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Maureen Stevens

That's really interesting, Jef. All along I was thinking I'm the award-winning, internationally-known, public health authority, Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz.

Whereas, I thought

you are either Allen "AJ" The Trashman Weberman

....or, John Shelley....I've seen your websites also.... ...or, Luigi "Anthrax" Warren: Programmer - Biologist et al.

I'm really glad you've straightened things out.

"Don't have a lot of confidence in the f.b.i."

Now why would that be? After all, "the FBI always gets their man", even if they must turn over every rock at the ends of the earth.


-February 11, 1998

FBI says Rudolph sighting was a false alarm

Web posted at: 10:50 p.m. EST (0350 GMT)
MURPHY, North Carolina (CNN)

-- After a false lead sent federal agents speeding to north Georgia, the search for a witness to the bombing of an Alabama clinic where abortions are performed shifted back to the woods where his truck was found.

The search for Eric Robert Rudolph resumed in the soggy woods south of Murphy where his 1989 gray Nissan pickup was found last weekend. The truck was towed Tuesday to Birmingham, Alabama, where experts were to go over every inch of the vehicle.

Authorities say Rudolph, a 31-year-old carpenter, is wanted as a material witness in the January 29 explosion at the New Woman All Women Clinic in Birmingham. The explosion killed an off-duty police officer working as a security guard and critically injured a nurse. Rudolph's pickup was seen in the area.

Agents searched the North Carolina woods Wednesday after a reported sighting of Rudolph at a north Georgia convenience store Tuesday turned out to be an apparent case of mistaken identity, the FBI said.

A clerk at a Circle K store in Blairsville, Georgia, about 30 miles from Murphy, phoned police Tuesday to say she saw a man who appeared to be Rudolph get into a Volkswagen Jetta driven by a woman.


The FBI said the woman to whom the car was registered was interviewed, and it was determined that she could not have been in Blairsville or have picked up Rudolph.

Initially, authorities gave the sighting more credibility than other reports of sightings because the clerk called just as investigators with bloodhounds arrived at the Georgia store, sources said. The dogs were following Rudolph's scent, picked up from his abandoned pickup truck.

A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity revealed Wednesday that bomb-sniffing dogs detected possible explosive residue in the pickup truck. The official said the dogs also reacted to possible residue found in a mini-warehouse near Murphy that Rudolph once rented.

Rudolph was last seen renting a video in Murphy on the night after the bombing.



- May. 31, 2003


Atlanta Olympic bombing suspect arrested

MURPHY, North Carolina (CNN) -- Olympic bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph -- wanted in attacks that killed two people and injured more than 100 in the Southeast -- was arrested early Saturday in western North Carolina and faces a Monday morning court date.

Rudolph has been charged in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia; 1997 bombings at a gay nightclub and a clinic that performed abortions in the Atlanta area; and a bombing at a clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1998.

If convicted, he could face the death penalty. The decision would be up to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Murphy police Officer Jeffrey Scott Postell, who joined the department on his 21st birthday in July, told reporters that he spotted Rudolph at about 4 a.m. behind a Save-a-Lot grocery store during a routine patrol. He said he thought he'd come across a possible burglary in progress.


Postell called for backup and was assisted by Cherokee County sheriff's deputies.

Deputy Sean Mathews assisted with the arrest...."



For Immediate Release
May 31, 2003 Washington D.C.
U.S. Department of Justice

STATEMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT REGARDING THE ARREST OF ERIC ROBERT RUDOLPH:

Attorney General John Ashcroft released the following statement regarding the capture of Eric Robert Rudolph, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives. Rudolph is charged with bombing attacks that killed 2 people and injured more than 150 others:

"Today, Eric Robert Rudolph, the most notorious American fugitive on the FBI's 'Most Wanted' list has been captured and will face American justice. American law enforcement's unyielding efforts to capture Eric Robert Rudolph have been rewarded. Working with law enforcement nationwide, the FBI always gets their man. This sends a clear message that we will never cease in our efforts to hunt down all terrorists, foreign or domestic, and stop them from harming the innocent.

BTW- Please refresh my memory regarding the composition analysis findings of TWO types in the attack samples,

" You have to go back to COLLEGE STATOIN TEXAS to trace it, not to USAMRIID."

Texas A&M University - College Station?

"I thought the case was solved?"



March 15, 2005

Anthrax alarm closes three mail facilities
By Daniel Pulliam
dpulliam@govexec.com

Anthrax detection systems at two Pentagon mailrooms sounded alarms Monday, resulting in the evacuation of four buildings and the shutdown of the Postal Service's facility that handles government mail.


Initial overnight tests on the samples from the Pentagon's Remote Delivery Facility in Arlington, Va., turned up positive, according to officials at the Health and Human Services Department. Tests on a second set of samples from the Pentagon-leased Skyline office complex in Falls Church, Va., discovered hours after the first alarm sounded, are not yet complete.


The positive samples are being tested at the Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., to determine whether the spores are capable of causing disease. Results from this type of test usually take 24 to 48 hours, but an HHS spokesman said results could be available later today.


The Skyline office complex, located at 5111 Leesburg Pike in Falls Church, Va., remains closed along with the Remote Delivery Facility, but county officials said the general public is not at risk of exposure. About 275 Defense Department workers were potentially affected and 209 postal workers.


Defense employees who might have come into contact with anthrax are being asked to provide nasal swabs and are being given a three-day regimen of antibiotics. Initial anthrax symptoms - which usually do not take effect for several days - include fever, sweats and chills.


HHS spokesman Bill Hall said the only material that shows the possible existence of anthrax spores is the material from the Pentagon's Remote Delivery Facility. Since all government mail is radiated to kill bacteria, the detection of anthrax does not necessarily mean that the anthrax was alive.


Mailroom bacteria sensors are designed to detect material that might or might not be dangerous, Hall said. More precise tests that examine the material's DNA structure proved that the material in the Remote Delivery Facility was anthrax.


"There's no identified piece of mail, no powder," Hall said. "All we have is the sensors going off."


Postal Service spokesman Gerry McKiernan said there was no evidence of anthrax yet at the now-closed USPS facility. Sensors at the facility that sends mail to the Pentagon did not go off. The Defense mail facilities also handle interoffice mail and packages from outside couriers.

"We don't know if it was a piece of mail that caused [the Pentagon sensors] to go off," McKiernan said. "Nothing is amiss and nobody is sick. We don't have any reason to believe anybody has been contaminated."


Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, anthrax was deliberately spread throughout the U.S. postal system in letters, leading to 22 cases of infection and five deaths.


CDC spokesman Llelwyn Grant said the agency is consulting with the Postal Service on doing environmental sampling at the facility that handles government mail. They are also providing postal workers possibly exposed to anthrax with safety recommendations.


"Based on the information made available to the CDC, we feel that the risk to postal workers is low, but we can't say that there is zero risk," Grant said. "Based on this information we believe it is prudent to take precautionary steps."



ANTHRAX MAILER:
lone wolf within the United States loner, opportunist

Los Angeles Times
Saturday, November 10, 2001


Profile of anthrax mailer portrays loner, opportunist.
Mail sorter may have spread anthrax.

Grim anthrax details released.



Washington -- The FBI increasingly is convinced that the person behind the anthrax attacks is a lone wolf within the United States who has no links to terrorist groups but is an "opportunist" using the Sept. 11 events to vent his rage, investigators said yesterday.

Based on case studies, handwriting and linguistic analysis, forensic data and other evidence, authorities do not believe at this point in their five- week investigation that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network was behind the anthrax attacks, FBI officials said.

FBI investigators said at a news briefing that they likely are looking for an adult male with at least limited scientific expertise who was able to use easily obtained laboratory equipment for as little as $2,500 to produce a high- quality grade of anthrax.

Ping

Capitol Hill Anthrax Matches Army's Stocks 5 Labs Can Trace Spores to Ft. Detrick By Rick Weiss and Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, December 16, 2001; Page A01 Genetic fingerprinting studies indicate that the anthrax spores mailed to Capitol Hill are identical to stocks of the deadly bacteria maintained by the U.S. Army since 1980, according to scientists familiar with the most recent tests. Although many laboratories possess the Ames strain of anthrax involved in this fall's bioterrorist attacks, only five laboratories so far have been found to have spores with perfect genetic matches to those in the Senate letters, the scientists said. And all those labs can trace back their samples to a single U.S. military source: the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Md. "That means the original source [of the terrorist material] had to have been USAMRIID," said one of the scientists. Those matching samples are at Fort Detrick; the Dugway Proving Ground military research facility in Utah; a British military lab called Porton Down; and microbial depositories at Louisiana State University (LSU) and Northern Arizona University. Northern Arizona University received its sample from LSU, which received its sample from Porton Down. Dugway and Porton Down got their samples directly from USAMRIID.

http://www.gazette.net/200204/brunswick/news/89020-1.html

http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/anthraxmissingarmylab.html

That certainly was a silly suggestion, wasn't it: 0

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1488313/posts

Double posted.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490535/posts

Wanna hookup?

Double posted. Wanna hookup?