Anthrax, One Year Later

The Washington Post ^ | 01-01-03 | Editorial

[Allan]

SINCE THE DEADLY anthrax mailings more than a year ago, the government's public focus has shifted from the crime to measures necessary to combat bioterrorism and make such attacks more difficult in the future. ....

This record is all the more disturbing because more than a year after the anthrax was let loose through the mail, U.S. authorities have made no arrests.

[Allan]

Ping

[Allan]

Another significant sentence from the article:

the mailings could not be the work of either an amateur or a loner
given the extent of scientific knowledge, technical competence and access to equipment
required to convert anthrax spores into such a deadly, finely aerosolized weapon.

Took them a little while
but maybe the mainstream finally is catching on.

[Hunble]

I will trust President Bush.

He knows exactly where this originated, but the time is not right to disclose our sources.

[keri]

VP Cheney doesn't know.

[Sabertooth]

To skip WP reg process, click here, then click on the headline, "Anthrax, One Year Later."

[Betteboop]

However, the Hamilton (Trenton) post office is still closed and it will never be re-opened. They are going to tear it down and build another facility.

[Hunble]

VP Cheney has only one job.....

To stay alive!

[Sabertooth]

U.N. allowed Iraqi purchase of agent usable for weapons
			Posted by kattracks On 11/06/2002 0:10 AM PST with 12 comments Washington Times ^ | 11/06/02 | Bill Gertz The United Nations overruled U.S. government objections and allowed Iraq to buy a specialty chemical that U.S. intelligence officials say will boost Baghdad's chemical and biological warfare agents. Top Stories o GOP regains control of Senateo Democrats can't avenge 2000 resulto Vote watchers get wish but not resultso Sharon dissolves parliament A large quantity of a chemical known as colloidal silicon dioxide was ordered by the Iraqis in August 2001 and held up by the U.S. government because of concerns about its use. However, the United Nations approved the sale and it was shipped to Iraq last month, said Hasmik Egin, a U.N. spokeswoman. Colloidal silicon...

FBI's Theory On Anthrax Is Doubted (Evidence points to a state sponsor)
			Posted by Sabertooth On 10/28/2002 7:09 PM PST with 56 comments Washington Post ^ | October 28th, 2002 | Guy Gugliotta and Gary Matsumoto A significant number of scientists and biological warfare experts are expressing skepticism about the FBI's view that a single disgruntled American scientist prepared the spores and mailed the deadly anthrax letters that killed five people last year. These sources say that making a weaponized aerosol of such sophistication and virulence would require scientific knowledge, technical competence, access to expensive equipment and safety know-how that are probably beyond the capabilities of a lone individual. < snip > "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... In all, said Niro's Lancos, "you would need [a] chemist who is familiar with colloidal [fumed] silica, and a material science person to put it all together, and then some mechanical engineers to make this work . . . probably some containment people, if you don't want to kill anybody. You need half a dozen, I think, really smart people." For full WP story, go here, then click on the headline, "FBI's Theory On Anthrax Is Doubted."

[Nick Danger]

The brutal truth is that he -- or they -- could strike again.

In the next editorial, they'll tell us that there's no reason why we have to attack Iraq, and that it's perfectly OK for Saddam Hussein to have tons of Anthrax munitions.

[Sabertooth]

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

[Wordsmith]

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[Wordsmith]

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[Wordsmith]

The fact that the government, at this late date, cannot rule out foreign or state-sponsored terrorism, or theft of weaponized spores from an existing biodefense program by a disaffected U.S. scientist, leaves the public further in the dark.

...The brutal truth is that he -- or they -- could strike again.

And, in other news...

(Reuters) - President Bush delivered a New Year's Eve warning on Tuesday that any attack on the United States by Iraq or a group working on its behalf could cripple the U.S. economy.

Are the dots being connected?

[VOA]

Several months ago the government searched Mr. Hatfill's possessions and drove him from
his job -- but it still won't call him a suspect, charge him with a crime or clear him.

Well, Hatfill has got what he deserves, if you read rags like The Washington Post.

He is:
white
male
middle-aged
(probably) conservative

As far as most publications like The Washington Post are concerned, he might
as well been Randy Weaver with an advanced degree in the sciences...

The Washington Post wouldn't give a fig if he was an academic who didn't get
a tenure-track job due to "affirmative action"...why should they care if their beloved
saviour (Federal Bureacracy) ruins his life over the little matter of a few grams of
weaponized anthrax...

[Diana Rose]

I was wondering how pi$$ed is Saddam? He dusts Anthrax to prove he has it and give a hint at what it can do ****and drum roll please*** ...the American people go nuts with fear over Smallpox.

The guy has to be thinking he can't get any respect.

LOL

[keri]

Well, if President Bush and VP Cheney know that Iraq manufactured the anthrax used in the attacks now might be a good time to let everybody else know. (Like Kofi.) I can't buy the blackmail theory. VP Cheney has already said "We don't know."

I believe him. Almost everybody else believes something different. Okay by me:-)

[okie01]

"Took them a little while but maybe the mainstream finally is catching on."

Don't be so sure. Check these opposed sentences...

...the government's public focus has shifted from the crime to measures necessary to combat bioterrorism and make such attacks more difficult in the future...This record is all the more disturbing because more than a year after the anthrax was let loose through the mail, U.S. authorities have made no arrests.

What we seem to have here is an obstinate refusal on the part of the Post's editorial staff to complete the equation: 2 + 2 = ???

[Allan]

VP Cheney has already said "We don't know."

I believe him.
Almost everybody else believes something different.

Of course they don't know.
What do people think?
That Saddam sent them a signed confession?

[OldFriend]

Aldork knows.......but he's keeping the answer in a lock box.