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Friday, August 8, 2008 12:00 AM

Salon Radio: Anthrax edition

Two experts -- one in bioweapons and one in journalism -- explore the numerous, still unanswered questions in the anthrax case.

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Friday, August 8, 2008 06:36 PM

Why does Mueller take the shaming?

If Ron Susskind's information is correct, which I believe it to be, then why does FBI Director Mueller take the fall: as a liar about the forced forgery and as the boss of the Ivins debacle?

Is he the low man on the Bush totem pole? He already got hammered after 9/11 and Tenet of CIA got The Medal of Freedom....Mr. Slam Dunk...

Even if Mueller is being scapegoated (too), is the rest of the FBI really that bad? Or is that what Bushco wants you to believe?

Why? What's their goal?

This feels like psy-ops gaslighting run amok.

Friday, August 8, 2008 06:38 PM

@ L.W.M

"The fellows at Boing Boing gave the Olympus a great review last month. This is the way to go. I need to get out more but I try to avoid that if possible. I refuse to own a cell phone. Glad I got rid of the damn thing.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/30/olympus-ws110-digita.html

-- L.W.M"

Ha. Must have missed that day. I use it to record any calls where I dont trust the other party to do what they promised (like my practice wife). In my state only one party has to be aware that there is a recording being made.

Friday, August 8, 2008 07:11 PM

Let's Not Forget good ol' Porton Down!

A number of scientists/microbiologists that died doing anthrax research worked at or were associated with UK's Porton Down.

Here is an interesting read (Note the discrepancy between the title of the article and its contents and the fact that it points again back to Ft. Detrick: how convenient!)

CIA links Porton Down to anthrax attacks by Ben Fenton (Telegraph)

THE FBI is concentrating its hunt for the source of the anthrax used to terrorise America on laboratories used by the CIA and British government scientists.

(snip)

Both Porton Down, directly, and the CIA, indirectly, received their samples of the particular anthrax spores used in the attacks from the US army medical research institute of infectious diseases at Fort Detrick, about 50 miles north of Washington

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1365581/CIA-links-Porton-Down-to-anthrax-attacks.html

Friday, August 8, 2008 07:17 PM

The top contenders! Mmm, who's missing?

Fort Detrick

Dugway Proving Ground (Utah)

Porton Down (UK)

Louisiana State University (LSU)

Northern Arizona University (NAS)

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1216-03.htm

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Published on Sunday, December 16, 2001 in the Washington Post

Capitol Hill Anthrax Matches Army's Stocks

5 Labs Can Trace Spores to Ft. Detrick

by Rick Weiss and Susan Schmidt

Friday, August 8, 2008 07:18 PM

More OT

Sorry to keep beating this drum, it isn't as interesting as all that other stuff. But when word is on the street in Pakistan that a Pakistani woman, American trained Ph.D. and all, has been raped and tortured by Americans in Afghanistan, and AHRC (Asian Human Rights Commission) is the corroborating source, and that she is now near death and not getting medical care, it could be a big problem for all those troops that Barack Obama and John McCain are vying to put into Afghanistan.

Here is the headline from the latest AHRC bulletin. Here in the U.S. we have crickets chirping until her bail hearing on Monday. But then, nothing outside U.S. (and maybe Guantanamo) has any bearing on our lives here, does it? BBC has stopped buying the American version. Those Old Europeans just don't know how to create reality.

The link is:

http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2008/2964/

and contains embedded links to the previous report, issued before the FBI reported her suddenly captured.

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8 August 2008

[RE: AHRC-UAC-167-2008: PAKISTAN/USA: A lady doctor remains missing with her three children five years after her arrest]

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PAKISTAN/USA: Dr. Afia's health is in serious condition and two of her children remain missing

ISSUES: Disappearance; rape; violence against women; torture; right to liberty and security; arbitrary arrest and detention; right to health

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Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that due to a bullet wound and removal of one kidney, Dr. Afia Siddiqui health is in a serious condition, but no medical assistance has been provided to her whilst she has been in American custody in New York.

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Some American skepticism at McClatchy:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/46535.html

What do you think will happen, given what everybody in Pakistan "knows", if this woman dies in custody in New York City?

Friday, August 8, 2008 07:20 PM

Good Ol' Battlle

Battelle Chief Suspect in Anthrax Mailings

Sandpoint, ID - A Harvard trained public health expert has released a stunning report exposing links between leading suspects in the anthrax mailings case and top bioweapons developer Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) of West Jefferson, Ohio. The report considers the widely criticized FBI inquiry and concludes investigators have been blocked by officials linked to pharmaceutical company profiteers.

Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, author of Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare released last June, petitioned the FBI to investigate implicated parties two weeks before the first anthrax mailings made headlines. His full report (Click Here) explains why the world's leading anthrax experts-America's William C. Patrick, III, and Russian defector, Kanatjan Alibekov, both BMI consultants and on the CIA's payroll-would expose the government's classified (and illegal) biological weapons program if thoroughly interrogated.

" The whole truth would be severely embarrassing to the Bush administration," Dr. Horowitz said. "HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson has, after all, commandeered a bioterrorism preparedness drug feeding frenzy. With five persons killed and thirteen others infected, military-industrial officials may be implicated in serial homicide, if not economic genocide."

Dr. Horowitz claims this amounts to "military-industrial terrorism." The case should have been readily solved by the FBI by determining who held classified access to Battelle's BL-3 anthrax lab. From here, the weaponized Ames strain of silica-powdered anthrax was taken to New Jersey, Florida, Atlanta and Malaysia for mailing. The developed "short list" of suspects who stood to gain financially, and visited these places, are clearly the perpetrators of the crime.

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http://www.tetrahedron.org/news/NR011214.html

Friday, August 8, 2008 07:22 PM

@ Ché Pasa

"With a Government that protects itself above all, no rational person can expect the Government to appoint a commission to get to the truth..."

Sounds like a job for Arlen Specter. Maybe that's too obvious.

Friday, August 8, 2008 07:28 PM

BMI/anthrax

Investigators Conclude Russian Defector is Lead Suspect in Anthrax Mailings Case

Sandpoint, ID- Three veteran investigators have independently narrowed the field of anthrax mailings suspects to a single Russian defector affiliated with two heavily implicated defense contractors and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: For interviews with the independent investigators named, contact: Dr. Horowitz, by calling 208-265-2575 or e-mailing tetra@tetrahedron.org; Mr. Ruppert by e-mailing mruppert@copvcia.com; and Mr. Webb by e-mailing stewwebb@sierranv.net.

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http://www.tetrahedron.org/news/NR020830.html

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