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From: Sam Uzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 15:15
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Subject: [nnstuff] who did what, now?
...yeah, sure... it's all a "conspiracy theory"... no one in America
would ever
do harm to the american public in order to promote their nefarious
political
agenda, because we live in a perfect kinder gentler nation of loving
overseers
who take care of us so we don't have to take care of ourselves...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,719242,00.html
Riddle of the spores
Why has the FBI investigation into the anthrax attacks stalled? The
evidence
points one way
George Monbiot
Tuesday May 21, 2002
The Guardian
The more a government emphasises its commitment to defence, the less it
seems to
care about the survival of its people. Perhaps it is because its
attention may
be focused on more distant prospects: the establishment and maintenance
of
empire, for example, or the dynastic succession of its leaders. Whatever
the
explanation for the neglect of their security may be, the people of
America have
discovered that casual is the precursor of casualty.
But while we should be asking what George Bush and his cabinet knew and
failed
to respond to before September 11, we should also be exploring another,
related,
question: what do they know now and yet still refuse to act upon?
Another way of
asking the question is this: whatever happened to the anthrax
investigation?
After five letters containing anthrax spores had been posted, in the
autumn, to
addresses in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
promised
that it would examine "every bit of information [and] every bit of
evidence".
But now the investigation appears to have stalled. Microbiologists in
the US are
beginning to wonder aloud whether the FBI's problem is not that it knows
too
little, but that it knows too much.
Reducing the number of suspects would not, one might have imagined, have
been
too much to ask of the biggest domestic detective agency on earth. While
some of
the anthrax the terrorist sent was spoiled during delivery, one sample
appears
to have come through intact. The letter received by Senator Tom Daschle
contained one trillion anthrax spores per gram: a concentration which
only a
very few US government scientists, using a secret and strictly
controlled
technique, know how to achieve. It must, moreover, have been developed
in a
professional laboratory, containing rare and sophisticated
"weaponisation"
equipment. There is only a tiny number of facilities - all of them in
the US -
in which it could have been produced.
The anthrax the terrorist sent belongs to the "Ames" strain of the
bacterium,
which was extracted from an infected cow in Texas in 1981. In December,
the
Washington Post reported that genetic tests showed that the variety used
by the
terrorist was a sub-strain cultivated by scientists at the US army's
medical
research institute for infectious diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick,
Maryland.
That finding was publicly confirmed two weeks ago, when the test results
were
published in the journal Science. New Scientist magazine notes that the
anthrax
the terrorist used appears to have emerged from Fort Detrick only
recently, as
the researchers found that samples which have been separated from each
other for
three years acquire "substantial genetic differences".
The Ames strain was distributed by USAMRIID to around 20 other
laboratories in
the US. Of these, according to research conducted by Barbara Hatch
Rosenberg,
who runs the Federation of American Scientists' biological weapons
monitoring
programme, only four possess the equipment and expertise required for
the
weaponisation of the anthrax sent to Senator Daschle. Three of them are
US
military laboratories, the fourth is a government contractor. While
security in
all these places has been lax, the terrorist could not have stolen all
the
anthrax (around 10 grams) which found its way into the postal system. He
must
have used the equipment to manufacture it.
Barbara Hatch Rosenberg has produced a profile of the likely
perpetrator. He is
an American working within the US biodefense industry, with a doctoral
degree in
the relevant branch of microbiology. He is skilled and experienced at
handling
the weapon without contaminating his surroundings. He has full security
clearance and access to classified information. He is among the tiny
number of
Americans who had received anthrax vaccinations before September 2001.
Only a
handful of people fit this description. Rosenberg has told the internet
magazine
Salon.com that three senior scientists have identified the same man - a
former
USAMRIID scientist - as the likely suspect. She, and they, have told the
FBI,
but it seems that all the bureau has done in response is to denounce
her.
Instead, it has launched the kind of "investigation" which might have
been
appropriate for the unwitnessed hit and run killing of a person with no
known
enemies. Rather than homing in on the likely suspects, in other words,
it
appears to have cast a net full of holes over the entire population.
In January, three months after the first anthrax attack and at least a
month
after it knew that the sub-strain used by the attacker came from Fort
Detrick,
the FBI announced a reward of $2.5m for information leading to his
capture. It
circulated 500,000 fliers, and sent letters to all 40,000 members of the
American Society for Microbiology, asking them whether they knew someone
who
might have done it.
Yet, while it trawled the empty waters, the bureau failed to cast its
hook into
the only ponds in which the perpetrator could have been lurking. In
February,
the Wall Street Journal revealed that the FBI had yet to subpoena the
personnel
records of the labs which had been working with the Ames strain. Four
months
after the investigation began, in other words, it had not bothered to
find out
who had been working in the places from which the anthrax must have
come. It was
not until March, after Barbara Hatch Rosenberg had released her
findings, that
the bureau started asking laboratories for samples of their anthrax and
the
records relating to them.
To date, it appears to have analysed only those specimens which already
happened
to be in the hands of its researchers or which had been offered, without
compulsion, by laboratories. A fortnight ago, the New York Times
reported that
"government experts investigating the anthrax strikes are still at sea".
The FBI
claimed that the problem "is a lack of advisers skilled in the
subtleties of
germ weapons".
Last week, I phoned the FBI. Why, I asked, when the evidence was so
abundant,
did the trail appear to have gone cold? "The investigation is
continuing," the
spokesman replied. "Has it gone cold because it has led you to a
government
office?" I asked. He put down the phone.
Had he stayed on the line, I would have asked him about a few other
offences the
FBI might wish to consider. The army's development of weaponised
anthrax, for
example, directly contravenes both the biological weapons convention and
domestic law. So does its plan to test live microbes in "aerosol
chambers" at
the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, also in Maryland. So does its
development of a genetically modified fungus for attacking coca crops in
Colombia, and GM bacteria for destroying materials belonging to enemy
forces.
These, as the research group Project Sunshine has discovered, appear to
be just
a tiny sample of the illegal offensive biological research programmes
which the
US government has secretly funded. Several prominent scientists have
suggested
that the FBI's investigation is being pursued with less than the rigour
we might
have expected because the federal authorities have something to hide.
The FBI has dismissed them as conspiracy theorists. But there is surely
a point
after which incompetence becomes an insufficient explanation for
failure.
www.monbiot.com
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