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Saddam Behind Anthrax Attacks?
Accuracy in Media ^ | 1/1/2004 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 01/02/2004 6:31:05 AM PST by TrebleRebel

In a major development, potentially as significant as the capture of Saddam Hussein, investigative journalist Richard Miniter says there is evidence to indicate Saddam's anthrax program was capable of producing the kind of anthrax that hit America shortly after 9/11. Miniter, author of Losing bin Laden, told Accuracy in Media that during November he interviewed U.S. weapons inspector Dr. David Kay in Baghdad and that he was "absolutely shocked and astonished" at the sophistication of the Iraqi program.

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TOPICS: Anthrax Scare; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aim; amerithrax; anthrax; antraz; bw; hussein; iraq; kay; miniter; richardminiter; saddam; stoptheexcerpts; wmd

1 posted on 01/02/2004 6:31:06 AM PST by TrebleRebel
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To: Badabing Badaboom; Shermy; genefromjersey; aristeides; Mitchell; Allan; okie01; pokerbuddy2; ...
ping
2 posted on 01/02/2004 6:33:18 AM PST by TrebleRebel (If you're new to the internet, CLICK HERE.)
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To: TrebleRebel
There is no way this will make the mainstream media.
3 posted on 01/02/2004 6:35:19 AM PST by netmilsmom (RE: Some relatives, "Her presence is like pee on a hot rock! " - Conspiracy Guy)
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To: TrebleRebel
We'll find out the truth of the anthrax (which I believe Iraq was behind) when I'm old and gray, if then.
4 posted on 01/02/2004 6:37:20 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: EdLake
PING!
5 posted on 01/02/2004 6:39:53 AM PST by TrebleRebel (If you're new to the internet, CLICK HERE.)
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To: TrebleRebel

The white guy from the arpartheid
country did it, everyone knows that.

6 posted on 01/02/2004 6:44:09 AM PST by putupon (Does "undocumented" just mean you don't have enough green to purchase a card?)
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To: TrebleRebel
Haven't you been following the Kay story - No evidence of ANY WMD stockpiles or active programs of ANY kind, and he is leaving in disgrace - shortly. At least this is what I would believe if I only skimmed the headlines over the past eight months.
7 posted on 01/02/2004 6:45:20 AM PST by epluribus_2
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To: Peach
We'll find out the truth of the anthrax (which I believe Iraq was behind) when I'm old and gray, if then.

Since I don't know you, is this something that can happen any day? Or are we talking a long time from now?

8 posted on 01/02/2004 6:45:41 AM PST by SengirV
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To: TrebleRebel
I just finished Leonard Cole's book-"The Anthrax Letters"-and Richard Spertzel said Iraq had begun using a one-step spray drying process,using an Aerosil/Slurry mixture-something the UN inspectors were looking for when Saddam kicked them out of Iraq.

This might be important, as descriptions of the anthrax found in the Daschle/Leahy letters suggest the presence of Aerosil,or something quite similar.
9 posted on 01/02/2004 6:45:46 AM PST by genefromjersey (So little time - so many FLAMES to light !!)
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To: SengirV
LOL! In the jargon of Clinton, it depends on the meaning of "old". Good point.


10 posted on 01/02/2004 6:48:00 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: netmilsmom
There is no way this will make the mainstream media.

I agree.

The "evidence" for the "fact" that there were no WMDs is now strong enough that we can write this into history textbooks and start teaching it to the kids. Any discoveries that would contradict this historical teaching could not be considered newsworthy by our guardians of the "truth" at the NYT, LAT, WP, CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN.

11 posted on 01/02/2004 6:49:32 AM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: TrebleRebel
The Left amd DemoRats have muddled 9/11 so much with Black Helicopter stuff, even if Saddam stood up on Global TV and declared he had made the stuff, they wouldn't belive it. They would try to disclaim what Saddam said. The Left are truly in a quagmire.
12 posted on 01/02/2004 6:50:36 AM PST by Dallas59
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To: TrebleRebel
No way this story will see the light of day in the major news media.
13 posted on 01/02/2004 6:53:12 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Ain't Skeered...)
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To: putupon
The white guy from the arpartheid country did it, everyone knows that.

Yeah, he even dived underwater in a Maryland pond and put together the ingredients in an airtight box. < /sarcasm>

14 posted on 01/02/2004 8:34:33 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Saddam Hussein was only 537 Florida votes away from still being in power)
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To: TrebleRebel
To be particular, a possible linkage with Iraq (or another country) depends whether Kay can definitively link the Senate stuff to the process specifically mentioned in the Science article...that is, the silica and the polymerized glass "binder."

I would think Kay has seen the Science article...no?
15 posted on 01/02/2004 10:10:27 AM PST by Shermy
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To: TrebleRebel
This is not a major new development.
Miniter said this a month ago on the Bob Grant show, WOR.

See posts 57 and 51

16 posted on 01/02/2004 10:32:07 AM PST by Allan
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To: TrebleRebel
Many reports in the media, including Washington Post reporter Marilyn Thompson’s book on the anthrax attacks, have claimed that the Ames strain of anthrax used in the attacks was a U.S. "military strain" and was therefore probably made in the U.S.

If one listened closely to our media, one would think either Hatfill or somebody else in our country (related to our own bio-weapons research) is responsible.

The success of covering this attack up is so superb you would think it never happened at all, we just imagined it, or it is just some sort of mysterious US Militia plot.

17 posted on 01/02/2004 11:07:00 AM PST by Gritty (There are 'lies' and there are 'damn lies'. This subject is completely mired in the latter!)
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To: Gritty
I've got a a news flash: the US NEVER used Ames in its bioweapons. Ames was used only for vaccine.
The US stocks used Vollum strain per Paul Keim,who was an active participant in the old weapons programs,and who developed the method used to ID strains by their DNA.

(Source: The Anthrax Letters, by Leonard Cole,page 200 )
18 posted on 01/02/2004 4:54:56 PM PST by genefromjersey (So little time - so many FLAMES to light !!)
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To: All
In a major development, potentially as significant as the capture of Saddam Hussein, investigative journalist Richard Miniter says there is evidence to indicate Saddam’s anthrax program was capable of producing the kind of anthrax that hit America shortly after 9/11. Miniter, author of Losing bin Laden, told Accuracy in Media that during November he interviewed U.S. weapons inspector Dr. David Kay in Baghdad and that he was "absolutely shocked and astonished" at the sophistication of the Iraqi program.

Miniter said that Kay told him that, "the Iraqis had developed new techniques for drying and milling anthrax—techniques that were superior to anything the United States or the old Soviet Union had. That would make the former regime of Saddam Hussein the most sophisticated manufacturer of anthrax in the world." Miniter said there are "intriguing similarities" between the nature of the anthrax that could be produced by Saddam and what hit America after 9/11. The key similarity is that the anthrax is produced in such a way that "hangs in the air much longer than anthrax normally would" and is therefore more lethal.

Nevertheless, the FBI has been operating on the assumption that it was produced by a disgruntled American scientist, perhaps in a basement. The FBI wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars investigating the possibility that the anthrax letters were packaged underwater in a Maryland pond in a special device of some sort.

In a development that has received little media attention, an article in the November 28th issue of Science magazine focuses on the testimony of experts that the nature of the anthrax used against America constituted a major advance in biological weapons technology. The article notes that analysts in the U.S. Army detected silica coatings on the anthrax sent to the U.S. Senate and that special chemicals were used to enhance its ability to form a lethal aerosol. One of those was a super-specialized binder chemical used to keep the silica particles in place on the surface of the spores.

One of the experts quoted in the article told us that, "In my opinion it would be impossible to manufacture a powder like this without state-sponsorship… These are super-specialized areas—and once it is understood just how difficult it is to process powders with these coatings, it becomes immediately obvious that only a highly disciplined state-sponsored program could have achieved this."

Many reports in the media, including Washington Post reporter Marilyn Thompson’s book on the anthrax attacks, have claimed that the Ames strain of anthrax used in the attacks was a U.S. "military strain" and was therefore probably made in the U.S. But experts say the Ames strain was provided to laboratories around the world. The expert told us that, "Far too much focus has been placed on the genetic and DNA analysis of the senate anthrax" which has identified it as the Ames strain. "The real key to finding out who did it is not the DNA analysis, but the analysis of the coatings that were used." He said David Kay should be looking for scientists in Iraq who have developed this technology.

Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at aimeditor@yahoo.com
19 posted on 01/05/2004 7:42:59 PM PST by Prince Charles
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To: genefromjersey
1998 - "Man suspected of having anthrax predicted attack ; Harris told talk show Iraqis poised to strike," CNN
20 posted on 01/05/2004 7:44:10 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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