Posted on 03/22/2002 11:41:11 PM PST by kattracks
I am not sure how you test the sterilized anthrax.
Saddam's problem is atomic - not biological.
Antitoxin would make much more sense than a vaccine, because (1) the vaccine doesn't work against all strains of anthrax, and may not even work against inhalation anthrax, period, and (2) the antitoxin, besides working against all anthrax, can be used into the late, terminal stages of the disease.
Do you recall who this was?
Ali Ayub Khan had apartments in both Chicago and Jersey City. The Chicago apartment was in the same building that Sabash Gurung was staying in. Khan shared the Jersey City apartment with Mohammed Jaweed Azmath and Mohammed Pervez. Pervez is also said to have shared an apartment with the potential anthrax suspects from the Greenwood Village Apartments in Hamilton, NJ.
Khan and Azmath were the two Pakistanis who were flying when all planes were grounded on 9/11. They then took a train to San Antonio, and they were subsequently arrested with box cutters, $5000 in cash, and hair dye; their bodies were apparently shaved. (The suspicion, of course, was that they were about to hijack the plane when their plans were thwarted by the quick decision to ground all airliners. I think they have been charged with credit card fraud and are officially no longer under suspicion of terrorism, if you believe the public press releases.)
Gurung is the Nepalese who was arrested at O'Hare Airport with a stash of weapons.
Sorry, I don't. I wish at the time I had recorded the name.
There was a long report about him on one of the Alphabet Channels.
Officials were extremely puzzled over what he was up to.
Saddam's anthrax has a signature not found here. That didn't mean he didn't provide Mr. Atta with anthrax stolen from an American lab. Unfortunately, we haven't traced such materials through the lab to Iraq. Doesn't mean it can't be done, but the federales are still focusing on an atom bomb and not anthrax!
Must be a reason for it, eh?!
I would really like to know if yesterday's public revelation that one of the 9-11 hijackers sought treatment for cutaneous anthrax is the result of an intentional tip from government sources, or whether it represents true investigative journalism by the NYT. If it's the former, then we might infer that the administration feels it has a handle on the threat, and that there is no further benefit to delaying an attack on Iraq. That would dovetail with the ramping up of anti-Iraq rhetoric, and the US and British government's recent warnings to Saddam that we are willing to use nuclear weapons in retaliation for attacks with non-nuclear WMD. On the other hand, this could just be an example of a journalist stepping off the reservation and doing some real digging around, in which case, unfortunately, no such optimistic inferences follow.
Has the FBI shared what info the garnered in the Trenton PO's roped off area with the Postal Inspectors or the NJ State Police -- or is it still just the summary statement?
Where is "here," if you don't mind my asking?
are out searching for an atom bomb, you will have to explain that to the federales complaining about the task to me - -
Do you care to elaborate? What are they doing, and why are they complaining to you?
Either that or he just had trouble getting a date.
Either scenario is not difficult to believe.
No one knows why they dug up the boxes when all they had to do was use cotton swabs to pull samples, then spray them out with bleach to make them safe pending results.
Contamination in various postal facilities was found by special bio-hazard companies under contract to the USPS!
Top postal managers have publicly stated that the FBI did not communicate its findings to the USPS.
This sort of behavior is, unfortunately, typical of the FBI.
The official report (of the NJ Dept of Health, as I recall, which was coordinating this part of the investigation) says that no anthrax was found in any mail drop or any receptacle in which mail was placed. Preliminary reports of such contamination proved incorrect. Anthrax was only found in those parts of postal facilities used for mail in transit. (This is in contrast with Boca Raton.)
Muawiyah's theory that all the anthrax letters were mailed from Boca Raton is strange, but I'm leaving open the possibility that something like that is the truth. They've searched the mailboxes in the Trenton area exhaustively and found nothing; it's hard to explain that.
The thing is, the various "possibilities" were never equally matched up to begin with. Rosenberg's theory, like the preceding Woodward "militia" theory, and the original "mountain stream" theory, is enormously improbable and borderline ridiculous but not completely impossible, i.e. it doesn't violate the laws of physics. The correct theory -- that the anthrax letters were exactly what they purported to be, followups to the 9-11 attacks -- had the enormous advantage of being fully supported by the evidence and prior probability. Any "helping hand" the Feds offered to keep the correct explanation "in play" would only have made it painfully obvious how absurd the red herring theories were, nullifying the whole purpose of the stall.
Sorry, I didn't mean to pry -- you're the one who brought it up in your earlier post.
All this sexual anger and frustration builds up in periods of fervent denial, collapse in sinful behavior, the self hating guilt, followed by more fervent denial etc.
In the end, all this self hate gets redirected at the world.
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