The radio commentator Alex Jones questions why the cabinet was on Cipro before the attack. But given it has been public info since March 1999 that Zawahiri was planning to make an attack using anthrax — and the warning by February 2001 (see February 2001 PDB could not have been plainer), it is just uninformed to think it so surprising. Like the kid in the first video said, it would be stupid for them not to expect an anthrax attack such as had been announced Zawahiri would make — and to take rudimentary precautions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHB8LOb3JFg
This person makes the same mistake — not appreciating why the Administration went on Cipro before the attacks.
(I bought my Cipro on 9/21. Didn’t everyone? Didn’t you get the memo or at least read the earliest NYT and WP news items about the cropduster inquiries?)
Are the people making such an argument really not aware of the vast amount of published information leading up to the taking of the Cipro? Moreover, the cropdusting documents on Moussaoui’s computer were immediately accessed.
http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com
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