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Most of this analysis is reasonable enough -- certainly much better than the ludicrous "profile" touted by the FBI. In the end, though, it's largely about details which are not particularly important. It's been perfectly obvious to any intelligent person that the anthrax came from the 9-11 terrorists, ever since the first victim was struck down in the tabloid offices of the hijackers' landlord a few days after 9-11. The various revelations that have emerged since then are pure gravy.

The Bush administration was never naive about the ultimate author of the WTC attacks. Several members of the administration had previously endorsed the analysis of the 1993 attempt to topple the WTC towers by Laurie Mylroie. Cheney and his staff were put on Cipro the night of September 11. The reasoning was not complicated, because we know Saddam Hussein is not suicidal -- to up the ante in his ten year war with the United States to this level, he would have to present a credible backup threat using the only WMD at his disposal, anthrax. Unlike his buddy Osama bin Laden, Saddam is in a fixed position -- he can't run away and hide.

So, Saddam is the author of 9-11. Saddam supplied the hijacker team with enough weaponized anthrax to follow up the attack with a credible threat to kill millions of Americans if the administration points the finger at Iraq. Since it is a credible threat -- the boast "YOU CAN NOT STOP US" is true -- Bush is doing exactly what you would expect him to do, caught "between Iraq and a hard place:" he's keeping up the rhetorical heat on Saddam, and stalling for time.

This has all been obvious for months. Anybody who doesn't get by now is just plain stupid, IMO.

Seems to me that the Anthraxer was a rookie, got a small sample of weapons-grade material and tried to reproduce it, not realizing (as any "scientist" familiar with the weaponization of anthrax would) that the milling and coating would not be transferred to any successive generations produced from the original sample. This second-generation material was sent to media outlets, with fairly minor results, then the remaining original material was sent out.

The big question is where did the original sample come from?? It still looks like Fort Dietrick.

... ever since the first victim was struck down in the tabloid offices of the hijackers' landlord a few days after 9-11.

It was actually the newspaper building where the husband of the rental agent worked, not the office of the rental agent herself. This may even be a coincidence (although the geographic proximity is undoubtedly not). When you rent a house, do you usually know where the rental agent's spouse is employed?