Anthrax-CIA connection?

BBC News ^ | 3/14/02 | Newsnight

[Fred Mertz]

BTTT

[Nita Nupress]

Barbara Rosenberg is an idiot. Just my opinion.

[quimby]

Thanks for the post though i do not believe anything rosenberg says. Is it possible saddam was behind this, the government knows, and they are waiting for the right moment to use the info ? Just a WAG.

[motexva]

Why do you call the Great Satan a disruptor? Because he doesn't buy into the ludicrous "The CIA spread the anthrax" rumors? Neither do I - does that make me a disruptor too?

[The Great Satan]

Is it possible saddam was behind this, the government knows, and they are waiting for the right moment to use the info ?

Yeah, except for the false premise that this is all under Bush's control. The letters and samples sent to Daschle et al represent a credible threat to inflict unacceptable losses on the United States. As the letter sent to Daschle says: "YOU CAN NOT STOP US." Unfortunately, this is in all likelihood absolutely true. Saddam wants to have his revenge for his Gulf War defeat, he wants to intimidate the US into pulling out of the Arab Peninsula, and he wants to achieve these aims without being killed or removed from power. He's had ten years to figure out how to use the levers available -- access to a pool of fanatically anti-Western terrorists, and his favorite WOMD, anthrax -- to put together a workable plan. In truth, it wasn't that difficult. The anthrax is the key.

All this should come as no shock to us. Clinton Def. Sec. William Cohen explained how Saddam could use anthrax to attack or blackmail the United States, if we caved on the weapons inspection issue. He went on national TV and told the American public that a bag of weapons-grade anthrax tossed into the wind in the DC metro area could kill 3 million people. That was a few weeks before his boss caved to Saddam on the weapons issue. What has since transpired should be about as surprising as a lung cancer diagnosis to a smoker.

[Betty Jo]

I still think that Islamic terrorists mailed the anthrax!

I think that everything opposite of that is BS disinfo put out by the Feds!

[Nita Nupress]

<< Saddam Hussein obtained samples of Ames strain anthrax from Geo. Bush 41. >>

Would you care to explain this statement? Why would Geo. Bush 41 personally give anthrax to Saddam Hussain? Is this some vast conspiracy of which I need to be aware?

Btw, if your answer only includes sources from WashingtonCompost, Salon.com or Barbara Rosenberg, then never mind.

[The Great Satan]

And all those labs can trace back their samples to a single U.S. military source: the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Md.

And the "single U.S. military source" in turn got it from US Department of Agriculture, which is probably where Saddam got it, in the course of his shopping spree for Ames (Iraq's chemists bought anthrax from America).

[AlGone2001]

Why do you call the Great Satan a disruptor?

Why don't you tell me how a guy gets a 1990 member since date on his profile when the forum was launched in 1997. His profile number is in the 75k range. All of the 75K range are actually those who have joined very recently.

Investigate it and see that my details are correct.

This is just someone who wants to be dishonest and cause infighting.

[LarryLied]

If we look to a one American scientist theory could it be...Ms. Rosenberg herself???

She remains me of arsonists who get caught because they can't stay away after torching a building. This entire story revolves around her. Every few weeks, she pops up with more "new" information which has no basis in fact and reiterates what she has been saying for months.

[dighton]

Regarding TGS's 1990 "member since" date, it's almost certainly a software glitch: an amusing one, at that. Surely no bad reflection upon the affected FReeper.

I'm pinging John Robinson for technical details.

[AlGone2001]

Why do you call the Great Satan a disruptor? Because he doesn't buy into the ludicrous "The CIA spread the anthrax" rumors? Neither do I - does that make me a disruptor too?

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Evidence 1-

motexva

member since June 18th, 2001

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Evidence 2

The Great Satan

member since December 15th, 1990

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Evidence 3-

A member who has a member since date of June 18, 2001 has a Freeper # of 61977.

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A member who has a member since date of December 15, 1990 has a Freeper # of 75639.

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Question # 1-  How does one member (The Great Satan) start the forum 11-years before another member (motexva) and have a number that is over 13, 000 higher than the latter?

Question # 2-  How does one member (The Great Satan) start the forum before the forum's founder, Jim Robinson (November 28th, 1997)?

Question #3-  How does one member (The Great Satan) enter membership in the forum nearly 7-years before Jim Robinson and not have the member # 1 thing going for him?

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If you feel okay playing games with the poster, be my guest.  Have you noticed that he has not taken the time to challenge my comments?  Wonder why?

 

 

[AlGone2001]

I seriously doubt this. It has happened in the past. Incidently, it eventually led to the poster being banned.

There was also one who was using another's screenname, and making posts under that other FReeper's identity.

I was not involved in the issue, but that's the way that I remember others speaking of it. I never saw the evidence, but can remember another poster who I trusted making comments that one was sending private mails around with another's ID.

[dighton]

Let's see what John Robinson says about the bogus date. He'd know.

Nothing I've seen in The Great Satan's posting history jumps up and screams "disruptor."

[AlGone2001]

I did some research and it seems that several posters who are in sequential order for signing up have invalid dates.

All posters from 75635 to 75642 have a date of December 15, 1990.  The one immediately preceding (75634) has a date of December 27th, 2001 while the one following (79643) has a date of December 29th, 2001.

[dighton]

Good job -- thanks.

I eagerly await the why and wherefore.

[AlGone2001]

It appears that I owe both of you an apology.

I was wrong. Please accept my apology.

It does appear that there is a glitch for the dating of the posters, as I mentioned above.

Still, it looks fishy to see someone with a date earlier than Jim's, ya know. Maybe it can be fixed so that you don't have more people giving you grief as I did. I hope so.