Posted on 06/01/2005 2:44:00 AM PDT by naturalman1975
If this is what it looks like, Australian law enforcement will have to get the people responsible.
Terrorism is Terrorism.
I wonder what is the biological agent and how did someone get hold of it?
Some additional info:
"Mr Howard said the package contained a quantity of the bacillus bacteria, and that more tests were being conducted.
Most bacillus-type bacteria are harmless to humans, but one type - anthracis - causes anthrax in humans and animals.
MrHoward said it was the fist time a biological agent had been used in this way in Australia."
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=11702
Doesn't "bacillus" merely mean "bacteria" and then it depends what type of bacteria it is. Also, most bacteria aren't harmless, they may not all be deadly, but they make people sick.
The way peeps get their panties up, this might be roo-droppings on fire in a paper bag on the front porch for all we know.
The Genus Bacillus
© 2005 Kenneth Todar University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology
Introduction
In 1872, Ferdinand Cohn, a student of Robert Koch, recognized and named the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. The organism was made to represent a large and diverse genus of Bacteria, Bacillus, and was placed in the family Bacillaceae. The family's distinguishing feature is the production of endospores, which are highly refractile resting structures formed within the bacterial cells. Since this time, members of the genus Bacillus are characterized as Gram-positive, rod-shaped, aerobic or facultative, endospore-forming bacteria.
The ubiquity of Bacillus species in nature, the unusual resistance of their endospores to chemical and physical agents, the developmental cycle of endospore formation, the production of antibiotics, the toxicity of their spores and protein crystals for many insects, and the pathogen Bacillus anthracis, have attracted ongoing interest in the genus since Koch's time.
http://textbookofbacteriology.net/Bacillus.html
It's apparently a bacillus.
As for where it came from - well, we do have occasional anthrax outbreaks in sheep and cattle in some parts of the country. Somebody might have got some from that.
Well, at least the sender did not desecrate a Koran! /sarcasm
Okay, help me understand this.
AQ has blown up Indonesia targets in the past.
Biological agent arrives at the Indonesian embassy (in Australia) but they assume it's domestic terrorism against the Indonesians and not an AQ based attack against Indonesia.
Are they completely dismissing foreign terrorism, like AQ?
Yes they are.
Probably 95% chance of a false alarm.
Of course, given that the Indonesian courts gave the mastermind of the Bali bombing 2 1/2 years, I'm guessing that the Aussies may not feel the need to throw the book at anyone.
No, nothing is being dismissed at this time, but a domestic source does seem most likely. There have been a couple of threats made against Indonesian interests in recent days and these have been local.
They will look further than just a local source - but that is the most likely scenario.
Good point. Well the anthrax in America was obviously a frame up by a disgruntled scientist because among other things the date at the top was in Western order 09-11-01. "This is next. Take Penacilin now. Death to America. Death to Israel. Allah is great." The American scientist who did this even intentionally mispelled penicillin.
"Of course, given that the Indonesian courts gave the mastermind of the Bali bombing 2 1/2 years, I'm guessing that the Aussies may not feel the need to throw the book at anyone."
Yet they were going to give the women who tried to smuggly marijuana the death penalty. Really disgusting these people.
I agree. Stupid.
Inside the embassy?
Sounds like someone forgot their lessons in safety while mixing up some WMD.
This IS Indonesia's embassy, after all!
Insanity!!! Now, we're expected to respect the unrespectable and complement the ignorant..
Semper Fi
ping!
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