CNN Anthrax Attacks Propaganda Exposed!

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

I really don't know why this traitor and co-conspirator in mass murder known as the Iraq-war isn't in jail.... oh wait... she explains why...  - CSR

Posted by Eliana Benador at 6/27/2010 11:41 AM

I AM A JEW  

 

The television and the media make people think that the end of the

World is near. Only 65 years ago, Jews were brought to death like

Sheep to slaughter. NO country, NO army. Only 60 years ago,

Seven Arab countries declared war on little Israel, the Jewish State,

Just a few hours after it was established.


המצב שלנו, בישראל, מעולם לא היה טוב יותר מאשר עכשיו!

רק הטלוויזיה והתקשורת גורמים לאנשים לחשוב שסוף העולם קרב.

רק לפני 65 שנים, יהודים הובאו למוות כצאן לטבח. ללא מדינה, ללא צבא.

רק לפני 60 שנים, 7 מדינות ערב הכריזו מלחמה על ישראל הקטנה, מדינת היהודים, רק כמה שעות לאחר היווסדה.

We were 650,000 Jews against the rest of the Arab world.

No IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) or Air Force. We were only a

Small group of stubborn people with nowhere to go.

היינו 650,000 יהודים כנגד שאר העולם הערבי.

ללא צה"ל (צבא הגנה לישראל) או חיל אוויר. היינו רק קבוצה קטנה של אנשים עקשנים עם שום מקום לאן ללכת.


Remember: Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, and

Saudi Arabia?  They all attacked at once. The state that the

United Nations "gave" us was 65% desert. We started it from

Zero.

זכרו: לבנון, סוריה, עירק, ירדן, מצרים, לוב וערב הסעודית, כולם תקפו בעת ובעונה אחת.

המדינה שהאומות המאוחדות "נתנו" לנו הייתה 65% מדבר.

התחלנו את זה מאפס.

Only 43 years ago, we fought three of the strongest countries

In the Middle East, and we crushed them in the Six Day War.


רק לפני 41 שנים, נלחמנו נגד שלוש המדינות החזקות ביותר במזרח התיכון, וריסקנו אותם במלחמת ששת הימים.

Over the years we fought different coalitions of 20Arab countries

With modern armies and with huge amounts of Russian-Soviet

Ammunition, and we still won.


במהלך השנים נלחמנו בקואליציות שונות של 20 מדינות ערב עם צבאות חדשניים וכמות עצומה של תחמושת רוסית – סובייטית, ועדיין ניצחנו.

Today we have a beautiful country, a powerful Army, a strong

Air Force, an adequate Navy and a thriving high tech industry.

Intel, Microsoft, and IBM have all developed their businesses

Here.

היום יש לנו מדינה יפיפייה, צבא רב עוצמה, חיל אוויר חזק, חיל ים הולם ותעשיית הי-טק משגשגת.

אינטל, מיקרוסופט, ו- I.B.M  פיתחו כולם את עסקיהם כאן.

Our doctors have won important prizes in the medical

Development field.


הרופאים שלנו זכו בפרסים חשובים בתחום הפיתוח הרפואי.

We turned the desert into a prosperous land.

הפכנו את המדבר לאדמה פורחת ומשגשגת.

We sell oranges, flowers, and vegetables around the world.


אנחנו מוכרים תפוזים, פרחים וירקות בכל רחבי העולם.

We launched our own satellite! Three satellites at once! We

Are in good company: together with the USA (280 million

Residents), Russia (220 million residents), China (1.3

Billion residents) and Europe (France, England and Germany

35  million residents), we are one of the few countries in the

World that have launched something into space!

שיגרנו את הלווין שלנו! שלושה לווינים בעת ובעונה אחת! אנחנו בחברה טובה: יחד עם ארה"ב (280 מיליון תושבים), רוסיה (220 מיליון תושבים), סין (1.2 ביליון תושבים) ואירופה (צרפת, אנגליה וגרמניה 35 מיליון תושבים), אנחנו אחת מהמדינות הבודדות בעולם ששיגרו משהו לחלל!

Israel today is among the few powerful countries that have

Nuclear technology & capabilities.

(We will never admit it, but everyone knows).


ישראל היום היא בין המדינות הבודדות החזקות, שהיא בעלת טכנולוגיה ויכולות גרעיניות. (אנחנו לעולם לא נודה בזה, אבל כולם יודעים).

To think that only 65 years ago we were disgraced and hopeless.


לחשוב שרק לפני 65 שנים היינו מבוישים וחסרי תקווה.

We crawled out from the burning crematoriums of Europe .

We won in all our wars. With a little bit of nothing we built an empire.

Who are Khaled Mashal (leader of Hamas) or Hassan Nasrallah

(leader of Hezbollah) trying to frighten us? They are amusing us.


זחלנו החוצה מהמשרפות הבוערות של אירופה.

ניצחנו בכל המלחמות שלנו. עם מעט מכלום בנינו אימפריה.

מי אלו חלאד משעל (מנהיג החמאס) או חסאן נסראללה (מנהיג החיזבאללה) המנסים להפחיד אותנו? הם משעשעים אותנו.

As we celebrate Independence Day, let's not forget what this

Holiday is all about; we overcame everything.


בזמן שאנחנו חוגגים את יום העצמאות, בואו לא נשכח מהי המהות של היום הקדוש הזה: התגברנו על הכל.

We overcame the Greeks,

התגברנו על היוונים,

We overcame the Romans,


התגברנו על הרומאים,

We overcame the Spanish Inquisition,


התגברנו על האינקוויזיציה הספרדית,

We overcame the Russians pogrom,

התגברנו על הפוגרום הרוסי,

We overcame Hitler , we overcame Germany and overcame the Holocaust,

התגברנו על היטלר, התגברנו על גרמניה והתגברנו על השואה,

We overcame the armies of seven countries..

התגברנו על הצבאות של 7 מדינות

Relax chevray (friends), we will overcome our current enemies.

הירגעו חבר'ה, אנחנו נתגבר גם על האויבים הנוכחים

Never mind where you look in human history. Think about it,

Jewish nation, our condition has never been better than now.

So let's lift our heads up and remember:


לא משנה לאן שנביט בהיסטוריה האנושית. תחשבו על זה, העם היהודי, מצבנו מעולם לא היה טוב יותר מאשר עכשיו.

אז בואו נישא ראשנו מעלה וזכרו:

Never mind which country or culture tries to harm us or erase us

From the world. We will still exist and persevere. Egypt ? Anyone

know where the Egyptian empire disappeared to? The Greeks?

Alexander the Great? The Romans? Is anyone speaking Latin

today? The Third Reich? Did anyone hear news from them lately?

לא משנה איזו מדינה או תרבות מנסה לפגוע בנו או למחוק אותנו מהעולם. אנחנו עדיין קיימים ושמורים.

מצריים? מישהו יודע לאן האימפריה המצרית נעלמה? היוונים? אלכסנדר מוקדון? הרומאים? האם מישהו מדבר לטינית היום? הרייך השלישי? האם מישהו שמע חדשות מהם לאחרונה?

And look at us, the Biblenation  – from slavery in Egypt , we  are

Still here, still speaking the same  language .

Exactly here, exactlynow .


והסתכלו עלינו, העם התנ"כי – מעבדות במצרים, אנחנו עדיין כאן, עדיין מדברים את אותה השפה.

בדיוק כאן, בדיוק עכשיו.

Maybe The Arabs don't know it yet, but we are an eternal nation.

All the time that we will keep our identity, we will stay eternal.


אולי הערבים עדיין לא יודעים את זה, אבל אנחנו עם נצחי.

כל זמן שנשמור על זהותנו, נשאר נצחיים.

So, sorry that we are not worrying, complaining, crying, or fearing...


אז סליחה שאנחנו לא דואגים, מתלוננים, בוכים או פוחדים.....

Business here is beseder (fine). It can definitely be much better,

But it is still fine. Don't pay attention to the nonsense in the media,

they will not tell you about our festivals here in Israel or about the

people that continue living, going out, meeting friends.

העסקים כאן בסדר. זה בהחלט יכול להיות טוב יותר, אבל זה עדיין בסדר. אל תשימו לב לשטויות בתקשורת, הם לא יספרו לכם על החגיגות שלנו כאן בישראל או על האנשים שממשיכים לחיות, לצאת ולפגוש חברים.

Yes, sometimes morale is down, so what? This is only because we

are mourning the dead while they are celebrating spilled blood. And

this is the reason we will win after all.


נכון, לפעמים המורל נמוך, אז מה? זה רק בגלל שאנו מבכים את המתים בזמן שהם חוגגים על דם שנשפך. וזו הסיבה לכך שאנו ננצח למרות הכל.

Please forward this e-mail to all of your Jewish friends

Everywhere in the world. You are all part of our force to

keep our existence.


בבקשה העבירו מייל זה לכל חבריכם היהודים, בכל מקום בעולם. כולכם חלק במאמץ שלנו לשמור את קיומנו.

This e-mail may help some of us lift our heads up and be

proud to say:


מייל זה עשוי לעזור לחלק מאיתנו לשאת את ראשינו מעלה ולהיות גאים לומר:

I AM A JEW

אני יהודי
http://elianabenador.com/2010/06/24/i-am-a-jew.aspx

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Death of Dr David Kelly 'should be re-explored' doctors say

The death of Dr David Kelly, the weapons inspector, should be explored in a full coroner's inquest to re-examine the key medical evidence, nine leading doctors have said.
 

By Andy Bloxham
Published: 6:30AM BST 13 Aug 2010


The nine include Dr Michael Powers QC, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He has written to ministers reflecting their views.

The letter questioned "the adequacy of the investigation conducted by Lord Hutton" after the death of Dr Kelly, who died after being revealed as the source of a controversial BBC report on the grounds for war in Iraq.

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      Doctors demand inquest to 'prove Dr David Kelly was murdered'
    *
      Tories call for review into death of Dr David Kelly
    *
      Lord Hutton allows doctors to see David Kelly post mortem report
    *
      David Kelly death evidence 'to be kept secret for 70 years'
    *
      Doctors suspect Dr David Kelly was murdered
    *
      Doctors demand inquest into death of Dr David Kelly

Coalition ministers are currently exploring how best to allay concern over shortcomings in the official version of Dr Kelly's death.

The scientist was found dead in woods near his Oxfordshire home in 2003 after he was exposed as the source for a BBC story disclosing anger within the intelligence service over use of Iraq arms data.

The then Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, suspended an inquest before an inquiry by Lord Hutton began, and it was never resumed.

Lord Hutton concluded "the principal cause of death was bleeding from incised wounds to his left wrist which Dr Kelly had inflicted on himself with the knife found beside his body".

But the signatories of another letter, sent to The Times, insist that the conclusion is unsafe. They argue that a severed ulnar artery, the wound found to Dr Kelly's wrist, was unlikely to be life-threatening unless an individual had a blood clotting deficiency.

"Insufficient blood would have been lost to threaten life," they write. "Absent a quantitative assessment of the blood lost and of the blood remaining in the great vessels, the conclusion that death occurred as a consequence of haemorrhage is unsafe."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... s-say.html

[Christopher Marlowe]

We overcame peace.  We overcame reason. We overcame prudence and self-control.
התגברנו על השלום. התגברנו סיבה. התגברנו הזהירות ואת השליטה העצמית.

65 years later and we still don't listen to the Palestinians. Or the World.
 שנים מאוחר יותר, ואנחנו עדיין לא להקשיב לפלסטינים. או העולם.65

We are israel and we do as we please.
אנחנו בישראל, ואנחנו עושים כרצוננו.

And we are fickle.
ואנחנו הפכפך.

And greedy.
וגם חמדן.

There isn't enough gold in the world to satisfy a heart made of hate.
אין מספיק זהב בעולם כדי להשביע לב גרם של שנאה.

There isn't enough suffering to satiate a soul from the void.
אין מספיק סבל כדי לספק את הנשמה מן הריק.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

More Jew lies from Benador Associates fleshed out for the Iraq-War Effort by NeoCon Jews, the Israeli Mossad and their Propaganda Agents.
9/11 was first and foremost for the removal Saddam Hussein via Jew-Israeli Agents active in the US/UK ....like Laurie Mylroie.  -- CSR

The Bradley Foundation

The Bradley Foundation's former president, Michael S. Joyce, was instrumental in creating the Philanthropy Roundtable. The goal of the Roundtable's founders was to provide a forum where donors could discuss the principles and practices that inform the best of America's charitable tradition. Currently, there are more than 600 Roundtable Associates.

In the early 1990s the foundation helped support The American Spectator, which at the time was researching damaging material on President Bill Clinton. The Bradley Foundation has provided funding for the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). PNAC brought together prominent members of the (George W) Bush Administration (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz) in the late 1990s to articulate their neoconservative foreign policy, including sending a letter to President Bill Clinton urging him to invade Iraq.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Foundation


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Michael Ledeen -- Jewish NeoCon

Ledeen is probably the biggest influence behind Bush admin policies.

Ledeen is considered "Karl Rove's brain", he is one of the main philosophers of the Bush administration strategy. He's a colleague of Richard Perle (nickname, seriously: Prince of Darkness), and of Paul Wolfowitz one of the key architects and promoter of the Iraq War (Wolfowitz has now ascended to Ruler of the Universe as head of the World Bank).

Ledeen is a member of the American Enterprise Institute and is friends with all the people over at PNAC.
(AEI is sister group to Heritage Foundation, and shares the same building. In the 1980s, Heritage sponsored or housed in it's offices THREE lobby groups for violent Afghan-Saudi mujahideen fighters -- who later became called "Al-Qaeda".)

A product of the Bradley Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) led the neo-con charge, but the real push for war came from the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) another organization helped by the Bradley Foundation.
"Ledeen's ideas are repeated daily by such figures as Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. He basically believes that violence in the service of the spread of democracy is America's manifest destiny. Consequently, he has become the philosophical legitimatimizer of the American occupation of Iraq."

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Osama, Saddam, and the Bombs

By David Plotz
Posted Friday, Sept. 28, 2001, at 8:30 PM ET

The Iraq hawks are circling. Though Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell insist that Saddam Hussein has not been linked to the Sept. 11 attacks, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and other administration conservatives are lobbying strenuously to make Hussein a prime target of the anti-terror war. Sen. Jesse Helms says we should strike Iraq soon. William Safire clamors for it in the New York Times. The cover of the current Weekly Standard shows a "Wanted" poster of Bin Laden and Hussein.

Much—though certainly not all—of the smash-Iraq sentiment is rooted in the idea that Iraq is responsible, either directly or indirectly, for Sept. 11. Why do some think Iraq is to blame? How strong is the evidence?

By far the most publicized theory of Iraqi guilt is championed by Laurie Mylroie, who publishes the newsletter Iraq News and has taught at the U.S. Naval War College. She believes that Iraq probably sponsored the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and thus should be suspect this time. "If Iraq is behind the 1993 bombing, it is highly suggestive that it may be behind this attack," she says.

Mylroie outlined her theory of the 1993 bombing in Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America, published in 2000 by the American Enterprise Institute. She has strong supporters. Wolfowitz and conservative foreign policy svengali Richard Perle blurbed the book last year. Former CIA Director James Woolsey has adopted her cause since Sept. 11, writing an article about it for the New Republic and giving numerous interviews supporting her theory.

What is the essence of Mylroie's argument? Prosecutors and journalists blamed the 1993 WTC attack on a motley conspiracy inspired by blind Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman. But Mylroie believes that Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the plot, was in fact an Iraqi intelligence agent. Yousef escaped New York after the 1993 bombing and eventually relocated to the Philippines, where he schemed to bomb a dozen airliners over the Pacific Ocean and perhaps assassinate the pope. The airliner plot collapsed when bomb materials caught fire in a Manila apartment. Yousef fled to Pakistan, where he was arrested and extradited to the United States. He's serving a life sentence in federal prison. The Sept. 11 assault, notes Woolsey, is "an amalgam of Yousef's trade center bombing and his airliner bombing plot."

The key to Mylroie's theory is her contention that Ramzi Yousef is not who the U.S. government says he is. In the World Trade Center trials, prosecutors suggested that Yousef was probably Abdul Basit, a Kuwaiti of Pakistani origin who had been radicalized as a student before coming to America to plan the bombing. Yousef traveled on Basit's Pakistani passport when he fled the United States after the bombing.

Mylroie, after digging through very complicated passport and phone records, argues that Yousef is not Abdul Basit at all. Instead, she says, Yousef probably assumed Basit's identity, and Basit's passport and other papers were doctored to fit Yousef's history. (Yousef's fingerprints seem to have been inserted into Kuwaiti records, for example.) Why does this suggest Yousef is an Iraqi agent? Because, according to Mylroie, Basit's records were tampered with during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, and the Basit family seems to have disappeared during the occupation. Mylroie and Woolsey speculate that Iraq, having trained agent Ramzi Yousef, searched Kuwaiti records to find someone who looked like Yousef. When Iraqi officials found that person, Abdul Basit, they made him and his family disappear, then altered his records in order to establish a credible fake identity for Yousef. But it was not a perfect match. Mylroie details apparent discrepancies between Basit and Yousef. Among the most telling ones: Yousef is apparently several inches taller than Basit was and probably significantly older.

Mylroie and Woolsey are urging the United States to test the theory by checking Ramzi Yousef's fingerprints against fingerprints of Abdul Basit's that may be available in England (where he was a student). They would also like to bring old friends of Abdul Basit's to visit Yousef in prison and confirm his identity.

Mylroie presents other evidence to buttress her theory. When Yousef fled the United States, he made his way to Baluchistan, a wild area divided among Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran that is home to several million ethnic Baluch. The Baluch, long at odds with Iran's leadership, have extremely close ties to the Iraqi government. Another clue: The World Trade Center bombing occurred on the anniversary of the Gulf War cease-fire. And, finally, the only bombing conspirator who hasn't been caught, Abdul Rahman Yasin, seems to be living comfortably in Baghdad. (Why did the United States overlook the evidence Mylroie cites? Click here for her explanation.)

Study of Revenge does not stop at the 1993 bombing. Mylroie also tries to link Hussein to the 1998 Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Her evidence for this is much sketchier. The bombings occurred at a time convenient for Iraq. Hussein's rhetoric was extremely inflammatory right before the bombings. And Hussein and Bin Laden—who was directly responsible for those bombings—share close ties with Sudanese intelligence and thus may have collaborated.

The fact that no significant evidence yet exists linking Hussein to Sept. 11 does not daunt Mylroie and Woolsey. "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence," Woolsey says. They say it's possible Iraq and Bin Laden cooperated in ways we don't know yet. "There is nothing that requires terrorism to be pursued under an exclusive contract," says Woolsey.

Does the Mylroie hypothesis hold up? Even most of Mylroie's critics acknowledge the diligence of her research into Yousef's identity and travels. And most agree that she has cast significant doubt about Ramzi Yousef's identity. But there's skepticism about her conclusion that it can only mean Iraqi culpability. "It is a tour de force, but it's a tour de force of alchemy," says Daniel Pipes, editor of Middle East Quarterly. "It has a fundamentally wrong premise."

The sharpest critique of Mylroie is that she discounts evidence that Yousef worked not for Iraq but for Osama Bin Laden. Yousef's co-conspirator in the Philippines airliner plot was Waly Khan Amin Shah—a "big buddy of Osama's," according to CNN's Peter Bergen, author of the forthcoming Holy War, Inc. about Bin Laden. Bin Laden said in an interview that he was friends with Waly Khan and did not deny that he was Waly Khan's boss. Bin Laden biographer Yossef Bodansky, Time magazine, and other media outlets concur that Ramzi Yousef worked for a Bin Laden-funded operation in the Philippines. So does American intelligence, apparently. "The U.S. government, without saying it directly, believes that both Ramzi Yousef operations are traceable to Osama Bin Laden," says Vincent Cannistraro, former chief of counterterrorism for the CIA. Mylroie still says that Bin Laden has nothing to do with Yousef and dismisses Bin Laden's assertion of friendship with Waly Khan as just Bin Laden "blowing himself up and making himself seem important. There is nothing to corroborate the claim at all."

There are other criticisms of Mylroie's theory. Though Yousef fled the United States on Abdul Basit's Pakistani passport, he had entered the States with an Iraqi passport in the name Ramzi Yousef. Why would an Iraqi agent travel openly as an Iraqi?

Pipes also notes that Saddam Hussein's operatives tend to be "ham-fisted." The last terrorist act directly connected to Iraq was the incredibly clumsy 1993 assassination attempt on former President George Bush. By contrast, the 1993 WTC bombing, the 1998 embassy bombings, and the Sept. 11 attacks were all well-planned.

Mylroie offers no real evidence linking Hussein to the 1998 bombings.

Mylroie's strongest contention, that Ramzi Yousef is not Abdul Basit, does not confirm that Iraq bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. It just confirms that Ramzi Yousef is more mysterious than we suspect. It could still be that al-Qaida, not Hussein, provided Yousef with training, fake papers, and resources.

Finally, though few analysts dispute that Bin Laden and Hussein could work together on something like Sept. 11, evidence is scanty that they have cooperated successfully. Connections between Iraq and Bin Laden do not seem strong. Iraqi officials have intermittently met with al-Qaida reps, but to little effect. According to Cannistraro, Bin Laden refused Iraq's offer of refuge in the late '90s because he feared "he would become a tool of the Iraqis." Cannistraro and others agree "there is no strong evidence of any resources other than Bin Laden's being used in these attacks."

Mylroie's is not the only theory connecting Iraq to Sept. 11 or to Bin Laden. It has been much reported that hijacker Mohamed Atta may have met with one of Iraq's top intelligence officers in Europe. So far, no evidence has emerged publicly that the meeting was connected to the hijackings.

And Jane's Foreign Report, citing Israel military intelligence, floated the idea last week that the plot was a grand operation shared by Iraq, a Bin Laden lieutenant, and Imad Mughniyeh, a Hezbollah terrorist wanted for all kinds of nastiness (bombing the Israeli Embassy in Argentina, perhaps bombing the U.S. Marine barracks and Embassy in Lebanon, hijacking planes ...).

This theory is problematic. The head of Israeli military intelligence insisted several days later that Israel has no evidence linking Iraq to Sept. 11. And it is very hard to believe that Hezbollah's Mughniyeh would ever cooperate with a Bin Ladenite. Hezbollah is sponsored by Shiite Iran, which is a sworn enemy of Sunni militants like Bin Laden. The idea that Mughniyeh and Bin Laden would team up and then take instruction from Iraq is very far-fetched.

All this Iraq theorizing is important in determining what kind of military campaign the United States will pursue. So far, the Powellites seem to be winning the fight within the administration. The United States is concentrating on its anti-Bin Laden coalition and elaborately avoiding the Iraq question. The rest of the world, including the Arab world, is signing up for the anti-Bin Laden campaign because it's seen as a fair tit for tat. There is no such support for a broader war against Iraq. Other countries, especially Arab countries, would not wage war against Hussein just because he's a bad guy. Before the world will enlist against Hussein, American officials will need to prove that he was behind Sept. 11. To do that, they must find stronger evidence than Mylroie, Woolsey, and others have presented so far.

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Mylroie and Woolsey blame the criminal justice system and the Clinton administration for not pursuing the Iraq connection. Prosecutors, not intelligence officers, controlled the WTC bombing investigation. They were interested in convicting the guilty, not in wading into a geopolitical swamp that could only muddy the evidence. So prosecutors never sufficiently investigated whether or not Ramzi Yousef was Abdul Basit. (Jim Fox, the FBI's New York director, shared Mylroie's belief that Iraq was behind the attacks, but his views were not embraced by prosecutors and other investigators.) And, Mylroie and Woolsey allege, the Clinton administration downplayed evidence of Iraqi involvement in order to avoid a war with Hussein. The administration did not want to deal with the repercussions of discovering that Iraq was waging a terror war against the United States.
David Plotz is Slate's editor.

http://www.slate.com/id/116232/

What does that mean that our entire media system is oblivious to un-secret public statements advocating for terror attacks on the United States?

Some stated that their plans for war were vital to American hegemony and to global "stability", i.e. elite control over other "rogue" populations and states.  They wanted the USA to launch massive military operations, quickly.  They stated that the window of opportunity was brief and closing.  Their plans might never be implemented unless innocent American people (we, the Vulgar Many) were struck with a massive Shock and Awe terror event.  They needed a frightened, cowering populace for their plans, so they needed many random innocent Americans needed to die on a sunny Tuesday morning, in a fierce display of pyrotechnics.

(Well .. to be fair, they were merely 'hoping' that happened. Do 'winners' rely on 'luck' or 'create their luck'?)

Stunned. Terrified. Helpless. Rage and Anger. Grief-stricken. Compliant. Obedient. Passive dependence on government protection from the "bad guys" and "evil ones", whoever they might be.  They wanted approval and unquestioning support, total patriotism, for both our government leaders and our military leaders.  You might remember when Ashcroft @ DoJ or was that Ari Fleischer warned us on TV against asking wrong questions or making rash statements -- people "need to watch what they say."

This was to be a very long war, so they needed to 'engineer' the American citizens into the right mood to consent to mass murder, vast spending, and willing "human sacrifice".  Dissent needed to be silenced, as much as feasible, or broadly condemnned.

At least seven well-known interrelated groups were represented by these views back in 1999 - 2000:

    * American Enterprise Institute (Reagan praised them heavily, launched with Bradley Foundation cash, sister org of Heritage Fnd)
    * Brookings Institution (a 'liberal' think tank group, partnered with Harvard, AEI, etc)
    * Heritage Foundation (younger or older sister of AEI, launched by Tim LaHaye who published "Left Behind" series feat. vigilante action against "Sinners" in US Cities, and Richard Vigurie, a Christian direct mailer) (backed Islamic Mujahideen Afghani warlords in the 80s,)
    * Project for a New American Century  (PNAC, neo-con pressure group, housed in same office as AEI, formed by William Kristol son of Irving Kristol, with money from Bradley Foundation)
    * Trilateral Commission (co-founded by David Rockefeller and his handpicked political rep, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Rocks essentially 'own' Exxon-Mobil and JP Morgan-Chase.)
    * Council on Foreign Relations (CFR, older sister of TLC, launched in the era of Woodrow Wilson)
    * Foreign Affairs (publication arm of the CFR)

http://www.takeoverworld.info/proterrorism.html

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Bush I

The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations investigated BCCI from 1988 to 1992. Among its many findings, the committee report of its investigation criticized the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Controller of the Currency, all arms of the Treasury Department, for poor coordination and failing to act on information concerning BCCI's criminal intentions. For example, " Even after [BCCI] was indicted on drug money laundering charges, the Federal Reserve undertook only limited investigative efforts." In fact, the report states, "The Federal Reserve's extensive ... investigation of BCCI began after the Federal Reserve was notified by the New York District Attorney that BCCI had massive loans securing First American's stock which had never been disclosed to the Federal Reserve. As late as the spring of 1991, after the Federal Reserve understood that BCCI and many of First American's shareholders had lied to the regulators, and that BCCI itself was involved in massive fraud, the Federal Reserve still took no position as to whether BCCI should be closed globally, so long as the bank was shut down in the United States."

With regard to the overarching role of the Treasury Department in particular, the Kerry report found, " U.S. regulatory handling of the U.S. banks secretly owned by BCCI was hampered by lack of coordination among the regulators, which included the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the OCC, highlighting the need for further integration of these separate banking regulatory agencies on supervision and enforcement. It also noted, that in 1985 and 1986 the Treasury Department had received information from the CIA that BCCI was behind the takeover of Financial General Bankshares (renamed First America), but did not pass the information along to the Federal Reserve.

In 1985 and 1986, the Secretary of the Treasury was James A. Baker, III. When Bush Sr. became President, Baker became Secretary of State, and was recently in the public eye for his role as director of Bush campaign operations following the November 2000 election. During the Kerry committee investigation, the Secretary of the Treasury was Nicholas Brady. Brady had worked at the Wall Street firm of Dillon, Read before being tapped to fill out the term of Senator Harrison Williams of New Jersey who was indicted in the FBI's Abscam sting. Brady was part of the same social circles in which the Bushes traveled; for example, both belonged to the Bohemia Club of San Francisco. In 1985 financier T. Boone Pickens and Mesa Petroleum tried to takeover the oil company Unocal. Pickens et al. proposed a so-called "two-tiered tender offer," in which shareholders siding with the takeover would receive cash for their stocks, but any who did not would receive high-risk "junk" bonds after the takeover. Unocal called upon Dillon Read and Goldman Sachs to defend against the hostile takeover bid. Brady and his colleagues designed an anti-takeover defense for Unocal, in which the company offered to buy back much of it's own stock at a higher price than Pickens offered, while at the same time refusing any shares held by Pickens. Pickens fought the measure in the Delaware courts, but lost. The "self-tender" maneuver left Unocal with $3.6 billion of high interest debt, but was successful in warding off Pickens' takeover attempt.

In 1989 Michael Pillsbury became Special Assistant for Asian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. His time in the defense department brought him into contact with three secretaries of Defense: Caspar Weinberger and Frank Carlucci (now chairman of the Carlyle Group) in the Reagan administration, and Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense in the administration of Bush Sr., and the current vice president. Pillsbury's BCCI associate, Mohammed Hammoud, allegedly died in Geneva in 1990, and, according to law enforcement documents viewed by the Kerry committee staff, Michael Pillsbury traveled to Geneva to identify the body. However, the body was found by insurance companies to be several inches shorter than Hammoud's last recorded height. Several BCCI officials told the Kerry committee that they did not believe Hammoud was dead. A video provided to Hammoud's lawyers by his family allegedly shows Syrian intelligence officials present at his funeral. In August 1992, Newsweek reported. "Intelligence officials now say that Mohammed Hammoud, an alleged BCCI front man, was taped saying over the telephone, 'If anybody knew how dirty the Americans are in this BCCI business, they'd be surprised -- they're dirtier than the Pakistanis.' He then said he was about to tell someone about the American role. Eight hours later he was found dead."

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan the Soviet army withdrew, but left a pro-communist leader installed in Kabul. During the previous year, Osama bin Laden had created Al Qaeda (The Base). Al Qaeda inherited from MaK a pan-Islamic as contrasted to pan-Arab ideology. Al Qaeda also benefited from the financial and technical resources that had been amassed during the long campaign against the Soviets. Bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia that year where he lent support to anti-establishment movements, and worked for his family business the Binladin Group. The same year Hasan al Turabi's National Islamic Front rose to power in Sudan, and sent a delegation to Pakistan. Bin Laden moved Al Qaeda's infrastructure to Sudan.

In the late 80's high-tech seismic surveys in the tiny emirate of Bahrain, which hadn't had a significant new oil discovery since 1932, identified a large likely undersea oil deposit between what the Asian Wall Street Journal called "two of the greatest oil and gas fields on the planet." The company chosen to drill exploratory wells would have to invest over $12 million, but could receive a payoff in the billions if oil was found. Amoco and three other oil companies entered into discussion with Bahrain in 1987. Amoco was optimistic at the directions discussions had taken, when suddenly in 1990 the contract was awarded to Harken Energy. Harken officials claim the Bahrainis wanted a small company that could focus on their country's project. The Bahrainis had enlisted help from Michael Ameen, a Houston oil consultant who had worked for Mobil and the Arabian American Oil company (Aramco). As head of government relations for Aramco, Ameen spent years dealing with members of the Saudi royal family and their associates, including Kamal Adham. As we've noted elsewhere Adham was the CIA's principal liason for the entire Middle East, from the mid-60s through 1979. The latter years overlapped with the period when George Bush Sr. was Director of the CIA.

According to the Kerry committee report, Adham "was the lead front-man for BCCI in its takeover
of First American, was an important nominee shareholder in BCCI, and remains one of the key players in the entire BCCI affair. On July 29, 1992, he reached a plea agreement with the District Attorney of New York, acknowledging that he had been a BCCI front-man in the United States, and agreeing to provide full
cooperation with U.S. law enforcement in BCCI-related investigations and prosecutions." Adham has been referred to as "the godfather of Middle East intelligence." The Kerry committee observes "It was impossible to determine where Saudi interests in these arrangements ended and American CIA interests began." For instance, in 1970 Adham was responsible for making payments on the CIA's behalf to Anwar Sadat, then Gamal Nasser's vice president.

Adham also reportedly played a significant behind-the-scenes diplomatic role during the Camp David accords. His role may have been to discourage Arab leaders from repudiating Sadat for agreeing to peace with Israel. While many Arab leaders nonetheless spoke out in opposition publicly, in private many supported the Camp David accords because they thought they would help the Saudi royal family maintain stability in the region. Quoting again from the Kerry committee report, "To recapitulate: Adham was at the same time in business with a retired CIA station chief whose activities caused people in the U.S. and Saudi governments to question whether he was truly 'retired,' acting as an intermediary for the U.S. in negotiations regarding Camp David, and acting as a phony 'lead shareholder' in a take-over of the largest bank in the nation's capital on behalf of BCCI."

Michael Ameen was also a close friend of the Pharaon family, and knew Sheikh Bakhsh for 25 years. During the Harken-Bahrain negotiations, Ameen was also working as a paid consultant to the State Department. In that role, he briefed incoming Ambassador to Bahrain, Charles Hostler. Hostler, a San Diego real-estate developer and major contributor to the Republican party met BCCI figure Mohammed Hammoud in the 60s when Hostler was stationed in Lebanon with the Air Force and Hammoud was a businessman in Beirut. Hostler admitted "giving financial advice" to Hammoud from time to time. Chris Hagen, a real estate broker who represented Hammoud reported after a meeting in NYC overhearing Hammoud tell Hostler that "there will be a Cadillac in your driveway, tomorrow morning." The Kerry committee was unable to determine whether Hostler had received the Cadillac.

The Harken contract was signed in January 1990. In August of that year Iraq invaded Kuwait. Sheikh Bakhsh's agent, Talat Othman, who six months earlier "didn't have the President's ear," according the the Asian Wall Street Journal, was one of 15 Arab Americans invited to the White House two days after the invasion, for a meeting with President Bush, National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, and chief of staff John Sunnunu.

During the Gulf War, thousands of U.S. and other foreign troops were based in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi rulers had promised to expel foreign troops from the country after the war. When they reneged, bin Laden initiated a campaign of opposition. He labeled the royal family "false Muslims," and advocated a so-called "true" Islamic state. In 1992 bin Laden had a meeting with Interior Minister Prince Naif, during or after which he denounced Naif as a traitor. Bin Laden was declared persona no grata after Naif complained to King Fahd. Bin Laden left the country for Sudan that year -- widely reported as a deportation -- but retained ties to some members of the Saudi Royal family who also disliked Naif. Bin Laden also retained ties to Saudi Intelligence and Pakistan's ISI..

According to Pakistani investigators, Ramzi Youssef, convicted mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, lived at a Bin Laden-funded safe house in Peshawar during most of the three years before his capture in 1995. Youssef, whose real name according to Pakistani intelligence is Abdul-Basit Mahmud Abdul Karim, was implicated by his co-conspirators and eventually betrayed by a fellow follower of Abdurrab Rasul Sayyaf in Pakistan. Youssef and two co-conspirators were sentenced in 1998 to life in prison without parole for the WTC bombing and a plot to bomb airplanes in Manila, Phillipines.

A third co-conspirator, Wali Khan Amin Shah, was not sentenced initially, because he had agreed to cooperate with the FBI. Federal investigators hoped Shah would provide information about the financing of Youssef's activities. Shah was ultimately convicted, but apparently provided authorities with information linking bin Laden to the Alkifah Refugee Center in Brooklyn. An NY Times article that strangely does not identify Shah by name, reports that he told Federal authorities he met twice with Texan, Wadih el Hage, to buy weapons for associates in Brooklyn. Federal prosecutors reportedly link El Hage to several habitués of the Alkifah center, including El Sayyid A. Nosair, the Egyptian immigrant convicted on Federal charges in the slaying of Rabbi Kahane. El Hage, would later be convicted for the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.

When Youssef came to the U.S. in 1992, the Alkifah center, which had been founded by bin Laden's mentor Abdullah Azzam, was his first stop. Alkifah has been identified by an aide to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as a CIA front for transferring funds, weapons, and recruits to the anti-Soviet mujaheddin in Afghanistan. During one period, over $2 million annually was reportedly being transferred. A 1998 article in the New York Times referred to Alkifah as "the American outpost of Mr. bin Laden's international terrorist organization."

http://www.thedubyareport.com/bushbin.html

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Saudi Intelligence and 9/11 Connections

In 1984, however, George W. Bush's oil exploration company, Bush Exploration (previously Arbusto Energy) was suffering financially as sources of investment disappeared in the face of uncertainty regarding oil prices. After one attempted bailout by an oil company called Spectrum 7 faltered, Harken Energy bought Spectrum 7 for $2 million. George W. Bush received stock worth approximately $500,000 and a consulting fee of $120,000. Harken Energy was run by Alan Quasha, a New York lawyer who was also a Republican Party fundraiser. Sheikh Abdullah Bahksh of Saudi Arabia, a 16% shareholder in Harken Energy at the time, was represented by a Palestinian-born Chicago investor named Talat Othman, who served with George W. Bush on the board of Harken Energy. Othman made at least three separate visits to the White House to discuss Middle East affairs with then President George Bush. At about the same time, and just prior to the Gulf War, Harken Energy, with no previous international or offshore drilling experience, was awarded a 35-year petroleum exploration contract with the emirate of Bahrain.

Sheikh Bahksh emerged as a co-investor in the Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI), a criminal enterprise since dissolved, that existed primarily as a mechanism for obtaining political influence using Middle Eastern oil money. Bahrain's prime minister, Sheik Khalifah bin-Sulman al-Khalifah, was a major investor in BCCI's parent company, BCCI Holdings, of Luxembourg. Through its commodities affiliate, Capcom, BCCI was used as a money laundering service by drug traffickers, arms dealers, etc. BCCI's front man in the U.S., and the person chiefly responsible for its takeover of First American Bank in the U.S., was Kamal Adham. Adham is referred to in the Kerry Committee report on BCCI as having been "the CIA's principal liaison for the entire Middle East from the mid-1960's through 1979." He was also the head of intelligence for Saudi Arabia during the time George Bush Sr. was Director of the CIA.

In August 1991, Ed Rogers, political director in the administration of George Bush Sr., left his White House position to start a "consulting firm." Rogers partner in the venture was Haley Barbour, political director during the Reagan administration, and later chairman of the Republican National Committee. Within a few weeks Rogers and Barbour received a $600,000 contract with Kamal Adham.
When interviewed by the Kerry Committee investigating the BCCI affair, Rogers indicated he had consulted two people concerning Adham's background and the advisability of representing him. One was a Palestinian-American businessman with connections in the Republican party and the Saudi royal family. The other was a National Security Council staffer named Linda Charles, who, at about the same time Rogers left the White House, left the NSC to join a the International Planing and Analysis Center, a "consulting group" headed by Frank Carlucci. Former Deputy Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense. Carlucci is now, as noted above, chairman of the Carlyle Group.

Rogers subsequently registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent, and had three meetings with Adham's financial and legal team. Two meetings occurred after Rogers had received notice from Adham's defense attorney, Plato Cacheris, that Adham was under investigation for involvement in the BCCI scandal. The report of the Kerry committee suggests "With no background in business, in criminal law, or in any facet of the law for that matter, the 33 year old Rogers must have accompanied Cacheris for one reason only: his political skills and access."

The story of Rogers representing Adham was reported in the press on October 3, 1991. At a press conference later that month President Bush (Sr.) made an ambiguous statement that he "didn't know anything about the man." Rogers, of course, had been his political director, and Adham had been head of Saudi intelligence at the time Bush was Director of the CIA. Rogers reportedly resigned from the Adham account shortly thereafter, although he refused to discuss whether or not he returned his fee. Representative (now Senator) Charles Schumer called for an investigation by White House Counsel, C. Boyden Gray. Gray nominally mounted an investigation, but never met with Rogers himself. Instead, two assistants who were friendly with Rogers discussed the matter with him by phone. Gray wrote Schumer on November 1, 1991, that "Mr. Rogers was not responsible for and did not participate in any matters concerning to BCCI at the White House." This leaves open the question of whether Rogers may have negotiated his "consulting" contract with Adham while still at the White House. The Kerry committee report concludes its section on Rogers that while Rogers testimony was suspect" the greater failing and more worrisome aspect in the Rogers affair may be that of the White House inquiry. The columnist William Saffire predicted in November 1991 that Boyden Gray, charged by the President to investigate the Rogers affair, would 'pass along the
denials and the White House whitewash will continue.' There is nothing in the record that suggests Mr. Saffire's assessment was inaccurate."

On October 3, 2001 the Senate confirmed Dallas attorney Robert Jordan as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. With no diplomatic experience, Jordan's qualifications include having defended Dubya in an SEC insider trading probe of the sale of his Harken Energy Corp. stock. Jordan is a member of the lawfirm Baker Botts. Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III is the Baker in Baker Botts, and The Carlyle Group is a client.

Former director of the F.B.I.'s New York counterterrorism office, John P. O'Neill, is quoted in a new book by French security expert Jean-Charles Brisard as saying, "All the answers, everything needed to dismantle Osama bin Laden's organization can be found in Saudi Arabia." As reported in the Times the book, "Ben Laden: La Vérité Interdite," suggests that "Saudi support for Mr. bin Laden has been extensive." O'Neill was apparently frustrated at "the inability of American officials to get anything at all from King Fahd," of Saudi Arabia, and although the Times does not provide details, O'Neill reportedly ascribed this failure to "oil." During his term with the F.B.I, O'Neill worked on the investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 bombings of embassies in Africa, and was leading the investigation of the USS Cole in Yemen. O'Neill had complained to Brisard that the F.B.I. was hampered in its international investigations by State Department interference. O'Neill resigned from the F.B.I. in August of this year to become head of security at the World Trade Towers. He was killed in the the September 11 attack.

http://www.thedubyareport.com/txconnect.html#adham

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The Rothschilds and Mena ?

N.M. Rothschild is considered by City of London sources to be one of the most influential parts of the British intelligence establishment, tied to the Thatcher "free market" wing of the Tory Party. Rothschild and Sons made huge sums managing for Thatcher the privatization of billions of dollars of British state industry holdings during the 1980s, and today, for John Major's government. Rothschilds is also at the very heart of the world gold trade, being the bank at which twice daily the London Gold Fix is struck by a group of the five most influential gold trade banks. Gold constitutes a major part of the economy of drug dealings globally.

N.M. Rothschild and Sons is also implicated in some of the filthiest drugs-for-weapons secret intelligence operations. Because it is connected to the highest levels of the British intelligence establishment, Rothschilds managed to evade any prominent mention of its complicity in one of the more sordid black covert intelligence networks, that of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). Rothschilds was at the center of the international web of money-laundering banks used during the 1970s and 1980s by Britain's MI-6 and the networks of Col. Oliver North and George Bush, to finance such projects as the Nicaraguan Contras.

On June 8, 1993 the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Banking, Rep. Henry Gonzalez (D-Tex.), made a speech charging that the U.S. government, under the previous Bush and Reagan administrations, had systematically refused to prosecute the BCCI, and that the Department of Justice had repeatedly refused to cooperate with Congressional investigations of both the BCCI scandal and what Gonzalez claims is the closely related scandal of the Atlanta, Georgia Banca Nationale del Lavoro, which was alleged to have secured billions in loans from the Bush administration to Saddam Hussein, just prior to the Gulf War of 1990-91.

Gonzalez charged that the Bush administration had "a Justice Department that I say, and I repeat, has been the most corrupt, most unbelievably corrupt justice system that I have seen in the 32 years I have been in the Congress."

The BCCI violated countless laws, including laundering drug money, financing illegal arms traffic, and falsifying bank records. In July 1991, New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced a grand jury indictment against BCCI, charging it with having committed "the largest bank fraud in world financial history. BCCI operated as a corrupt criminal organization throughout its entire 19-year history."

The BCCI had links directly into the Bush White House. Saudi Sheik Kamal Adham, a BCCI director and former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence when George Bush was head of the CIA, was one of the BCCI shareholders indicted in the United States. Days after his indictment, former top Bush White House aide Edward Rogers went to Saudi Arabia as a private citizen to sign a contract to represent Sheikh Adham in the United States. ----------------------------------------------------

Rothschild, Bush, and Missiles for Iraq ?

But, what has never been identified in a single major Western press investigation, was that the Rothschild group was at the heart of the vast illegal web of BCCI. The key figure was Dr. Alfred Hartmann, the managing director of the BCCI Swiss subsidiary, Banque de Commerce et de Placement SA; at the same time, he ran the Zurich Rothschild Bank AG, and sat in London as a member of the board of N.M. Rothschild and Sons, Hartmann was also a business partner of Helmut Raiser, friend of de Picciotto, and linked to Nordex.

Hartmann was also chairman of the Swiss affiliate of the Italian BNL bank, which was implicated in the Bush administration illegal transfers to Iraq prior to the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Atlanta branch of BNL, with the knowledge of George Bush when he was vice president, conduited funds to Helmut Raiser's Zug, Switzerland company, Consen, for development of the CondorII missile program by Iraq, Egypt, and Argentina, during the Iran-Iraq War. Hartmann was vice-chairman of another secretive private Geneva bank, the Bank of NY-Inter-Maritime Bank, a bank whose chairman, Bruce Rappaport, was one of the illegal financial conduits for Col. Oliver North's Contra drugs-for-weapons network during the late 1980. North also used the BCCI as one of his preferred banks to hide his illegal funds.

Soros and Tampering with European Monetary Stability

According to reports of former U.S. State Department intelligence officers familiar with the Soros case, Soros's Quantum Fund amassed a war chest of well over $10 billion, with the help of a powerful group of "silent" investors who let Soros deploy the capital to demolish European monetary stability in September 1992.

Among Soros's silent investors, these sources say, are the fugitive metals and oil trader Marc Rich, based in Zug, Switzerland; and Shaul Eisenberg, a decades-long member of Israeli Mossad intelligence, who functions as a major arms merchant throughout Asia and the Near East. Eisenberg was recently banned from doing business in Uzbekistan, where he had been accused by the government of massive fraud and corruption. A third Soros partner is Israel's "Dirty Rafi" Eytan, who served in London previously as Mossad liaison to British intelligence.

Rich was one of the most active western traders in oil, aluminum, and other commodities in the Soviet Union and Russia between 1989 and 1993. This, not coincidentally, is just the period when Grigori Luchansky's Nordex Group became a multibillion-dollar company selling Russian oil, aluminum, and other commodities.

Canadian real estate entrepreneur Paul Reichmann, formerly of Olympia and York notoriety, a Hungarian-born Jew like Soros, is a business partner in Soros's Quantum Realty, a $525-million real estate investment fund.

The Reichmann tie links Soros as well with Henry Kissinger and former Tory Foreign Minister Lord Carrington (who is also a member of Kissinger Associates, Inc. of New York). Reichmann sits with both Kissinger and Carrington on the board of the influential British-Canadian publishing group, Hollinger, Inc. Hollinger owns a large number of newspapers in Canada and the United States, the London Daily Telegraph, and the largest English-language daily in Israel, the Jerusalem Post. Hollinger has been attacking President Clinton and the Middle East peace process ever since Clinton's election in November 1992.

Soros and the Rothschilds, at Length (for those who are as suspicious as I am about the Rothschilds.)

Rather than use the powers of the state to achieve their geopolitical goals, a secret cross-linked holding of private financial interests, tied to the old aristocratic oligarchy of western Europe, was developed. It was in many ways modeled on the 17th-century British and Dutch East India Companies. The heart of this Club of the Isles is the financial center of the old British Empire, the City of London. Soros is one of what in medieval days were called Hofjuden, the "Court Jews," who were deployed by the aristocratic families.

The most important of such "Jews who are not Jews," are the Rothschilds, who launched Soros's career. They are members of the Club of the Isles and retainers of the British royal family. This has been true since Amschel Rothschild sold the British Hessian troops to fight against George Washington during the American Revolution.

Soros is American only in his passport. He is a global financial operator, who happens to be in New York, simply because "that's where the money is," as the bank robber Willy Sutton once quipped, when asked why he always robbed banks. Soros speculates in world financial markets through his offshore company, Quantum Fund NV, a private investment fund, or "hedge fund." His hedge fund reportedly manages some $11-14 billion of funds on behalf of its clients, or investors---one of the most prominent of whom is, according to Soros, Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the wealthiest person in Europe.

The Quantum Fund is registered in the tax haven of the Netherlands Antilles, in the Caribbean. This is to avoid paying taxes, as well as to hide the true nature of his investors and what he does with their money.

In order to avoid U.S. government supervision of his financial activities, something normal U.S.-based investment funds must by law agree to in order to operate, Soros moved his legal headquarters to the Caribbean tax haven of Curacao. The Netherlands Antilles has repeatedly been cited by the Task Force on Money Laundering of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as one of the world's most important centers for laundering illegal proceeds of the Latin American cocaine and other drug traffic. It is a possession of the Netherlands.

Soros has taken care that the none of the 99 individual investors who participate in his various funds is an American national. By U.S. securities law, a hedge fund is limited to no more than 99 highly wealthy individuals, so-called "sophisticated investors." By structuring his investment company as an offshore hedge fund, Soros avoids public scrutiny.

Soros himself is not even on the board of Quantum Fund. Instead, for legal reasons, he serves the Quantum Fund as official "investment adviser," through another company, Soros Fund Management, of New York City. If any demand were to be made of Soros to reveal the details of Quantum Fund's operations, he is able to claim he is "merely its investment adviser." Any competent police investigator looking at the complex legal structure of Soros's businesses would conclude that there is prima facie evidence of either vast money laundering of illicit funds, or massive illegal tax evasion. Both may be true.

To make it impossible for U.S. tax authorities or other officials to look into the financial dealings of his web of businesses, the board of directors of Quantum Fund NV also includes no American citizens. His directors are Swiss, Italian, and British financiers.

George Soros is part of a tightly knit financial mafia---"mafia," in the sense of a closed masonic-like fraternity of families pursuing common aims. Anyone who dares to criticize Soros or any of his associates, is immediately hit with the charge of being "anti-Semitic"----a criticism which often silences or intimidates genuine critics of Soros's unscrupulous operations. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith considers it a top priority to "protect" Soros from the charges of "anti-Semites" in Hungary and elsewhere in Central Europe, according to ADL National Director Abraham Foxman. The ADL's record of service to the British oligarchy has been amply documented by EIR (e.g. The Ugly Truth About the Anti-Defamation League [Washington, D.C., Executive Intelligence Review: 1992]).

According to knowledgeable U.S. and European investigators, Soros's circle includes indicted metals and commodity speculator and fugitive Marc Rich of Zug, Switzerland and Tel Aviv; secretive Israeli arms and commodity dealer Shaul Eisenberg, and "Dirty Rafi" Eytan, both linked to the financial side of the Israeli Mossad; and, the family of Jacob Lord Rothschild.

Understandably, Soros and the Rothschild interests prefer to keep their connection hidden far from public view, so as to obscure the well-connected friends Soros enjoys in the City of London, the British Foreign Office, Israel, and the U.S. financial establishment. The myth, therefore, has been created, that Soros is a lone financial investment "genius" who, through his sheer personal brilliance in detecting shifts in markets, has become one of the world's most successful speculators. According to those who have done business with him, Soros never makes a major investment move without sensitive insider information.

http://www.seanscreenplays.com/BETENOIR ... lic%5D.htm

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Dr David Kelly's body 'had obviously been moved': Paramedic at death scene reveals concerns over Hutton Inquiry

By: Matt Sandy (sent by Invictus) on: 14.09.2010 [01:08 ] (132 reads)

The paramedic who confirmed the death of Government scientist Dr David Kelly has claimed his body had 'obviously been moved' in the minutes after it was found.

David Bartlett was one of two medics called after the corpse of the weapons expert was discovered in woods near his Oxfordshire home seven years ago. They were among the first on the scene.

The testimony by the experienced paramedics once again brings into doubt the thoroughness of the Hutton Inquiry – in particular raising questions about why police officers were not asked whether they had touched or moved the body.

The former weapons inspector was found dead a week after he was outed as the source of BBC claims that the Government had 'sexed up' a document claiming Saddam Hussein's Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes.

In his interview, 59-year-old Mr Bartlett discloses a further series of irregularities about that day's events, putting yet more pressure on the Government to agree to a full inquest into the scientist's death.

Earlier this month, Attorney General Dominic Grieve requested to see the report of Dr Kelly's post-mortem. He said he would need to see 'new evidence' before applying for a full inquest.

Like many of the witnesses expressing doubts about the Kelly case, Oxfordshire-born Mr Bartlett is far from a conspiracy theorist. A father of three, he has been a dedicated paramedic for 24 years.

His testimony – the first time he has talked in such detail – is crucial, as the civilian volunteer searchers who first found the body said it was leaning against a tree. He said: 'If earlier witnesses said that, then the body had obviously been moved' by the time he got there.

Mr Bartlett backs up claims made by DC Graham Coe – the first policeman on the scene – about how little blood there was around the body. The paramedic said: 'I've seen more blood at a nosebleed than I saw there.'

However, the Hutton Inquiry said that Dr Kelly had bled to death after cutting a small artery in his wrist.




A bizarre meeting with Kelly 'friend'

Mr Bartlett also said that after the body was found the police threw a 'blackout' around the scene – even banning him from speaking to his control room by radio. He says this is the only time it has happened in his long career.

The paramedic also reveals that, a year after the death, he was approached by a stranger in Oxford, who said he was a close friend of Dr Kelly. The man said he recognised Mr Bartlett from media coverage.

Mr Bartlett said: 'He said to me he'd known David Kelly since he was a boy. There was nothing to doubt about him. He told me how Dr Kelly had been a member of the Baha'i faith, and that suicide was against their religion.

'He said, "I'm telling you now, there's no way in the world that guy committed suicide." '

Mr Bartlett refuses to elaborate any further or reveal the man's identity but says he has no doubt he was genuine.

The paramedic gave evidence to the Hutton Inquiry, but said: 'I thought they'd already decided the outcome and wanted someone to confirm it for them. They'd decided it was going to be suicide and that was all cut and dried.

'I wasn't impressed with how it was conducted. It should have been under oath, the photographs of the scene should have been released and they shouldn't have sealed the documents for 70 years.'


First-hand evidence: David Bartlett and fellow paramedic Vanessa Hunt attended the body of Dr Kelly

Dr Kelly, 59, who was one of the world's leading experts on biological and chemical weapons, left his home in the village of Southmoor, Oxfordshire, on the afternoon of July 17, 2003, saying he was going for a walk. The next morning his body was found by volunteer Louise Holmes and a search dog, in nearby Harrowdown Hill woods.

Mr Bartlett and his professional partner, Vanessa Hunt, also a paramedic for many years, had just started their shift at Abingdon ambulance station when they got the emergency call at 9.40am on July 18.

As they arrived they found the area swarming with police – some in blue combats and others in plain clothes. 'You could tell immediately it was something high profile,' he said.

They were met at the scene by Sergeant Alan Dadd and several other officers.

He led them up a bridle path towards the woods, as they carried heavy oxygen cylinders and the equipment needed to treat cardiac arrest.

Eventually, the police led them off the path and into the woods, constructing a 'common approach path' with posts and blue police tape as they accompanied the paramedics.


'I asked the police if he'd fallen out of a tree'

Mr Bartlett said: 'As we approached the scene, it was obvious he was dead. He was lying flat out in the clearing with his bottle of water, knife and watch in line right next to his left arm.

'His left sleeve was rolled up and you could see a wound with some dried blood around it.'

The paramedics checked for a pulse and shone a light into his eyes to check for any pupil reaction. Then – as the police took photos – they unbuttoned his shirt and placed four electrodes on his chest to check his heart.

Having pronounced him dead at 10.07am, they made their way back to their ambulance. But in just a few minutes at the scene Mr Bartlett noted many things that have troubled him ever since.

He said: 'He was lying flat out some distance from the tree. He definitely wasn't leaning against it. I remember saying to the copper, "Are you sure he hasn't fallen out of the tree?"

'When I was there the body was far enough away from the tree for someone to get behind it. I know that because I stood there when we were using the electrodes to check his heart. Later I learned that the dog team said they had found him propped up against the tree. He wasn't when we got there. If the earlier witnesses are saying that, then the body has obviously been moved.'


Clues: Dr Kelly, who was one of the world's leading experts on biological and chemical weapons, left his home to go for a walk

Ms Holmes told the Hutton Inquiry: 'He was at the base of the tree with almost his head on his shoulders, just slumped back against the tree.'

Paul Chapman, who was searching with Ms Holmes, also said: 'He was sitting with his back up against a tree.'

The next man on the scene – DC Coe – told the inquiry: 'The body was laying on its back by a large tree, the head towards the trunk of the tree.'

In an interview with The Mail on Sunday last month, DC Coe added that he thought the head and part of the shoulders were leaning against the tree.

However, the next two police officers, PC Andrew Franklin and PC Martyn Sawyer, both said that when they arrived – just before the paramedics and after DC Coe had guarded the body alone for 25 minutes – Dr Kelly was on his back.

This was also the view given by Dr Nicholas Hunt, the pathologist who examined the body at the scene.


How did Kelly's upright bottle of water remain upright?

Despite the discrepancies, none of the three police officers were asked at the inquiry whether they touched or moved the body, although DC Coe has since denied doing so.

Lord Hutton made no mention of the contradictory evidence in his report's conclusions.

PC Franklin and PC Sawyer would not comment when approached by The Mail on Sunday.

Mr Bartlett has another concern. The Evian water bottle was standing upright no more than six inches from Dr Kelly's left upper arm, and he is amazed that he would have not knocked it over while dying.

He said: 'I said to the copper at the time, "Who stood the bottle of water up or has it been moved?" They said it hadn't been moved. 'For someone lying like that on leaf mould with a bottle of water there, he would have knocked it over while dying, I would have thought. It seemed very odd to me.'

Another point – and one that the two paramedics tried to raise at the Hutton Inquiry – was the lack of blood. Some experts have said for someone to die in the way Dr Kelly is said to have done, they would have to lose several pints of blood, which would most probably spray in all directions.


Death scene: Kelly's body was discovered by volunteer Louise Holmes and a search dog, in Harrowdown Hill woods

Mr Bartlett said: 'I've been to loads of slashed wrists and you always get loads of blood. I would have thought he would have got more blood over him. If he's going to bleed to death, you'll get a fair old bit.

'To me, people rarely commit suicide by slitting their wrists. They'll usually do it and end up in hospital.' But that was not the scene they found. He said: 'There was some blood on his left wrist, a few specks on his shirt and a spot the size of a 10p on his trousers. There was a bit on the nettles and grass but not a lot at all.

'We said at the time we doubted very much he would have died from that wound we saw. When it came out that the autopsy was from blood loss, we were really surprised. I've seen more blood at a nosebleed than I saw there.

'I'm not saying he didn't commit suicide. But there was very little blood for someone who allegedly bled to death.'

Dr Nicholas Hunt, the pathologist who carried out the post-mortem, broke his silence last month to claim there were clots of blood inside the sleeves of his jacket and that much blood soaked into the ground.

Mr Bartlett says he is not in a position to question those claims but said in the case of a slit wrist – even when the victim does not die – there tends to be blood 'everywhere'.

After leaving the woods, the paramedics found the police had implemented a 'news blackout' – meaning they were not even allowed to radio their control room for fear it would be intercepted.

In addition, they were told that as they had been near the body, they would have to wait for a machine to arrive that was able to take their boot prints so they could be ruled out of any future inquiry.

He was later surprised to hear at the inquiry that no footprints at all had been found at the scene.

Mr Bartlett said: 'It was only when we were walking back to the ambulance that we were told who the body was. One of the coppers told us it was going to be front-page news once it got out.

'We were there for an hour under a news blackout. We weren't able to radio our control or anything. That was the only time that happened to me in my 24-year career as a paramedic.'

Mr Bartlett has no doubts there should be a full inquest. He said: 'There are more than enough doubts surrounding the case. It would be interesting to see the photographs from the scene. If they had been shown at the inquiry it would have answered a lot of questions.

'It would have shown there was no blood on the top of him. It would have shown the position of him. It would have shown the distance of the tree from him.'


Kelly: vital report 'is lost'


EXCLUSIVE

By CHRIS HASTINGS

The controversy over the death of Government scientist Dr David Kelly has deepened after ambulance chiefs admitted that a vital medical record relating to the case has vanished.

The South Central Ambulance NHS Trust has lost the Patient Report Form (PRF) completed by paramedic Vanessa Hunt, who attended the scene of the former weapons inspector's death in 2003.

The disclosure will inevitably fuel demands for a full inquest into his death.


Lost record: A Patient Record Form like this was completed for David Kelly - but has since been 'mislaid' from archives

A leading coroner yesterday said that the form is one of the key documents at an inquest as it provides a record of any incident, as recorded at the time. Ambulance crews called upon to give evidence would normally rely only on the information contained in the document.

Dr Michael Powers QC, who is leading the group of doctors campaigning for an inquest into Dr Kelly's death, described the loss of the paperwork as 'quite frankly astonishing'.

He said: 'The fact that such an important document has gone missing simply strengthens the case for an inquest.

'It was clear to everyone at the time that Dr Kelly's death was a very significant event and the value of all contemporaneous documents should have been recognised. All documents should have been carefully copied.'

However, the trust says it can't find either the original document or a copy scanned into its computer system, even though it has a policy of storing such documents for ten years.

And Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who has long maintained that Dr Kelly was murdered, last night described the loss of the file as 'unfortunate to say the least'.

At the Hutton Inquiry into Dr Kelly's death, Ms Hunt and her colleague David Bartlett confirmed that they examined Dr Kelly's body. They said they lifted his eyelids, felt his neck for a pulse and applied a heart monitor to his chest.


Probe: At the Hutton Inquiry into Dr Kelly's death paramedics Vanessa Hunt and David Bartlett confirmed they examined his body

All ambulance crews have to fill out the form for every call-out, irrespective of whether a patient is alive or dead. They record a wide range of medical information including pulse rates, blood pressure and any skin condition.

At the time, the paramedics worked for the Oxfordshire Ambulance Trust, which has since merged with three others to form the South Central Ambulance NHS Trust. A spokeswoman for the trust yesterday confirmed that a form was completed for Dr Kelly, but subsequently lost.

The admission follows a year-long wrangle over a Freedom of Information request for documents concerning Dr Kelly's death.

They included communications between the trust and the paramedics, minutes of any relevant meetings, and all correspondence with the coroner.

After waiting more than the statutory 20 working days deadline for replies, the trust eventually claimed it held no relevant information. A complaint was then lodged with the Information Commissioner. During the course of these follow-up inquiries the trust admitted it had mislaid the PRF.

In his ruling, which will be made public this week, the commissioner states: 'The trust explained that it would have expected to have had a PRF. It explained that this form would only include clinical assessment information about Dr Kelly and would not contain any other information. It explained that this form had been mislaid.

It explained that the information was usually digitised and held electronically by date in its PRF archives.

'However, having checked its system for all the entries on the date of the incident, and the dates one day either side to ensure it was not misfiled, it could not find the relevant form. It was supposed to keep this form for ten years in line with its policy. The Commissioner has checked what this form would contain and is satisfied that it would only contain clinical assessment information.'

The loss of the documents will increase pressure for an inquest into Dr Kelly's death. This week, campaigners will make a formal application to the Attorney General to go to the High Court and demand such an inquest.

The PRF was not listed in the register of evidence supplied to the Hutton Inquiry into Dr Kelly's death. The 2004 report, which concluded that Dr Kelly killed himself by slitting his wrists, was immediately branded a whitewash.

Unanswered concerns include the lack of blood at the scene, even though the inquiry concluded that Dr Kelly bled to death after slashing his wrists. It also recently emerged that Lord Hutton asked the Ministry of Justice to ensure documents relating to the case – including a post-mortem report – stay secret for 70 years.

A spokeswoman for the South Central Ambulance Trust said a PRF for Dr Kelly had been completed but she was under the impression it had been handed to Thames Valley Police. If that was the case the trust should still have kept a copy.

A spokesman for Thames Valley Police was unable to comment last night.

The ambulance spokeswoman said about 500,000 PRFs were completed each year, but it was impossible to say how many went missing.

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[CrackSmokeRepublican]

9/11 and the Criminal Idiot Jew Spitzer
By: Crack_Smoke_Republican on: 12.03.2008 [00:46 ] (1579 reads)
   

Still another Insider Idiot Jew that covered up 9/11. He probably squawked the wrong thing to the wrong people about Israeli crimes (after not getting his cut of the E. European girl money ring). Disgusting, despicable Jews at their worst.

Jewish Ghettos existed for a reason.

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Spitzer's Real Scandal

"Eliot Spitzer is like the good-looking bouncer in a bar, who is secretly dealing drugs," explained forensic microbiologist Mike Copass. We were in a San Diego bar this July, down near the water in Ocean Beach. Copass had acted as a facilitator of San Diego's 9/11 Citizen's Grand Jury, an extra-legal group which mounted a mock trial in April.

Copass has degrees from Stanford and Harvard, and an eager glint in his eye. Despite his preppy appearance, Copass makes some pretty radical allegations: that Eliot Spitzer acted as a firewall, preventing public disclosure of his friends' roles in the anthrax attacks that occurred shortly after 9/11, in addition to facilitating his associates' windfall from the bloated insurance pay-outs at the World Trade Center. He even accuses Spitzer of covering up the real perpetrators of the 9/11 attack itself.

Last fall, Eliot Spitzer was swept into the governor's mansion with 70 per cent of the vote. His public reputation was that of a heroic fighter of white collar crime. Earlier he bragged about being "very close" to Hillary Clinton. He hinted he wouldn't refuse an invitation to run for vice president, if his friend Hillary got the nomination.

But this summer in Albany, the Spitzer façade cracked. Instead of creating consensus, Spitzer's team spent its time plotting to unseat Republican rivals in the Legislature sometimes at the ballot box, sometimes using the police. His own attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, is now investigating the governor's office's misuse of state troopers to monitor political rival Joe Bruno. To minority leader James Tedisco, Spitzer recently snapped, "I'm a fucking steamroller, and I'll roll over you."

No major media outlet has paid attention to the San Diego Citizens Grand Jury's indictments of Rudy Giuliani, or his former "terror-expert" Jerome Hauer. The Megaphone received documents recently that indicate Eliot Spitzer's social connections may be preventing him from investigating 9/11. There's a scandal in Albany, but police spying on Bruno is just the tip of the iceberg.

Spitzer & Silverstein: The Amicus Brief

Prescient New York real estate baron Larry Silverstein became primary lease-holder on the World Trade Center a mere six weeks before 9/11. It had never changed hands before. For a down payment, Silverstein put up only $14 million of his own money, and his friends at the powerful investment bank Blackstone Group kicked in another $111 million. After 9/11, Silverstein demanded a whopping $7 billion insurance payout, in the form of two $3.5 billion payments. He argued the two different plane crashes were two separate "occurrences" of two separate attacks.

The Megaphone has now learned that as attorney general, Spitzer got involved behind the scenes, and in the courts, filing a amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief on Silverstein's behalf on Jan. 15, 2003. For years, this brief languished in the files of the public records room on the 17th floor of the Second Circuit Court in Manhattan, until it was discovered and brought to The New York Megaphone by NYC attorney and author Carl Person. The court ended up agreeing with Spitzer and Silverstein, over-turning the decision of a lower court. Spitzer helped mid-wife a fat compromise and an eventual $4.5 billion payout for Silverstein. The Megaphone's multiple requests for comment from Governor Spitzer were ignored.

Attorney Carl Person told The Megaphone, "I was surprised to see that Spitzer had used his position as attorney general to support one private litigant over another. Normally, this is not done...Silverstein could well have been someone who destroyed evidence concerning the 9/11 events by apparently ordering or consenting to the tearing (pulling) down of 7 WTC and the removal of the debris from his multiple ground leased premises thereafter."

Silverstein's World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed at 5:20 p.m. on 9/11 without being hit by an airplane. Thirty seven eyewitnesses working on the ground as firefighters, EMTs, and reporters, recalled being warned in advance the tower was coming down. The official story however, claims a fire ignited a fuel tank in the building, hastening its sudden collapse.

WTC 7 was the NY headquarters of CIA and the SEC office investigating Enron. 9/11 skeptics believe the building was taken down by controlled demolition. Larry Silverstein himself said in a 2002 episode of PBS's Frontline that on 9/11 he recalled remarking, "Maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it...they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse." Silverstein later claimed that by "pull," he meant removing firefighters, not pulling the building down. However, all firefighters had been "pulled" from the building three hours earlier.

The Kroll Connection

This past August, another scandal radiated from the Spitzer circle. This time it was Nixon's arch-strategist Roger Stone leaving a threatening voice mail for Spitzer's dad, Bernard. Stone allegedly claimed he would subpoena the elder Spitzer for the $5 million in illegal loans Spitzer senior made to his son during his 1998 Attorney General campaign. Stone denied he had made the call. To prove he did, the Spitzer family hired Kroll Associates to trace the call. Why Kroll? Spitzer has a long relationship with this powerful, cryptic security company.

Kroll's CEO on 9/11 was one of Spitzer's old mentors from the Manhattan DA's office, Michael Cherkasky. Cherkasky investigated bank BCCI (which had links to both Islamic terror and the CIA), and the mysterious 1993 World Trade Center (WTC) bombing. Cherkasky's 2002 book Forewarned: Why the Government is Failing to Protect Us, and What We Must Do to Protect Ourselves is a confused mix of fear-mongering and insider's analysis. He sheepishly admits that the CIA was in part culpable for the 1993 WTC bombing, since they helped pull known terrorist "Blind Sheikh" Abdel bin-Rahman into the country. Cherkasky admits the FBI had a mole inside Rahman's 1993 WTC bombing cell, and lays blame for the bombing on the FBI.

After observing the 1993 WTC bombing as an operation penetrated by CIA and FBI, Cherkasky he became head of Kroll, the "the CIA of Wall Street." Kroll took on the management of WTC after the 1993 bombing. Blackstone Group, the same financiers who backed the Larry Silverstein, have also been involved with Kroll, owning big chunks of Kroll stock on occasion, according to SEC reports.

Cherkasky has donated $14,500 to Eliot Spitzer's political campaigns.

The Anthrax Connection

Eliot Spitzer's connection to key 9/11 players extends to fellow life-long Democrat, Jerome Hauer, managing director of Kroll on 9/11. Only Jerome Hauer and his former boss, Rudolph Giuliani, were indicted by the San Diego Citizens Grand Jury.

According to Bay Area News (a San Francisco-bay based publication) and Wikipedia, Jerome Hauer warned the Bush White House to go on Cipro, the anti-anthrax drug, on 9/11/01. Hauer denied this allegation to The Megaphone. The White House did go on Cipro. Six days later, the anthrax attacks started, and sent the country back into paroxysms of terror.

Government watchdog group Judicial Watch demanded to know who warned the Bush White House, but not the public, about anthrax. The White House stonewalled their Freedom of Information Act requests.

"I read that the White House did know, and they went on the anti-biotics," says Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman. He got involved because, "African American employees at Brentwood US Postal Facility were basically left out there to twist in the wind when the white guys up on Capitol Hill got immediate treatment."

Post-9/11, Jerome Hauer went on to be Coordinator of the National Institute of Health's investigation of anthrax deaths. His report blamed Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. That assertion has been widely discredited, since the five deaths in 2001 were from a fine, "weaponized" form of anthrax, the "Ames Strain" that only the U.S. military and U.S. federal government possessed.

On 9/11, Jerome Hauer appeared on television with Dan Rather. Rather posited that the 9/11 attacks must have had state sponsorship. Hauer urged Rather to blame Bin Laden only. When Rather voiced suspicions about the way the buildings fell, Hauer offered that they simply came down because they were hit by a plane. Without an investigation, Hauer somehow knew two major parts of 9/11's official story before it emerged.

Hauer is biological terrorism expert whose resume includes time at Science Applications International Corp (SAIC), a military contractor doing work in nuclear issues and psy-ops, and Bioport, manufacturer of the controversial anthrax vaccine.

Jerry Hauer and anthrax go way back. In May of 1998, he spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations on the topic of "Building a 'Biobomb': Terrorist Challenge." That evening Hauer co-presented on the topic Steven Hatfill. Yes, that Steven Hatfill, the one who later became the FBI's prime suspect in the anthrax mailings. A year after their CFR presentations, Hatfill and Hauer would become coworkers at SAIC's Center for Counterterrorism Technology and Analysis.

Hatfill had worked at Ft. Detrick, the U.S. Army's bio-weapons lab in Maryland. Hatfill was never convicted, nor even prosecuted, for anything. Today he's suing reporters for defamation. On Aug. 15, a judge ruled that five top national reporters would have to reveal confidential government sources who fingered Hatfill.

In his interview with The Megaphone, Hauer repeatedly referred to the Grand Jury as "a bunch of nutjobs" and he defended Steven Hatfill. But when asked directly if Hatfill was innocent, Hauer was less than clear:
"I think that the FBI should not have said anything about Hatfill until they knew more. I do not believe Hatfill is a murderer. And I think Steve Hatfill is very passionate, but I don't think he's a murderer, and I don't believe he did it."

Hauer was not willing to conclusively say that Hatfill was uninvolved in the anthrax attacks, stating, "I'm not going to get into those details."

Of the five people who died from anthrax exposure, one was a New Yorker. Kathy Nguyen, a hospital worker in the Bronx, was a victim of inhalation anthrax. She died alone in a hospital on October 31, 2001.

A 2004 petition gathered 100,000 signatures begging then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to investigate the real source of the 2001 attacks. A Zogby poll that year likewise found that 66 per cent of voters wanted Eliot Spitzer, to tackle these tough questions. What those poll respondents didn't know is that Spitzer can't investigate 9/11 or anthrax. He would have to indict his friends from Kroll, Jerry Hauer and Michael Cherkasky. That's the real scandal.

To listen to Sander Hicks's interview with Jerry Hauer, or see the Spitzer/Silverstein Amicus Brief in full, log onto the new http://www.nymegaphone.com. Your comments are welcome.

© 2007 The New York Megaphone

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[Jenny Lake]

Anthrax Revisited
Filed under: Human Experimentation,Modern History,Psychological War,anthrax,genocide,manufacturing consent — jenniferlake @ 6:18 pm
Tags: anthrax, anthrax attack, biological warfare, September 11

On the seventh day after September 11, 2001, two letters filled with an unusual powder were mailed in central New Jersey, bound for the New York City offices of NBC, addressed to Tom Brokaw and an Editor at the New York Post. At that time, only the perpetrator(s) knew that the second wave of domestic horror begun on 9-11 was underway. Public attention to the "anthrax attacks" did not accrue for another two weeks when a Florida photo-editor, working for American Media Incorporated in Boca Raton, collapsed into a coma and died within 3 days after his admission to the hospital (Oct. 2-5).

   On October 7, 2001, the U.S. declared war on Afghanistan's Taliban for harboring Public Enemy #1, Osama bin Laden. Two days after that, on the 9th, another pair of powdery missives were stamped by the automated sorting machines in the Hamilton, NJ, mail center outside Trenton. These two envelopes were headed for Washington, D.C. bearing the names of Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. They arrived for processing at the USPS's Brentwood Road distribution center where at least one of them, the Daschle letter, was confirmed to have passed through at 7am on Oct.12, three days after mailing. From Brentwood, mail going to Capitol Hill was merely a few hours away from personalized delivery.
   Perhaps the Daschle letter went unnoticed nestled in a stack of mixed material, awaiting the hands of a staffer who fatefully sliced it open on Monday the 15th and released a cloud of aerosolized spores that spilled onto the carpet and even into the neighboring office suite. In the minutes and hours that followed, garbage bag-wielding agents demanded the return of unopened Congressional mail which was whisked away to an impromptu quarantine facility where it sat in isolation for weeks to come. It was not until mid-November that the unopened Leahy letter was found among the quarantine collection, "leaking like a sieve" with a needle-like hole through its paper sheath. Deadliest of the four "recovered" envelopes, the Leahy letter was said to contain a super-weaponized grade of highly refined spores –a powder so dangerous, in fact, that a robot was required to handle it. The 'opening' proceedure was delayed an additional month, to mid-December, until it could be done remotely in a special-made vacumn containment – a box within a box within a box.
    But something more was not right with the Leahy letter. CDC investigator Jim Hayslett had been dispatched to Washington with the task of tracking down this letter which had been "misread" by the Brentwood scanning machine and redirected to the State Department's mail center. It should have received a coded State Department stamp as it returned into the automated routing system –it did not– but spores from the envelope allegedly dirtied the State's mailroom and severely sickened a worker there. It was Hayslett who later learned that the "undelivered" Leahy letter actually did arrive in the Senator's office. A staffer remembered it, he said, and handed it in for collection. Not one single spore was left behind in Leahy's suite.
    Florida's American Media Inc., similarly, showed no anthrax spores in the likeliest of places: the air ducts leading directly from the mailroom "hot zone". The victims's homes were free of spores.  It was reported that the attack's last fatality of five, in Connecticut, died as a result of thrice cross-contamination, emanating from the Leahy letter as it entered the system in New Jersey. A federal panel of medical experts, who were stymied in their deliberations, finally concurred that the 94-year-old must have exposed herself by tearing up her junk mail. They had no evidence, but seldom do inconvenient facts stop official panels from constructing conclusions: that's why we pay them.
 
The official story goes something like this:
Four (4) anthrax-laden letters were sent through the U.S. mail; two, post-marked September 18, went to newsmedia outlets in NYC and two, post-marked October 9, went to Washington Democratic senators. Three of them 'hit the mark' and one was intercepted on its way.
Does this scenario sound like the planes on 9-11?
 
   A great deal of effort was expended by the feds to forge connections between the hijacking terrorists of September 11 and the anthrax attacker(s). In the months immediately post-911, anthrax became the leading suspect highlighting complicity on the part of Iraq, but it could not be proven –so, it must have been an inside job! Months turned into years, the investigation was dubbed with a catchy name (Amerithrax), and the circus focused on a bioweapons researcher who worked for the government and had helped the investigators track the source of the pathogen. The FBI launched the largest investigation in its history –over 9,000 interviews and 5,000 subpeonas– and Dr. Bruce Ivins was the last man standing scrutiny until his suicide on July 29, 2008, on the cusp of a federal indictment. Shortly after, his guilt was posthumously declared and the case was officially closed.
End of story, almost.
   Details of how the bureaucratic negligence of U.S. agencies and contractors which led to the anthrax attacks could be forthcoming any year now. The 'wrongful death' lawsuit concerning  photo-editor Robert Stevens, filed on behalf of his family in 2003, has been permitted to proceed by the courts and is scheduled for another round at the bench sometime in 2011.  If Armageddon and the Dimension Shift don't interrupt the court proceedings, we might get to hear the bitter end of this (approved) tale.
                                Review the evidence at  http://thirdring.wordpress.com/case-by-case-2/
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CHALLENGING THE BASIC ASSUMPTIONS
 
The most basic assumption of all is that "powerfully poisoned" anthrax-filled death threats were sent through the U.S. mail "to kill the American people", as Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer announced. But is it true?
 
Weighing in on the reported news highlights a very strong probability that it is not! A U.S. Postal Inspection Service chief, Roy W. Geffen,  said on October 24 that forensic analysis gave them "confidence that only three letters" were circulated by mail. Details are unavailable in this embarassing circumstance of having four letters officially in hand. But, if the PO was right, which one should we delete?
LETTER #1– (mailed 9-18-01 to the New York Post) The "index patient", who was exceptional among victims for a startlingly brief incubation time, had no memory of the letter. Nobody at the Post knew anything about it until it was "found in the trash", unopened, on October 19. Two more people acquired cutaneous infections 4-6 days later, for a total of 3 victims at the Post.
LETTER #2– (mailed 9-18-01 to Tom Brokaw at NBC, Rockefeller Plaza) was the most confirmed to have arrived but nobody said when or how. Two employees were made sick, and the staffer who opened it was also an exceptional victim in the attack for having her home contaminated.
LETTER #3– (mailed 10-09-01 to Sen. Daschle), opened Monday 10-15 in the Senator's Hart Bldg. office, bore the automated stamps from the Brentwood Rd. center in Washington, and was called "the Face of Satan" by the Ft. Detrick examiner John Ezzell, but was curiously included in this remark: the "tiny amount of material in the first three letters makes the task [of identifying the spore source] even tougher...". There was no illness among Daschle staffers.
LETTER #4– (mailed 10-09-01 to Sen. Leahy), referred to above, and in continuing the remark of the expert investigator on the Daschle letter: ..."That's where the letter to Senator Patrick Leahy could come in handy". Indeed. The Leahy letter was full of anthrax, none of it left behind in his office but officials said there was enough powder to infect tens of thousands of people.
 
Can they explain why there were 22 victims (5 fatalities) and the closure of 22 post offices?
                       Review the evidence at  www.thirdring.wordpress.com/the-letters/
"Tiny amounts" of anthrax, usually called "trace" and "medically insignificant" amounts, were all over the place except, in many cases, where they should have been! The situation was absurd. A positive test one day was negative the next. A confusing series of on-and-off listings ensued. Washington DC mail should have been generally "hot" with spores, but none was reported. Exceptionally, again, were claims of contaminated mail overseas from Washington but not within it. A low-intensity kind of pandemonium settled over the District of Columbia as scattered "trace" amounts appeared here and there, disrupting the functions of government in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 and the Afghani invasion.
Track along with the reports: www.thirdring.wordpress.com/contamination-trail/ .
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WHY SHOULD WE CARE NOW?
 
Disruption in DC during the anthrax scare overlayed the critical days of passage for the Patriot Act which passed the House of Representatives on October 12, 2001 and was signed into law on October 26. Senators complained that they had no time to peruse the weighty legislation. Building closures and displacement only exacerbated the overly daunting task and we live with this "temporary" legislation now, as many knew we would.
   Perhaps more than any other potential threat, "health" emergencies can disposess the citizens of all their civil rights including the right to refuse bodily invasion in the form of medical treatment. The anthrax attack increased the likelihood of bio-attacks in the future, concentrating resources on the (said) countermeasures of necessarily created biowarfare agents. Truckloads of cash and incentives have since poured into bio-research to refurbish biomedical infrastructure and hire pharmaceutical contractors...and they've cleaned up, tightened security, improved data-processing, streamlined protocols and communication, they swear...and this is precisely why we should be paying attention.
   Among the many victories gained since 2001 by police powers, achieved through the 'election' process, was the right of agencies to take DNA samples upon arrest. There are no protections for the taking of DNA – there never were. The protection, it turns out, has always been for the "scientific utopia" that was boldly envisioned in the 1920s and '30s. Restrictive laws against biological experimentation were seen as potentially hamstringing scientific "progress" and actually do not exist. When technology advanced to the point where "cells" were amply substituted for "humans" –sometime in the 1950s– new legal arguments for the definition of "human experimentation" were safely docketed for debate. It is a form of "false antithesis" that was deeply deceptive and misleading in its time. The field of medical ethics was promoted and expanded to sketch out the differences between "you" and the stuff from which you are made. In short, "you" are not your stuff. So when they take your stuff, and you fight back –will they let you fight them?– it wouldn't surprise me if significant reversals to the present policing occurs. They will have already won. Look for the false antithesis.
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Doubts cloud closing of anthrax case

By Peter J Brown

Feb 25, 2010

An investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, described by the Department of Justice as the largest investigation into a bioweapons attack in the country's history, has come to a close. [1]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation released 2,728 pages of its documents on the case, which it undertook with the department and the US Postal Inspection Service. [2]

Five Americans died and 17 others fell ill as the result of exposure to anthrax, shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
 
The person the FBI identified as the perpetrator, Dr Bruce Ivins, committed suicide in 2008 before charges were filed. Ivins worked at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), based at Fort Detrick in Maryland.

In the days after his death, many people who knew Ivins or had unusual encounters with him came forward. One was Ellen Byrne, a wife of one of his colleagues. In an interview with National Public Radio, she related an exchange with Ivins at a party, which took place after some suspect anthrax arrived at USAMRIID for analysis. Apparently, he found the perfect powder fascinating.

"He was leaning over the table, and I was on the other side of the table," Byrne said. "And he leaned forward and was just really excited at how finely milled the powder was."

Ivins gestured with his hands like he was trying to weigh it on a scale and told Byrne: "It couldn't even be weighed - it just hovered. That was the word he used - hovered." [3]

FBI Director Robert Mueller made it clear right from the beginning that the FBI was not ruling out any possibilities [4], while at the same time he explained the enormous scope of the investigation.

"As most of you know, the FBI is investigating anthrax exposures and suspected anthrax exposures in Florida, in New York, here in Washington, DC, and elsewhere around the country where such exposures have been reported," Mueller said in mid-October, 2001. "While organized terrorism has not been ruled out, so far we have found no direct link." Since October 1, the FBI had responded to more than 2,300 incidents or suspected incidents involving anthrax or other dangerous agents, Mueller said. "And as all of you know, an overwhelming majority of these incidents have been false alarms or practical jokes. The FBI will devote whatever resources are necessary to investigate each of these situations." [5]

More than eight years later, there are many critics who do not agree with the FBI's conclusions.

One is Norman Covert, public affairs officer and historian at Fort Detrick from 1977 to 1999, who wrote a column, "White Powder and 007" in 2008. Asked by Asia Times Online if this 2008 column needed updating in light of the FBI's release, Covert said: "With the FBI's latest decision, my words are still apropos."

Here is an excerpt [6]:

# The government mobilized its team of Double-oh (uh-oh!) secret agents seven years ago to identify a villainous mad scientist, who, without genuine motive or opportunity, single handedly: Used a Bio-Containment Level Three lab suite at Fort Detrick's US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), to develop a highly bred, weapons-grade strain of Bacillus anthracis (a scientific achievement not accomplished before, except perhaps in the biological warfare laboratories of the former Soviet Union);
  # Manipulated this super bacillus with a silica coating and a slight electrical charge so that, when opened in the containment cabinet, each particle repelled others in a brilliant display;
  # Ensured each particle was no more than five microns in size so that it would penetrate the fabric of a normal No 10 paper envelope, a product sold by the US Postal Service in the District of Columbia, Northern Virginia, West Virginia and Central Maryland;
    Managed to remove the material from the laboratory with it already placed in at least one envelope, also likely encased in an impermeable container, which would be obscured from the security guard;
  # Managed to avoid leaving any evidence on his clothing, his two automobiles and van, his house, garage, office and other personal items despite the extremely "dirty" potential of the dry agent;
  # Managed, in a fashion unknown to the Department of Homeland Security and the "Double-Ohs", to have the envelopes placed in a mailbox in Princeton, NJ, with a note in a handwriting that cannot be identified with any known person;
  # Managed to obscure this cutting-edge science from a host of colleagues for the entire development period - a major feat in itself!
  # Simultaneously he managed to significantly improve an old anthrax vaccine to protect our troops during Operation Desert Storm; then was a key developer of the new recombinant DNA-based anthrax vaccine that was undergoing efficacy trials at USAMRIID.

By September of 2006, the FBI had 17 special agents assigned to a multi-agency task force that included 10 US Postal Service inspectors. The investigation covered six continents, logged interviews with more than 9,000 witnesses, conducted about 70 searches, and issued 6,000 grand jury subpoenas.

In parallel with its massive field investigation, the FBI spent millions of dollars on a team of US genome experts to undertake a revolutionary new approach to DNA fingerprinting so that the strain of anthrax used in the attacks could be identified and isolated.

Still, this investigation was badly tarnished as a result of the treatment of Dr Steven Hatfill, who had once conducted bioweapons research for the US Army and was identified as "person of interest" yet ultimately was cleared off all charges. Hatfill sued former US Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Department of Justice and the FBI in 2003 for violations of his constitutional rights. In the end, he was paid more than $4 million.
"Dr Hatfill had nothing to do with the horrific anthrax attacks," his attorney Thomas Connolly said at the time. "No evidence links Dr Hatfill to the crime, yet the attorney general and his subordinates have attempted to make him a scapegoat. In the process, they have trampled his constitutional rights and destroyed his life." [7]

The FBI website set up specifically to document the investigation makes no mention of this episode.

Another critic of the FBI findings is Dr Meryl Nass, a leading expert on anthrax and bioterrorism, who first met Ivins in the early 1990s and was in contact with him until 2002. She has testified before the US Congress, but not about the investigation. A Maine-based physician, she runs a blog site - http//anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com - and raises serious questions about what the FBI is presenting.

"There is no question that Ivins was mentally ill. What role the intense surveillance and bullying played to tip him over the edge will never be known. However, multiple reports of highly unprofessional FBI tactics used against Ivins and other scientists - simultaneously - tell me it is important that the defense side of the story be reported," said Nass. "A hoax letter was sent from the UK while Hatfill was there, in what may have been a further attempt to implicate him as the anthrax mailer. I have heard no evidence linking Ivins to the hoax letters that were sent in close proximity to the anthrax-containing letters. Like [US Senator Leahy], I think that if Ivins had something to do with the letters; he was not alone."

Her recent critique of the FBI report includes these four following elements:

# The FBI's Summary states that "only a limited number of individuals ever had access to this specific spore preparation" and that the flask was under Ivins' sole and exclusive control. Yet the body of the report acknowledges hundreds of people who had access to the spores, and questions remain about the location of the spore prep during the period in question;
# The FBI says that only a small number of labs had Ames anthrax, including only three foreign labs. Yet a quick Pub Med search of papers published between 1999 and 2004 revealed Ames anthrax was studied in at least Italy, France, the UK, Israel and South Korea as well as in the US. By failing to identify all labs with access to Ames, the FBI managed to exclude potential domestic and foreign perpetrators;
# The FBI claims that "drying anthrax is expressly forbidden by various treaties", therefore it would have to be performed clandestinely. Actually, the US government sponsored several programs that dried anthrax spores. Drying spores is not explicitly prohibited by the Biological Weapons Convention, though many would like it to be;
# The FBI report claims the anthrax letters envelopes were sold in Frederick [Maryland]. Later it admits that millions of indistinguishable envelopes were made, with sales in Maryland and Virginia." [8]

US Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey sees the investigation's abrupt end as questionable at best.

"This has been a closed-minded, closed process from the beginning. Arbitrarily closing the case on a Friday afternoon should not mean the end of this investigation," Holt said. "The evidence the FBI produced would not, I think, stand up in court. But because their prime suspect is dead, and they're not going to court; they seem satisfied with barely a circumstantial case. The National Academies of Science review of the FBI's scientific methods in this case won't be released until summer, but the FBI doesn't seem to care." [9]

This investigation as well as that of the 9/11 attacks coincided with the evolution of blogging and social networking. Via the rapid proliferation of blogs worldwide, the Internet provided multiple fora for uninformed conspiracy buffs and experts alike. The identities of the participants are masked sometimes, and yet are often out in the open.

On Nass' blogsite, for example, an entry appears in the comments section from Dr Drew Richardson, who retired after a 25-year career as an FBI agent and former scientist in the FBI Laboratory. Richardson was head of the FBI's chemical biological counter-terrorism response unit (known as the HMRU), and he was also involved in "lie detection", or polygraph, research for the FBI.

Contacted by Asia Times Online to verify that he had written the comments, he also made a few additional comments, which he requested not be included here.

"Because I have not participated in this investigation and have not read the bureau's final reporting on the matter, I do not know which matters have been addressed and which have not," Richardson had said. "I do categorically believe that this investigation should remain open as long as there is but a single relevant and outstanding matter having any bearing on who and how many individuals were involved in the commission of these crimes.

"Having been an FBI agent for a quarter of a century and having been involved in case investigations large and small, I can with complete assurance tell you that such conspiracy theories are complete nonsense. It is not that there is no possibility that a single individual might not have some misguided notion or motive that might lead to such, but I can tell you with assurance that there were hundreds of principled individuals working on this case. Any seed of misguided activity would not be hidden from the light of exposure for a single day, let alone for months or years," he added.

Back in November 2001, a New York City Police Department detective named Lucas Miller wrote in the New York Times about the investigation: "Mistakes can be overcome; crime-solving is a long and painstaking process. In the end, it depends a lot on the ability to follow new leads, even as old ones go stale." [10]

He specifically mentioned Kathy T Nguyen, a Vietnamese hospital worker at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, who was the only New Yorker to succumb to anthrax. She died, aged 61, on Halloween night in 2001.

"She might have inhaled random airborne spores somewhere in her travels - in fact, the city has started testing the subways regularly for traces of anthrax - but it's possible she somehow happened on the terrorist's anthrax stash. Perhaps the terrorist intentionally exposed her to spores as an experiment. It's a long shot, but reconstructing her last days might lead FBI agents to a killer," said Miller. "This is typical homicide work. Witnesses and friends have been interviewed. Her phone records and her MetroCard record have been subpoenaed. Video surveillance systems in places she visited will be searched to see if anyone accompanied her."

According to Miller, "success in this investigation - as in any investigation - depends on three variables: the perseverance of the investigators, the resources available, and luck.

"Luck includes the quality of the evidence as well as some cops' talent for 'stumbling' across the perpetrator. As many New Yorkers know, David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer, was caught due in part to the discovery of a parking ticket issued to his car near the scene of one of his crimes," said Miller. "The FBI and local police departments working on these cases are expending resources and manpower not available in ordinary murder cases. But in this crime, as in others they solve, they will still need a good amount of luck.

By the way, the title for Miller's submission more than eight years ago is one that resonates today: "On the Trail of the Anthrax Killers."


Notes
1.) See Justice Department and FBI Announce Formal Conclusion of Investigation into 2001 Anthrax Attacks, February 19, 2010
2.) See Amerithrax Investigation, FBI
3.) See Anthrax Victims' Family Have Questions For FBI , npr, August 5, 2008
4.) See Amerithrax Investigation, FBI
5.) See FBI, Statement of Director Mueller on FBI Investigations into Anthrax Exposures and Suspected Anthrax Exposure, October 16, 2001
6.) See White Powder and 007, Norman M. Covert, The Tentacle, August 27, 2008
7.) See Anthrax 'person of interest' sues Ashcroft, FBI, CNN, August 27, 2003
8.) See Anthrax Vaccine - posts by Meryl Nass, MD, February 19, 2010
9.) See HOLT: AMERITHRAX INVESTIGATION SHOULD CONTINUE, February 19, 2010
10.) See On the Trail of the Anthrax Killers, New York Times, Published February 20, 2010 from archive of November 10, 2001


This article has been updated to include relevant links to cited material.

Peter J Brown is a freelance writer from the US state of Maine.

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Interesting  Jewish Academic person of interest much like the other Jews surrounding the Anthrax attacks... --CSR
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Meryl Nass, M.D.
Physician specializing in chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and Gulf War Illnesses



Dr. Nass is also an expert on anthrax and biological terrorism, and a US authority on adverse reactions due to anthrax vaccine. Dr. Nass has testified on anthrax before three congressional committees and the National Academy of Sciences, and consults widely on bio-terrorism issues. An additional interest focuses on the ways scientific research becomes perverted for political and economic ends. Her weekly column appears in http://www.RedFlagsWeekly.com ; her own web site is http://www.anthraxvaccine.org

Read more about Dr. Nass

http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/28/88/

Meryl Nass, M.D.



Overview of Professional Areas

•   Complex disorders: treated over 700 multi-symptom syndrome (fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, Gulf War syndrome) patients since 1999; treated dozens of patients referred for difficult-to-diagnose disorders
•   Internal Medicine: 12 years' inpatient and outpatient management
•   Emergency Medicine: 12 years' prior experience
•   Expert: bioterrorism, biodefense, anthrax, anthrax vaccine injuries



Consulting and Advising (chronologic from the present)

•   Chairperson, Maine Legislative Commission to Protect the Lives and Health of Members of the Maine National Guard
•   Microsoft Research Laboratory
•   Brighton Collaboration
•   Member, Director of National Intelligence's 2008 Summer Hard Problem Program
•   MedaCorp
•   Office of Human Research Protection, National Institutes of Health
•   Unsolved Mysteries (television program)
•   Epotec
•   Inter-American Development Bank (World Bank affiliate)
•   Medcases Inc.
•   General Accounting Office/ Government Accountability Office
•   Citizen Soldier
•   Member, Federation of American Scientists' Working Group on Investigation of Alleged Use or Release of Biological or Toxin Weapons Agents
•   Cuban Ministry of Health
•   Physicians for Social Responsibility
•   Council for Responsible Genetics
•   Traprock Peace Center


Medical Advisory Board Member

•   Alliance for Human Research Protection, New York, NY
•   Center for Human Genetics, Bar Harbor, ME
•   Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, CA
•   National Military and Biodefense Vaccine Project, Vienna, VA
•   National Vaccine Information Center, Vienna, VA
•   Protecting Our Guardians, Birmingham, AL
•   United Movement to End Child Soldiering, Washington, DC


Reviewer

•   American Hospital Formulary Service Drug Information Yearbook
•   BioMedCentral
•   Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy
•   Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
•   Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
•   Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
•   Nature Reviews Immunology
•   SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) Yearbook
•   The Lancet
•   The Medical Letter


Testimonies

   Meeting, VA Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses. "Symptom Patterns and Treatment Methods for Gulf War Syndrome." June 29, 2009. (Oral and powerpoint/ handouts). http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/Minute ... ation6.pdf
   Hearing, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. "Gulf War Illnesses." September 25, 2007. (Oral and written). http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dc3wqmd7_286w6z99
   Hearing, House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Health. "Gulf War Illnesses, Anthrax Vaccine, and Steps Toward Improving DVA Healthcare and Research for Gulf War Veterans." July 26, 2007. (Oral and written). http://merylnass.googlepages.com/writte ... -26-07.doc
   Hearing, Senate HELP Subcommittee on Health and Bioterrorism, "Bioshield 2: Next Steps." February 8, 2005. (Written). http://www.ahrp.org/testimonypresentati ... se0205.php
   Hearing, Independent Inquiry on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses. "Anthrax Vaccine and Gulf War veterans' illnesses." September 1, 2004.  London, England. (Oral and written). http://www.lloyd-gwii.com/admin/Managed ... 202004.doc
   Meeting, Office of Human Research Protection, Department of Health and Human Services "Ethical and Scientific Concerns in an ARDS Network Trial." June 10, 2003.  (Oral and written). http://www.ahrp.org/testimonypresentati ... /nass.html
   Joint Hearing, Massachusetts State Legislature.  "Mandatory National Guard Vaccinations." May 15, 2003. (Oral)
   Hearing, House Committee on Government Reform. "Preparing a Medical Response to Bioterrorism." November 14, 2001. (Written)   http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/response.htm
   Meeting, Institute of Medicine Committee on Anthrax Vaccine Safety and Efficacy. October 3, 2000. (Oral and written).  http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/IOMtalk.htm
   Meeting, Institute of Medicine Committee on Health Effects Associated with Exposures During the Persian Gulf War. December 15, 1999. (Oral and written).
   Hearing, House Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations. "Executive Order 13139: Strengthening Oversight of Investigational Products." November 9, 1999. (Written). http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/doc1.htm
   Hearing, House Military Personnel Subcommittee. "Anthrax Vaccine Issues: Clearing the Air." September 30, 1999. (Written). http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/Testimonies.html
   Hearing, House Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations. "Anthrax Vaccine: Safety, Efficacy and Legality." April 29, 1999. (Oral and written).  http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/Testimonies.html


Publications

1.   Nass M. Letter. Data vs. Conclusions in the Optic Neuritis Vaccination Investigation. Arch Neurol, 2006; 63: 1809-1810.
2.   Schumm WR and Nass M. The FDA's acceptance of Brachman's 1950's anthrax research:  Good politics? Maybe. Good science? No. Medical Veritas 2006; 3: 747-52.
3.   Nass M. Letter. Safety of the smallpox vaccine among military recipients.
JAMA., 2003; 290:2123-4.
4.   Nass M. Anthrax Vaccine: Caveat Emptor (Let the Buyer Beware). Current Treatment Options in Infectious Disease, 2003; 5: 361-4.
5.   Nass M and Nicholson G. Anthrax Vaccine: Historical Review and Current Controversies. Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, 2002; 12: 277-86.  http://www.immed.org/publications/gulf_ ... 002ss.html
6.   Nicholson GL, Berns P, Nasrall MY, Haier J, Nicholson NL and Nass M. Gulf War Illnesses: Chemical, Biological and Radiological Exposures Resulting in Chronic Fatiguing Illnesses Can Be Identified and Treated. J Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2003; 11:135-154. http://www.immed.org/publications/gulf_ ... _JCFS.html
7.   Nass M. Author Reply. American Journal of Public Health, 2002; 92: 1708-9. http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/CV/AJPH_l ... hange.html
8.   Nass M. Anthrax Vaccine Not Safe and Effective (letter). Emergency Medicine News, July 2002; 24: 44. http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/emn.html
9.   Nass M. The Anthrax Vaccine Program, and an Analysis of the CDC's Recommendations for Vaccine Use. American Journal of Public Health, 2002; 92: 715-21.  http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/CV/AJPH_May2002.html
10.   Nass M. Who is Protecting the Public Health? Z Magazine, April 2002; 14: 7-10.  http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/april02nass.htm
11.   Nass M. Anthrax Threat is Real (letter). Technology Review, October 2001; 104: 2 MIT. http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/CV/Techno ... etter.html
12.   Nicholson GL, Nass M, Nicholson NL. The Anthrax Vaccine Controversy—Questions about its Efficacy, Safety and Strategy. Medical Sentinel, 2000; 5: 97-101. http://www.haciendapub.com/article43.html
13.   Nicholson GL, Nass M, Nicholson NL. Anthrax Vaccine: Controversy Over Safety and Efficacy. Antimicrobics and Infectious Disease Newsletter, 2000; 18:1-6. http://www.immed.org/publications/gulf_ ... 18-00.html
14.   Nass M. Should the Military Suspend Its Anthrax Vaccine Program? Physicians Weekly, June 19, 2000; 17:1.
15.   Nass M. The Anthrax Dilemma: Safety Issues Revisited. Medicine and Global Survival, 1999; 6: 54. http://www.ippnw.org/MGS/V6N1AnthraxUpdate.html
16.   Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: A 1999 Consensus. Archives of Environmental Health, 1999; 54, 147–149. http://www.scienceblog.com/community/ol ... 01461.html
17.   Nass M. Biological Warfare and Vaccines: Anthrax. Applied Science and Analysis Newsletter, April 15, 1999: 10-11, continued in later issues.
18.   Nass M. Anthrax vaccine: Model of a response to the biological warfare threat. Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 1999; 13: 187-208. http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/AVmodel.htm
19.   Sidel V, Nass M, Ensign T. The Anthrax Dilemma. Medicine and Global Survival, 1998; 5: 97-104. http://www.ippnw.org/MGS/V5N2Anthrax.html
20.   Nass M. Will anthrax vaccine help prevent biological warfare? Defense Systems International, Fall 1998. 35-39. (reprint of number 21). http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/CV/Defens ... ional.html
21.   Nass M. Biological Warfare (letter). The Lancet, 1998; 352: 491-2. http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/CV/Lancet_1998.html
22.   Nass M. Anthrax Vaccine and the Prevention of Biological Warfare? Applied Science and Analysis Newsletter, April 30, 1998: 1, 23-25, 32.
23.   Report of the Subgroup on Investigation of Alleged Use or Release of Biological or Toxin Weapons Agents. Federation of American Scientists Working Group on Biological Weapons Verification, April 1996. http://www.fas.org/bwc/papers/report.html
24.   Nass M. The Choice is Between Arms Control and Abolition. Medicine and Global Survival, 1995; 2: 180-181. http://www.ippnw.org/MGS/V2N3CWForum.html
25.   Nass M. Germ Warfare: Time Now for Verifiable Disarmament (Op-Ed). Interpress News Service (syndicated), March 1993.
26.   Nass M. Anthrax Epizootic in Zimbabwe 1978-1980: Due to Deliberate Spread? PSR Quarterly, 1992; 2: 198-209. http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/zimbabwe.html
27.   Nass M. Zimbabwe's Anthrax Epidemic. Covert Action Information Bulletin, 1992; 43: 12-18, 61.
28.   Nass M. Can Biological, Toxin, and Chemical Warfare Be Eliminated? Politics and the Life Sciences, 1992; 11: 30-32. http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/CV/Pol_Life_Sci_1992.html
29.   Nass M. Author reply. PSR Quarterly, 1991; 1: 230.
30.   Nass M. The Labyrinth of Biological Defense. PSR Quarterly, 1991; 1: 24-30.
31.   Nass M, Langford HG, Jackson JF, Parent AD. Acromegaly. Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association, 1985; 26: 251-255.
32.   Zeitlin M, Masangkay M, Consolacion M, Nass M. Breastfeeding and Nutritional Status in Depressed Areas of Greater Manila, Phillippines. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 1978; 7: 103-113.
33.   Grant CK, Adams EP, Nass M. Appearance of Cytolytic Antibodies in Sheep Lymph Following Immunisation with Tumour Cells: Identification of Antibody Subclasses. Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science, 1976; 53: 381-387.  

Dr. Nass' papers have been included in the curricula at Stanford Medical School, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and other graduate and undergraduate programs.
 

Books that have discussed Dr. Nass' work:

1.   Coen, Bob and Eric Nadler.  Dead Silence. Counterpoint Press, 2009.
2.   Benedict, Helen. The Lonely Soldier. Beacon Press, 2009.
3.   Nikiforuk, Andrew. Pandemonium: How Globalization and Trade are Putting the World at Risk. University of Queensland Press, 2007.
4.   Wheelis, Mark, Lajos Rózsa and Malcolm Dando. Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945. Harvard University Press, 2006.
5.   Mwaura, Ndirangu. Kenya Today: Breaking the Yoke of Colonialism in Africa. Algora Publishing, 2005.
6.   Schneider BR and Davis JA, Eds. The War Next Time: Countering Rogue States and Terrorists Armed with Chemical and Biological Weapons. USAF Counterproliferation Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, 2004. (See Chapter 5: "Pointing the Finger:  Unclassified Methods to Identify Covert Biological Warfare Programs." Dorothy L. DuBois).
7.   Swiderski RM. Anthrax:  A history. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2004.
8.   Frese, Pamela R and Margaret C. Harrell. Anthropology and the United States Military: Coming of Age in the Twenty-first Century. Macmillan, 2003. (See Capter 2: Guillemin J. Medical Risks and the Volunteer Army.)
9.   Graysmith R. Amerithrax: the hunt for the anthrax killer. Berkley 2003.
10.   Gould C and Folb P. Project Coast: Apartheid's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme. United Nations Publications, 2002.
11.   Heemstra, Thomas S. Anthrax: A Deadly Shot in the Dark. Crystal Communications, 2002.
12.   Weintraub, Pamela. Bio-terrorism: How to Survive the 25 Most Dangerous Biological Weapons. Citadel Press, 2002.
13.   Burgess, Steven and Helen Purkitt. The Rollback of South Africa's Biological Warfare Program. US Air Force Institute for National Security Studies, 2001.
14.   Carus, W. Seth. Bioterrorism and Biocrimes. Center for Counterproliferation Research, National Defense University, 2001.
15.   Parents' Committee for Public Awareness. Anthrax, A Practical Guide for Citizens. Harvard Perspectives Press, 2001.
16.   Johnson, Alison. Gulf War Syndrome, Legacy of a Perfect War. MCS Information Exchange, 2001.
17.   Diodati, Catherine. Immunization: History, Ethics, Law and Health. Integral Aspects Incorporated, 2000.
18.   Mangold, Tom and Jeff Goldberg. Plague Wars: The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfare. St. Martin's Press, 1999.
19.   Scientific Aspects of Control of Biological Weapons. The Royal Society, 1994.

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[CrackSmokeRepublican]

A lone anthrax mailer? Skeptics question FBI case
By Matt Apuzzo
Associated Press Writer / August 13, 2008


WASHINGTON—The story has all the ingredients for a good conspiracy theory: a killer germ created in a secret government lab, a government on the brink of war, a murder investigation with unanswered questions and a suspect who committed suicide before he could be charged.

The Justice Department considers the 2001 anthrax attacks solved, but for skeptics and conspiracy theorists, it's far from over.

It has been a week since authorities laid out much of their case against Bruce Ivins, a psychologically troubled Army scientist who killed himself as prosecutors prepared to charge him as the lone anthrax killer. Since then, armchair investigators, bloggers and scientists have pored over hundreds of pages of documents and circulated their own ideas about what happened.

"I think it's going to be one of the great conspiracy theories, like whether we landed on the moon or whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone" in assassinating President Kennedy, said Edward Lake, a retired Wisconsin computer specialist whose Web site has for years been one of the most comprehensive repositories for analysis on the anthrax case.

The ideas being kicked around run from the slightly suspicious to the farfetched. Some are meticulously researched, others thrown together with little if any documentation. For the most part, they fit into one of three categories, which sometimes overlap:

--Scientific skeptics want to know more about the DNA analysis the FBI used to focus on Ivins and exactly how investigators ruled out others in the biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md. Some former co-workers who question whether Ivins could have carried out the anthrax letter attacks, which killed five people in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Others simply believe Ivins was an easy target, and they want more evidence from the FBI.

"There are a lot of people in science who are weird or unstable," said Courtney Hodges, a biophysics graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley who blogs about science and culture at HodgesLab.org. "I don't consider myself among the hardcore conspiracy theorists, that this is a total cover-up. It looks more like bungled investigation."

--Watchdogs and others recall the Bush administration asserting a rock-solid case for war in Iraq, only to find glaring holes in the intelligence. They note that the anthrax attacks helped drum up support for war and they question whether Ivins is a convenient way to make the case disappear.

Glenn Greenwald, a columnist at Salon.com, has tugged at the holes in the government's evidence and called for a full accounting of the case. Meryl Nass, a Maine doctor who runs an anthrax-related Web site, says she doesn't know whether Ivins was involved but says she knows who benefited: biotech and pharmaceutical companies, neoconservatives and those who supported more wartime executive authority.

"These are people with what appears to be a potential significant motive," Nass said. "Were I an FBI agent, I would be investigating them to see whether they actually had means and opportunity to carry out an attack like this."

--Conspiracy theorists believe the government was behind the attacks. Some believe the anthrax letters were part of a "false flag" covert operation, in which the U.S. government plotted against its citizens to win public support for war. Often, that story line ends with the government killing Ivins to cover its tracks and close the case.

"They didn't decide to pin the job on Bruce Ivins after they sent out the anthrax letters, they had already decided on using him beforehand," Ken Adachi, editor of the site Educate-Yourself.org, wrote last week in a posting entitled, "Bruce E. Ivins, The Government's Latest Fall Guy."

Others, especially anti-Jewish writers, blame the attack on a Zionist plot, with the anthrax being smuggled out a decade earlier by a Jewish scientist caught sneaking into the lab late at night. (...like start the Iraq War for Israel with Benador Associates promoting the bogus Jewish Yellow Cake--CSR)

One flaw in that theory is that the scientist is not Jewish -- at least not according to his wedding announcement, which said he was Catholic. Another is that, according to the FBI's genetic analysis, the deadly anthrax wasn't created until years later -- by Ivins.

University of Florida law professor Mark Fenster, an author of a book on conspiracy theories, said the anthrax case is perfect for conspiracy theorists because it is "as dangerous as it could possibly be and also deeply mysterious." The Bush administration's penchant for secrecy doesn't help, nor does its intelligence failures on Iraq, he said.

There are also several unanswered questions that the FBI can only theorize about. For instance, investigators can't place Ivins in New Jersey when the letters were mailed. And they can't say for sure how he could have converted the anthrax into a powder, a process other scientists said would have been difficult to perform without being noticed.

And then there's Ivins, who cannot defend himself.

"It's almost a generic aspect of conspiracy theories that some of the most important witnesses, or the fall guy for that matter -- think Lee Harvey Oswald -- is now dead because they can't contradict or complicate a conspiracy theory," Fenster said.

Hodges, the graduate student, said the Ivins case reminds him of the mysterious death of another Army former Fort Detrick scientist, Frank Olson. The official explanation was that in 1953, Olson unwittingly took LSD in a CIA experiment and leaped to his death from a 13th-floor window. His family says he was murdered to maintain secrets about government weapons programs.

As for Ivins, Hodges said a biologist would have known that a Tylenol overdose is a long and painful way to commit suicide.

Capitol Hill lawmakers have pledged to investigate the anthrax attacks and the FBI's response to them. Congressional hearings will answer some questions. Others may never be answered.

Lake, who runs the Web site AnthraxInvestigation.com, says the evidence so far suggests Ivins was the anthrax killer, even though it runs counter to his long-held theory that two men acted together.

But he wants to know more about the genetic analysis. He wants to know whether the anthrax really was "weaponized" as suggested early in the case and, if so, how Ivins learned how to do it. Those questions will silence some critics, he said, but not all.

"I've seen the theories that he was a pawn like Lee Harvey Oswald. That's going to be hard to disprove," he said. "How do you disprove that a dead man was not a puppet being manipulated by the CIA? You're talking about proving a negative. You can't prove aliens didn't mail the letters."

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On the Net:

Justice Department documents: http://www.usdoj.gov/amerithrax/

Analyzing the Anthrax Attacks: http://www.AnthraxInvestigation.com

Educate Yourself: http://educate-yourself.org/cn/fbianthr ... ug08.shtml

HodgesLab: http://www.HodgesLab.org

Dr. Meryl Nass' Blog: http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washi ... ?page=full

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

This story was low on the radar but likely ties back to Benador affiliated and Pro-NeoCon spokesman (and likely agent) Mansoor Ijaz. -- CSR


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Mansoor Ijaz

(born in 1961) is a prominent businessman of Pakistani ancestry, a financier, and a media commentator on terrorism, mostly in relation to Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan.[1] He is the founder and chairman of Crescent Investment Management LLC, a New York investment partnership since 1990 that includes James Alan Abrahamson, former director of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.

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Part 2 of Truth, Lies, and The Legend of 9/11: Truth Lies Legend

We may never know the true motivation that set Daniel Pearl on a quest that would ultimately lead to his grisly demise. However, thanks to an invaluable article by Robert Sam Anson in the [WWW]August 2002 issue of Vanity Fair, we do know which key player was involved in guiding him on his quest for knowledge.

Mansoor Ijaz is not a man widely known outside his circle, but his intimate connections run deep in Washington's power circles. A counter-terror expert, [WWW] a member of the Council On Foreign Relations, a Fox News analyst, as well as a business partner of former CIA Director Woolsey,James, Ijaz is represented by the public relations firm of Benador Associates, whose client list reads like a "who's who" of the propaganda heavy-hitters who were pushing for a war in Iraq - Richard Perle (former Chairman of the Defense Policy Board), Woolsey (also a member of the Defense Policy Board), Iraqi scientist ( and chronicler of Saddam's weapons program) Khidir Khamza, former Washington Times publisher (and UPI chief) Arnaud De Borchgrave, anti-Saddam author Laurie Mylroie, Harvard professor/CIA associate Richard Pipes (mentor of Mylroie, and father of Daniel Pipes), and Frank Gaffney, president of the hard-right [ [WWW] CSP Center For Security Policy] (of which Perle and Woolsey are on the advisory council).

The interlocking relationships of members of this clique - or "crew", in the parlance of organized crime - is indeed a testament to the power of networking, yet the astonishing scope of their most recent activities - both in the lead-up to and aftermath of 9/11 - is perhaps indicative of a more covertly sinister tint in the psychological makeup of some members of the political "power elite."

Ijaz's frequent writing partner, James Woolsey, for example, was one of just 17 participants in a July 2001 bio-warfare exercise dubbed DarkWinter, a simulation of a mass smallpox attack, co-sponsored by the [WWW] ANSER Institute of Homeland Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Among the other participants was Benador client Arnaud De Borchgrave and New York Times journalist Judith Miller, who had co-authored a book with Benador client Mylroie in the early '90's. Mylroie's book - an attempt at linking Iraq to 9/11 - was released just weeks after September 11 with a foreword written by James Woolsey. Around the same time, Judith Miller had just launched her own well-publicized book on the germ warfare threat - within a week or two of her own well-publicized role as one of the very few recipients of an "anthrax" mailing (which turned out not to be anthrax). (See Anthrax Attacks -ed.)

As for the anthrax threat, a major principal in the company that holds the exclusive license for the anthrax vaccine is former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff William Crowe, whose business associate in the consulting firm Global Options is - you guessed it - James Woolsey.

As for the present smallpox threat, the man charged with overseeing President Bush's mass vaccination policy was another "Dark Winter" alumnus, Jerome Hauer. Hauer, a former director of Kroll Associates - the security firm at the helm when the Twin Towers fell - is also the man who personally pulled strings in order to get senior FBI official John O'Neill his job as head of security at the World Trade Center. O'Neill, who had left a 30-year career in the FBI only two weeks before September 11, had perished in the rubble of the Twin Towers on his very first day at the post. Incidentally, O'Neill just happened to have been the main FBI official in charge of investigating all things bin Laden.

http://911review.org/Wiki/TruthLiesPearl.shtml


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Islamabad confirms two anthrax letter attacks

War on Terrorism: Bioterrorism

By Richard Lloyd Parry

Saturday, 3 November 2001

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 15758.html

There have been at least two confirmed cases of anthrax-laden letters in Pakistan, officials in Islamabad said yesterday.

Anthrax found in letter sent to Pakistani paper

Two incidents of anthrax-laden letters have been confirmed in Pakistan, officials in Islamabad said yesterday.

The latest was sent to the country's biggest newspaper, the Urdu language Daily Jang in Karachi. The editor, Mehmood Shah, said: "We have received a press release envelope which contained white powder. It has tested positive for containing anthrax spores."

Dr Mohammed Tasleem, of the Aga Khan Hospital in Karachi, said the white powder, received by the Daily Jang on 23 October, tested positive. The newspaper has received other suspicious powder but none tested positive. None of the staff has shown signs of anthrax and those who were near by when the letter was opened have been put on antibiotics.

Major-General Rashid Qureishi, a government spokes-man, said there had been one other case at a computer business. Reuters reported another confirmed case at a Pakistani bank in Karachi. The envelopes were delivered at least a week ago but details appear to have been covered up to avert panic.

Two weeks ago, Pakistani employees at the British High Commission in Islamabad were sent to a clinic after an envelope containing white powder arrived there. There was no sign that it contained anthrax.

One floor of the Daily Jang's office has been closed and signs reading "Anthrax Zone" taped to the doors. Employees in the newspaper worked in surgical masks and plastic gloves.

The Pakistani government of General Pervez Musharraf has come in for outspoken criticism from pro-Taliban Muslims for giving its support to the US-British bombing of Afghanistan. There have been isolated incidents of violence and a few deaths but yesterday the regular Friday demonstrations attracted the smallest numbers of protesters since the bombing.

Also:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asi ... ory=102970

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Riddle of missing fingerprints on Dr David Kelly's 'overdose' pill packs
By: Miles Goslett (sent by Invictus) on: 10.12.2010 [00:30 ] (85 reads)
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Fresh doubts have been raised over how Dr David Kelly died after police admitted no fingerprints were found on the packs of pills he supposedly overdosed on.

The public inquiry into Dr Kelly's death found the weapons expert killed himself by slashing his wrist with a pruning knife and taking 'an excess amount of co-proxamol tablets'.

Three blister packs of the painkiller, each able to hold ten pills, were retrieved from Dr Kelly's coat pocket when his body was found in woods near his home.
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Fresh controversy: Dr Kelly is said to have killed himself after being named as the prime source of a BBC report accusing Tony Blair's government of lying to take Britain into war. But the lack on fingerprints on the pill packets cast fresh doubt

Only one tablet remained, leading his post mortem examination report to state he may have taken up to 29 pills.

Co-proxamol ingestion is listed as a cause of death on his death certificate.

But Thames Valley Police has now revealed that when it tested two of the blister packs for fingerprints there were 'none recovered'.

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The development is doubly significant because police have already said the knife which Dr Kelly is said to have used to cut his wrist did not have fingerprints on – nor did an open bottle of water found beside his body.

The lack of fingerprints on these items is particularly difficult to explain given that Dr Kelly was not wearing gloves when his body was recovered on July 18, 2003. No gloves were found at the scene.

Dr Kelly is said to have killed himself after being named as the prime source of a BBC report accusing Tony Blair's government of lying to take Britain into war.

Uniquely, for an unexpected death such as his, no coroner's inquest has ever been held.


Confusion: None of the exhibits - the water bottle nor the pill packets - was presented as evidence to the inquiry headed by Lord Hutton, pictured

The idea that Dr Kelly took pills of any description has long been contested by those who knew him.

Mai Pederson, a U.S. military official who worked with Dr Kelly in Iraq in the 1990s, has told the Mail he suffered from 'unexplained dysphagia' – a syndrome that can make it almost impossible to swallow pills. Friends have confirmed this.

Police have also revealed the half litre bottle of water found next to Dr Kelly's body had 111ml of water left in it, triggering questions about the likelihood that he could have swallowed 29 pills with the aid of 389ml of water – about half a pint.

Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show that the third co-proxamol blister pack was not subjected to a fingerprint search but was 'reserved for DNA' with a 'full profile of Dr Kelly obtained'.

But this unspecified DNA evidence – which could for example be blood or sweat – does not explain the lack of prints on the first two packs.

Fingerprint expert Peter Swann, said: 'Fingerprint testing is a complex area. It is surprising no prints were found on any of these items.

'It is possible there were no prints but it would be advisable to have the exhibits re-examined by an independent expert.'

It is not known if any of the exhibits have been destroyed. None of the exhibits was presented as evidence to the Hutton Inquiry.

Attorney General Dominic Grieve is currently considering whether there is sufficient new evidence to apply to the High Court for an inquest into Dr Kelly's death.

Dr Michael Powers QC, who represents a group of doctors campaigning for an inquest, said: 'The fact no fingerprints were recovered is odd to say the least.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ed-on.html

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

It was all orchestrated by the NeoCons.  Reminds me of Colin Powell's attempted cover up of the My Lai massacre which failed. --CSR


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Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball's WMD lies

Former US secretary of state asks why CIA failed to warn him over Iraqi defector who has admitted fabricating WMD evidence


    * Ed Pilkington in New York, Helen Pidd in Berlin and Martin Chulov
    * guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 16 February 2011 21.45 GMT

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi aka Curveball Curveball or Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi who gave dubious information on Iraq's secret biological weapons programme. Photograph: David Levene

Colin Powell, the US secretary of state at the time of the Iraq invasion, has called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain why they failed to alert him to the unreliability of a key source behind claims of Saddam Hussein's bio-weapons capability.

Responding to the Guardian's revelation that the source, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi or "Curveball" as his US and German handlers called him, admitted fabricating evidence of Iraq's secret biological weapons programme, Powell said that questions should be put to the US agencies involved in compiling the case for war.

In particular he singled out the CIA and the Defence Intelligence Agency – the Pentagon's military intelligence arm. Janabi, an Iraqi defector, was used as the primary source by the Bush administration to justify invading Iraq in March 2003. Doubts about his credibility circulated before the war and have been confirmed by his admission this week that he lied.

Powell said that the CIA and DIA should face questions about why they failed to sound the alarm about Janabi. He demanded to know why it had not been made clear to him that Curveball was totally unreliable before false information was put into the key intelligence assessment, or NIE, put before Congress, into the president's state of the union address two months before the war and into his own speech to the UN.

"It has been known for several years that the source called Curveball was totally unreliable," he told the Guardian . "The question should be put to the CIA and the DIA as to why this wasn't known before the false information was put into the NIE sent to Congress, the president's state of the union address and my 5 February presentation to the UN."

On 5 February 2003, a month before the invasion, Powell went before the UN security council to make the case for war. In his speech he referred to "firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails ... The source was an eyewitness who supervised one of these facilities". It is now known that the source, Janabi, made up the story.

Curveball told the Guardian he welcomed Powell's demand. "It's great," he said tonight. "The BND [German intelligence] knew in 2000 that I was lying after they talked to my former boss, Dr Bassil Latif, who told them there were no mobile bioweapons factories. For 18 months after that they left me alone because they knew I was telling lies even though I never admitted it. Believe me, back then, I thought the whole thing was over for me.

"Then all of a sudden [in the run up to the 2003 invasion] they came back to me and started asking for more details about what I had told them. I still don't know why the BND then passed on my information to the CIA and it ended up in Powell's speech.

"I want there to be an inquiry so that people will know the truth. So many lies have been told about me over the years. I finally want the truth to come out."

Powell has previously expressed regret about the role he unwittingly played in passing on false information to the UN, saying it had put a blot on his career. But his latest comments increase pressure on the intelligence agencies and their former chiefs to divulge what they knew at the time and why they failed to filter out such a bad source.

George Tenet, then head of the CIA, is particularly in the firing line. He failed to pass on warnings from German intelligence about Curveball's reliability.

Tenet put out a statement on his website in response to Curveball's admission. He said: "The handling of this matter is certainly a textbook case of how not to deal with defector provided material. But the latest reporting of the subject repeats and amplifies a great deal of misinformation."

Tenet refers to his own 2007 memoir on the war, At the Centre of the Storm, in which he insists that the first he heard about Curveball's unreliability was two years after the invasion – "too late to do a damn thing about it".

In the light of Curveball's confession, politicians in Iraq called for his permanent exile and scorned his claim to want to return to his motherland and build a political party. "He is a liar, he will not serve his country," said one Iraqi MP. In his adopted home of Germany, MPs are demanding to know why the BND, paid Curveball £2,500 a month for at least five years after they knew he had lied.

Hans-Christian Ströbele, a Green MP, said Janabi had arguably violated a German law which makes warmongering illegal. Under the law, it is a criminal offence to do anything "with the intent to disturb the peaceful relations between nations, especially anything that leads to an aggressive war", he said. The maximum penalty is life imprisonment, he added, though he did not expect it would ever come to that.

Curveball told the Guardian he was pleased to have finally told the truth. He said he had given the Guardian's phone number to his wife and brother in Sweden "just in case something happens to me".

Further pressure on the CIA came from Lawrence Wilkerson, Powell's chief of staff at the time of the invasion. He said Curveball's lies raised questions about how the CIA had briefed Powell ahead of his fateful UN speech.

Tyler Drumheller, head of the CIA's Europe division in the run-up to the invasion, said he welcomed Curveball's confession because he had always warned Tenet that he may have been a fabricator.

Tenet has disputed Drumheller's version of events, insisting that the official made no formal warning to CIA headquarters.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/fe ... -curveball


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Curveball doubts were shared with CIA, says ex-German foreign minister

Joschka Fischer accuses former CIA chief George Tenet over his knowledge of Iraqi defector's sketchy background

    * Helen Pidd in Berlin
    * guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 February 2011 14.08 GMT

Joschka Fischer at the launch of his Iraq war memoir, I Am Not Convinced, in Berlin. Joschka Fischer at the launch of his Iraq war memoir, I Am Not Convinced, in Berlin. Photograph: Wolfgang Kumm/AFP/Getty Images

Germany's former foreign minister Joschka Fischer has accused the former head of the CIA George Tenet of making implausible claims about the handling of the Curveball case by the US.

On Wednesday Tenet, the director of central intelligence between 1997 and 2004, issued a statement on his website saying he discovered "too damn late" that Curveball – the Iraqi defector who became a key source for the CIA and the German secret service (BND) – might be a fabricator.

Reprinting an extract from his autobiography, Tenet claimed he only found out in 2005, two years after the Iraq invasion, that the BND had doubts about Curveball's claims to have witnessed first-hand Saddam Hussein's bio-weapons programme.

Asked by the Guardian whether Tenet's claims were plausible, Fischer said: "No. I don't think so."

Fischer said the BND realised some time before the war that Curveball was not a watertight source, and passed on his testimony to the CIA with warnings attached.

"Our position was always: [Curveball] might be right, but he might not be right. He could be a liar but he could be telling the truth," said Fischer at a press conference in Berlin to promote his memoir about the Iraq war.

Fischer said Germany was put in a "very difficult position" when the CIA asked whether they could "have" Curveball, or at least use his evidence to justify a war in Iraq. Germany's official position was that it would not join the coalition of the willing. Fischer himself famously told Donald Rumsfeld in February 2003 that he was "not convinced" about the case for war.

"On the one hand we didn't want to withhold from the US any bit of relevant information we had about possible WMD in Iraq. On the other hand, we did not want to take part in any propagandistic exploitation of material, which was far from proven, to justify a war," Fischer writes in his new autobiography, I Am Not Convinced.

He added: "We decided, therefore, that we would do our duty by sending the Americans all the information we had, together with our assessment that that information came from a deserter and that we had not verified or substantiated it ourselves, and that it could be completely wrong."

Fischer said today: "We, the German government, decided to pass on the evidence, and I think that was the right thing to do."

He said the then head of the BND, August Henning, wrote a letter to the CIA outlining the possible problems with Curveball. Fischer also pointed out that it was common practice in security circles – then, as now – to not rely on a single source, but to get at least three independent sources that corroborate each other.

Asked what he thought about Colin Powell demanding answers as to why the CIA and its military arm, the DIA, never told him about Curveball possibly being a liar, Fischer said he couldn't comment.

"[Powell] is a very good friend of mine, but we have never ever spoken about this phase," he said. "If there is something to discuss, he has to initiate the conversation."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/fe ... NETTXT3487

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

In many ways, the death of Bruch Ivins is not much different than the death of Dr. David Kelly -- both were likely murdered because they both could legitimately expose the Jews/NeoCons/Puppets  behind the Anthrax attacks.
Much of the evidence behind both murders is blantantly covered up by Jew led "investigations". -- CSR  

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   Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Was FBI too quick to judge anthrax suspect the killer?

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Scouring the anthrax-laced mail that took five lives and terrorized the East Coast in 2001, laboratory scientists discovered a unique contaminant — a tiny scientific fingerprint that they hoped would help unmask the killer.

One senior FBI official wrote in March 2007, in a recently declassified memo, that the potential clue "may be the most resolving signature found in the evidence to date."

Yet once FBI agents concluded that the likely culprit was Bruce Ivins — a mentally troubled, but widely regarded Army microbiologist — they stopped looking for the contaminant, after testing only a few work spaces of the scores of researchers using the anthrax strain found in the letters. They quit searching, despite finding no traces of the substance in hundreds of environmental samples from Ivins' lab, office, car and home.

It's been two and a half years since Ivins committed suicide in the face of prosecutors' threats to charge him with five murders, each carrying a potential death sentence. It's been more than a year since the Justice Department, despite lacking hard proof, formally declared that Ivins "perpetrated the anthrax letter attacks."

But the FBI's decision not to fully test for the distinct bacterial contaminant, pieced together by McClatchy in interviews with scientists, federal law enforcement officials and in a review of recently declassified bureau records, could reignite the debate over whether its agents found the real killer.

The Justice Department closed the eight-year investigation, said to cost as much as $100 million. However, none of the circumstantial evidence it found showed that Ivins prepared the deadly powder, scrawled "Death to America" in a seeming mimic of al Qaida, or twice sneaked away on six and a half hour roundtrip drives to drop them in a Princeton, N.J., mailbox.

If the FBI got the right man, then there is no consequence to its decision to stop hunting for bacillus subtilis, a harmless bacterial contaminant that resembles anthrax. But if Ivins was innocent, then the killer is at large, and the bureau may have missed a big opportunity.

Some scientists and ex-colleagues of Ivins, who spent 27 years studying anthrax at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., remain convinced of his innocence and believe the FBI erred in limiting the testing.

"This was not an incidental finding," said Martin Hugh-Jones, a retired professor of veterinary medicine at Louisiana State University and one of the world's foremost anthrax experts. "The FBI had what I would call an institutional fingerprint. Whoever had that strain of (bacteria) has to answer to the investigators."

Hugh-Jones, who knew Ivins, believes he lacked the expertise to make the anthrax powder. He contends that the bureau "dismissed" the importance of the contaminant, but concedes that "a bit of housekeeping" could have made it untraceable by the time testing began years later.

One of four federal anthrax investigators, made available to McClatchy on the condition of anonymity, described the contaminant as a clue that "didn't pan out." The official said that the bureau tested "thousands" of samples for the substance, but that included 1,057 anthrax samples submitted by various labs. He wouldn't say how many researchers' work areas were tested.

Some 12,000 pages of bureau records made public to date reflect tests on hundreds of samples gathered in searches surrounding Ivins, but little evidence of tests on other researchers' lab spaces or their stocks of the contaminant.

"They've got thousands of samples?" Hugh-Jones echoed. "But were they thousands of the right samples?"

The mysterious mailing of five anthrax-filled letters to media firms and politicians in New York, Washington and Boca Raton, Fla., sickened 22 people, five fatally, and forced 32,000 others to take antibiotics for weeks. Letters sent to Democratic U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Tom Daschle of South Dakota contained a purer, especially deadly anthrax powder, causing lengthy shutdowns of a Senate office building and a major postal facility.

Occurring shortly after al Qaida hijackers seized and crashed four passenger jets on Sept. 11, 2001, the mailings ignited fears that Osama bin Laden or Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (or Jews-Israeli-NeoCon Scams)  had loosed a deadly biological weapon.

Lab tests, however, soon showed that the anthrax in the letters was a strain used solely at 18 U.S., Canadian and European bio-weapons facilities.

Searching for a domestic perpetrator, FBI agents, postal inspectors and lab scientists seemed to spare nothing in their push to narrow a huge suspect list. Initially, they paid up to $1 million for a single genetic lab test, hastening the development of a new field of microbial forensics.

FBI agents locked on Ivins after 2007 tests showed a genetic match between the mailed anthrax and spores in a flask in his lab. He'd shared the contents with others. Testing all samples submitted by labs, the FBI found eight with mutations matching those in Ivins' anthrax, and soon eliminated all suspects but Ivins.

Colleagues and friends knew Ivins as a first-rate scientist who played the organ at church and livened parties with juggling routines, music and limericks. Even after learning of his decades-long obsession with a college sorority and his threat shortly before his suicide to carry out a mass shooting, some of them challenge the FBI's decision, after his death, to elevate him from prime suspect to killer.

"It's irresponsible," said Gerry Andrews, who was Ivins' boss at the time of the mailings.

"I'd rather have a fallible, but more honest FBI, where they say he's our number one suspect, but we really don't know."

Andrews insisted, however, that Ivins and his colleagues "didn't have anything to do with it."

Retired Army Lt. Col. Jeffrey Adamowicz, who supervised Ivins in 2003 and 2004, expressed dismay that the search for the contaminant was cut short.

Adamowicz said that anyone with access to spores from Ivins' flask — or to anthrax he shipped to other labs — needed only "a teeny tiny microscopic drop of that culture to grow their own."

Despite the FBI's cutting-edge work, controversy has followed the "Amerithrax" inquiry.

One person close to the investigation, who requested anonymity to avoid harming relationships, suggested that FBI officials felt "trapped" by Ivins' suicide.

"If they ever had any doubts, once he committed suicide, they had to unite," this person said. "Otherwise, you've driven an innocent man to suicide. And that's a terrible thing."

The law enforcement officials bristled at such assertions, saying that they were seeking Justice Department approval to indict Ivins in the days before he died, but also had risked exposing witnesses to alert his lawyer that he might be a danger to himself or others.

In February, a National Academy of Sciences panel challenged the bureau's finding that a genetic match meant that the wet anthrax in Ivins' flask was the "parent" of the dry powder in the envelopes. The panel said that link wasn't definitive.

Meantime, at the request of skeptics in Congress, the Government Accountability Office recently began an extensive review of the FBI's handling of the inquiry, in which a former Army microbiologist, Steven Hatfill, collected a $5.8 million court settlement after he was mistakenly targeted and publicly identified.

The law enforcement officials stressed that they agreed Ivins was the mailer based on "the totality of the evidence" gathered in gumshoe investigating, not just lab tests.

In a 91-page summary of the inquiry last year, the Justice Department alleged that Ivins: feared that Congress might discontinue an anthrax vaccine program to which he'd devoted his career; misled FBI agents in 2002 by providing anthrax samples that weren't from his flask; had the ability to use the lab's equipment to dry anthrax into fine powder, and was a night owl in his lab in the weeks before the letters were mailed.

The FBI got some corroboration last month when an expert panel concluded that Ivins was the killer, after conducting an unusual, posthumous, court-approved review of his psychiatric records.

Lab scientists didn't identify the genetically unique strain of B. subtilis until December 2005. It was in letters sent to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and the New York Post, but wasn't in the Senate letters.

B. subtilis is harmless, but looks and behaves so much like anthrax that researchers have used it to simulate how anthrax spores would act if made into an airborne spray.

Its presence in the letters, LSU's Hugh-Jones said, suggests that somebody grew anthrax using equipment contaminated during earlier B. subtilis experiments.

In March 2007, an FBI advisory panel of six scientists recommended expansive testing for both the mutations in the anthrax and the B. subtilis strain, describing the latter as perhaps the most promising clue to date.

One of the unnamed law enforcement officials said that the FBI arranged for extensive studies of B. subtilis. It also tested for, but didn't find the contaminant in a lab at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, which years earlier grew anthrax that went into Ivins' flask and which also received anthrax from him, the official said. Tests also were conducted in work areas of unidentified parties who were under "under investigation," but weren't anthrax researchers, he said.

But once the four mutations in the mailed anthrax were linked to Ivins' flask, there seemed little value to testing the equipment, countertops and B. subtilis stocks in the labs of researchers whose anthrax didn't match Ivins' spores, another of the law enforcement officials said.

Jacques Ravel, a lab scientist who aided the FBI while with the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Md., shrugged off the B. subtilis lead as "a long shot," saying that the contaminant is found "everywhere" in the air and soil and wasn't used much at the time by bio-weapons labs.

However, a 2004 paper in a science journal described a study of B. subtilis by researchers at Dugway, the Battelle Memorial Institute's operations at Dugway, and the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Unlike Ivins, researchers at Dugway and Battelle both worked with dry anthrax powder.

Nonetheless, the National Academy of Sciences' panel accepted the FBI's finding that the incomplete testing for B. subtilis lead "did not provide useful forensic information." But, the panel said deep in its report, such clues "should be investigated to their fullest" in the future.

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Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2011

FBI lab reports on anthrax attacks suggest another miscue

Did the FBI get the real anthrax killer?

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Buried in FBI laboratory reports about the anthrax mail attacks that killed five people in 2001 is data suggesting that a chemical may have been added to try to heighten the powder's potency, a move that some experts say exceeded the expertise of the presumed killer.

The lab data, contained in more than 9,000 pages of files that emerged a year after the Justice Department closed its inquiry and condemned the late Army microbiologist Bruce Ivins as the perpetrator, shows unusual levels of silicon and tin in anthrax powder from two of the five letters.

Those elements are found in compounds that could be used to weaponize the anthrax, enabling the lethal spores to float easily so they could be readily inhaled by the intended victims, scientists say.

The existence of the silicon-tin chemical signature offered investigators the possibility of tracing purchases of the more than 100 such chemical products available before the attacks, which might have produced hard evidence against Ivins or led the agency to the real culprit.

But the FBI lab reports released in late February give no hint that bureau agents tried to find the buyers of additives such as tin-catalyzed silicone polymers.

The apparent failure of the FBI to pursue this avenue of investigation raises the ominous possibility that the killer is still on the loose.

A McClatchy analysis of the records also shows that other key scientific questions were left unresolved and conflicting data wasn't sorted out when the FBI declared Ivins the killer shortly after his July 29, 2008, suicide.

One chemist at a national laboratory told McClatchy that the tin-silicone findings and the contradictory data should prompt a new round of testing on the anthrax powder.

A senior federal law enforcement official, who was made available only on the condition of anonymity, said the FBI had ordered exhaustive tests on the possible sources of silicon in the anthrax and concluded that it wasn't added. Instead, the lab found that it's common for anthrax spores to incorporate environmental silicon and oxygen into their coatings as a "natural phenomenon" that doesn't affect the spores' behavior, the official said.

To arrive at that position, however, the FBI had to discount its own bulk testing results showing that silicon composed an extraordinary 10.8 percent of a sample from a mailing to the New York Post and as much as 1.8 percent of the anthrax from a letter sent to Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, far more than the occasional trace contamination. Tin — not usually seen in anthrax powder at all — was measured at 0.65 percent and 0.2 percent, respectively, in those letters.

An FBI spokesman declined to comment on the presence of tin or to answer other questions about the silicon-tin connection.

Several scientists and former colleagues of Ivins argue that he was a career biologist who probably lacked the chemistry knowledge and skills to concoct a silicon-based additive.

"There's no way that an individual scientist can invent a new way of making anthrax using silicon and tin," said Stuart Jacobsen, a Texas-based analytical chemist for an electronics company who's closely studied the FBI lab results. "It requires an institutional effort to do this, such as at a military lab."

Martin Hugh-Jones, a world-renowned anthrax expert who teaches veterinary medicine at Louisiana State University, called it "just bizarre" that the labs found both tin — which can be toxic to bacteria such as anthrax during lab culturing — and silicon.

"You have two elements at abnormally high levels," Hugh-Jones said. "That reduces your probability to a very small number that it's an accident."

The silicon-tin connection wasn't the only lead left open in one of the biggest investigations in FBI history, an inquiry that took the bureau to the cutting edge of laboratory science. In April, McClatchy reported that after locking in on Ivins in 2007, the bureau stopped searching for a match to a unique genetic bacterial strain scientists had found in the anthrax that was mailed to the Post and to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, although a senior bureau official had characterized it as the hottest clue to date.

FBI officials say it's all a moot point, because they're positive they got the right man in Ivins. A mentally troubled anthrax researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., Ivins overdosed on drugs not long after learning that he'd soon face five counts of capital murder.

In ending the inquiry last year, the Justice Department said that a genetic fingerprint had pointed investigators to Ivins' lab, and gumshoe investigative techniques enabled them to compile considerable circumstantial evidence that demonstrated his guilt.

Among these proofs, prosecutors cited Ivins' alleged attempt to steer investigators away from a flask of anthrax in his lab that genetically matched the mailed powder — anthrax that had been shared with other researchers. They also noted his anger over a looming congressional cut in funds for his research on a new anthrax vaccine.

However, the FBI never found hard evidence that Ivins produced the anthrax or that he scrawled threatening letters seemingly meant to resemble those of Islamic terrorists. Or that he secretly took late-night drives to Princeton, N.J., to mail them.

The FBI declared Ivins the killer soon after paying $5.8 million to settle a suit filed by another former USAMRIID researcher, Steven Hatfill, whom the agency mistakenly had targeted earlier in its investigation.

Anthrax is one of the deadliest and most feared biological weapons. Once inhaled, microscopic anthrax spores germinate into rapidly multiplying, highly toxic bacteria that attack human tissue. The resulting illnesses are lethal within days if untreated.

The letters, mailed just weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, not only went to the New York Post, Leahy and Brokaw, but also to American Media Inc. in Boca Raton, Fla., and to Democratic then-Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota. Five people died, 17 were sickened and about 31,000 were forced to take powerful antibiotics for weeks. Crews wearing moon suits spent several weeks eradicating the spores from a Senate office building and a central Postal Service facility in Washington.

The FBI guarded its laboratory's finding of 10.8 percent silicon in the Post letter for years. New York Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler asked FBI Director Robert Mueller how much silicon was in the Post and Leahy letters at a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee in September 2008. The Justice Department responded seven months later that silicon made up 1.4 percent of the Leahy powder (without disclosing the 1.8 percent reading) and that "a reliable quantitative measurement was not possible" for the Post letter.

The bureau's conclusions that silicon was absorbed naturally drew a gentle challenge in February from a panel of the National Academy of Sciences, which evaluated the investigation's lab work.

While finding no evidence that silicon had been added to the mailed anthrax, the panel noted deep in its report that the FBI had provided "no compelling explanation" for conflicts in silicon test results between the Sandia National Laboratories and its own lab.

Sandia — which used electron microscopes, unlike the FBI — reported only a tenth as much silicon in the New York Post letter as the bureau's lab did. Sandia said it was all embedded in the spore coatings, where it wasn't harmful.

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology ran a third set of tests and found pockets of heavy silica concentrations, but it couldn't say whether they were inside or outside the spores.

Jacobsen, the Texas chemist, suspects that the silica pockets represented excess material that went through a chemical reaction and hardened before it could penetrate the spores.

The National Academy of Sciences panel wrote that the varying composition of the powder might have accounted for the differing findings.

While finding no evidence that silicon was added, the panel said it "cannot rule out the intentional addition of a silicon-based substance ... in a failed attempt to enhance dispersion" of the New York Post powder.

Tufts University chemistry professor David Walt, who led the panel's analysis of the silicon issue, said in a phone interview that "there was not enough silicon in the spores that could account for the total silicon content of the bulk analysis."

He said it was unclear whether the "trace" levels of tin were significant.

During the FBI's seven-year hunt, the Department of Homeland Security commissioned a team of chemists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California to grow anthrax-like spores under varying conditions to see how much silicon would end up naturally in the final product.

They found little, if any, silicon in most cases, far less than was in the New York Post letter, said Stephan Velsko, one of the two researchers. He called the tin readings from the FBI's anthrax data "baffling."

Peter Weber, Velsko's co-researcher, said the academy panel's focus on the conflicting data "raises a big question," and "it'd be really helpful for closure of this case if that was resolved."

He suggested that further "micro-analysis" with a highly sophisticated electron microscope could "pop the question marks really quickly."

In a chapter in a recently updated book, "Microbial Forensics," Velsko wrote that the anthrax "must have indeed been produced under an unusual set of conditions" to create such high silicon counts. That scenario, he cautioned, might not be "consistent with the prosecution narrative in this case."

About 100 tin-catalyzed silicone products are on the market, and an even wider array was available in 2000 and 2001, before the mailings, said Richie Ashburn, a vice president of one manufacturer, Silicones Inc., in High Point, N.C.

Mike Wilson, a chemist for another silicone products maker, SiVance, in Gainesville, Fla., said that numerous silicon products could be used to make spores or other particles water-repellent. He also said that the ratios of silicon to tin found in the Post and Leahy samples would be "about right" if a tin-catalyzed silicone had been added to the spores.

Jacobsen, a Scottish-born and -educated chemist who once experimented with silicon coatings on dust particles, said he got interested in the spore chemistry after hearing rumors in late 2001 that a U.S. military facility had made the killer potions. He called it "outrageous" that the scientific issues haven't been addressed.

"America, the most advanced country in the world, and the FBI have every resource available to them," he said. "And yet they have no compelling explanation for not properly analyzing the biggest forensic clue in the most important investigation the FBI labs had ever gotten in their history."

As a result of Ivins' death and the unanswered scientific issues, Congress' investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office, is investigating the FBI's handling of the anthrax inquiry.

(Tish Wells contributed to this article.)

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Another "Anthrax" story by CIA Jew Scam artist "Edward Jay Epstein".  He likely is covering for Spertzel and high level Jews who created the "Weaponized in a Lab"  Anthrax. This guy was mentioned earlier in this thread.  He mentions the plain obvious for Goyim consumption... and hides the Jew factor in all of it.  --CSR
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The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved
The FBI disproved its main theory about how the spores were weaponized.

    JANUARY 24, 2010, 7:33 P.M. ET


By EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN  

The investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks ended as far as the public knew on July 29, 2008, with the death of Bruce Ivins, a senior biodefense researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Md. The cause of death was an overdose of the painkiller Tylenol. No autopsy was performed, and there was no suicide note.

Less than a week after his apparent suicide, the FBI declared Ivins to have been the sole perpetrator of the 2001 Anthrax attacks, and the person who mailed deadly anthrax spores to NBC, the New York Post, and Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. These attacks killed five people, closed down a Senate office building, caused a national panic, and nearly paralyzed the postal system.

The FBI's six-year investigation was the largest inquest in its history, involving 9,000 interviews, 6,000 subpoenas, and the examination of tens of thousands of photocopiers, typewriters, computers and mailboxes. Yet it failed to find a shred of evidence that identified the anthrax killer—or even a witness to the mailings. With the help of a task force of scientists, it found a flask of anthrax that closely matched—through its genetic markers—the anthrax used in the attack.

This flask had been in the custody of Ivins, who had published no fewer than 44 scientific papers over three decades as a microbiologist and who was working on developing vaccines against anthrax. As custodian, he provided samples of it to other scientists at Fort Detrick, the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, and other facilities involved in anthrax research.

According to the FBI's reckoning, over 100 scientists had been given access to it. Any of these scientists (or their co-workers) could have stolen a minute quantity of this anthrax and, by mixing it into a media of water and nutrients, used it to grow enough spores to launch the anthrax attacks.

Consequently, Ivins, who was assisting the FBI with its investigation, as well as all the scientists who had access to the anthrax, became suspects in the investigation. They were intensely questioned, given polygraph examinations, and played off against one another in variations of the prisoner's dilemma game. Their labs, computers, phones, homes and personal effects were scrutinized for possible clues.

As the so-called Amerithrax investigation proceeded, the FBI ran into frustrating dead ends, such as its relentless five-year pursuit of Steven Hatfill, which ended with an apology in 2007 and Mr. Hatfill receiving a $5.8 million settlement from the U.S. government as compensation. Another scientist, Perry Mikesell, became so stressed by the FBI's games that he began to drink heavily and died of a heart attack in October 2002.

Eventually, the FBI zeroed in on Ivins. Not only did he have access to the anthrax, but FBI agents suspected he had subtly misled them into their Hatfill fiasco. A search of his email turned up pornography and bizarre emails which, though unrelated to anthrax, suggested that he was a deeply disturbed individual.

The FBI turned the pressure up on him, isolating him at work and forcing him to spend what little money he had on lawyers to defend himself. He became increasingly stressed. His therapist reported that Ivins seemed obsessed with the notion of revenge and even homicide. Then came his suicide (which, as Eric Nadler and Bob Coen show in their documentary "The Anthrax War," was one of four suicides among American and British biowarfare researchers in past years). Since Ivins's odd behavior closely fit the FBI's profile of the mad scientist it had been hunting, his suicide provided an opportunity to close the case. So it held a congressional briefing in which it all but pronounced Ivins the anthrax killer.

But there was still a vexing problem—silicon.

Silicon was used in the 1960s to weaponize anthrax. Through an elaborate process, anthrax spores were coated with the substance to prevent them from clinging together so as to create a lethal aerosol. But since weaponization was banned by international treaties, research anthrax no longer contains silicon, and the flask at Fort Detrick contained none. (NOTE: NO MENTION OF ISRAEL AS A SOURCE -- CSR)

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Yet the anthrax grown from it had silicon, according to the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. This silicon explained why, when the letters to Sens. Leahy and Daschle were opened, the anthrax vaporized into an aerosol. If so, then somehow silicon was added to the anthrax. But Ivins, no matter how weird he may have been, had neither the set of skills nor the means to attach silicon to anthrax spores.

At a minimum, such a process would require highly specialized equipment that did not exist in Ivins's lab—or, for that matter, anywhere at the Fort Detrick facility. As Richard Spertzel, a former biodefense scientist who worked with Ivins, explained in a private briefing on Jan. 7, 2009, the lab didn't even deal with anthrax in powdered form, adding, "I don't think there's anyone there who would have the foggiest idea how to do it." So while Ivins's death provided a convenient fall guy, the silicon content still needed to be explained.

The FBI's answer was that the anthrax contained only traces of silicon, and those, it theorized, could have been accidently absorbed by the spores from the water and nutrient in which they were grown. No such nutrients were ever found in Ivins's lab, nor, for that matter, did anyone ever see Ivins attempt to produce any unauthorized anthrax (a process which would have involved him using scores of flasks.) But since no one knew what nutrients had been used to grow the attack anthrax, it was at least possible that they had traces of silicon in them that accidently contaminated the anthrax.

Natural contamination was an elegant theory that ran into problems after Congressman Jerry Nadler pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller in September 2008 to provide the House Judiciary Committee with a missing piece of data: the precise percentage of silicon contained in the anthrax used in the attacks.

The answer came seven months later on April 17, 2009. According to the FBI lab, 1.4% of the powder in the Leahy letter was silicon. "This is a shockingly high proportion," explained Stuart Jacobson, an expert in small particle chemistry. "It is a number one would expect from the deliberate weaponization of anthrax, but not from any conceivable accidental contamination."

Nevertheless, in an attempt to back up its theory, the FBI contracted scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Labs in California to conduct experiments in which anthrax is accidently absorbed from a media heavily laced with silicon. When the results were revealed to the National Academy Of Science in September 2009, they effectively blew the FBI's theory out of the water.

The Livermore scientists had tried 56 times to replicate the high silicon content without any success. Even though they added increasingly high amounts of silicon to the media, they never even came close to the 1.4% in the attack anthrax. Most results were an order of magnitude lower, with some as low as .001%.

What these tests inadvertently demonstrated is that the anthrax spores could not have been accidently contaminated by the nutrients in the media. "If there is that much silicon, it had to have been added,"    Jeffrey Adamovicz , who supervised Ivins's work at Fort Detrick, wrote to me last month. He added that the silicon in the attack anthrax could have been added via a large fermentor—which Battelle and other labs use" but "we did not use a fermentor to grow anthrax at USAMRIID . . . [and] We did not have the capability to add silicon compounds to anthrax spores."  

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If Ivins had neither the equipment or skills to weaponize anthrax with silicon, then some other party with access to the anthrax must have done it. Even before these startling results, Sen. Leahy had told Director Mueller, "I do not believe in any way, shape, or manner that [Ivins] is the only person involved in this attack on Congress."

When I asked a FBI spokesman this month about the Livermore findings, he said the FBI was not commenting on any specifics of the case, other than those discussed in the 2008 briefing (which was about a year before Livermore disclosed its results). He stated: "The Justice Department and the FBI continue working to conclude the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks. We anticipate closing the case in the near future."

So, even though the public may be under the impression that the anthrax case had been closed in 2008, the FBI investigation is still open—and, unless it can refute the Livermore findings on the silicon, it is back to square one.

   Mr. Epstein is currently completing a book on the 9/11 Commission.  

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Jew ZioPuppets in the Whitehouse working for their Jew Masters... --CSR

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FBI was told to blame Anthrax scare on Al Qaeda by White House officials

BY James Gordon Meek (Goyim?)
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

Saturday, August 2nd 2008, 6:32 PM


WASHINGTON - In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks, White House officials repeatedly pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove it was a second-wave assault by Al Qaeda, but investigators ruled that out, the Daily News has learned.

After the Oct. 5, 2001, death from anthrax exposure of Sun photo editor Robert Stevens, Mueller was "beaten up" during President Bush's morning intelligence briefings for not producing proof the killer spores were the handiwork of terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, according to a former aide.

"They really wanted to blame somebody in the Middle East," the retired senior FBI official told The News.

On October 15, 2001, President Bush said, "There may be some possible link" to Bin Laden, adding, "I wouldn't put it past him." Vice President Cheney also said Bin Laden's henchmen were trained "how to deploy and use these kinds of substances, so you start to piece it all together."

But by then the FBI already knew anthrax spilling out of letters addressed to media outlets and to a U.S. senator was a military strain of the bioweapon.
 
"Very quickly [Fort Detrick, Md., experts] told us this was not something some guy in a cave could come up with," the ex-FBI official said. "They couldn't go from box cutters one week to weapons-grade anthrax the next."   http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... _on_a.html  --(Jew Mag with Goy Reporter?)

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What's Really Going On at the Israeli Institute for Biological Research?
Exposing Israel's Most Dangerous Secret
By SALEH EL-NAAMI

June 24, 2011


Drivers will only dart a glance at that mammoth structure nestled in the dunes south of Rishon Litsion southeast of Tel Aviv as they speed on their way. It is forbidden to turn off the Tel Aviv-Rishon Litsion highway onto the side road leading up to that building, which is barricaded by cement walls equipped with state-of-the-art surveillance and warning systems developed by Israel's military industries.

That fortress-like structure is the Israeli Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) where Israel develops its biological and chemical weapons and prepares for any eventuality of biological or chemical warfare. It is the most top-secret military installation in Israel. So tightly is it guarded by military censorship that the Israeli press has to turn to Western sources for scraps of information made available to them, very intermittently, by special contacts inside the institute.

Only once has the Israeli press been given leeway to discuss what goes on behind those high security walls. That was last month when Avisha Klein filed a suit against the IIBR administration for harassment and emotional abuse. A long-term employee at the institute, Klein has served in various positions, one of which was as part of a team to develop an ointment to protect the skin from mustard gas. But this is only one of the many details that have come to light in the course of the proceedings, which have shed considerable light on the nature and scope of the institute's work.

The IIBR is staffed by some 300 scientists and technicians employed in one or more of its many departments, each of which specialises in a specific area of chemical or biological research generally aimed at the production of chemical or biological weaponry. One of these departments, for example, is reported to have developed the poison that was used by the notorious Mossad assassination unit, Kidon, in its botched attempt to eliminate Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal in 1997. Nevertheless, if there remains some question over the accuracy of this information, which was reported in Haaretz, no one disputes that the first time the institute's products were used in an assassination operation was in late 1977 when then prime minister Menachem Begin ordered Mossad to eliminate Wadie Haddad.

A leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Haddad was accused by Israel of responsibility for several terrorist operations, the last of which was the hijacking of an Israeli passenger plane en route to Entebbe in 1976. According to a recently published book by the Israeli journalist Aharon Klein, Haddad had a great fondness for Belgian chocolates. Mossad obtained some of these special chocolates, coated them with a slow-acting poison, and had them delivered to Haddad, who was then living in Baghdad, by an Iraqi official who was a Mossad agent and who had struck up a friendship with Haddad. Klein relates that the deadly substance was first developed in the IIBR and that its slow-acting and undetectable properties ensured that the agent and the instrument of death would not be discovered.

And indeed, following a gradual but severe deterioration in his health, Haddad was flown to a hospital in East Germany where he was diagnosed with leukaemia and eventually died on 28 March 1978. It was not until 32 years later that the truth came to light: that the real cause of death was a poison produced by IIBR.

It is not unlikely that Mossad conducted many assassination operations in this way, so as not to leave its fingerprints. In other words, the seemingly accidental deaths of many individuals that Israel regarded as a threat may have actually been caused by substances produced by IIBR. Most likely, the poison that Mossad agents injected into Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai in February 2010 came from IIBR.

According to information that has recently come out, the institute contains a department specialising in the production of vaccines against biological weapons. One of the chief focuses of research and development, here, was anthrax, which Israel fears the Arabs and resistance organisations will use against it in a confrontation. The institute also has a department for developing remedies to minimise and counter the effects of chemical weaponry. The whole presents a gruesome picture of a curious chemical and biological race, with the institute virtually competing with itself to produce antidotes to weapons that it, itself, is producing, or that it fears others will use against Israel in an eventual confrontation.

The IIBR works closely and in full coordination with the Israeli army and intelligence, which furnish the institute with their lists of priorities in light of their strategic threat forecasts. For example, information that has come to light during the coverage of Klein's suit reveals that many years ago the Israeli military establishment was concerned that Arab states might use such chemical agents as mustard gas in an potential assault against Israel and, therefore, instructed the institute to develop a chemical substance to minimise the effects of the gas. Not surprisingly, the institute coordinates closely with the Israeli army's medical corps, which receives the antidotes and distributes them to its branches in the military in accordance with demand.

The institute also works closely with Mossad and Shin Bet, the agencies primarily responsible for most of the assassination and liquidation operations against Arab and Muslim targets. Also, since Mossad and the military intelligence unit "Aman" are responsible for gathering enemy intelligence and presumably monitor nonconventional weapons programmes in Arab countries, they would instruct IIBR to develop the necessary biological or chemical responses to these programmes.

However, the IIBR has another purpose on top of developing and producing biological and chemical weapons and antidotes. It is also a major hard currency income-generator. The Hebrew Haaretz website reports: "The institute has received a grant of hundreds of millions of dollars to develop an anthrax vaccine." The grant followed an attack in the US by a home-grown terrorist group that developed a concentrated strain of anthrax spores and delivered them to several individual targets in US; the vaccines that IIBR was commissioned to develop were destined for use in the US.

More importantly, we learn from the website that Israeli soldiers have been used to test the vaccines, causing some permanent physical damage. Reports of the internationally banned use of human guinea pigs raised moral hackles in Israel and sharpened suspicions that the lives of Israeli soldiers had deliberately been put to risk for the sake of financial gain received for promoting the security of another country, namely the US in this case.

The IIBR has a live animals department, where rabbits, pigs, monkeys and other animals are used in experiments. And perhaps human beings as well, judging by the suits soldiers filed against the Israeli Ministry of Defence after they were used in the anthrax experiments. The soldiers demand that they be officially recognised as disabled veterans and receive compensation accordingly. The case remains in the courts, but the IDF, caving into pressure from the families of the soldiers and public opinion, recently announced that it would no longer conduct experiments on soldiers.

It was Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, who ordered the construction of the IIBR on the basis of the advice of a number of Jewish scientists. Throughout his rule, from 1948 to 1963 (with the exception of the years 1953-1955 when �Moshe Sharett served as prime minister), Ben-Gurion was directly responsible for the institute and every detail in it. The staff were forbidden to disclose to anyone even the smallest tid-bit of data or information without first obtaining Ben-Gurion's approval. That continued to apply even during that interstice when Sharrit was in power, for when this prime minister visited the institute in 1954 scientists had to apologise for not being able to show him the programmes they were working on at the time.

Although many scientists have taken a turn to direct the IIBR, it is generally believed that the one to have left the greatest imprint is its current director, Avigdor Shafferman. Shafferman, who has been named in Klein's suit, has the reputation of being something of a powerhouse but also being very strict and quick to fire staff members on disciplinary grounds.

Nevertheless, as significant as the details that have come to light in this rare glimpse into the workings of the IIBR may be, little attention has focused on a larger truth. As the international community hounds a host of countries for pursuing conventional weapons programmes that pale in scale next to Israel's, it refuses to budge an inch to deter Israel, which only encourages Tel Aviv's belligerent and tyrannical behaviour.

Saleh El-Naami writes for Al-Ahram, where this article originally appeared.


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Israeli Kidon Assassination Teams Loose on America Soil

Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate Stooge Bishop Bookings Fingered, i.e. Unmasked
by Tom Heneghan,
International Intelligence Expert

Right photo Israeli MOSSAD wearing Star of David while posing as Arab terrorist


Saturday, August 16, 2008

United States of America -- It can now be reported that the outlaw neo-Nazi ZIONIST State of Israel has activated their worldwide assassination teams, code name "Kidon".

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Hillary Clinton admires MEGA ZIONIST Bibi Netanyahu (AP photo)

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The major contingent of these assassination teams, commanded by former Prime Minister of Israel , ZIONIST KHAZARIAN Jew Benjamin Netanyahu, have been sent to the United States and are now operational.

The Israeli MOSSAD decision to resort to violence on U.S. soil comes on the heals of ISRAELI-U.S. dual citizen Dr. Philip M. Zackerie aka Dr. Zack being identified as the major culprit in the post 9/11 anthrax attacks on the United States.

Kidon is reference to a military bayonet.

The  REAL  perpetrator who mailed the post 9/11 anthrax letters, MOSSAD agent ISRAELI-U.S. dual citizen Dr. Philip M. Zackerie aka Dr. Zack

Note: Attempts by the MOSSAD-controlled U.S. Justice Department, FBI and their media stooges to frame a dead man, i.e. Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, have failed as the Federal Grand Jury (We the People) continues to pursue indictments against Zackerie, U.S. government officials and ABC News journalist Brian Ross.

The Israeli Kidon assassination teams are on orders to eliminate ALL witnesses, whistleblowers and U.S. Military officers that want to bring the Israeli MOSSAD and its front operation, the Bushfraud Administration, to justice for the 9/11 and post 9/11 HIGH TREASON.

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Neoconservative Think Tank Influence on US Policies
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Summer 1972 and After: Neoconservatives Work to Toughen US Policy towards Soviet Union

Neoconservatives see Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern's floundering campaign and eventual landslide defeat (see November 7, 1972) as emblematic of, in author Craig Unger's words, everything that is wrong with the "defeatist, isolationist policies of the liberals who had captured the Democratic Party." If the neoconservatives had had their way, their favorite senator, Henry "Scoop" Jackson (see Early 1970s), would have won the nomination. But the Vietnam War has put hawkish Cold Warriors like Jackson in disfavor in the party, and Jackson was set aside for the disastrous McGovern candidacy. The Republicans offer little interest themselves for the neoconservatives. Richard Nixon is enamored of one of their most hated nemeses, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, whose "realpolitik" did nothing to excite their ideological impulses. And under Nixon, the icy Cold War is slowly thawing, with summit meetings, bilateral commissions, and arms limitations agreements continually bridging the gap between the US and the neoconservatives' implacable foe, the Soviet Union. In Nixon's second term, the Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM)—populated by Democratic neoconservatives like Jackson, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Nixon's domestic adviser), Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ben Wattenberg, and James Woolsey, and joined by 1968 Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey, will pressure Nixon to adopt a tough "peace through strength" policy towards the Soviet Union. Although it will take time, and the formation of countless other organizations with similar memberships and goals, this group of neoconservatives and hawkish hardliners will succeed in marginalizing Congress, demonizing their enemies, and taking over the entire foreign policy apparatus of the US government. (Unger 2007, pp. 47-48)


After August 2, 1989: Chalabi Forges Strong Ties with US Neocons

Ahmed Chalabi, the charismatic, MIT-educated head of Jordan's Petra Bank, flees to London before charges can be filed against him in regards to the collapse of his bank (see August 2, 1989 and April 9, 1992). Unworried about the Jordanian charges, Chalabi, whose formerly wealthy family fled Iraq in 1958, establishes a loose grouping of Iraqi exiles called the Iraqi National Congress, with the aim of overthrowing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Chalabi has already forged ties with some US neoconservatives like Albert Wohlstetter and Richard Perle. Now he begins cultivating ties with other influential neoconservatives such as Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey, Douglas Feith, and Perle's protege, David Wurmser. Chalabi makes the rounds of the symposia and conferences, and wins new allies in pro-Israeli think tanks such as the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). Chalabi's appeal to the neoconservatives is directly linked to his support for Israel as a regional power. The new Iraq he will build, he promises, will have strong relations with Israel. He even declares his intention to rebuild the oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Haifa, which has been inoperative since the 1940s. The neoconservatives ignore his close ties with the Iranian Shi'ite theocracy, as well as the Petra Bank's funding of the Lebanese Shi'ite militia Amal. Instead, the neoconservatives view Chalabi as a potential savior of the Middle East. Patrick Clawson of WINEP says, "He could be Iraq's national leader." (Unger 2007, pp. 123-125)


February 18, 1998: Former CIA Director Says First Gulf War Motivated by Oil

Former CIA director James Woolsey participates in an online discussion on Time's weekly forum on the topic of Iraq. At one point, he is asked if he thinks the US is capable of launching a successful military attack against Iraq given the lack of support from US allies. Woolsey responds: "It will be harder but perhaps not impossible. The key holdout is Saudi Arabia—and it is indeed aggravating that even though we went to war in 1991 principally to protect its oil, they are unwilling to let us launch air strikes from their country." (Time 2/18/1998)


1999: US NGO Formed to Promote Peace in Chechnya

The American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC) is founded by Freedom House. Its mission is to promote a "peaceful resolution of the Russo-Chechen war." Board members include Zbigniew Brzezinski, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Steven J. Solarz, and Max Kampelman. ACPC's regular members include Richard Perle; Elliott Abrams, Kenneth Adelman, Midge Decter, Frank Gaffney, Bruce Jackson, Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, James Woolsey, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, among others. The APC is closely tied to the American Enterprise Institute and the Jamestown Foundation and National Endowment for Democracy and other US democratization initiatives. (Laughland 9/8/2004; American Committee for Peace in Chechnya 11/15/2005)


2000: Former CIA Director Woolsey Works With Chalabi's INC

Former CIA director James Woolsey serves as a corporate officer for the Iraqi National Congress Support Foundation which manages the Iraqi National Congress' US funding. Also during this time, Woolsey and his former law firm, Shea and Gardner, provide the INC and Iraqi exiles with pro bono work. (Landay and Strobel 7/16/2004)


February 2001: Former CIA Director Attempts to Link Iraqi Government to 1993 WTC Bombing

Former CIA director James Woolsey visits Britain to look for evidence tying Saddam Hussein to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. He is looking to support the theory (see Late July or Early August 2001) that Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the 1993 WTC bombing, was actually an Iraqi agent who had assumed the identity of a Pakistani student named Abdul Basit. This theory was proposed in a 2000 book praised by Woolsey (see October 2000). He will also make a visit for the same purpose in the weeks after 9/11 (see Late September 2001). On at least one of the trips, Woolsey visits the Swansea Institute, where Basit studied, to see if Basit's fingerprints match those of Yousef, who is now serving a life sentence in a Colorado prison. Matching fingerprints would discredit the theory. According to Knight Ridder, "Several of those with knowledge of the trips said they failed to produce any new evidence that Iraq was behind the attacks." (Strobel 10/11/2001) But despite a lack of evidence, politicians in Washington interested in the theory will manage to reopen the files into Yousef around August 2001 anyway (see Late July or Early August 2001). An article by Woolsey pushing the theory about Yousef will be published just two days after 9/11 (see September 13, 2001).

 
September 13, 2001: Former CIA Director Suggests Saddam Hussein May Have Been Behind the 9/11 Attacks

In an op-ed piece published in the New Republic, former CIA director James Woolsey calls on the Bush administration to re-examine evidence that could potentially tie Iraq to the 1993 bombing of the WTC. He cites a theory (see Late July or Early August 2001) that Iraqi intelligence helped bomber Ramzi Yousef steal the identity of a Kuwaiti student studying at a college in Wales. If this theory is correct, he says, "then it was Iraq that went after the World Trade Center last time. Which makes it much more plausible that Iraq has done so again." In light of this, he argues, US authorities should consider the possibility that Saddam Hussein had a hand in the 9/11 attacks. "ntelligence and law enforcement officials investigating the case would do well to at least consider another possibility: that the attacks—whether perpetrated by bin Laden and his associates or by others—were sponsored, supported, and perhaps even ordered by Saddam Hussein," he writes. "As yet, there is no evidence of explicit state sponsorship of the September 11 attacks. But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." (Woolsey 9/13/2001) Woolsey went to Britain in February 2001 and failed to find evidence to support this theory (see February 2001). But a few days later, the US Defense Department will send Woolsey to Britain again (see Late September 2001) to investigate the alleged Iraq link to the 1993 bombing.

 

Mid-September-October 2001: Neoconservatives Attempt to Link Iraqi Government to 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks

Former CIA Director James Woolsey makes a secret trip to Europe to find evidence that could link the Iraqi government to various terrorist attacks. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz funds and supports his trip. He visits Wales in a fruitless search for evidence to link Iraq to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (see Late September 2001). But he also looks for evidence tying Iraq to 9/11 and the anthrax attacks once they become publicly known in early October (see October 5-November 21, 2001). The Village Voice will later report, "Woolsey was also asked to make contact with Iraqi exiles and others who might be able to beef up the case that hijacker Mohamed Atta was working with Iraqi intelligence to plan the September 11 attacks, as well as the subsequent anthrax mailings." (Vest 11/21/2001) In late October, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), the exile group opposed to Saddam Hussein, says it recently held meetings in London with him. (Harden 10/26/2001) Woolsey is a prominent neoconservative and already has extensive links with the INC (see 2000). It is unknown exactly what Woolsey does in Europe, but his trip has an apparent effect on the media. In addition to numerous articles about Atta's alleged Prague visit, some articles appear attempting to tie Atta and the Iraqi government to the anthrax attacks as well. For instance, on October 14, 2001, The Observer will report, "According to sources in the Bush administration, investigators are talking to Egyptian authorities who say members of the al-Qaeda network, detained and interrogated in Cairo, had obtained phials of anthrax in the Czech Republic." (Rose and Vulliamy 10/14/2001) And in late October, the London Times will not only report that Atta was given a vial of anthrax in Prague, but that he met with Iraqi agents numerous times all over Europe (see October 27, 2001). But no hard evidence will emerge supporting any of these allegations pushed by Woolsey.


Late September 2001: Neoconservatives Look to Tie Iraq to 1993 WTC Bombing, but Evidence Contradicts Their Theory

At the behest of Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, former CIA Director James Woolsey and a team of Justice and Defense Department officials fly to London on a US government plane to look for evidence tying Saddam Hussein to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Woolsey's trip is in part the idea of neoconservative author Laurie Mylroie (see Late July or Early August 2001). It is the second such mission undertaken by Woolsey this year, as he made a similar trip in February (see February 2001). Woolsey is looking for evidence to support the theory (see Late July or Early August 2001 and Mid-September-October 2001) that Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the 1993 WTC bombing, was actually an Iraqi agent who had assumed the identity of a Pakistani student named Abdul Basit. Woolsey visits the Swansea Institute, where Basit studied, to see if Basit's fingerprints match those of Yousef, who is now serving a life sentence in a Colorado prison. Matching fingerprints would discredit the theory. (Strobel 10/11/2001; Rose and Vulliamy 10/14/2001; Harden 10/26/2001; Lang 6/2004) While in Europe, Woolsey also attempts to link the Iraqi government to 9/11 and the October 2001 anthrax attacks (see Mid-September-October 2001). But according to Knight Ridder, "Several of those with knowledge of the trips said they failed to produce any new evidence that Iraq was behind the attacks." (Strobel 10/11/2001) Newsweek will similarly report in 2004 that "the results of the Woolsey mission were exactly what the FBI had predicted: that the fingerprints were in fact identical." (Isikoff and Hosenball 4/21/2004) The local police in Swansea are curious about Woolsey's visit and they call the US embassy in London to clarify if Woolsey is visiting in an official capacity. This alerts the State Department and CIA of Woolsey's trip for the first time, and apparently both agencies are upset. One intelligence consultant familiar with the trip will say, "It was a stupid, stupid, and just plain wrong thing to do." (Strobel 10/11/2001; Vest 11/21/2001) It is through this contact that Secretary of State Colin Powell and CIA Director George Tenet learn of Woolsey's mission (see September 19-20, 2001). (Lang 6/2004)


February 11, 2002: Former CIA Director Arranges Meeting Between Defense Intelligence and Iraqi Defector

Former CIA Director James Woolsey telephones Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Linton Wells to arrange a meeting between Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analysts and Mohammad Harith, an Iraqi defector being supplied by the Iraqi exile group, the Iraqi National Congress. (Landay and Strobel 7/16/2004 Sources: Classified Pentagon report) After the phone call, Wells issues an "executive referral," requesting that the Iraqi National Congress (INC) introduce Harith to the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). (Landay and Strobel 7/16/2004) Later in the day, two DIA officers meet with Ahmed Chalabi to arrange an interview with Harith. In an email to Knight Ridder Newspapers, Wells will later recall, "I discussed the issue of an individual with information on Iraq weapons of mass destruction with intelligence community members. They said they would follow up. I never met with any member of the INC." (Landay and Strobel 7/16/2004)


September 2002: Woolsey: Use Iraqi Oil to Entice Cooperation from France, Russia

Former CIA director and noted neoconservative James Woolsey tells the Washington Post: "It's pretty straightforward. France and Russia have oil companies and interests in Iraq. They should be told that if they are of assistance in moving Iraq toward decent government, we'll do the best we can to ensure that the new government and American companies work closely with them.... If they throw in their lot with Saddam, it will be difficult to the point of impossible to persuade the new Iraqi government to work with them." (Morgan and Ottaway 9/15/2002)


Late 2002: Coalition for Democracy in Iran Formed; Advocates Regime Change

Michael Ledeen joins with Morris Amitay, vice-president of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs; ex-CIA head James Woolsey; former Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney; former senator Paul Simon; and oil consultant Rob Sobhani to set up a group called the Coalition for Democracy in Iran (CDI). (Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 6/1/2003) CDI says it "fully agrees with President Bush's inclusion of Iran in the 'axis of evil' and supports congressional initiatives to bring about needed change in Iran." (Coalition for Democracy 1/16/2004) The group has strong ties to Reza Pahlavi, the son of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the US-backed leader of Iran who was removed from power by the 1979 Iranian Revolution. (Kamran 6/6/2003)


September 14, 2007: Disgraced Media Source Has Neoconservative Ties

Former ABC News source and sometime reporter Alexis Debat, whose career as a media commentator and information source is in shambles due to his exposure as a fabricator of numerous interviews with US political and business figures (see September 12, 2007), has a number of close ties with US neoconservatives, according to research by Philadelphia Daily News reporter Will Bunch. Debat has had a strong influence on the US media's slant on both the Iraq occupation and the envisioned war with Iran, particularly with his frequent contributions to ABC News reports and commentary. Debat has also provided sensational, and often unconfirmed, "information" about the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Several "scoops" from Debat and published by ABC News about Pakistan had to be either corrected or suffered contradiction by Pakistani officials. Debat also has close, if murky, ties with a number of prominent neoconservatives and right-wing Middle East figures. Iranian-born Amir Taheri was listed as an editor of Debat's primary European press outlet, Politique Internationale, from 2001 through 2006. Taheri's work has been promoted by a New York public-relations firm, Benador Associates, which specializes in Middle Eastern affairs and boasts a number of neoconservatives on its website, including former Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle and former CIA director James Woolsey. Taheri is often published in newspapers owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch. And, like Debat, Taheri's work has been called into question in recent years. A May 2006 column printed in a Canadian newspaper that alleged Iran was forcing Jews and other religious minorities to wear colored badges was proven false. And a 1988 book by Taheri, Nest of Spies, purporting to give inside details about Islamic terrorism, has been shown to contain a raft of inaccuracies and misstatements. Taheri's connections with Benador gives him prime entry to conservative media outlets, which seem to sometimes ignore the rampant problems with his reporting. (Bunch 9/14/2007)        

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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
The Anthrax Killer? Richard Spertzel  
Is this is the man who made the anthrax that killed five people soon after 9-11? I think so.

Of course, the FBI are protecting him by pointing the finger at others. And Spertzel himself is busy weighing in with his expert opinion to confuse the media, and using his high-level contacts to confuse investigations, just to muddy the waters.

But I think this is the guy. Richard Spertzel.

He is on the books at Benador Associates (with Amir Taheri, Charles Jacobs, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Prager, Herbert London, James Woolsey, Laurie Mylroie, Meyrav Wurmser, Michael Ledeen, Michael Rubin, Natan Sharansky, Richard Perle and others), he's a regular on Murdoch's FOX News, he writes articles for the Murdoch WSJ. You get the picture?

Zionist. Neocon.

Of course, he was not working alone.

More articles from Spertzel here and more investigation ongoing at Glenn Greenwald's blog, where a highly informed commenter recently said:

    "Spertzel is really scary and seems to just taunt the world from the neocon perspective."

Spertzel has repeatedly insisted that the anthrax sent to Daschle and Leahy was very highly sophisticated:

    "In my opinion, there are maybe four or five people in the whole country who might be able to make this stuff, and I'm one of them," said Richard O. Spertzel, chief biological inspector for the U.N. Special Commission from 1994 to 1998. "And even with a good lab and staff to help run it, it might take me a year to come up with a product as good."

One the one hand that is a boast. On the other hand it is a threat.

Now ask yourself why the head of the FBI has been protecting this man for nearly seven years?

UPDATE: Spertzel is of course loudly telling people that he doesn't believe that Bruce Ivins was the killer. Given that the FBI has not been able to make a strong case against Ivins, and they know it, that's not really surprising. It helps give Spertzel some much-needed credibility in the public eye.

The DoJ has just released documents (PDFs here) related to the case but are not going to close the case yet "because of incomplete administrative details". Yeah, like a motive! And proof!

This is the motive currently being bandied about:

    Authorities were looking at whether Ivins may have released anthrax to test a vaccine he was working on, another official said.

I don't have time to read through all the docs today, but details emerging don't indicate any bombshell of proof. It's hard to believe the FBI really thought they could charge and convict Ivins on this evidence alone.

    According to one affidavit made public, Ivins submitted false anthrax samples to the FBI, was unable to give investigators "an adequate explanation for his late laboratory work hours around the time of" the attacks and sought to frame an unnamed co-worker.

    He was also said to have received immunizations against anthrax and yellow fever in early September 2001, several weeks before the first anthrax-laced envelope was received in the mail.

Um, wouldn't everybody working in an anthrax lab be taking immunizations regularly? But that bit about framing an unnamed co-worker is interesting: was that Assaad, or Hatfill?

Then there's the corporate element, and an email that much is being made of:

    [Ivins] was under pressure to assist a private company that had lost federal approval to produce an anthrax vaccine and sent a suspicious e-mail a few days before the anthrax attacks.

    The e-mail warned that Osama bin Laden's terrorists "for sure have anthrax and sarin gas" and had "just decreed death to all Jews and all Americans." The affidavit said the language in the e-mail was similar to warnings in the anthrax letters, such as: "WE HAVE THIS ANTHRAX. . . . DEATH TO AMERICA . DEATH TO ISRAEL."

Note how WaPo reproduced that text in the original CAPS, just to make sure you saw it. But what's new? It's already been established (e.g. his letter to the local paper) that Ivins was a Christian Zionist, but so was the whole Fort Detrick lab (see Camel club antics). And no doubt half the USA had similar thoughts after 9-11. I mean, Bin Laden hates Jews? Duh!

And if Ivins really believed, as many others did, that Al Quaeda might have anthrax, surely that would explain his late nights in the lab after 9-11. OTOH:

    The spike in his evening hours began in mid-August, almost a month before the Sept. 11 attacks, investigators said.

That's a little harder to explain. But it's still not incriminating evidence.

And then there's this:

    Moreover, the envelopes that held the letters were "federal eagle" envelopes, so-named because of the eagle perched on a bar bearing the initials "USA" in the upper right-hand corner, and bore tiny but tell-tale defects that searchers determined were bought from a post office in Maryland or Virginia, the official documents relate.

    And of the 16 government, commercial and university laboratories that had virulent anthrax strains like the one used in the deadly mailings, only one was located in Maryland or Virginia — the Fort Detrick lab where Dr. Ivins worked before his July 29 suicide, the documents say.

Yeah, real tight evidence right there. Not.

One search warrant doc indicates the Feds seized a copy of "The Plague" by Albert Camus from Ivins' home. That's ironic: the "surface" story is about a doctor battling to stop a plague, but Camus wrote it as an allegory of how one decent man can stand up to the spreading influence of tyrants, especially based on his experiences in the French underground combating the Nazis.
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JAVMA Online News

 Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association    December 15, 2001  

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The Anthrax Detectives

Unlike most people, Dr. Martin Hugh-Jones looks forward to getting bloody swabs in the mail. He collects them to track anthrax. Dr. Hugh-Jones, a professor of epidemiology at Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, and collaborator Paul Keim, PhD, a professor of microbiology at Northern Arizona University, have built and maintain one of the largest anthrax databases in existence today. Databases such as theirs, and another at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, are the ones that investigators are turning to as they attempt to identify anthrax samples used in recent bioterrorist attacks.

Russian roots

Dr. Hugh-Jones is no stranger to bioterrorism. In 1979, when a human anthrax epidemic broke out in Sverdlovsk, a city of the former Soviet Union, the England-educated veterinarian participated in the investigation. He was also in Russia in 1992 when its government finally admitted that the outbreak was caused by an accidental spore emission from a biological warfare facility. Dr. Hugh-Jones, along with other American scientists, befriended Russian pathologists involved in the investigation and managed to obtain tissue samples from people infected in the outbreak. These samples were the start of the Midwestern and Los Alamos databases.

After returning from Russia, Dr. Hugh-Jones sought out Dr. Paul Keim, whom he calls a genius at analyzing genes, and a team effort began. "I am the collector," explained Dr. Hugh-Jones. "I find out where the outbreaks are happening worldwide, contact the people concerned, and get the cultures. I then send them to Paul Keim's laboratory and he does the genetic analysis." Dr. Keim's laboratory is also involved in collecting some samples.

Usually, people send specimens for the Midwestern database to Dr. Hugh-Jones, but he also obtains the specimens himself from bloody swabs or dirt. The epidemiologist keeps track of outbreaks by monitoring the literature and doing good, old-fashioned detective work. He is also moderator for correspondence concerning anthrax for Promed mail, a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases. This Internet collaboration of international doctors, academics, public health workers, and government officials tracks outbreaks of infectious diseases.

Cutting edge

Thus far, the Midwestern database has roughly 1,200 isolates, which include specimens from most parts of the world. The Los Alamos database has had similar success, and the two groups collaborate. Each isolate can be tied to a specific geographic area, using genetic fingerprinting. On the basis of similarities in the bacteria's DNA, anthrax can be organized into categories. These categories are called strains by some researchers, but other scientists prefer to define them as different genotypes.

Investigators rely mainly on two techniques to create genetic fingerprints of Bacillus species in the databases. One technique, known as AFLP (amplified fragment length polymorphism), relies on analyzing short DNA sequences that contain genetic information. Using AFLP, scientists extract DNA from bacteria and cut it into small fragments, using nature's natural scissors—restriction enzymes that recognize and cut specific stretches of DNA. After being amplified to improve the interpretation process, these fragments are analyzed and compiled into a fingerprint that is added to a database.

The second genetic fingerprinting technique, MLVA (multiple locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis), relies on analyzing the pieces of DNA that don't code for proteins. Although believed to be functionally useless, these strands contain repeated sequences of base pairs that are more highly variable from strain to strain than "useful DNA." The repeated sequences are usually surrounded by specific markers, which allow researchers to find and cut them. These fragments are then fingerprinted and added to a database.

Ames strain

On Oct. 25, Office of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge announced that investigators had made progress in identifying anthrax samples used in the October bioterrorist attacks.

"Department of Defense DNA tests show the anthrax samples from Florida, New York, and Washington are indistinguishable, meaning that they all come from the same strain of anthrax or the same family of anthrax," announced Ridge—"Ames strain."

Using DNA analysis, investigators had created genetic fingerprints of the samples from affected people, sifted through the vast databases, and found a match.

Army records showed that the Ames strain had originally come from a sick cow in Iowa and was sent to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases in 1980. The Army, determining that the strain was unique, named it Ames, simply because of its origin.

Since then, the Army has supplied it to various laboratories in the United States, and the strain has been disseminated by other routes to facilities around the world. Because of the strain's popularity, the initial identification did not uncover the senders of the contaminated letters.

24/7

Many people investigating the bioterrorist attacks have been instructed to refrain from directly commenting on the progress of the investigation. Dr. Kimothy Smith, is a veterinarian and an associate professor of epidemiology in Dr. Keim's laboratory at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Smith says he cannot confirm or deny working on the bioterrorism case, but when asked about his workload in early November, he responded, "I've been working 24/7 in the last month."

Dr. Smith is hopeful that science will provide a break in the case. All genetic markers, the veterinarian said, are not created equal; some allow for the differentiation of very closely related isolates better than others, especially when investigators are using MLVA.

As of early November, work at NAU was showing that, using ultra-sensitive markers, one could trace strains of a different type of anthrax, called Sterne, to a particular laboratory. Sterne has also been disseminated all over the world. "We can go into old strains like Sterne, [and] theoretically Ames, look much closer into those strain types, and differentiate types from different laboratories," Dr. Smith says.

This promising sleuthing ability is made possible by three factors: bioterrorists need to grow large batches of anthrax for it to be useful as a biological weapon, anthrax undergoes genetic mutations every 1,000 generations, and mutations lead to different fingerprints.

For a given sample of anthrax, Dr. Smith says, "We can go back and estimate the number of generations that separate two isolates. We can build a tree of relatedness, saying this strain is so many generations from this laboratory strain and this many generations from this other one, etcetera."

As of Nov. 5, investigators had not traced the anthrax strain used in the October attacks to a specific laboratory. Workers involved with the Midwestern database and the Los Alamos database continued to toil. But, one thing was certain: the databases, started almost 10 years ago, have played an important role in the investigation.

Kate O'Rourke

http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/dec01/s121501a.asp

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The Jews at Benador must have been watching the FBI labs...IMHO--CSR

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Dr. Meryl Nass Shreds The FBI Evidence About Dr. Ivins
From Patricia Doyle, PhD
3-5-10
 

Hello Jeff -- I still believe that Ivins is a patsy. Israel was one of the countries that had the Ames strain of anthrax, as did Italy, France, UK and across the US. We do know that the perps wanted to blame an Islamic perp. Israel would have no qualms about releasing anthrax. I still think that it was a conspiracy and those in power knew and even ordered it.
 
Ivins made a really good patsy. He did have mental problems that were compounded by the FBI harassment. Dr. Nass also mentioned that the FBI was monitoring and watching Ivins at the time he killed himself. They had his house bugged and probably had hidden cameras. They knew exactly what Ivins was doing and probably even knew what he took. As Dr. Nass points out, the FBI could have notified the doctors about the Tylenol and they could have given him an antidote. Dr. Ivins death was convenient for the FBI.  Who knows if they didn't lace his drinks or food with it.
 
Then there was the therapist. Dr. Ivins therapist, herself, under multiple charges of DUI was accompanied by the FBI to get a restraining order against Dr. Ivins. After that, she is never heard from again. Who knows, maybe she was killed also.
 
In any event the FBI closed the case...but a week later Congress demanded the FBI continue the investigation. Dr. Nass' investigation of this case is remarkable...
 
Patty
 
 
Federal Bureau Of Invention?
 
 Microbiologist Meryl Nass Responds To The FBI 'Closing' The Anthrax Case
 
By Dr. Meryl Nass, MD
 
 
The FBI's report, documents and accompanying information (only pertaining to Ivins, not to the rest of the investigation) were released on Friday afternoon. which means the FBI anticipated doubt and ridicule. The National Academies of Science (NAS) is several months away from issuing its $879,550 report on the microbial forensics, suggesting a) asking NAS to investigate the FBI's science was just a charade to placate Congress, and/or b) NAS' investigation might be uncovering things the FBI would prefer to bury, so FBI decided to preempt the NAS panel's report.
 
Here are today's reports from the Justice Department, AP, Washington Post and NY Times. The WaPo article ends,
 
The FBI's handling of the investigation has been criticized by Ivins's colleagues and by independent analysts who have pointed out multiple gaps, including a lack of hair, fiber other physical evidence directly linking Ivins to the anthrax letters. But despite long delays and false leads, Justice officials Friday expressed satisfaction with the outcome.
 
The evidence "established that Dr. Ivins, alone, mailed the anthrax letters," the Justice summary stated.
 
Actually, the 96 page FBI report is predicated on the assumption that the anthrax letters attack was carried out by a "lone nut." The FBI report fails to entertain the possibility that the letters attack could have involved more than one actor. The FBI admits that about 400 people may have had access to Ivins' RMR-1029 anthrax preparation, but asserts all were "ruled out" as lone perpetrators. FBI never tried to rule any out as part of a conspiracy, however.
 
That is only the first of many holes in FBI's case. Here is a sampling of some more.
 
1. The report assumes Ivins manufactured, purified and dried the spore prep in the anthrax hot room at US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). His colleagues say the equipment available was insufficient to do so on the scale required.
 
2. But even more important, the letter spores contained a Bacillus subtilis contaminant, and silicon to enhance dispersal. FBI has never found the Bacillus subtilis strain at USAMRIID, and it has never acknowledged finding silicon there, either. If the letters anthrax was made at USAMRIID, at least small amounts of both would be there.
 
3. Drs. Perry Mikesell, Ayaad Assaad and Stephen Hatfill were 3 earlier suspects. All had circumstantial evidence linking them to the case. In Hatfill's case, especially, are hints he could have been "set up." Greendale, the return address on the letters, was a suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe where Hatfill attended medical school. Hatfill wrote an unpublished book about a biowarfare attack that bears some resemblance to the anthrax case. So the fact that abundant circumstantial evidence links Ivins to the case might be a reflection that he too was "set up" as a potential suspect, before the letters were sent.
 
4. FBI fails to provide any discussion of why no autopsy was performed, nor why, with Ivins under 24/7 surveillance from the house next door, with even his garbage being combed through, the FBI failed to notice that he overdosed and went into a coma. Nor is there any discussion of why the FBI didn't immediately identify tylenol as the overdose substance, and notify the hospital, so that a well-known antidote for tylenol toxicity could be given (N-acetyl cysteine, or alternatively glutathione). These omissions support the suggestion that Ivins' suicide was a convenience for the FBI. It enabled them to conclude the anthrax case, in the absence of evidence that would satisfy the courts.
 
5. The FBI's alleged motive is bogus. In 2001, Bioport's anthrax vaccine could not be (legally) relicensed due to potency failures, and its impending demise provided room for Ivins' newer anthrax vaccines to fill the gap. Ivins had nothing to do with developing Bioport's vaccine, although in addition to his duties working on newer vaccines, he was charged with assisting Bioport to get through licensure.
 
6. FBI's report claims, "Those who worked for him knew that Nass was one of those topics to avoid discussing around Dr. Ivins" (page 41). The truth is we had friendly meetings at the Annapolis, Maryland international anthrax conference in June 2001, and several phone conversations after that. Bruce occasionally assisted me in my study of the safety and efficacy of Bioport's licensed anthrax vaccine, giving me advice and papers he and others had written. I wonder if I was mentioned negatively to discourage Ivins' other friends and associates from communicating with me, since they have been prohibited from speaking freely? Clever.
 
7. The FBI's Summary states that "only a limited number of individuals ever had access to this specific spore preparation" and that the flask was under Ivins' sole and exclusive control. Yet the body of the report acknowledges hundreds of people who had access to the spores, and questions remain about the location of the spore prep during the period in question. FBI wordsmiths around this, claiming that no one at USAMRIID "legitimately" used spores from RMR1029 without the "authorization and knowledge" of Bruce Ivins. Of course, stealing spores to terrorize and kill is not a legitimate activity.
 
8. FBI says that only a small number of labs had Ames anthrax, including only 3 foreign labs. Yet a quick Pub Med search of papers published between 1999 and 2004 revealed Ames anthrax was studied in at least Italy, France, the UK, Israel and South Korea as well as the US. By failing to identify all labs with access to Ames, the FBI managed to exclude potential domestic and foreign perpetrators.
 
9. FBI claims that "drying anthrax is expressly forbidden by various treaties," therefore it would have to be performed clandestinely. Actually, the US government sponsored several programs that dried anthrax spores. Drying spores is not explicitly prohibited by the Biological Weapons Convention, though many would like it to be.
 
10. The FBI report claims the anthrax letters envelopes were sold in Frederick, Md. Later it admits that millions of indistinguishable envelopes were made, with sales in Maryland and Virginia.
 
11. FBI emphasizes Ivins' access to a photocopy machine, but fails to mention it was not the machine from which the notes that accompanied the spores were printed.
 
12. FBI claims Ivins was able to make a spore prep of equivalent purity as the letter spores. However, Ivins had clumping in his spores, while the spores in the Daschle/Leahy letters had no clumps. Whether Ivins could make a pure dried prep is unknown, but there is no evidence he had ever done so.
 
13. FBI asserts that Bioport and USAMRIID were nearly out of anthrax vaccine, to the point researchers might not have enough to vaccinate themselves. FBI further asserts this would end all anthrax research, derailing Ivins' career. In fact, USAMRIID has developed many dozens of vaccines (including those for anthrax) that were never licensed, but have been used by researchers to vaccinate themselves. There would be no vaccine shortage for researchers.
 
14. Ivins certainly had mental problems. But that does not explain why the FBI accompanied Ivins' therapist, Ms. Duley (herself under charges for multiple DUIs) and assisted her to apply for a peace order against him. Nor does it explain why Duley then went into hiding, never to be heard from again.
 
15. FBI obtained a voluntary collection of anthrax samples. Is that the way to conduct a multiple murder investigation: ask the scientists to supply you with the evidence to convict them? There is no report that spores were seized from anyone but Ivins, about 6 years after the attacks. This is a huge hole in the FBI's "scientific" methodology.
 
16. FBI claims it investigated Bioport and others who had a financial motive for the letters attack, and ruled them out. However, FBI provides not a shred of evidence from such an investigation.
 
FBI gave this report its best shot. The report sounds good. It includes some new evidence. It certainly makes Ivins out to be a crazed, scary and pathetic figure. If you haven't followed this story intently, you may be convinced of his guilt.
 
On the other hand, there are reasons why a conspiracy makes better sense. If the FBI really had the goods, they would not be overreaching to pin the crime on a lone nut.
 
JFK, RFK, George Wallace, Martin Luther King, all felled by lone nuts. Even Ronald Reagan's would-be assassin was a lone nut. Now Bruce Ivins. The American public is supposed to believe that all these crimes required no assistance and no funds.
 
Does the FBI stand for the Federal Bureau of Invention?
 
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Dr. Meryl Nass, MD is a leading expert on anthrax and anthrax vaccine. She has offered her research and expert testimony at several Congressional hearings in the U.S. Dr. Nass's website anthraxvaccine.org offers in depth insight into anthrax, anthrax vaccine, biological warfare and related topics.
 
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Looks like somebody was working intensively with the Ames strain in Feb. 2001 on a vaccine.... --CSR

Infect Immun. 2003 August; 71(: 4563–4579.
doi:  10.1128/IAI.71.8.4563-4579.2003
   
PMCID: PMC165985

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology

Genome-Based Bioinformatic Selection of Chromosomal Bacillus anthracis Putative Vaccine Candidates Coupled with Proteomic Identification of Surface-Associated Antigens

N. Ariel,1* A. Zvi,1 K. S. Makarova,2 T. Chitlaru,1 E. Elhanany,1 B. Velan,1 S. Cohen,1 A. M. Friedlander,3 and A. Shafferman1*  

Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona 74100, Israel,1 National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health, Bethesda Maryland 20894,2 United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland 217023  

*Corresponding authors. Mailing address for Naomi Ariel: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, P. O. Box 19, Ness Ziona 74100, Israel. Phone: 972-8-9381529. Fax: 972-8-9401404. E-mail avigdor@iibr.gov.il.
Received January 14, 2003; Revised March 19, 2003; Accepted May 1, 2003.


Abstract

Bacillus anthracis (Ames strain) chromosome-derived open reading frames (ORFs), predicted to code for surface exposed or virulence related proteins, were selected as B. anthracis-specific vaccine candidates by a multistep computational screen of the entire draft chromosome sequence (February 2001 version, 460 contigs, The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Md.). The selection procedure combined preliminary annotation (sequence similarity searches and domain assignments), prediction of cellular localization, taxonomical and functional screen and additional filtering criteria (size, number of paralogs). The reductive strategy, combined with manual curation, resulted in selection of 240 candidate ORFs encoding proteins with putative known function, as well as 280 proteins of unknown function. Proteomic analysis of two-dimensional gels of a B. anthracis membrane fraction, verified the expression of some gene products. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry analyses allowed identification of 38 spots cross-reacting with sera from B. anthracis immunized animals. These spots were found to represent eight in vivo immunogens, comprising of EA1, Sap, and 6 proteins whose expression and immunogenicity was not reported before. Five of these 8 immunogens were preselected by the bioinformatic analysis (EA1, Sap, 2 novel SLH proteins and peroxiredoxin/AhpC), as vaccine candidates. This study demonstrates that a combination of the bioinformatic and proteomic strategies may be useful in promoting the development of next generation anthrax vaccine.

 
Anthrax is a zoonotic disease, caused by the spore forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis (58). The disease occurs mostly in wild or domestic mammals and may occur in humans when exposed to infected animals, or upon direct exposure (1). B. anthracis is considered to be one of the most likely biological warfare agents due to the ability of its spores to be transmitted by the respiratory route, the high mortality associated with inhalation anthrax, and spore stability. Primary and secondary aerosolization of B. anthracis spores have been recently shown to be of major concern in bioterrorist acts involving deliberate release of B. anthracis spores (34, 70).
Fully virulent forms of B. anthracis carry two large plasmids: pXO1 and pXO2. The plasmids are considered major virulence determinants, as strains lacking either one are attenuated in animal hosts (58, 67, 68). Most of the documented B. anthracis virulence factors identified so far are encoded by plasmid derived genes including the two major virulence factors: the tripartite toxin and the antiphagocytic capsule, respectively. The tripartite toxin is encoded by the genes pagA, lef, and cya, which code for protective antigen (PA) and the lethal and edema factors, respectively (located on pXO1), whereas the genes encoding for the antiphagocytic capsule are located on pXO2. A battery of as-yet-undefined virulence factors probably resides on the B. anthracis chromosome (8, 9, 12, 58), the sequence of which has been recently completed (78).
The licensed human vaccine consists of the PA component of the anthrax toxin as the principal protective immunogen. However, for effective long-term protection, multiple immunizations are required. Studies in experimental animal models indicated that the efficacy of PA vaccines is far below that of the Sterne live spore vaccine (105). Therefore, it has been suggested that additional somatic antigens and/or cellular immunity may be required for full protection. Recent studies report that immune response directed against spore antigens, either through live vaccines (17) or by supplementing PA-based vaccine with formalin-inactivated spores (11), is indeed involved in enhanced protection. Identification of spore antigens or additional vegetative antigens as possible enhancers of vaccine efficacy, could permit development of improved vaccines for human use (8, 9, 17, 58).

Until recently, the major barrier to target-based screening of potential vaccine candidates has been the limited number of cloned and characterized bacterial genes. The currently available genomic sequences of numerous human pathogens facilitates the identification, analysis and cloning of genes of interest. Genome-based selection of vaccine candidates has been recently coined "reverse vaccinology" (73-75). In silico gene selection, in combination with functional genomics studies, have been applied towards novel vaccine generation for several human pathogens (e.g., Neisseria meningitis (69), Streptococcus pneumoniae (109), and Chlamydia pneumoniae (59) and recently also to the selection of potential vaccine candidates from the B. anthracis virulence plasmid pXO1 (7).
Here we describe results of a genome-based bioinformatic screening of the entire B. anthracis draft chromosome (sequenced by The Institute for Genomic Research [TIGR], Rockville, Md.; Feb. 2001 version, 460 contigs, 98% coverage [9], following its translation and function assignments), for putative vaccine candidates. This screening process comprised of search for gene products with recognizable sequence or structural features characteristic of proteins, which either confer protective immunity (consisting mostly of surface exposed or exported proteins), or are similar to documented microbial virulence factors. The in silico approach allowed for identification of 520 B. anthracis open reading frame (ORF) products (240 with putative function and 280 hypothetical proteins or proteins of unknown function), mostly exhibiting features of surface exposed or exported proteins. Proteomic analysis of a B. anthracis membrane fraction allowed for validation of the selection process, verifying the expression of several membrane-associated candidate ORF products, and assessment of their immunoreactivity (by immunoblotting with B. anthracis immune animal sera). The employed complementary strategies could provide the basis for subsequent experimental evaluation of a future generation of anthrax vaccines.


MATERIALS AND METHODS

Computational analyses.
Computational analyses were conducted on an SGI server (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and on a Sun Enterprise 420R server equipped with a Sun Solaris operating system at the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR). The DNA draft sequence of the B. anthracis chromosome (Ames strain, version of February 2001, 460 contigs) was downloaded upon agreement from TIGR (http://www.tigr.org).
Translation and assignment of ORFs was accomplished using the Wimklein module (SEALS package; NCBI [103]) a naive translator based on intrinsic properties of the sequence. A minimal length of 75 amino acids (aa) per ORF was imposed. The translation of the February version yielded 5,045 ORFs, with various lengths ranging from 75 to 5,017 aa.

Sequence similarity searches were conducted by running Blast analyses (3, 4), using the splishpgp module (SEALS package; NCBI), against the following databases: nonredundant (NCBI), unfinished microbial genomes (NCBI), Clostridium acetobutylicum genome (prior to its publication [65]), Bacillus halodurans genome (upon its publication [96]), and Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 draft genome (Integrated Genomics, Ill.). The filtering program SEG (110) was applied to mask sequence segments exhibiting low compositional complexity. However, for ORFs longer than 200 aa, a nonfiltered analysis was carried out as well. Blast results were mapped according to taxonomy using the module tax_collector (SEALS, NCBI). Paralogs were identified by Blast analysis of each ORF against the B. anthracis genome database. ORFs were defined as paralogs, in cases where sequence similarity extends over 80% mutual coverage and the expectation value of the alignment is smaller than e−10. The Blast results were tabulated by the Btab program (NCBI) and further parsed by in-house Perl scripts.

Analyses of protein domains was carried out by searching against the Pfam (89), SMART (85), and CDD databases (107), using the HMM program installed on the NCBI SGI server. Orthology was assigned through analyses of the 5,045 ORFs (February version) against the COGs database (100) (carried out by R. Tatusov [NCBI]).
Cellular localization predictions, for each ORF, were carried out as follows: prediction of presence and location of signal peptides in the N-terminal 70 aa of an ORF, using the program SignalP (63) (run locally on the NCBI server; prediction of membrane-spanning regions, using the program Tmpred [29], run via the BCM Launcher batch client [87]); recognition of lipoprotein signatures by the Lipop program of the PSORT package (60) (installed locally on the IIBR server); identification of the presence of a typical sequence signature (32, 92), as well as identification of gram-positive specific anchoring motifs (13, 62), using the GREF module (SEALS, NCBI) and in-house scripts. Anchoring motifs probed include the tripartite sortase motif (32), a refined motif with increased sensitivity and specificity which includes the traditional LPXTG motif, iron-dependent sortase motif (48), choline-binding motifs (identified using the Pfam HMM PF01473), PKD (Pfam HMM PF00801), LysM (Pfam HMM PF01476) and SLH domains (Pfam HMM PF00395), (13). The draft chromosome-derived ORFs generated in this study were compared to ORFs derived from the full sequence of the B. anthracis Ames strain chromosome, obtained from TIGR (78), and to the recently deposited draft sequence of the Bacillus anthracis A2012 strain (79) (GenBank accession number NC_003995, gi|21397375), by Blast analysis. Table ​Table11 incorporates the equivalent of TIGR ORF number and annotation, as well as the gi number of the A2012 strain ORF equivalent, for of each of our selected draft chromosome ORFs. Throughout the text, ORF products are referred to as the draft chromosome ORF number, and listed in Table ​Table11.
TABLE 1.
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RESULTS

In silico selection strategy.

Preliminary function assignment ("rough" annotation) to the 5,045 ORFs of the B. anthracis chromosome (draft sequence, February 2001 version) was the first step towards the selection of vaccine candidate genes. The steps employed were: sequence similarity searches against public databases as well as against genomic databases of interest (B. cereus ATCC 14579 draft genome, C. acetobutylicum annotated genome [prior to its publication]), and B. halodurans genome domain assignments and protein localization prediction studies (see Materials and Methods). The rationale for candidate selection was based on a rational approach comprising of the following criteria: (i) surface-exposed proteins, whether secreted and/or membrane-anchored (see below), as potential immunogens; (ii) ORF products with putative known function, similar to documented virulence factors in other bacteria or containing motifs known to affect virulence, such as repeats; (iii) ORF products with no sequence similarity to proteins present in a nonpathogenic bacteria, particularly bacilli-related, as proteins potentially responsible for the unique attributes of B. anthracis virulence.
Sequence similarity searches and taxonomical classification.

Blast analysis against the nonredundant database (NCBI) resulted in a preliminary categorization of the 5,045 ORF products into three groups. The first group comprised of ∼3,000 ORF products (Fig. ​(Fig.1,1, right lane), for which a putative function could be assigned based on significant similarity (expectation values smaller than e−3) to a known protein in the databank. The second group comprised of ∼800 ORF products assigned as hypothetical, uncharacterized or putative proteins (Fig. ​(Fig.11 middle lane). The third group included ∼1,200 ORF products for which no function could be assigned (including ORF products similar to a protein with an unknown function as well as B. anthracis unique ORFs, Fig. ​Fig.11 left lane).
FIG. 1.
   
FIG. 1.
Strategy for reductive selection of vaccine candidates from the B. anthracis chromosome draft sequence (version of February 2001). Flowchart of the computational analysis and the filtering steps, of the B. anthracis chromosome candidate selection (left (more ...)
As the first step toward defining chromosome-derived vaccine candidates, the Blast results of the 5,045 ORF products were mapped according to the taxon of hits with expectation value <e−3. This mapping enabled us to perform a first round of subtraction of ORF products for which the similarity to a protein in a nonpathogenic organism (e.g., B. subtilis and B. halodurans) and/or an organism unrelated in terms of evolution (e.g., Aquificales, Thermotogales, and Cyanobacteria) was more significant than the hits to other taxa (expectation values at least 100 times lower than that of the nearest competitor). However, ORF products with hits to pathogenic bacteria from unrelated taxa or from eukaryotic organisms were retained.

Selection of potential vaccine candidates and virulence factors, from the ORF product set with putatively assigned function.
Taxonomy-based subtraction of B. anthracis ORFs exhibiting sequence similarity to proteins from nonpathogenic bacteria, from the 3,000 "known" ORFs (first group) resulted in ∼2,000 ORF products with sequence similarity to known proteins from pathogenic or eukaryotic organisms. We initially scanned the list of the 2,000 ORFs (Fig. ​(Fig.1)1) for putative housekeeping genes; all genes representing ribosomal proteins, phage proteins and fragmented genes, were subsequently removed. Due to possible future experimental restrictions, which may be imposed by the presence of more than one copy of a selected gene (complementation), ORF products with more than two paralogs in the genome were excluded as well. Similarly, in order to avoid possible cloning problems, putative proteins with more than four predicted trans-membrane segments were also removed. ORF products predicted by protein localization algorithms to code for surface associated or secreted components were selected, as well as proteins with sequence similarity to those described as surface exposed proteins in other bacteria, independent of the in silico prediction. ORF products resembling virulence-associated proteins, irrespective of their cellular location, were retained. The resulting ∼450 ORF products were subjected to comparative genomics analysis, removing ORF products with significant similarity (not necessarily as first Blast hit) to proteins from the nonpathogenic bacilli B. subtilis and B. halodurans (upon completion and publication of the genome sequence). The remaining ORF products were inspected individually by manual curation, leaving 240 putative ORF products with potential vaccine and/or virulence relevance as listed in Table ​Table1.1. For a schematic representation of the reductive strategy, see Fig. ​Fig.11.
The B. anthracis chromosome-derived list of putative vaccine candidates or virulence factors (Table ​(Table1)1) includes, as expected, multiple virulence-related subfamilies, namely, toxins, S-layer homology domain proteins, repeat proteins, adhesions/colonization factors, lytic enzymes, and zinc proteases, etc. All subfamilies were implicated in microbial pathogenesis in different organisms.

S-layer homology domain proteins.

The B. anthracis cell surface, in the vegetative nonencapsulated state as well as the capsulated state, is covered by a cell wall polymer, known as the surface layer (or S-layer [23, 50, 52, 84]). Various functions have been assigned to the S-layer, ranging from shape maintenance to virulence, host recognition evasion, cell adhesion and resistance to phagocytosis (52, 58, 84). B. anthracis is known to synthesize two surface layer (S-layer) proteins, EA1 (extractable antigen 1) and Sap (surface array protein), which account for 5 to 10% of total cellular proteins (52). Both proteins contain a standard signal-peptide followed by three SLH (S-layer homology) anchoring motifs (50). Both proteins are considered major surface antigens and vaccine carriers in vivo (50, 52, 53). Mock and Fouet (58) were the first to report that the B. anthracis genome harbors additional genes coding for SLH proteins (other than the two SLH proteins on pXO1 previously identified by Okinaka [66]) which may constitute potential vaccine candidates (7); an amidase on pXO2 (51) and several unidentified genes located on the bacterial chromosome (58)). Inspection of the B. anthracis draft version of the chromosome for ORFs containing at least one SLH domain, revealed the presence of 20 putative S-layer homology domain proteins (including Sap and EA1, products of ORFs 2 and 3). These include cell surface-targeted enzymes such as N-acetyl-muramoyl-l-alanine-amidases (e.g., products of ORFs 4 and 10) and proteins of unknown function (Table ​(Table1,1, 1st category).

Adhesins.

Adhesins, bacterial surface proteins which interact with receptors on the eukaryotic cell, have been studied as targets for vaccine development for many years, since blocking the primary stages of infection could be an effective strategy to prevent bacterial infections (19, 37, 108). Whole-genome sequence of a pathogen could allow for identification of putative novel adhesins based on sequence and/or structural properties shared by bacterial and intracellular human adhesins. Examples for known adhesin families include fibronectin or fibrinogen-binding proteins, collagen adhesins, etc. The B. anthracis draft chromosome was found to contain several putative fibronectin-binding proteins, ranging in size from 213 to 1,102 aa (Table ​(Table1).1). The product of ORF 38 is the only member of the group identified as COG 1293 (COGs database [99]) fibronectin-binding proteins and is similar to a fibronectin-binding protein from Streptococcus pyogenes, reported to confer protective immunity in mice (35). It also exhibits sequence similarity to putative fibronectin-binding proteins from B. subtilis, B. halodurans as well as the S. pneumoniae adherence and virulence protein A (42% identity). Streptococcal fibronectin-binding proteins (in particular pavA from S. pneumoniae) were shown to be essential for extra-cellular targeting and efficient cellular invasion (2, 30, 47, 49, 97, 102, 104).

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DISCUSSION

The efforts directed towards the development of an improved human anthrax vaccine have been, so far, limited to vaccines based on anthrax toxin components. Availability of the B. anthracis chromosomal draft sequence (Ames strain chromosome), allows for in silico identification of putative antigens selected from the complete protein repertoire, thus overcoming preceding limitations, in terms of antigen number and nature, of target based screening for vaccine candidates.
In the study reported herein, B. anthracis putative vaccine candidates, representing proteins likely to be surface exposed, and/or similar to documented virulence related proteins, and/or contain sequence motifs characteristic of virulence factors or immunogens, were selected by a multistep computational analysis (Fig. ​(Fig.1)1) of the draft version of the B. anthracis Ames strain chromosome (February 2001, 460 contigs). Integration of the results, together with careful manual curation, resulted in identification of 520 potential antigenic proteins (240 proteins with putatively assigned function and 280 unknown/hypothetical proteins). As shown in Table ​Table1,1, the 240 proteins with putatively assigned function and relevance to virulence/pathogenicity, could be grouped to several functional categories: SLH proteins, adhesins, repeat proteins, enzymes and "others." Obviously, the assignment of an ORF product to a specific group is not always unequivocal, as larger proteins frequently comprise of more than a single functional domain. However, grouping of the candidates by their putative function, facilitates selection of candidate ORF products from each group, as representatives of families documented to be involved in microbial pathogenesis. For example, the protein products of ORF 1 and ORF 4 are amidases, anchored to the peptidoglycan layer of the bacterial membrane via their SLH domains. These ORF products could be grouped either as SLH proteins or as enzymes. The rationale behind choosing these putative proteins as vaccine candidates, lies in the fact that amidases and autolysins have been shown to be involved in virulence, confer protective immunity and/or act as adhesins (e.g., see reference 109). Moreover, amidases and autolysins are modular enzymes, which probably make use of different membrane anchoring modalities (SLH and choline binding, etc.) as a means of adaptation to a particular biological niche and thus may also act as adhesins (55).
Certain microbial pathogens produce virulence factors expressed only during infection (phase variation), which harbor in their primary sequence patterns known collectively as tandem repeats (Table ​(Table1).1). This group of repeat proteins contains both surface anchored proteins and proteins without obvious secretion and/or anchoring signals (e.g., the most recently documented group of gram-positive virulence determinants named anchorless adhesins [16]). In addition to their reported participation in adhesion, invasion or immune-evasion, repeat proteins have been recently implicated to be involved in Fe3+ siderophore regulation (NEAT [near transporter repeat] repeat proteins [5]) and thus may affect the survival of the bacteria within the host. Examples of such putative Fe3+ siderophore regulatory proteins are the B. anthracis NEAT protein products of ORF 70, ORF 71, ORF 234, and probably also ORF 6. In particular, the products of ORFs 70 and 71, which are anchored proteins harboring several copies of the NEAT domain, are the best matches to the siderophore regulatory proteins described by Andrade et al. (5), to be present in gram-positive organisms (mostly pathogenic). As mentioned by Andrade et al., in the B. anthracis chromosome, these ORFs are indeed located adjacent to iron ABC transporters.
The candidate gene list also includes proteins of unknown function, which are anchored to the bacterial membrane by diverse gram-positive specific anchoring modes. Representatives include sortase-anchored proteins (both iron dependent and independent [13, 18, 48]). Sortases are membrane proteins, which cleave the polypeptide chain between two amino acids within a characteristic C-terminal motif and subsequently catalyze the formation of an amide bond between the carboxyl group of the cleaved polypeptide and the amino group of peptidoglycan cross-bridges. Since most sortase-anchored proteins are considered essential for bacteria to establish successful infection (39), such proteins could be relevant candidates. An example for this group is the product of ORF 228, an anchored repeat protein, relatively unique to B. anthracis, exhibiting weak similarity to a protein involved in immune evasion of Mycoplasma.
The remaining large number of candidates, selected by the bioinformatic analyses (520 putative proteins), necessitates implementation of additional filtering strategies. Reducing the number of candidates to be evaluated experimentally, to a manageable number, would involve application of a high throughput biological screening system (such as proteomic-based analysis of in vivo-expressed immunogens or in vitro-in vivo expression systems [7, 14, 25]); and/or application of additional computational steps directed toward selection of microorganism-specific genes.

B. anthracis, B. cereus, and B. thuringiensis are considered essentially one genetic species and members of the B. cereus group of bacteria (28). In spite of the overall genetic similarity, the fact that these species differ significantly in pathogenesis may imply the presence of B. anthracis-specific virulence determinants. Subtraction of genes common to B. anthracis and B. cereus 14579 (gapped genome, Integrated Genomics, Inc.) could reveal the presence of B. anthracis-specific genes. Preliminary subtraction, from the group of putative proteins with assigned functions (known proteins), of ORF products exhibiting significant overall sequence similarity to B. cereus orthologs, results in ∼80 B. anthracis-specific ORF products, leaving out most of the classical B. cereus group virulence factors. As for the unknown protein subgroup, ∼100 ORF products did not exhibit extensive sequence similarity to B. cereus 14579 proteins. Such subtraction was not performed only on the basis of threshold values (mutual coverage of 85%, expectation values smaller than e−10), but included other considerations regarding specific sequence variations (e.g., extent of insertions, divergence etc). In view of the fact that differences may also be ascribed to differences in genomic context, and in view of the limitations imposed by the quality of draft genomes versus complete genomes, this reduction should be carried out more carefully once sequencing of the more closely related B. cereus 10987 is finished. One should also keep in mind that effective immunogens may not necessarily be B. anthracis specific; thus, this type of subtraction should be probably applied only as an optional reductive measure.
In order to demonstrate the expression and cellular location of the in silico selected chromosomal gene products and in order to expedite the identification of B. anthracis immunogenic membrane and/or outer surface proteins, a direct proteomic inspection of B. anthracis membrane protein fraction was carried out. The proteomic analysis involved separation of a B. anthracis Δ14185 (pXO1−, pXO2−) subcellular membranal fraction by 2-DE, and identification of the most abundant protein spots by MALDI-TOF MS analysis of their fingerprint tryptic digestion products. Close to 100 spots from the 2-DE gel were analyzed and found to represent 32 proteins (detailed results of the analysis are documented in another report [Chitlaru et al., submitted]). In interpreting the proteomic data, one should take into account the fact that the proteomic approach is characterized by inherent underestimation of gene products due to (i) bias toward identification of abundant proteins (this effect is even more pronounced when one particular protein species prevails in the preparation as is the case in the membrane fraction of B. anthracis and the S-layer protein EA1 (e.g., Fig. ​Fig.1,1, box B); (ii) differential proteins expression, depending on the origin of the membrane fraction (culture conditions and in vitro versus in vivo gene expression); (iii) sample preparation procedure. Membrane proteins are notoriously difficult to separate by 2-DE due to solubilization constraints and may not be represented in the two-dimensional map, despite their abundance. It should be noted that the bioinformatic approach may circumvent the above limitations and therefore may result in identification of gene candidates representing the complete gene repertoire of each organism, which following further individual exploration of their immunogenic potential will aid in developing improved protective and therapeutic measures.

Here we report on a serological proteome analysis carried out in order to address the issue of in vivo immunogenicity of the B. anthracis membrane proteins identified. Thirty-eight spots were found to cross-react with sera from B. anthracis infected animals (Fig. ​(Fig.2).2). The analysis also established that the cross-reactive spots, which represent the products of 8 ORFs, are indeed expressed in vivo (in guinea pigs) during exposure to B. anthracis, and are able to elicit an immune response (Fig. ​(Fig.22 and Table ​Table2).2). Most notably, five out of these eight proteins (four SLH proteins and the AhpC/peroxiredoxin) were predicted to be potentially antigenic by the present independent in silico survey. It is worth noting that although antibodies against S-layer proteins EA1 and Sap (ORFs 3 and 2, respectively) were described before in infected animals (22, 58), neither the expression nor the in vivo immunogenicity of the other 2 novel SLH proteins (ORFs 8 and 19) was noted before. Humoral response against AhpC (ORF 82) was reported in other virulent bacterial systems such as Legionella pneumophila and Helicobacter pylori (27, 72, 91) but not for B. anthracis or B. cereus. The seropositive methylcitrate dehydrates MngE/PrpD (gi|21400220, Table2) was not previously invoked as a potential immunogen in other systems, yet it was shown to be necessary for survival of Legionella in the macrophage (72, 91). It is worth noting that about 50% of the immunogenic proteins identified in the Western blot of the 2-DE gel, are S-layer homology domain proteins (Table ​(Table2).2). Nevertheless, comparison of the Coomassie blue-stained 2-DE gels and their respective Western blots (Fig. ​(Fig.2),2), appears to reveal a differential order of immunopotencies among these seropositive proteins. For example, AhpC (spots 34 to 36) appears to be an exceptionally strong immunogen, since in the Coomassie blue-stained gel it appears as a weak signal while in the Western blot it appears as an intense signal.
In conclusion, as demonstrated in this study, combining bioinformatic chromosome screening with serological proteome analysis allows for judicious selection of in vivo immunogens. While the bioinformatic strategy resulted in identification of 240 vaccine candidates with putative functions (out of the 5,045 assigned and annotated ORFs derived from the chromosome B. anthracis draft sequence), the serological proteome analysis enables to focus on putative anthrax vaccine candidate genes by confirming their in vivo expression and antigenicity.

Acknowledgments

We thank E. V. Koonin for fruitful scientific discussion and D. Lipman, S. Bryant, A. Marchler-Bauer, A. Panchenko, and J. Fleshman from the NCBI for their interest and support. We are deeply indebted to T. D. Read (TIGR, Rockville, Md.) for his cooperation from the beginning of this project and for providing access (prior to publication) to TIGR's complete genome derived chromosomal ORFs sequence (78). We also thank Menachem Lion and Dror Bar-Natan from the IIBR for their help in genome-based tryptic peptide fingerprint screening and for performing local and remote computational analyses.
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Microb Pathog. 2005 Jan ;38 (1):1-12  15652290  Cit:14

Construction of a rhamnose mutation in Bacillus anthracis affects adherence to macrophages but not virulence in guinea pigs.

Joel A Bozue, Narayanan Parthasarathy, Lawrence R Phillips, Christopher K Cote, Patricia F Fellows, Itai Mendelson, Avigdor Shafferman, Arthur M Friedlander
Bacteriology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1425 Porter Street, USAMRIID, Ft. Detrick, MD 21702, USA. http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auid:40913

Friedlander (Israeli Jew Researcher?) appears often and apparently worked with Ivins --CSR

Vaccine. 2001 Sep 14;19 (32):4768-73  11535328  Cit:115
In vitro correlate of immunity in a rabbit model of inhalational anthrax.

M L Pitt, S F Little, B E Ivins, P Fellows, J Barth, J Hewetson, P Gibbs, M Dertzbaugh, A M Friedlander

United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD 21702-5011, USA. welkos@ncisun1.ncifcrf.gov

Vaccines which are efficacious against anthrax, such as the human vaccine, Anthrax Vaccine Absorbed (AVA), contain the protective antigen (PA) component of the anthrax toxins as the major protective immunogen. Although AVA protects against inhalational anthrax, the immune responses to and role in protection of PA and possibly other antigens have yet to be fully elucidated. Sera from animals immunized with a toxin-producing, unencapsulated live vaccine strain of Bacillus anthracis have been reported to have anti-spore activities associated with the antitoxin humoral response. The authors performed studies to determine whether anti-PA antibody (Ab)-containing preparations stimulated spore uptake by phagocytes and suppressed the germination of spores in vitro. AVA- and PA-immune sera from several species enhanced the phagocytosis by murine peritoneal macrophages of spores of the virulent Ames and the Sterne vaccine strains. Antitoxin Abs appeared to contribute significantly, although not solely, to the enhanced uptake. Rabbit antisera to PA purified from either Sterne or a PA-producing pX01-cured recombinant, affinity-purified anti-PA IgG, and monkey antisera to AVA were used to assess the role of anti-PA ABS: Rabbit anti-PA Abs promoted the uptake of spores of the PA-producing strains Sterne, Ames and RP42, a mutant of Sterne producing only PA, but not of the pX01-Sterne-1 strain, Ames strain, or RP4, a mutant of Sterne with deletions in the loci encoding PA and the oedema factor (EF) toxin component and producing only the lethal factor toxin component. Rabbit anti-PA and monkey anti-AVA Abs also significantly inhibited spore germination in vitro compared to preimmune serum or medium. Spore-associated proteins recognized by anti-PA Abs were detected by electron microscopy and confirmed by immunoblotting of spore coat extracts. Thus, the anti-PA Ab-specific immunity induced by AVA has anti-spore activity and might have a role in impeding the early stages of infection with B. anthracis spores.

J Immunol Methods. 2004 Mar ;286 (1-2):111-22  15087226  Cit:75

Tracking human antigen-specific memory B cells: a sensitive and generalized ELISPOT system.
Shane Crotty, Rachael D Aubert, John Glidewell, Rafi Ahmed

Emory Vaccine Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, 1510 Clifton Road, Rm G-211, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
In the interest of better understanding the role of human memory B cells in protection against disease, we developed an assay to quantitate antigen-specific memory B cells in human blood. This assay utilizes a 6-day polyclonal stimulation of PBMC followed by an antigen-specific ELISPOT for the detection of memory B cells that have differentiated into antibody secreting cells (ASC) in vitro. We have used this assay to demonstrate that the anthrax vaccine (AVA; BioThrax) elicits a substantial population of protective-antigen (PA) specific memory B cells, and these B cells satisfy the canonical surface phenotype of human memory B cells: CD19(+)CD20(+)Ig(+)CD27(+). These anti-PA antigen-specific memory B cells are IgG(+) and represent up to 2% of circulating IgG(+) B cells. Furthermore, these results confirm that vaccine-elicited memory B cells reside in the CD27(+) B cell population. This ELISPOT-based system has been designed in a generalized manner, such that the assay can be rapidly adapted to detect human antigen-specific memory B cells of any given specificity. This method should be useful for quantitatively assessing the potency of vaccines and the longevity of B cell immunological memory to various vaccines or infectious diseases.

Infect Immun. 2001 Jul ;69 (7):4509-15  11401993  Cit:69

Protection against anthrax lethal toxin challenge by genetic immunization with a plasmid encoding the lethal factor protein.

B M Price, A L Liner, S Park, S H Leppla, A Mateczun, D R Galloway
Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43017-1292.

The ability of genetic vaccination to protect against a lethal challenge of anthrax toxin was evaluated. BALB/c mice were immunized via gene gun inoculation with eucaryotic expression vector plasmids encoding either a fragment of the protective antigen (PA) or a fragment of lethal factor (LF). Plasmid pCLF4 contains the N-terminal region (amino acids [aa] 10 to 254) of Bacillus anthracis LF cloned into the pCI expression plasmid. Plasmid pCPA contains a biologically active portion (aa 175 to 764) of B. anthracis PA cloned into the pCI expression vector. One-micrometer-diameter gold particles were coated with plasmid pCLF4 or pCPA or a 1:1 mixture of both and injected into mice via gene gun (1 microg of plasmid DNA/injection) three times at 2-week intervals. Sera were collected and analyzed for antibody titer as well as antibody isotype. Significantly, titers of antibody to both PA and LF from mice immunized with the combination of pCPA and pCLF4 were four to five times greater than titers from mice immunized with either gene alone. Two weeks following the third and final plasmid DNA boost, all mice were challenged with 5 50% lethal doses of lethal toxin (PA plus LF) injected intravenously into the tail vein. All mice immunized with pCLF4, pCPA, or the combination of both survived the challenge, whereas all unimmunized mice did not survive. These results demonstrate that DNA-based immunization alone can provide protection against a lethal toxin challenge and that DNA immunization against the LF antigen alone provides complete protection.

http://lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:16452/citpmid

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Jennifer has a great post below!

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Jennifer Lake's Blog
September 11, 2011

Anthrax, Ten Years After

Filed under: anthrax,police state,Psychological War — jenniferlake @ 1:47 am

Tags: 2001 anthrax attacks

In the spring of 2010, I put together a blog of news and commentary, scraped together from what had been published in the news about the anthrax attacks. It didn't take long to find contradictions and inconsistencies but it took weeks and months of scouring the sources to pull out a narrative about what did and did not happen, and after all that there was still less than half a story– just enough to say with certainty that the first victim in five deaths could not have been contaminated at his Florida tabloid office by an anthrax letter. There was enough evidence to say that none of the next four fatalities had plausibly traceable infections either. Survivors each had anomalous details of time and place in their individual accounts that made the sequence of events impossible. The executive staff at the Florida tabloid were allowed to come and go in hazmat suits and do their own cleanup at the "crime scene" before the FBI started their investigation 10 months later. The contaminated letters that the government took into custody, it turns out, could not have been the source of lethal infections, and these are just a few of the problems.
   The missing half of the "Amerithrax" picture, which leaves only an impression that the biological attacks were calculated murders, hovers like a phantom over the memorials of September 11. If you turn and look for it, nothing is there. The propaganda about anthrax from Iraq, with Colin Powell holding up his little vial of powder, also seems to have vanished with it.  Bruce Ivins, the 'lone nut' who suicided the day before his official indictment (in 2008, while under surveillance), was posthumously declared guilty. Case closed. No public memorials for the anthrax victims. Nothing sexy here. Flush it all down the memory hole. Who wants to be reminded of how dirtied we felt by the uncontrolled spread of disease and mental filth after the shock of watching the towers fall again? Not me.
–but this is not really about that.
   I learned from 9-11 and the anthrax attack how easily the public can be hoaxed –how willingly we take the word of authority in times of confusion, even if that authority is the 'because I said so' kind making claims to analyses and logic. What I saw was the whole 2001 anthrax story running desperately short on information and because of the anthrax attacks, lawmakers were hustled around in Washington during those critical days of passing the Patriot Act and a phony link was forged between Iraq and the hijackers. Because of anthrax, airports are shoving people through bodily x-rays. Because of anthrax, biological reality is divorcing medical expedients and becoming a way of life.
   In a speculative moment of comprehension, I'd say the anthrax attacks were the largest and longest case of hearsay ever broadcast over the national media. There was no perp video, no audio, no testimony about credible threats. Just the slow, rumor-ridden dropping of The Other Shoe. Bad things must come in twos.
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According to the CDC final report,  "22 cases of anthrax (11 inhalational, 11 cutaneous) were identified.. in..seven states" http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/10/0 ... rticle.htm
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The half-story is still hanging at www.thirdring.wordpress.com . If I can find the time, I'll amend this post with a review.

http://jenniferlake.wordpress.com/

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The Corbett Report -- Interview 383 – Dr. David Halpin

In this exclusive interview, Dr. David Halpin, a retired orthopedic surgeon and one of a group of doctors who has been campaigning for a coroner's inquest into the mysterious death of Dr. David Kelly joins The Corbett Report to discuss his appeal for a judicial review of UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve's decision earlier this year to deny such an inquest. We discuss the medical anomalies that lead Dr. Halpin and other doctors to conclude that Dr. Kelly did not commit suicide, the history of the government cover-up about the case, and The Dr. David Kelly Inquest Fund through which people can help to cover the legal cost of the upcoming review.


http://www.corbettreport.com/interview- ... id-halpin/

http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2011-1 ... Halpin.mp3

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Do Jews Scam? --CSR

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Was man accused of post-9/11 anthrax attacks innocent?

Research disputes FBI's forensic evidence against scientist who committed suicide

By Guy Adams in Los Angeles
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

The man held responsible for the post-9/11 anthrax attacks may have had a secret accomplice, or been completely innocent of his alleged crimes, according to research into the FBI's investigation of the affair.

Bruce Ivins, an army bio-defence expert, committed suicide in 2008 after learning that murder charges were about to be filed against him in connection with the high-profile terrorist campaign, in which five people were killed and another 17 injured.

But an article published this week in the Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefence highlights several inconsistencies in the forensic evidence against Dr Ivins, raising speculation that the FBI got the wrong man, and then prematurely closed their investigation following his death. The report, co-authored by three scientists, says that detectives failed to properly analyse the dried anthrax spores that were used in the attacks, which took place over several weeks following the September 11 bombings in 2001.

Analysis of the white powder, which was sent through the postal service to news organisations and politicians, showed that it contains unexpected traces of tin. That suggests a high degree of manufacturing skill, contrary to official conclusions that the attacks were part of a relatively-unsophisticated campaign carried out by Dr Ivins alone.

Agency scientists initially described the tin as an "element of interest" in the case, according to internal FBI documents uncovered by The New York Times. Early on in their investigation, they regarded it as a crucial clue which suggested that the anthrax – which had been mailed in envelopes containing the message: "Death to America ... Death to Israel... Allah is great" – had come from a relatively-professional source.

They later dropped that line of inquiry, however, and never mentioned the tin publicly. Following the death of Dr Ivins, who killed himself as the FBI were preparing to indict him, the agency failed to provide any detailed explanation of how the anthrax was manufactured.

The Journal's article will add to speculation that Dr Ivins was innocent of his alleged crime. An eccentric, with a history of erratic behaviour and some circumstantial links to the attacks, sceptics say he made a convenient scapegoat for investigators under pressure to close what became a long-running case.

Dr Ivins had an office near the New Jersey post box where two of the contaminated letters originated, and worked unusually late hours on the nights before they had been sent. He had also spent much of his career studying anthrax and had sometimes referred to a schizophrenic alter ego called "Crazy Bruce."

There was, however, no concrete evidence linking Dr Ivins to the crime. A report published last year by the National Academy of Sciences concluded that the FBI did not have enough scientific evidence to produce a conviction, had the case gone to trial.

Among their many criticisms, the authors found that the link between the anthrax used in the attacks and a supply which Dr Ivins kept in his lab was "not as strong" as the agency suggested.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... vice=Print

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Israel's Role in UK Nuclear Murders

Did Mossad Murder Hilda Murrall?

 

By T Stokes on November 22, 2011

Nuclear power is an inherently dangerous source of energy, as events at Fukushima recently revealed. So it goes without saying that nuclear weapons are all the more so.

Israel's arsenal has been substantially enlarged since Mordechia Vannunu first heroically blew the whistle on it. Nonetheless a Sunday Times article that appeared in the wake of Vannunu's disclosures featured interviews with several Nuclear Authority policemen about the threat posed by Israel's nuclear arsenal.

Significantly it was never published and has since been kept under wraps: becuase what they discussed was considered more inflammatory than Vannunu's disclosures.

More than revealing concerns about Israel's nuclear arsenal suspicions were voiced over the deaths of two prominent anti-nuclear activists.

In April 1985 a Scottish Nationalist SNP activist and lawyer William Mcrae who was vehemently opposed to Scotland's involvement in the nuclear industry was found shot dead in his car in the Scottish highlands.

Mcrae claimed he was under MI5 surveillance and at the time of his death he was due to give testimony at public hearing on waste processing at Dounray,

In 2005 a lad called Andrew George who was a 16 year old in foster care with learning difficulties at the time of the killing, was found guilty of Hilda Murrall's 1984 murder. But as Hilda Murrell's nephew and former Royal Navy commander, Robert Green writes in his book "A Thorn in Their Side, The Hilda Murrell Story" George was obviously not responsible for his aunt's death.

For the British security services have a record of colluding with police to set up naïve and trusting locals, as in the Jill Dando murder, where the killing has all the hallmarks of a professional hit.

Significantly however, for the killings to succeed they first have to be sanctioned by senior figures within the British security establishment.

The general opinion in informed circles is that the killing was authorised by Sir Colin Figures, the Jewish Chief of MI6 who worked closely with Prime Minister Thatcher's security advisor Lord Victor Rothschild. And here it's worth recalling that Rothschild was instrumental during Harold Wilson's years in office for the secret export of plutonium to Israel.

Rothschild pushed for further British investment in the nuclear industry for his own ends, and he allegedly also helped orchestrate the miner's strike, which crippled the country and put huge numbers on the dole. Defectors have suggested that the Russians assisted the industrial disruption while the murder of those people opposed to the nuclear industry has Rothschild fingerprints all over it.

There are another 6 murders whose names can be found on the Hilda Murrel website, and 4 more unlisted.

Hamish Watt a medical man who examined William Mcrae's body told the Aberdeen Journal that he found two bullet holes in the back of Mcrae's head, close together and fired from point blank range: a clear indication of an execution style killing. Despite this and the fact that Mcrae's two brief cases were found some distance down the road together with a pistol that was found later even further away, the official verdict was still that of suicide.

Beyond the obvious pointing finger to MI5, who would usually farm the job out, the real killers would appear from other sources to be Mossad.

Former MP Tam Dalyell claimed that an MI5 operative told him Hilda Murrell disturbed two men ransacking her house, and although her body was dumped on the Wednesday we are supposed to believe that her body lay there in open land undiscovered until Saturday, despite a search with dogs having started on the Thursday.

The following is taken whole from the Aangirfan website:

The author Gary Murray, also investigated the death of Hilda Murrell, and found at least 14 similarities between Mcrae and Hilda Murray:

1. Red Escort observed at scene

2. Activities of interest to M15, Special Branch, Atomic Energy Police

3. About to appear at public hearing dealing with nuclear issues

4. Passionate antinuclear campaigner

5. Under surveillance by Security Services

6. Witnesses overlooked by police investigators

7. Drove/driven to death scene in own vehicle

8. Death scene: quiet country spot outside of town

9. Victim was said to have discovered something specific about nuclear industry

10. Authorities refused Enquiry into death and murder investigation wound up

11. Conflict in official statements about evidence

12. Victim's property broken into and burned down

13. Anomalies concerning nuclear papers

14. Associates and friends attempting to pursue the case become victims of burglary and/or acts of violence or damage to property

Enemies of the State: A Sensational Exposé of the Security Services by a former MI5 Undercover Agent. Gary Murray, Simon and Schuster, London, England, 1993, p210

As a recently resigned British police chief said; "we have untouchable foreign assassins working this country and the police's hands are tied"

So while our forces are away fighting wars over fictitious Weapons of Mass Destruction, foreign agents are here killing with impunity

Russian multi-millionaire and mafia boss Ivan Lukaszewski now resident in Britain, says the KGB has much info on this and that Israelis were behind the mass killings of intellectuals, scientists and educated people from the foundation of the Jewish state up to and including Iraq and now Iran.

Not many people doubt now that Princess Diana, Dr. David Kelly, Robin Cook and Christopher Shale were all murdered to silence them. So it's no coincidence that the popular but outspoken UKIP political leader, Nigel Farage who was challenging Commons speaker John Bercow for his constituency was involved in a plane crash that nearly killed him on election day 2010.

Nigel Farage after the plane crash

The pilot Justin Adams has subsequently been charged by the police for bragging he would kill the UKIP leader.

Nigel Farage had made two big mistakes: he upset the powerful Jewish lobby by taking a political seat away from puppet John Bercow and he promised to pull Britain out of the EU.

*With thanks to Shrewsbury archives, Aberdeen news reporters, Shropshire meals on wheels, neighbourhood watch papers, Telegraph archives and various others.

T Stokes, London

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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=38203

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(From our buddy ZCF...     )

CNN recently just aired a new clip supposedly shedding new light on the alleged suspect of the Anthrax mailings that happened back in late 01' right after 9/11. A woman claiming to have known Bruce Ivins (the accused mastermind) personally, spews all kind of unsubstantiated claims about him being "insane, a drunk, a drug addict and having anger problems." This is typical character assassination of a patsy. Her demeanor in the interview is that of a liar. Bruce Ivins did not orchestrate the anthrax mailings. It took the FBI (Fucking Belligerent Idiots) SEVEN YEARS to finally target this guy as the lead suspect in 2008 even though they had no evidence against him. The anthrax mailings were the tail end of the 9-11 false flag operation, and were a concerted effort to scare the shit out of the American public so they support this fake war on terror out of abject fear. The Anthrax scare convinced Americans that they could die by simply opening their mail, therefore they need the governments protection, right?

Bruce Ivins is nothing more than an opportune patsy who conveniently committed suicide right before he could be brought to trial. Since the FBI had no evidence against him they had to kill him; then they could just officially blame him for the attack without proving it in a trial -- case closed. Typical intelligence work!

Here are some details about the anthrax attacks that make the accusations against Ivins completely ridiculous:

1) Bruce Ivins worked at Fort Detrick USAMRIID weapons lab and had a stable career as a micro biologist, vaccinologist, and senior bio-defense researcher.

2) He worked there for 28 years with no problems and had received a commendation from Fort Detrick lab for helping solve technical problems in the manufacture of an Anthrax vaccine.

3) Ivins initially AIDED the FBI in the anthrax investigation. He helped them by analyzing samples taken from the contaminated letters and the hoax letters.

4) Initially, the FBI's chief suspect in the Anthrax case was Dr. Steven Hatfill, a CIA asset. Dr. Hatfill was discovered to have been taking CIPRO, the antidote to anthrax for months leading up to the mailings.

5) In 2006, FBI director Robert Mueller abruptly CHANGED LEADERSHIP of the Anthrax investigation. IMMEDIATELY after the personnel change at the FBI, investigation into Hatfill abruptly ended and now Ivins was targeted as the lead suspect. Clearly the honest FBI investigators were swapped with co-opted agents tasked with framing Ivins and taking attention away from Steven Hatfill.

6) A patsy is born. Soon after this the FBI and media began painting Ivins as "insane, paranoid, delusional, suicidal and dangerous." The FBI supposedly releases emails written by Ivins and claims they show signs of anxiety, paranoia, depression.

7) On July 27, 2008 -- shortly before the FBI was to bring a case against Ivins to trial -- he apparently commits suicide by taking an overdose of Tylenol. NO AUTOPSY WAS ORDERED. LOL.

No charges are filed but the FBI assigns him full responsibility for the attacks. Case closed. LOL!

9) The letters used in the Anthrax mailings appear as if they were written by Muslim extremists, but Bruce Ivins was a Roman Catholic.
Why would a Roman Catholic with no motive whatsoever to perpetrate this outrageous act of terrorism, write notes impersonating an Islamic terrorist? Answer: HE WOULDN'T! This is another false flag operation.

10) The U.S. government originally tried to blame Iraq and Al Qaeda as being behind the Anthrax mailings. The idiots didn't realize the type of Anthrax used was of the Ames strain which is only produced by a few American weapons labs.

Since the Al-Qaeda/Iraq accusation didn't fly too far the FBI decides an American Roman Catholic should be a sufficient patsy . Nobody will tell the difference

11) Israeli intelligence claimed to have witnessed Iraqi intelligence give Mohamed Atta a flask of anthrax at a meeting in Prague before 9-11. This meeting never took place, Israel made the whole thing up.

12) The anthrax letters were all mailed from locations in New Jersey and Florida; the same states where some of the alleged 9-11 hijackers lived prior to the attacks. Also the same two states in which Israeli Mossad agents were living NEXT DOOR to the patsy 9-11 hijackers. How did the perpetrators of the Anthrax false flag know to send the letters from these locations? Gee since Israel was living next to the said hijackers and since Israel lied and said that Atta got anthrax from Iraqi intelligence it kind of looks like Israel might have been the ones behind this frame up doesn't it?

13) A Zionist Jew named Dr. Philip Zack had been fired from USAMRIID back in 1991 for his harassment of an Arab co-worker named Dr. Assad. Zack also stole Anthrax from the lab back in 1992. He was a "person of interest" in the 2001 Anthrax case but the FBI doesn't follow up on it even though he had previously stolen Anthrax from the same lab and had shown his utter racism towards his Arab co-worker. That would perfectly explain why the Anthrax letters look like they were written by Muslims. Because Zionist Zack wrote them and tried to frame his former Egyptian co-worker Dr. Assad.

Qui Bono?

Who benefited from the Anthrax scare? Obviously not Muslims or Mr. Ivins. It was a horribly botched Mossad-CIA false flag operation used to incite more fear of terrorism after 9-11 and continue to paralyze the nation in fear so they bow down and accept all the U.S. governments wishes (i.e. Massively escalating the defense budget and going to war in the Middle East on behalf of Israel).

http://terrorofzion.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... posed.html