Posted on 04/07/2002 8:49:09 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:15 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Last fall FBI profilers announced that the person who sent deadly anthrax-laced letters to news organizations and Capitol Hill was probably a grudge-bearing, sociopathic male laboratory nerd with knowledge of the geography of Trenton, N.J. But a new scientific analysis sent to top government officials suggests the anthrax attacker may be a scientific whiz so smart that he succeeded in making a
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
YOu missed the most obvious one of them all. Florida and New Jersey have the highest concentration of Cuban immigrants in the Nation. We just threw half a dozen Cuban spies in jail, one of them working in the Pentagon.
Here's something interesting:
Cuba: Our Terrorist Neighbor To The South.****Cuban research has been centered on developing virus strains, which can be inoculated in migratory birds, such as the SV 1417 strain of the West Nile virus, which appeared mysteriously for the first time in the Western Hemisphere in New York, and which more recently has been found in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Georgia, and northern Florida.
"An old and discarded treatment"
"anthrax antitoxin has potential"
"multiple case reports as well as experimental studies have documented some benefit of this approach."
"Nass allows that the side effects could be nasty because the anthrax antitoxin would be crude, but that in a pinch it would be better to endure them than face the possibility of death."
"What we obviously need is a fast-track anthrax antitoxin program to get under way and strong support for researchers hoping to eventually produce an effective and safe antidote to anthrax."
This is an interesting article (thank you for bringing to my attention) about a possible avenue to explore in the search for a cure for anthrax. But that is all that it is. You could write such an article about prospective cures for any number of diseases that have plagued mankind for centuries: cancer, arthritis, heart disease, etc. That doesn't mean that we can cure any one of them.
Were you on the OJ jury, by any chance?
When people ask me what America needs to do to protect itself, I always say pray fervently to God. The above article is proof that anyone relying on the government or trusting in human means to get us through is sadly deluded.
I guess that you haven't been around very long, even though it says you've been a member since 1990! Otherwise you'd remember Mena, Oklahoma City, TWA 800, Commerce Secretary Brown, etc. A change in the titular head of the government doesn't change the nature of the government.
First, let's say it was sent as a warning because if it were sent for maximum kill count it could have been distributed in many other locations such as malls. Also let's say the planned recipient of the message was the federal government because they were obvious recipients along with some well deserving journalists. Wouldn't it make sense that there would be more to the warning? Don't you get the feeling that there was some other message delivered to the feds through diplomatic channels or other means if it were coming from Iraq? Something like 'there's more where that came from' or 'You kill Saddam, we kill you?" I wonder if the CIA/FBI has more information as to the nature of the message and hence the messenger?
Second, if the mailer was on a suicide mission and planned to hop a plane shortly thereafter using a one way ticket, a lot of the safety precautions needed to stay alive and handle anthrax aren't so important. Last if you were a terrorist well dusted with anthrax, you really wouldn't mind the plane ride so much as it beats an agonizing anthrax death. Just my thoughts.
It's perfectly possible that such messages were delivered. According to the Washington Post, Cheney and his staff were put on a prophylactic course of Cipro on the night of 9-11-2001. So it may be they had word of what was coming. However, I also think it's perfectly possible that the letters we have seen were the whole deal. Something akin to the 9-11 scenario must have been war-gamed a thousand times at the Pentagon. A follow up threat with anthrax was a logical next move to expect from Saddam, inasmuch as anthrax is the only weapon in his arsenal which could level the playing field with the United States. Remember that Bush and Cheney haven't seen this filtered through a lens of official disinformation and distraction, through the chaff of leftist journalistic agendas, or the rose-tinted glasses of the average person who just wants the thing to go away. Their job is to evaluate the threat to the United States and figure out what to do about it. From that clear-eyed perspective, I'll wager the forensic analysis of the anthrax samples and grasp of the wider military-political context of 9-11 are together sufficient to decode the import of those letters.
That is not clear to me.
It seems you haven’t read Dostoyevsky or Conrad.
I easily can imagine a crazy maniac,
wanting to die in glory,
who enlisted 18 others fools
in his mission
and found powerful sponsors
willing to assist him.
Lunacy and stupidy explain most things,
not logic, planning and common sense.
They now know our "response" via the Tom-Toms,Ridge and Thompkins!
They know exactly how we will respond to bio-war!
My pursuit of the Bin Laden cyber-telemedicine-bioweapons-matrix is coming along fine!
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