Posted on 10/12/2001 10:54:56 AM PDT by somena2001
AMI Employee Speaks Out About Anthrax Case The editorial director of American Media says his company knows how the man killed by anthrax was exposed to the disease. He is also making scathing comments about the Palm Beach County Health department.
Steve Coz, Editorial Director at American Media in Boca Raton, says that the company knows how the anthrax bacterium got into their building, and he says there is a connection to the terrorists.
Coz says that Bob Stevens, the employee who died of anthrax, was infected after exposure anthrax spores delivered to AMI in a letter. He said the letter came into the mailroom, and was opened by someone else who handed it to Stevens.
Because of vision problems, Stevens (pictured, left) then held the letter close to his face to look at it, according to Coz, giving the 63-year old a massive dose of anthrax spores.
The FBI (news - web sites) has asked American Media not to go into detail about the letter, and they currently deny any connection between the letter and the terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Coz says he believes there is a connection, particularly to Mohamed Atta, the hijacker believed to be the leader of the terrorists who resided in South Florida. "We know Mohamed Atta was within three miles of the [American Media] building, we know he was within a mile of Bob Stevens house. We know that the FBI is now going to local pharmacies to see if he did in fact get Cipro. We know that he showed up at a pharmacy with red hands. There are people in this area who have very direct recollection of seeing him. He worked out in a gym where some of our employees were." The FBI continues to say they have not made a direct connection between the terrorists and the anthrax cases.
A congressional source says that more anthrax spores have been found in the mailroom of American Media, but the FBI is not confirming that or any of the statements made by Steve Coz.
Steve Coz also blasted the Palm Beach County Health Department for not informing American Media about Bob Stevens illness earlier. He said, "We found out that Bob Stevens had anthrax on the Internet at 3:00 on Thursday -- we turned on the TV sets and it was all over television. We called the Palm Beach County Health Deparment from 3:00 to 7:30 leaving messages -- we must have left 20 messages. At 7:30 somebody finally picked up the phone."
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There are some 20,000 to 100,000 cases of Anthrax yearly. The areas of high prevelance include the Near and Middle East, Africa and parts of South America and Europe.
Given the state of the food supply (sanitation) in India, these 2 cases are not surprising at all.
For example, over the last 20 years, in the US, human anthrax cases only numbered 51, with only 11 in the last decade....until September 11th.
Note that these incidents occurred at AMI and NBC.
When they catch up with him, he's going to be either a right-wing nut (McVeigh) or a left-wing nut (Unabomber).
It MAY have been Atta. These are the kind of guys who bear grudges, and if he was offended in some way he might have taken the chance to get a little personal vengeance around the same time he was doing the big, official job.
I'm with you on this one. I just can't belive that guys who specifically targetted our most potent symbols of economic and military power would then turn their attention to the offices of the National Enquirer in Lantana Florida as a logical next step.
You're slipping Illbay...
You left off "Mossad operative."
Plausible. After all, the targeted airlines were United and American, both of which sport American flags on their aircraft.
I believe the state health officer is brand new to the job and neither an M.D. not a qualified medical scientist.
Does anyone find it odd that a photo editor had vision problems of this magnitude?
Atta would be perfect person to do this - he KNEW he was going to die in a plane crash before he'd die of Anthrax.
Why would he care about contracting a disease he knew he would never die from?
If it had been some other terrorist doing it, he'd have died from the exposure by now and we'd probably discovered his body by now.
Makes the most sense to me.
The others who were exposed aren't even in any danger.
If this had been a serious act of terrorism, it would have been tested and worked out long before they tried to pull it. And either they would have failed in the attempt, or they would have succeeded and the results would have been dramatic.
Remember all those reports of "dead animals" lying around the al-Qaeda traning camps, supposedly seen by satellite?
No, this was no "terrorist act." It will be found to be some boob-job like I just mentioned.
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