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Friday, August 1, 2008 12:00 AM

Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News

A top U.S. government scientist, suspected of the anthrax attacks, commits suicide. ABC News knows who is responsible for false reports blaming those attacks on Iraq, but refuses to say.

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Friday, August 1, 2008 09:59 PM

Question for Glenn Greenwald concering postmarks and contaminated sites

Didn't the investigation also include a post office in or near to Boca Raton, Florida? A lot of CIA front companies have operated out of there in the past and that's where the aviation schools are located (as well as some in Mississippi) that the "terrorists" are said to have attended.

If the government in fact produced the anthrax and then provided the false flag evidence blaming Iraq, then doesn't this imply a possible government connection to the "terrorists" in Boca Raton?

Just connecting dots, that's all.

Friday, August 1, 2008 10:07 PM

Suggestion for your talk with Rachel Maddow

ABC was lied to about the anthrax containing bentonite, a chemical used notably by Iraq in their anthrax.

They were lied to by someone they trusted to know.

Who were those people?

End of story.

Who were those 4 separate people?

Were any of them say... the White House spokesman? Or Karl Rove? Was one of them Condi Rice or Rumsfeld... Bill Clinton? People who worked at the lab?

These are all possibilities.

But America needs to know who lied to ABC... it's a matter of national security. Period end of story.

Come what may. Who lied? Who besides Ivans might be behind this?

And why would a man dying close a case?

Why would he necessarily have to have been acting alone? Why is that the assumption?

Friday, August 1, 2008 10:07 PM

@ Edson Hendricks: How alleged motive makes sense

How could anonymously mailing weaponized anthrax to several congress and media people test any vaccine, which none of them had ever been administered so far as we know?

Over the years, many people have noted that the anthrax attacker was clearly trying to get media and public attention. The first anthrax attack death occurred at the National Enquirer, a ubiquitous supermarket tabloid. Each letter discovered with anthrax contained explicit warning of that anthrax. It's easy to assume that National Enquirer victim received a letter explaining that the powder on it was anthrax, although that letter has not been recovered. It's easy to assume that the victim was not supposed to die, but was supposed to promptly seek treatment after reading a warning letter.

Thus, the anonymous theory on Ivins' motive probably is that the intent of such a letter would have been to sound the alarm at National Enquirer offices. Then the vaccine would be made available quickly to the workers, and its efficacy could therefore be determined.

I suspect that the anthrax attacker, being a government health official, planned on playing a major role in the early public health response to the attacks.

Thus, even though the National Enquirer letter produced no public health response until after the photo editor there became ill with anthrax (presumably because the letter was discarded by the editor as a hoax), that public health response was remarkably definitive and news of the editor's death was reported very promptly.

Another theory might be that the attacker merely wanted a larger federal budget devoted to detecting weapons of mass destruction. Mission accomplished.

Friday, August 1, 2008 10:25 PM

Who first wrongly linked anthrax to Iraq -- and why

RAW STORY has found that, although there had been active online speculation about an Iraqi source for the anthrax by the first week of October, the first suggestion that official investigations were focusing on that nation appears to have come in an article published in the Guardian on October 14.

Under the headline, "Iraq 'behind US anthrax outbreaks' - Pentagon hardliners press for strikes on Saddam," David Rose and Ed Vulliamy wrote, "American investigators probing anthrax outbreaks in Florida and New York believe they have all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack - and have named Iraq as prime suspect as the source of the deadly spores. Their inquiries are adding to what US hawks say is a growing mass of evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved, possibly indirectly, with the 11 September hijackers."

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Friday, August 1, 2008 10:29 PM

Was this a suicide, or was it another murder?

Ivins was a scientist. He has access to chemicals that would have allowed him to commit suicide in a far less painful manner than Tylenol (i.e. long, agonizing death). This begs the question if Ivins was about to "speak the truth" and was silenced.

I put NOTHING past the Bush Administration. And no, I don't have a tin foil hat. I just pay attention to what this criminal group has done thus far. Are they capable of murder? Of course they are.

Friday, August 1, 2008 10:33 PM

Anthrax Interview w/ Bioterror expert from 2006

Dr Franics A. Boyle literally helped write the law with regards to terrorism, as he was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 that was passed unanimously by both Houses of Congress and signed into law by President Bush Sr.

Professor Boyle teaches international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign. He holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from Harvard University. He has also served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-1992), and represented Bosnia- Herzegovina at the World Court.

The professor started off by explaining the motivation behind the October 2001 anthrax attacks:

"After the September 11th 2001 Terrorist attacks, the Bush administration tried to ram the USA PATRIOT Act through Congress, that would have, if already had not, set up a police state. And we know for a fact that the PATRIOT Act had already been drafted and was sitting on Ashcroft's desk as of September 10th.

Senators Daschle and Leahy were holding it up because they realised what this would lead to, indeed the first draft of the Patriot Act, they would have suspended the writ of habeas corpus. And all of a sudden out of nowhere come these anthrax attacks. And at the time I myself did not know precisely what was going on, either with respect to September 11th or the anthrax attacks, but then the New York Times revealed that the technology behind the letter to Senator Daschle. A trillion spores per gram, special electro-static treatment.

This is super-weapons grade Anthrax that even the United States government, in its openly proclaimed programs, and we had one before Nixon, had never developed before. So it was obvious to me that this was from a US Government lab, there is no where else you could have gotten that."

The professor concludes that the anthrax attacks are a false flag.

with audio: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15983.htm

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