Keith Addison wrote: By the way, whatever happened to all those folks who were arrested for the anthrax attacks in 2001?
Exerpts below from two articles in 2002 shed some light on his question: 1) Thinking the Unthinkable...Was the Anthrax an Inside Job? Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen details mounting evidence that the source of the anthrax was a top secret U.S. Army laboratory in Maryland, and that the perpetrators involve high-level officials in the U.S. military and intelligence infrastructure. On March 23, the FBI officially announced that "exhaustive testing did not support that anthrax was present anywhere the hijackers had been." If not the hijackers, who would have the capability to produce and disseminate the high grade anthrax? Is it mere coincidence that the new Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) approved the questionable use of anthrax vaccine on military personnel? Or that Harvard biophysics scientist and anthrax expert Dr. Don C. Wiley met with a very suspicious demise just a month after the attacks first began? Those questions only scratch the surface! When will the Bush Administration's investigations start producing long-overdue results?? Full article at: http://www.counterpunch.com/madsenanthrax.html 2) FBI guilty of cover-up over anthrax suspect At a time when the Bush administration is beefing up Americas Homeland Security defences any indication of progress by the FBI should be good news, but one prominent and well-respected biowarfare expert believes the FBI has not only known the identity of the terrorist for months but has conspired with other branches of the US government to keep it secret. Dr Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, director of the biological warfare division at the Federation of American Scientists, first accused the FBI of foot-dragging in February with a scathing investigation that included a portrait of the possible perpetrator so detailed that it could only match one person. Rosenberg said she knows who that person is and so do a top-level clique of US government scientists, the CIA, the FBI and the White House. "Early in the investigation," Rosenberg told Scotland on Sunday, "a number of inside experts, at least five that I know about, gave the FBI the name of one specific person as the most likely suspect. That person fits the FBI profile in most respects. He has the right skills, experience with anthrax, up-to-date anthrax vaccination, forensic training, and access to the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (AMRIID) and its biological agents through 2001." Rosenbergs profile suggests that the suspect is a middle-aged scientist with a doctoral degree who works for a CIA contractor in Washington DC. She adds he has to know or have worked closely with Bill Patrick, the weapons researcher who holds five secret patents on how to produce weapons-grade anthrax, that he suffered a career setback last summer that embittered him and precipitated his campaign and that he has already been investigated by the FBI. Most crucially, she believes the suspect has in the past actually conducted experiments for the government to test the response of the police and civil agencies to a bioterror attack. "It has been part of the suspects job to devise bioterror scenarios," Rosenberg said. "Some of these are on record. He is known to have acted out at least one of them, in hoax form, perhaps as part of an assignment to test responses. Some hoax events that have never been solved, including several hoax-anthrax events, also correspond to his scenarios and are consistent with his whereabouts." The question she wants the FBI and the Bush administration to answer is, why it has taken so long to arrest this man? In the unlikely event that the government divulges all it knows about what she now believes to be a full blown cover-up, Rosenberg said responsibility can be expected to fall on a number of government agencies, all with a vested interest in shielding the truth. "Either the FBI is under pressure from the Pentagon or CIA not to proceed because the suspect knows too much and must be controlled forever from the moment of arrest," she said, "or the FBI is sympathetic to the views of the biodefence clique or the FBI really is as incompetent as it seems." Rosenbergs analysis suggests a combination of all three. The American defence establishment guards its secrets well and given the suspects covert work on their behalf their reluctance to see him publicly exposed appears natural. Equally there is evidence that some of the suspects colleagues are not unhappy with the fallout from his terror attacks. Rosenberg cites David Franz, a former commander of USAMRIID who earlier this year said of the anthrax campaign: "I think a lot of good has come from it. From a biological or a medical standpoint, weve now five people who have died, but weve put about $6bn in our budget into defending against bioterrorism." Full article at: http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=65581200 2
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