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Five Years Later, Anthrax Questions Swirl Anew at FBI
Newhouse ^ | October 13, 2006 | Kevin Coughlin

Posted on 10/13/2006 3:46:10 PM PDT by Shermy

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1 posted on 10/13/2006 3:46:12 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy

Its a muslim, therefore they will never pursue. It was supposed to be a white crazy male remember?


2 posted on 10/13/2006 3:52:36 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Somebody important make....THE CALL!)
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To: Allan; Mitchell; Battle Axe; TrebleRebel; jpl; cgk; EdLake; piasa; muawiyah; Peach; Perdogg; ...

Ping.


3 posted on 10/13/2006 3:54:14 PM PDT by Shermy
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Yet the FBI is confident

Say, what?

Was it just a coincidence that there appear to have been connections between known Muslim terrorists, the Florida anthrax attack, and the New Jersey mailings?

4 posted on 10/13/2006 3:54:34 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: TrebleRebel

""A clever high school student" could make such a preparation""

Coated or not, I don't think that's correct. It's still high-grade stuff.


5 posted on 10/13/2006 3:57:31 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
Kenneth Berry's career also unraveled after the FBI searched a Dover
Township, N.J., summer home he was visiting in 2004.
...snip...
He never was charged, either.


I missed this part of the story.

So, Hatfill wasn't the only guy slimed by the investigation.

(OK, I'll retract that if either is ever charged, tried and convicted).
6 posted on 10/13/2006 3:58:54 PM PDT by VOA
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To: EdLake

You're quoted:

"So he sent a warning to the media, saying this is next, there's a biological attack coming next, and be prepared: Take penicillin," said Lake..."

I also believe the mailer/s had a familiarity with Central New Jersey. Because the return addresses on the second batch nearly match a name of a school there and the town didn't match the zip code, town was adjacent or so to the zip code area - only someone from local familiarity would know enough to make that kind of mistake. If the mailer was from elsewhere but wanted to make a phoney return address they would look up the town's name on the internet or such and have the correct zipcode - no reason to dummy the zip code.


7 posted on 10/13/2006 4:04:36 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
All anthrax is "high grade".

As far as the silica in the mix, that blew in on the day, September 8, 2001, the terrorists filled the envelopes in a public park in Boca Raton, FL.

8 posted on 10/13/2006 4:04:51 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Shermy

""A clever high school student" could make such a preparation""

And s/he probably would have attended a really good private school
in a town with a good university library.
Or was a strong early-adapter of using the Internet for looking up
terror devices/concoctions.

And the kid would probably get a free ride at Yale U., in the manner of
the Taliban admit.


9 posted on 10/13/2006 4:06:40 PM PDT by VOA
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To: samadams2000
Its a muslim, therefore they will never pursue.

Who is "they"?

10 posted on 10/13/2006 4:07:54 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: VOA

"I missed this part of the story."

The Berry episode was very bizzare.


11 posted on 10/13/2006 4:08:46 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Doe Eyes

shhhh...our government. The FBI has its marching orders or continues to show its bungling incompetence.


12 posted on 10/13/2006 4:11:02 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Somebody important make....THE CALL!)
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To: Shermy

Let's see: our clever HS student would need anthrax cultures, a supply of suitable medium,a freezer,a centrifuge,and,perhaps,a flash dryer or some form of bead mill.A glove box would be helpful,as would protective gear,air filtration.

What are we up to now ? $30-40,000 ?


13 posted on 10/13/2006 4:13:01 PM PDT by genefromjersey (So much to flame;so little time !)
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To: samadams2000
shhhh...our government.

You do realize that the Justice Department, FBI ... are under the control of President Bush.

Is he part of they?

14 posted on 10/13/2006 4:16:55 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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"What are we up to now ? $30-40,000 ?"

I don't know. But the FBI expressed they were surprised how "pure" it was and such so I got the impression it was special.


15 posted on 10/13/2006 4:19:50 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Doe Eyes

ssshhh...yes.


16 posted on 10/13/2006 4:20:59 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Somebody important make....THE CALL!)
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To: Shermy
There are other circumstances that I don't know if anyone has written about...I work at the post office(and did in 2001), the anthrax could very well have not harmed anyone except for one tiny, unpredictable circumstance - even the sender, I believe didn't anticipate -- the post office(in 2001) regularly "blew out" their machines(letter cancellers, sorters, ...everything) with compressed air.

Compressed air is no longer allowed. All machines nation wide are vacuumed. Plus, I don't think it's considered secret, but all AFCS's(letter cancellers) are now equipped with bio detection systems.

It seems that the compressed air took what may have been a "warning" or "demonstration" and aerosolized what the sender thought would arrive in the same condition it was sent in! This is also why it was mostly postal people who died and were affected. Others who work for the po can easily confirm what I'm saying.
So, when someone says a rogue bio scientist sent the stuff not expecting the 'blow up', has some believability to me, just because nobody could have anticipated the po would take a bio hazard and aerosolize it.
17 posted on 10/13/2006 4:32:36 PM PDT by Duke of Milan
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Two points: 1) If all earlier reports of weapons grade anthrax were false, please identify those who made those false claims and then fire them. 2) In their tireless search for the criminal responsible for those anthrax attacks, has the FBI at last ruled out their favorite frame-up target, Richard Jewel?


18 posted on 10/13/2006 4:37:08 PM PDT by Continental Soldier
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To: Doe Eyes
You do realize that the Justice Department, FBI ... are under the control of President Bush.

In theory. In reality, President Bush abdicated responsibility for the executive bureaucracy and stopped caring some time ago. Remember, this is the guy who told "Brownie" he was doing a heck of a job and gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the incompetent, pink-tie wearing George Tenet.

19 posted on 10/13/2006 4:55:46 PM PDT by jpl (Victorious warriors win first, then go to war; defeated warriors go to war first, then seek to win.)
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To: muawiyah

If they filled the envelopes in a public park, then down wind, or in the soil, there would be left over spores. Someone would eventually get an infection.

Are there any infections???

More likely the envelopes were filled overseas, or in an apartment or beach house along the ocean side of Florida, maybe along the beach, that was subsequently burned. I've tried to get fire records of all the places that were torched about that time....mid Aug to Sept. 2001. So far have not.


20 posted on 10/13/2006 8:04:58 PM PDT by Battle Axe (Repent for the coming of the Lord is nigh!)
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