... nation with a history of testing radiological and chemical agents on its citizens (see The Plutonium Files and Project Big City) is attacked with a weapons grade anthrax agent... and neeeeever finds even one suspect.

Yeah... sure.

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Now we know that the FBI has trouble finding their own asses with both hands! How many decades had the FBI looked for the "Uni-bomber"? The FBI would still be searching if Kazinski's family hadn't turned him in. Next, Eric Rudolph. Huge FBI manhunt failed to find him. Rudolph was caught by a local rookie policeman! Now it's the "Antrax man" that the FBI can't find. Have no fear - some lady school bus driver will probably nail the "Antrax guy" before the FBI does. I agree with Tony Hillerman's Navajo policemen characters who say "The FBI has trouble finding..."

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Why, in the aftermath of 9/11, would anyone want to frighten Daschle and Rather?
1- To assure passage of the Patriot act
2- To quiet investigation into 9/11

Why would they choose to frame Arabs in the anthrax attacks?
1- To solidify a case against Arabs as perpetrators of 9/11. A case made with equally phony "evidence".
2- To set the stage for mass roundups and elimination of habeus corpus.

We could easily identify the parties responsible for these crimes.

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Fort Detrick's anthrax mystery:
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/featu re/2002/01/26/assaad/index_np.html

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POISON PEN

The strain of weaponised anthrax used in the attacks narrows the search for the perpetrator(s) down to a few US labs: but law enforcement agencies have yet to issue a single subpoena for employee records at the four labs with a history of working with this strain. We know about the anthrax letters, of course, and the several hoax letters, but a major clue in this investigation is an anonymous letter, sent before the anthrax hysteria, in late September, to the military police at the Marine base in Quantico, Virginia, accusing a US government bioengineer, Egyptian-born Dr. Ayaad Assaad, of being behind a bio-terrorist plot. The letter-writer revealed a detailed knowledge of Dr. Assaad's life and work at USAMRID, including details of his personal life that only someone who worked with him could have possibly known: indeed, the poison-pen author claimed to have formerly worked with Dr. Assaad.

FBI TAKES A PASS

While FBI spokesman Chris Murray confirmed that Assaad was not under suspicion, he also stated to reporters that the FBI is not trying to find out who sent the anonymous hate-letter – which the FBI won't show to Assaad. The odd timing of the letter – sent after the anthrax letters were mailed, but before their deadly contents were known – doesn't even have them mildly curious.

WHERE THE ANTHRAX TRAILS LEADS

Rosenberg believes that the poison-pen missive was written by the real perpetrator of the anthrax attacks, who sought to ride the wave of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim hysteria that swept the nation after 9/11. This also fits the pattern of masquerade that characterizes the anthrax letters to NBC, Daschle, Leahy, et al, with their anti-Israel, pro-Muslim slogans neatly printed in block letters. Indeed, the one thread that seems to run throughout this story is anti-Arab animus, as the astonishing – and truly frightening – story of what happened at Ft. Detrick in the early 1990s makes all too clear….

IT CAME FROM FT. DETRICK

Things were turning up missing at AMRIID, and Lt. Col. Michael Langford was baffled. He suspected that someone was tampering with records, perhaps in order to conduct unauthorized research. He told a lab technician to "make a list of everything that was missing," and "it turned out that there was quite a bit of stuff that was unaccounted for," 27 sets of specimens, including anthrax, hanta virus, simian AIDS virus "and two that were labeled 'unknown' – an Army euphemism for classified research whose subject was secret," as this chilling Hartford Courant story by Jack Dolan and Dave Altimari puts it. One set of specimens has since been found: the rest are still missing….

CAUGHT ON TAPE

An investigation was launched that exposed the shockingly lax security measures at the lab, and raised the possibility that some specimens may never have been entered in lab records. Also uncovered was a tape from a surveillance camera showing the entry of an unauthorized person into the lab, at 8:40, on January 23, 1992, let in by Dr. Marian Rippy, lab pathologist. The night visitor was Lt. Col. Philip Zack, a former employee who had left as a result of a dispute with the lab over his alleged harassment of Dr. Assaad. The Courant reports:

"Zack left Fort Detrick in December 1991, after a controversy over allegations of unprofessional behavior by Zack, Rippy, [lab technician Charles] Brown and others who worked in the pathology division. They had formed a clique that was accused of harassing the Egyptian-born Assaad, who later sued the Army, claiming discrimination."

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.... some conclusions:

1. The ONLY person in FLORIDA to get that anthrax and died from it was a guy named Stevens. FACT His occupation was photographer reporter for the illustrious National Inquirer. FACT 30 days before he received the anthrax he published a photo of Jenna Bush falling down drunk in front of a club in Boca Rotan, FL. FACT One month later he is dead from the Anthrax FACT

2. Immediately after the attack on him, the anthrax appears at the newspaper offices, in the mailrooms of the congress and people start dying. FACT

3. The Anthrax letters were only addressed to democrats FACT

4. The anthrax was determined to be a bioweapon from the Ames Army bioweapons facility in Ames, Iowa. FACT (It was in the papers).

5. No one has been identified or caught as the perpetrator. FACT

Now, with these facts, draw your own conclusions. I did!!!!!

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Anthrax: Made In USA

Also, Bush withdrew from the (I think 1972) Biological Weapons Treaty right after 9-11; the rest of the West was horrified, and it barely made the papers here.

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Strange that Alternet would take a serious look at the Anthrax conspiracy theories considering their constant bashing of the 9.11 truth community.

If they're capable of covering up an anthrax attack on senators, can't we surmise that members of our intelligence community could carry out and cover up the September 11th attacks?

Strange indeed...

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Boston Air Traffic Controller Says 9/11 An Inside Job
Knew people in FAA on day of hijackings who said intercept procedures should have been enacted as normal

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, December 14, 2006

A former Boston Center air traffic controller has gone public on his assertion that 9/11 was an inside job and that Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon tracked three of the four flights from the point of their hijacking to hitting their targets. In an astounding telephone interview, Robin Hordon claims air traffic controllers have been ignored or silenced to protect the true perpetrators of 9/11.

A recording of the phone conversation was posted on Google video late yesterday by the Pilots For 9/11 Truth organization.

After having acquired a background in aviation, Hordon underwent rigorous FAA training to become an air traffic controller and was posted to Boston Center where he worked for eleven years. He did not work at Boston Center when 9/11 occurred but still knows people that did who concur with his conclusions. In comparing the stand down of air defense on 9/11 and what should have occurred according to standard operating procedure, he quickly concluded on the very afternoon of the attacks that they could represent nothing other than an inside job...

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Court clears Rauf of charges as much vaunted transatlantic airliner attack dissipates into another staged terror alert

Paul Joseph Watson

The alleged ringleader of a much vaunted plot to blow up multiple transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives has been cleared of terrorism charges and of being a member of any terrorist group, rendering August's terror scare another hyped creation of government scare mongering.

In every single major terror bust or terror alert we have proven the evidence to be flawed and the charges to be cooked up nonsense aimed at prolonging the illusion that terror cells are lurking around every corner waiting to cause mayhem. The geopolitical agenda of the U.S., Britain and Israel depends on the proliferation phony terror threats in order to continue the farcical war on terror and take more of our innate freedoms at home to stifle dissent against the plot for worldwide hegemony.

The supposed transatlantic bomb plot has dissipated into another staged terror alert.

The BBC reports,

"A Pakistani judge has ruled there is not enough evidence to try a key suspect in an alleged airline bomb plot on terrorism charges.
He has moved the case of Rashid Rauf, a Briton, from an anti-terrorism court to a regular court, where he faces lesser charges such as forgery."

"The Pakistani authorities described him as a key figure."

"But an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi found no evidence that he had been involved in terrorist activities or that he belonged to a terrorist organisation."

It comes as no surprise that the Pakistanis have acquitted Rashid Rauf. His involvement with the Lashkar-e-Toiba group provides a direct lineage back to the Pakistani ISI, which is in turn controlled by the CIA and British intelligence. Rauf likely acted as the willing patsy for the plot to be pinned on while the Blair government waved it in front of Britons as another reason for them to accept the Blairstrip One fascist surveillance state without dissent.

It was revealed that the alleged terrorist cell that planned to blow up ten planes had been completely infiltrated for weeks before the announcement of the foiled plot by British intelligence. From the evidence at hand allied with past history of how MI5 work, which was presented in our article, it can be reasonably claimed that an MI5 mole within the group orchestrated the entire operation.

Echoing the activities of the 7/7 bombers, some of the main suspects in the case aside from Rashid Rauf exhibited behavior that in no way suggested they were preparing to launch mid-air suicide attacks on jumbo jets. Far from preparing his last will and testament, psyching himself up for his imminent death or acquiring the necessary materials to conduct the operation, Tayib Rauf was caught on CCTV hours before the launch of the plot doing something far more mundane - he was buying cakes for his father's confectionary business.

Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray slammed the so-called foiled plot story as "propaganda" on behalf of Bush and Blair who yearn for a "new 9/11" to reinvigorate their flagging support base.

"None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for quite some time," said Murray.

Unconfirmed sources suggest that insider speculators with informants inside the British intelligence apparatus took advantage of their foreknowledge of the announcement of the foiled terror plot to place put options on airline stocks, reaping the benefits of their subsequent fall. Airline stocks dropped as much as 28 per cent during morning trading following the announcement of the alleged liquid bomb plot.

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Well we all knew the anthrax came from the Army and who controls the Army. George Bush, Dick 'shotgun' Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. And why did they do it? They did it to intimidate congress, all of congress. Beware America Bush will use anthrax anywhere and on anyone he so chooses, because he is the Imperial President. And as a result of his use of anthrax he has moved from being a sociopath to being a psychopath. His pathology just gets worse. 'We the people' should all be ready for anything and everything. And remember the Bush/Republican administration has three 'Pillers' of support that protect it and keep it in power just like oil rigs have three pillers holding them up. Bush's three 'Pillers' are corporatocracy, the Neocons and the Theocons/Theocrats. And the Theocons are the white southern Baptists and the Catholic Church, my church. And thats how far the Pope and the Catholic Church has sunk, to the depths of staunchly endorsing and supporting Bush and the political wing/party of the Catholic Church namely the Republican Party. So much for my church...
Pray for the return of our gov't to 'we the people'. Pray for the end to the three 'Pillers' that support the Bush/Republican party.
PRAY FOR PEACE

Bob DAmico
Cleve, Oh.

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