[Sabertooth]

Read the article, lots of details. Most likely scenario...

State Sponsor = Iraq.

Surprise.

[Sabertooth]

((((((growl)))))

[Bogey78O]

It must be Ethipia then. Surely they have the skills. It can't be Iraq. Iraq told us they wouldn't do that.

[guitfiddlist]

"Yeah, but it's so much easier to find a scapegoat, blame it all on him and then shoot him on a raid or sumthin'. We really liked it when Reno was around..."

[Thud]

I can't wait for the FBI to go after Spertzel the way they went after Hatfill.

"In my opinion, there are maybe four or five people in the whole country who might be able to make this stuff, and I'm one of them," said Richard O. Spertzel, chief biological inspector for the U.N. Special Commission from 1994 to 1998."

[Sabertooth]

Why was this taken out of Breaking News?

President Bush is in the midst of making the case for war with Iraq, and the Iraqi-anthrax connection is the shoe everyone's been waiting to drop. This is the most detailed and comprehensive examination I've read. See for yourself by following the links at #6... you don't even have to sign up.

There is not a single more important story in any of your sidebars right now. Can you please explain your news judgement?

[Cicero]

Well, someone would have to check out the science, but it sounds knowledgeable to me.

Now this is making me paranoid. It seems as if the intelligence services REALLY, REALLY don't want to confirm an Iraqi connection. We've seen how George Tenet has bent the evidence repeatedly, especially about the Prague meeting, in order to shoot down an Iraqi connection. And we've seen how the FBI continues to bend over backward to deny any foreign terrorist connection to the anthrax mailings.

I have been assuming a combination of incompetence and clintonoid malice. But what if Saddam is BLACKMAILING the higher-ups in the CIA and the FBI? How would he do that? Well, suppose what we have heard about the OKC bombing is true? Then the FBI would be up to its neck in the cover-up of Iraqi participation, and Saddam could prove it. And there is some evidence that the CIA was involved in OKC too, because it is known that a high-level German agent was at Elohim City at the time and is thought to have been involved.

Of course clinton could be blackmailing the agencies too. It's one of his favorite techniques for keeping control over his subordinates, and no doubt he and hillary took their blackmail files with them when they left the White House.

[NeoCaveman]

State Sponsor = Iraq.

I'm shocked. (/sarcasm)

Thanks Sabertooth

[tinamina]

Why does it seem that the FBI deliberately looks at all other possibilities besides terorists and terrorist sponsoring States? The INS deliberately lets in terrorists and the State Dept. deliberately tries to undermine the Bush agenda. Is it a plot by government employees? And if so, what do they gain?

[bobi]

Wasn't the strain of Anthrax from a US military strain?

Doesn't matter.

Just add it to the Top 10 Reasons (Excuses) why Iraq has to be invaded.

[PhilDragoo]

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.

Obviously the work of an angry white man in an angry white van.

The FBI that covers up the Middle Eastern connection to OKC--

The FBI that denied eighty eye witnesses to a missile hitting TWA Flight 800--

The FBI that gave Craig Livingstone a thousand files on Clinton's enemies--

The FBI that couldn't get Ted Kaczynski for seventeen years until his brother ratted him out--

The FBI that ruined Richard Jewel's life and still hasn't caught the Olympic Park Bomber--

The FBI that is now ruining Hatfill's life--but can't connect a single dot--

The FBI that persecuted O'Neil until he died in the WTC attack rather than heed his warning--

This haven for Robert Hanssen and general all-around joke is now telling us a bathtub meth lab produced this--

This most sophisticated of any known antrax weapon in the world--

We need a new FBI--

Stick a fork in this one--it is smoking a hookah with Allah.

[Nogbad]

Pinging everyone again for the full Washington Post story.
The most important details were omitted from the previous postings.

Looks as if the WP finally is getting onto the story.

Only about a year too late!

[Another Galt]

I have read the comments in this thread, many quite logical. I just cannot understand why the gov't has taken the position that is has.

And, FWIW, I think that the anthrax attacks are Bio-Attack Round Two from Iraq. I think that Round One was the West Nile attack; there has been low level scuttlebutt amongst health care workers for a couple years that this was an intentional bio-attack.

What is it gonna take for people to "connect the dots" as the media talking heads like to say?

[Alberta's Child]

. . . 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 spores.

I had to laugh at a few gems in this statement . . .

1. The notion that someone has developed a biological weapon that is better thatn anything the U.S. or the Russians have developed.

2. The statement that the U.S. bioweapons program is now "defunct."

I've had an interesting theory about this anthrax since Day 1, and I suspect that most articles suggesting a foreign sponsor are nothing more than attempts to divert attention. I think the stuff was either stolen from a U.S. military facility or was sold by the U.S. to a foreign country (Iraq, for example) at a time when that country was on better terms with the U.S.

[johnb838]

State Sponsor = Iraq.

So sorry, your conclusion is Politically Incorrect. Stand perfectly still facing the telescreen while the nice men in the black uniforms come to take you to begin your political reeducation process.

[TexKat]

IT'S ATTA, STUPID!!! (statement, not directed at you)

[Jeremiah Jr]

And behind Iraq is...

[ninenot]

You don't mean.....IRAQ??? The same country whose military men were present with McVeigh, who blew up OKC?

The same country who did NOT take credit for the SAM that took down TWA800??

Not Iraq--friend to Mexico????