Rogue warrior—Green Team / Richard Marcinko and John Weisman (1995 anthrax novel involving Cairo fundamentalists in Afghanistan by former counterterrorist operative) .
For any GMU Center for Biodefense grad who is looking for some beach reading, go to Johnson Center Stacks (Call Number: PS3563.A6362 R64 1995) and pick up a copy of Rogue warrior—Green Team / Richard Marcinko and John Weisman. It is an action-adventure novel featuring a former U.S. Navy SEAL who fights terrorism. In this episode he leads his team against Muslim fundamentalists in Cairo, then flies to Afghanistan to foil a plot by other terrorists planning to spread anthrax in the West. By the author of Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell.
Red Cell was the name of the group of top analysts that Tenet enlisted after 9/11 to put themselves in the shoes of Ayman Zawahiri in avoiding the next attack. The name derives from “red teaming.”
Red Cell was the real life name of Marcinko’s group that tested the Navy’s defenses against a terrorist attack. If you purchase a copy, he lives in Alexandria, VA and is available to sign your copy.
Also, coincidentally, the Green Team was the name of Saif Adel’s group that went to Somalia a couple years before Marcinko’s book. A trip report Saif Adel wrote to Atef recently became available full-text. Tenet says Saif Adel, who once purported to speak for the Vanguards of Conquest (the military wing of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad), was involved in Al Qaeda’s CBRN planning. As Professor Fawwaz Gerges explains in his lucid Journey of a Jihadist, it was writer Islamic Assembly of North America Kamal Habib who once headed the military wing of the EIJ.
Here is a little classified info for all of you to chew on.
In 2001 the DOD was accepting bids to build an Anthrax vaccine facility at the Aberdeen proving grounds. The reason for this is because the Bioport vaccine would not pass FDA approval because Bioport could not produce a consistent product. That would have put Bioport out of business. After the mailings the FDA quietly approved the Bioport facility. So Bioport certainly could be a co conspirator in this crime. Also of interest is that one of the companies bidding on this facility was SAIC. Steven Hatfill’s employer at the time.