[GailA]

I wasn't sure if the ban on posting FULL Washcompost articles applied when the article was taken from a secondary newspaper. So to be on the safe side I just posted the partial article.

[copycat]

I wonder if the FBI profile of the Anthrax killer is as accurate as their sniper profile?

I have read that th Hamilton NJ post office, where the postal workers were killed by anthrax, is only seven miles from the Sure Shot Used Car lot, where Muhammad and Osbourne bought the blue 1990 Chevy Caprice.

I'm curious about Osbourne as being involved somehow in the Anthrax mailings.

[twntaipan]

The FBI became PC under the evil Bill Clinton. They remain so. They cannot or will not admit this had to have been an Iraqi sponsored attack.

[The Raven]

The PC police were wrong about the sniper....they can be wrong here.

What on earth is wrong with investigating all paths? Why do they form a theory first?

[Prodigal Son]

Scientists suggested the loner theory appeared flawed even in the opening days of the investigation. The profile was issued three weeks after U.S. Army scientists examined the Daschle spores and found them to be 1.5 to 3 microns in size and processed to a grade of 1 trillion spores per gram - 50 times finer than anything produced by the now-defunct U.S. bioweapons program and 10 times finer than the finest known grade of Soviet anthrax. A micron is a millionth of a meter.

It is food for thought.

[Lockbox]

"The White Guy did it............look for a white guy, forget all other facts or leads." BOLO for the white guy.

[aruanan]

Experts doubt anthrax attack was work of lone, rogue scientist

You mean it--like the beltway sniper--may turn out not to be a lone white guy?

[Endeavor]

Some of us have been saying this for a long time.

[EnquiringMind]

These so-called experts should start using a little common sense and gut instinct - something we FReepers have been trusting from the beginning.

[piasa]

fyi

[keri]

ping

[js1138]

So why has it taken over a year for the press to get curious about this?

[EternalHope]

Those who follow this at FreeRepublic have known this for a long time.

My assumption is that the FBI is not really as incompetent as they appear in public. (Hope I'm right...)

Therefore, assuming the FBI is at least marginally competent, the ridiculous story the public has been given was intentional mis-direction. (Also long suspected by many on FreeRepublic.)

Which means the most interesting part of this story is that it came out at all...

Looks like they are slowly letting the cat out of the bag.

[martin gibson]

B-b-b-but this is HATE SPEECH!!!

Out television told us it was that lone, angry, racist white guy.

I mean, who else could it be...?

[jpl]

The F.B.I. should immediately drop it's baseless persecution of Steven Hatfill and offer him a public apology. I won't hold my breath though.

[Wordsmith]

Ping. The first sign of "unnamed sources" in the Administration making a direct connection between Iraq and anthrax. Is the truth on it's way out? Are you still thinking the timetable is for 2005 to take down Saddam?

[Nogbad]

Ping.

Sorry for any repeats.

[FreeTheHostages]

Thanks for posting a partial -- enough for me to comment on the following:

See how this article starts? See what it's about? Then ask yourself where in my physical copy of the Washington Post this article is placed. The answer is that it's not the lead.

Why isn't it the lead? Why?? Someone once said the Washington Post was a fascinating paper to read because the news is never where you expect it -- in terms of placement within the paper. I think this is true.

[Revolting cat!]

These scientists may know everything there is to know about anthrax spores, but they know nothing about the science of political correctness which has established beyond any doubt that the perp in this case is a lone white redneck gun nut with a rifle! Case closed!

[Nogbad]

There is nothing in this article that wasn't known well over a year ago.

I do not think any expert ever believed it was the work of a lone, rogue scientist.

[Nogbad]

NB

The linked article is not complete. There is more information in the following:

SEE LINK FOR THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE anthrax