I realize you swoon over every word Ken says.
But make no mistake, Kenatjan Alibekov is one the masters of the great game. He led one of the most audacious misinformation campaigns of the cold war. It’s all outlined in Mangold and Goldberg’s “Plague Wars”:
CHAPTER NINE Incident at Sverdlovsk
Page 76:
The Soviets now went to extraordinary lengths to buttress their lies and make them supportable and credible worldwide. What had begun as a local cover-up in Sverdlovsk, now became an international fairy tale, a fiction of breathtaking audacity.
Amazingly, he wasn’t happy enough with the weaponized anthrax he created in the Sverdlovsk leak killing hundreds. Whilst lying to the West he secretly went on to continue to improve the powdered anthrax he had created:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bioweapons/redlies.html
In the years since the Sverdlovsk accident, Alibek and a research team had taken the Soviet military’s anthrax and made it even more deadly. He developed a process to take ground up anthrax spores and coat each particle in plastic and resin. It kept the anthrax aloft four times longer, increasing its ability to infect people.
“The main idea was just to make it more efficient. Just, for example, using a pretty small amount of this weapon to cover as much as possible territory, populated territory, [ to kill as many people as possible.]” Alibek says.
Look, James Dean Cubed,
Did a ballerina from a Russian ballet company fall off the stage and crush you as a child? Deal with the pertinent facts. Intercepts in 2002 show Salafist, Taliban-supporting, end of Western civilization-hoping Ali Timimi was working with Bin Laden’s sheik. Take out Gert’z BREAKDOWN on intelligence failures and look up al-Hawali in the index. He gives the example of the bombing in the mid-1990s where intercepts calling London and explaining to his colleague that it was all to get al-Hawali out of jail, only to take Ayman’s incoming call on the other line passing on his congratulations. Ali had a threatening letter to Congress hand-delivered to all members of Congress on the first anniversary of the anthrax mailngs. At 6:00 A.M. February 26, 2003, as part of the codenamed OPERATION IMMINENT HORIZON, the FBI not only raided al-Timimi’s townhouse looking for materials relating to WMD (see warrant) but conducted searches of two drying experts. So start focusing on some relevant questions and get over the ballerina incident. First, what mathematical support work did Al-Timimi do for the Navy in bioinformatics that required a high level security clearance. Second, is it true he had a room just two doors down from both Ken and the former USAMRIID head — both accomplished in anthrax weaponization? Third, don’t the patents I’ve described point to precisely the silica detected by the AFIP and the reason it very possibly did not appear on the surface of the spore? (having been removed by repeated centrifugation). Now, if you find out the SRA International work involved secret methods for cleaning out bilge water, or if you find he didn’t have the office I suggest he did, or if you conclude the patents (as used by someone “skilled in the art” to invoke the phrase from the patents) would not result in the product, then do tell me. I’m here to learn something. The same day they searched al-Timimi’s townhouse — at 6:00 A.M. EST , 100 federal agents came to my hometown and simultaneously interviewed 150 people before 9 A.M. The public may have been fooled, but I wasn’t. And neither was Ayman. And Ayman is one dangerous SOB. Think Godfather on a bad day. I’m not interested in spending another 4 years while Ed insists that the FACTS show the anthrax letters were written by a First Grader or others argue that just because a Japanese cult couldn’t get it right, it means Ayman couldn’t successfully infiltrate the US biodefense establishment.
Of course, if Ken told Ali over a vodka drinking game how to weaponize the anthrax, then we can hang him. But Ali doesn’t drink vodka so that theory is shot.
And of course the guy killed by polonium claimed Ayman was working for the FSB — that instead of being jailed for 6 months in 1996/97 without the jailers knowing his identity, his identity was actually known and he agreed to cooperate against the Chechen rebels in exchange for his freedom. But look where such talk got that Russian guy who ate the polonium.
If Ken has DARPA’s confidence, that’s good enough for me.
But Ali doesn’t have DARPA’s confidence, so let’s start with him.