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."
I think that this is very strange indeed.
I believe the state health officer is brand new to the job and neither an M.D. nor a qualified medical scientist.Kind of like the Coroner we had in Albany who filed an old lady in the cold cabinet before she was dead.
We are talking about the tabloids here, wouldn't expect them to get the facts straight even about thier own employees. It would be a shame if they twist this story just to sell papers.
Sorry
Crit is shorthand for "Criticize" - I do copy work and write, and forgot it wasn't a common phrase for a minute when I was trying to encapsulate the heading for easy reference.
MWW
a CopyCritter ;)
I just had a thought, didn't I hear something about Atta taking a several-thousand mile road trip in the weeks before the attack?
Couldn't that trip have been to deliver the fake-white-stuff stuffed envelopes (to operatives who would mail them) all over the country? It would nicely explain that cross country trip.
Do their phones have arrows on them or something?
Sorry to be the bringer of bad tidings. We should have declared a National State of Emergency on 9/11 and locked down the whole country: rounded up Arab nationals, suspended private aviation, etc. If the largest terrorist attack in history and the attempted destruction of the White House and Capitol by hitherto unidentified terrorist cells in our own country does not constitute a national emergency, I don't know what does.
The terrorists found the perfect delivery system. The US postal service. What does this bio-delivery system cost? About 35 cents? You people need to buy a clue.
You were sputtering so much over your reply, you failed to read the original posting. NOONE, and that includes illbay who I was replying to, has ever suggested that these guys developed anthrax on their own. We are just suggesting it is not going to be Atta or his cronies who did it. Recall the Tylenol scare a many years ago, there was at least one copycat that poisoned people in the supermarket to divert attention from the fact that he had also poisoned his wife. Who knows, maybe this is some sick mofo in a research lab somewhere. Illbay posits, and I agree, that the source of this anthrax will be found to be someone unconnected with the hijackers of sept 11.
Coz is annoyed with the Palm Beach County authorities for not tipping off AMI sooner. He should be even angrier at the CDC, which must have been aware that the NBC employee in NYC started to be treated with Cipro on Oct. 1.
That press conference they held was bizarre
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