courtesy of Registered
The author of this piece obviously makes a big deal of the fact that it is the Ames strain of the bacteria yet that strain has had seed cultures shipped all arround the world. Its shipment in the USA has been regulated since 1996. The author with bno evidence makes assumptions based upon un attributed sources to "prove" his thesis. In short it is speculation until there is some evidence.
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That doesn't mean anything, that strain has been exported to labs all over the world for research purposes - it's in Russia, Iraq, Indonesia, all place foreign terrorists could get a hold of it.
The Ames, IA strain of the anthrax may be no big deal, but the coating and aerosolization of the anthrax is a big deal.
Have you noticed the official statement from Iran implying pretty clearly that this is Iraqi anthrax?
President Bush was just on C-SPAN delivering his signing statement for the antiterrorism bill. He explicitly connected the anthrax with the terrorists.
courtesy of Registered
Saddam's Bombmaker on Anthrax Attacks: 'This Is Iraq!'
A top Iraqi military scientist who defected to the U.S. in 1994, said late Monday that he's absolutely certain his former boss Saddam Hussein is behind the wave of anthrax attacks that have swept the U.S. in recent weeks.
"This is Iraq," said Dr. Khidhir Hamza, in an interview on CNBC's "Rivera Live." "This is Iraq's work."
Dr. Hamza headed up Hussein's nuclear weapons research program in the early 1990's and has authored the book, "Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda."
"Nobody (else) has the expertise outside the U.S. and outside the major powers who work on germ warfare," Hamza told "Rivera Live." "Nobody has the expertise and has any motive to attack the U.S. except Saddam to do this. This is Iraq. This is Saddam."
The Iraqi weapons expert told CNBC that his homeland had developed the capability to weaponize anthrax even before he defected to the U.S. seven years ago, and continues to maintain that capability.
"I have absolutely no doubt," he said. "Iraq worked actually even before the Gulf War on perfecting the process of getting anthrax in the particle size needed in powder form to disseminate the way it is being disseminated now."
After linking the Iraqi dictator to the U.S. anthrax attacks, the man familiar with Saddam's secret doomsday strategy said he thinks the anthrax contamination of America's postal system is just the opening salvo in Saddam's bioterror war on the U.S.
"Probaby this is the first wave," Dr. Hamza told Rivera. "I'm not trying to frighten everybody in this but probably this is the first wave."
A dissenting opinion from one of Saddam's former bio-terrorist scientists.
The left and statists really wants this to be the product of "right-wing kooks." That would give them the platform they want for massive totalitarian legislation and demonization of constitutionalists. The anti-Western Culture crowd would like to tie this to America as proof of Western Culture's "degeneracy" and desire to have an excuse to oppress of other cultures. There's another group that wants it to be America, because they believe it's a Reichstag Fire and part of the "Grand Conspiracy." Some even believe it's a left-wing enviro or anarchist group, hoping to destabilize the system. The likelihood is that this is a follow-on attack, meant to heighten fear and panic. The quality of some of the spores indicates purposeful, professional work. Probably state-sponsored.
Right now, we don't know who it is. The charge of "home-grown hate-groups" smacks of a set-up; propaganda. But then again, there are still people that believe in the lone-gunman/magic-bullet theory and the lone-bomber theory. Those stories served their purposes. Maybe this one will serve its purpose as well. We may all be surprised when the truth comes out. If it ever does. Maybe this really was like Pearl Harbor; a total set-up with sacrificed Americans for good effect. It worked for Roosevelt.