

I would like to know if Osama has stocks in the drug companies that would produce the meds to take care of anthrax, small pox, etc. Is there anyway of finding out about that?

Good point! His investments may be a clue as to where and how he will strike next.

[smorgle]

The possibility of diversionary tactics has also occurred to David Hackworth - heard him on TV yesterday. Great minds, and all that = ]

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

IT IS TIME. Most of the world remembers. But some have forgotten, or they really did not go to school and therefore they never learned. IT IS TIME TO GET THE ENOLA GAY OUT OF MOTHBALLS.

Gives me an idea. They called the two Japan bombs "Fat Man" and "Little Boy". Why don't we call the one we drop on Afghanistan "Tall Woman", in honor of OBL?

[Darksheare]

Am I having a brain drain, or didn't Brokjaw and Daschle both say something that seemed to be in support of the terrorists lately? I mean, they both have said some pretty unforgivable vile garbage over the years, but hey.. Why send anthrax to the only substantial people supporting their worthless cause in this country?
I'm prolly thinking of two other morons on the 'tube.

[kjam22]

I'd call Nukes over Osama "Porky's Revenge"... and "Miss Piggy Goes To War"

[bray]

Yep, looks like a right wing extremist group is behind these letters. Yep, sure does. The death to America and allah is great is a sure givaway. No connection whatsoever to the terrorist attacks of 911. (sarcasm off for those in Dade County)

Pray for GW and the Troops!

[Bigg Red]

...didn't Brokjaw and Daschle both say something that seemed to be in support of the terrorists lately? I mean, they both have said some pretty unforgivable vile garbage over the years, but hey.. Why send anthrax to the only substantial people supporting their worthless cause in this country?

ObL and his boys see all of us as Americans, ergo evil. Even Nader or Streisand or any of the other America haters are all Americans and fair game in the eyes of ObL. He'd mow down the anti-war protestors in a heartbeat.

[12B]

I can't say that I blame Bayer really. They're being sued for gazillions by Americans who were too stupid to read the directions on their Lipobay and the U.S. courts will probably hand out some outlandish settlements. I can hardly blame them for wanting to recoup some of those losses.

[Exigence]

Maybe the liberals will get off the backs of the pharmecutical companies now that they need them. But, then again, liberal and logical don't often go together.

[WVNan]

I have nothing to say about the pharma. cos., But if I ever have to be treated for Anthrax exposure I will ask for Tetracycline which is just as effective and costs pennies. Bayer will no longer receive my business. Their connection to this mess is too close for comfort.

[texasbluebell]

Gee, these letters really don't sound as if they came from right-wing militia groups, do they? Nor do the letters sent to Microsoft in Reno, which were postmarked Malaysia...Wonder why fingers are starting to point at the militias...

[Exigence]

Bayer will no longer receive my business. Their connection to this mess is too close for comfort.

Good idea. Getting paranoid and turning on each other is always a good idea. *eyes rolling*