Probably not, but... "Investigators leave open the possibility that domestic extremists may lurk behind the anthrax attacks. Antiabortion militants have sent more than 100 powder-packed letters to Planned Parenthood clinics since September 11. All were hoaxes." -<I>U.S. News & World Report</I>, October 29, 2001
Seems to me an antiabortionist would send the real anthrax to Planned Parenthood and the hoax anthrax to the media, Congress, etc...
I dunno, that liberal media and that damned Tom Daschle who stole the majority away from the Republicans would make pretty good targets!!
my theory is that the hijackers mailed out the anthrax before they left. weren't the letters postmarked the 11th? wasn't there a meeting between one of the hijackers and an iraqi official? if you put this anthrax in an envelope more than likely you are going to be infected. you would have to be fully protected then decon'd afterward... if these hijackers knew they were going to die, they could have easily done it, mailed the envelopes the night before they left or that morning, then killed themselves covering all evidence. some things i read were saying that the person who did this should be dead already or showed up in a hospital infected... but if you ask me that person will never turn up, because that person is already dead. just my conspiracy theory.... rH
The letters were dated the 11th by the writer, but I am pretty sure they were postmarked later than that.
The letters were dated the 11th by the authors, but they were sent on the dates of Sept. 18th, 25th, and oct. 2nd.
To me, this is more disturbing than the title of the thread...because it has already happened, is not just potential. There are many sick people out there.
speaking of sick people. I posted this a few days ago. http://www.unt.edu/cjus/groups.htm let me know if the link works. I get the firewall here at work.
This is Iraqi anthrax, I'd just about guarantee it. There's a certain chemical coating (anti-static, like the towelets you put in the dryer) that makes it semi-airborne (which explains all of the inhalation cases), and this stuff is apparently extremely small - both of these engineering techniques require a great deal of expertise and money. They require state sponsorship and specialized technical know-how. It is either American, Russian, or Iraqi. Take your pick.
CNN reported yesterday that bin Laden has purchased or attempted to purchase anthrax over the last six months from sources in Germany and around Europe. They believe that much of what is in the US likely came from his people.
"Check your feelings Luke...." I read some psychologist saying, that in these "times of terror" we are most likely, as indiviuals, to believe the person/group that is to blame (ie, for anthrax) fits the profile of the group/party we are most at odds with...it feels a need to "find the enemy." ...there's my dime's worth!
That may well be true. But I doubt that Atta met an Iraqi Intelligence official in Prague twice just to have tea...
Found this off the London Times website. Don't know if it means anything, but I found it interesting. And I wonder why our press hasn't picked up on it. <i>Anthrax "matches US bioweapon strain" Anthrax spores now spreading terror in America closely match a strain developed as a US bioweapon in the 1960s. According to the evidence, it is not the same type as the one mass-produced for weapons by either Iraq or the former Soviet Union. The FBI has confirmed that the anthrax sent to Florida, NBC, and Senator Tom Daschle were all the same strain, Ames. This was the name given to a strain isolated by the US Department of Agriculture's veterinary laboratory in Ames, Iowa, in the 1930s and which still strikes cattle in western America. But it also has a more sinister connotation, according to a special report in the magazine New Scientist. Experts analysing the anthrax used in the US attacks are comparing its DNA with a library of strains collected from all over the world. The name Ames was given to one of the strains in this collection, which came from a freezer sample at the British biodefence establishment at Porton Down, Wiltshire, in the 1980s. Porton Down had acquired it from the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases in Maryland, the magazine says. Those who compiled the library said it was the same strain the US used for anthrax weapons. The programme ended in 1969 and the mass-produced anthrax was destroyed, but samples were kept both by the US and its allies. One expert interviewed by the magazine, Martin Hugh-Jones, of Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, said the Ames strain was "a challenge to any vaccine". When laboratory animals immunised with a vaccine now being given to thousands of American troops were exposed to the anthrax, many still died from it.</i> http://www.thetimes.co.uk/section/0,,3,00.html
I can't find the article. I followed the link and then searched within the website but couldn't come up with anything. Maybe it's moved? Can anyone else locate the the current location ?
backwardhead yes, it looks like they have taken it down. It was a "news brief" that is updated pretty regularly, so it might already be gone.