Letters to the Editor
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Anthrax fingerprint
Anthrax has a chemical fingerprint which allows it to be traced back to the point of manufacture.The anthrax in the infamous anthrax letters was from a U.S. military laboratory. My understanding is that it was traced to a Utah facility. It was a virulent, weapons-grade anthrax produced from the Ames strain of spores. No nation outside of the U.S. is known to have produced the Ames strain of weapons-grade anthrax.Iraq certainly did not. These facts would have been known by many people in the American media but they chose not to pursue what was an important and indeed explosive story and instead went for propagandizing Bush and Cheney's war. The same people in the media now spend most of their time attacking the Democrats for trying to end this travesty of a war which they themselves were so instrumental in starting by creating a climate of fear and hysteria. It's important for someone to start asking some very uncomfortable questions about why the media didn't do its job and is still not doing its job.
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batman_valentino
That Dr. Zack was "recorded being let in to the Army's biological warfare research facility at Fort Detrick at 8:40 P.M. on January 23, 1992, by another conspirator by the name Dr. Marian Rippy." is a matter of fact. He was no longer an employee of the secure facility at that time.
"The racist and bigoted attacks on Dr. Ayaad Assaad by Philip Zack and others started while he worked at the Army's bioweapons lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland during the 1990's. This is when a vicious racist vendetta was launched against the scientist of Arab descent. A group of coworkers led by then Army Lt. Col. Philip Zack began a hateful campaign to harass and get Dr. Assaad fired from his duties. The Zionists apparently wanted to get rid of anyone that could uncover their sinister plans which consisted in stealing "weapons grade anthrax" and other deadly viruses used in biological weapons. The conspirators had the support of the lab's former commander. Among other things, the bigots wrote and passed around a very crude poem denigrating Arab Americans, an obscene rubber camel and constantly poked fun at Dr. Assaad's use of the English language. In 1991 Dr. Assaad discovered the eight-page poem in his mailbox. The poem was lewd and mocked Dr. Assaad. The poem also referred to the rubber camel that was passed around. It was outfitted with all manner of sexually explicit appendages. The poem in part read: ``In Assaad's honor we created this beast; it represents life lower than yeast.'' The bigots noted that the rubber camel will be given each week ``to who did the least.''
It appears that the conspirators created an extremely toxic workplace on purpose in order to take control of the laboratory. The lab became very dysfunctional and hostile to the few "good" scientists that worked there which included Dr. Assaad. Dr. Assaad said ``This person knew in advance what was going to happen and created a suitable, well-fitted scapegoat for this action. You do not need to be a Nobel laureate to put two and two together.'' Dr. Assaad said he reported everything to his supervisor, Col. David R. Franz, but that Colonel Franz ``kicked me out of his office and slammed the door in my face, because he didn't want to talk about it.'' Dr. Assaad was eventually dismissed by Colonel Franz as were two other scientists of Arab descent."
No, no reason to suspect a thing... you're right, it's very clearly "nothing but propaganda promoted by anti-american and pro-palestinian forces."
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delightful, yet inappropriate
Dear Chemical,
How delightful that you have used the willow tree/aspirin metaphor in association with the anthrax production problem. It takes me back to my glory days, two decades or more years ago, when I was with the Carl Duisberg Society. In those days, the aspirin/willow tree metaphor seemed to be the path to the solution of every problem technical. Although I have not heard the metaphor for two decades or more, I am gratified to see that it is still in common usage.
Surprisingly and disappointingly however, it is inappropriate in this particular case. You see, aspirin has no difficulty crossing the lining of the digestive system intact and in it's active form. Not so for proteins such as insulin. That is why insulin and many protein based vaccines must be injected. Since injection can be inconvenient, there has been a major effort to come up with inhalable forms of biotechnology and vaccine products. The quality of the anthrax was well beyond merely milled aspirin. Hence the title of Gary Matsumoto's Science Magazine article, “Anthrax power, state of the art?”
This also seems to imply that the production of the material used was recent and although the strain was the same as that used by the military, it was not similar to any known stock. Hence, that also seems to rule out any 1992 “Dr. Zack” involvement, even if weaponized anthrax were something you could “just walk of with”.
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ABCC/Ben Alpers
Great point about Richard Cohen (the ho). I see Hillary Clinton in the same light which is why I believe the MSM is promoting her candidacy. It seems to me that if I small business owner inAlaska) was suspicious of the anthrax scare as just one more Cheney/Rove strategy to get us to agree to invade a third world country (at the time of the reports) that there is no justification for the reporters to claim that they were responding to real fears at that time. Sheila Burke, Alaska
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Missing WH Email
Short and Sweet:
Why don't we ask the National Security Agency (NSA) for the missing White House Email? They monitor everyone's email!
I'm serious!