Uh, I want to make clear that I don't believe the scientific evidence rules out Al Qaeda as the source of the anthrax. Only that the evidence we have so far means that the investigation has to be broadening to include the possibility that it is a domestic group. And, of course, since Al Qaeda has succeeded in setting up "sleeper cells," people who have lived here for a while, this really begins to blur the line between "domestic" and "foreign" terrorism.
On the Iraq question: any objective assessment of the evidence points AWAY from Iraq, at least so far.
Sophisticated coating means government lab. Sensitivity to antibiotics seems to rule out the U.S. and Russia, unless somebody is conducting a very elaborate plot to cast suspicion on Iraq. That pretty much only leaves Iraq, which behaved guilty after the Sept. 11th attacks, an operative of which is known to have met with Atta in Prague, which seems to have been cooperating with al Qaeda at least since 1998, which was already behind the 1993 WTC bombing, and for which there is increasing evidence of complicity in the OKC bombing, and now Iran is pretty plainly suggesting that Iraq is involved in the anthrax. That Poppins Woman has presented evidence on another thread that Iraq used anthrax against Iran in the First Gulf War. That's a lot of evidence.
Faruk Hijazi is the former director of Saddam's external secret services. See url below.
As the news is confirmed that the strain of anthrax transmitted via mail is the "Ames" strain, born and bred not in Iraq, or the Soviet Union, but right here in the good old US of A, the gasps of disappointment are practically audible.... The anthrax, law enforcement authorities seem convinced, was produced in US laboratories, not in Iraq or the former Soviet Union. .... On the Iraq question: any objective assessment of the evidence points AWAY from Iraq, at least so far.
Sunday October 14, 2001 – The Observer, David Rose and Ed Vulliamy, New York (UK)
Scientists investigating the attacks say the bacteria used is similar to the 'Ames strain' of anthrax originally cultivated at Iowa State University in the 1950s and later given to labs throughout the world, including Iraq.
Believe SCIENTISTS and documented evidence from the Senate report on what Ronald Reagan sealed with a kiss to Saddam ...
Or believe those wonderful law enforcement authority folks who gave us Ruby Ridge and Waco ...
....Hmmmm.... tough decision, Justin. NOT.
"They had the drying equipment; they had the milling equipment; they had the aerosol testing equipment, the expertise on staff in engineering and physics, to do this kind of work," he said.
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