Posted on 10/10/2001 3:00:57 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
The only problem with that is some FReeprs did some research and found out that their papers are printed regionally, so....if it's terrorists, they are incredibly incompetent, or this isn't some big masterminded plot (which everybody seems to be ignoring the fact that the photo editor and somebody in the mail room would not be working the presses even if there were presses there so wouldn't be exposed).
Which rules out a photo editor and mail room guy getting accidently exposed to it. This is sounding more and more like it's incredibly manpower intensive for so few results.
Out sick??
They have Arabs working in microbiology labs and university research. They do have access to just about everything.
The title of the post is: Hazmat Investigations Keep Crews Busy
I doubt the hijackers had access to that supply, or at least direct access."
Both universities, particularly in their scientific and technical departments, are LOADED with foreign students and staff from all over the world.
Yes, there are foreign nationals from many countries working in research labs across the country in various disciplines (biology, chemistry, physics, etc.). Not just from Arab countries but also plenty of ChiComs. Most I have known seem to truly loathe their home government, but it would be very easy to plant agents into these labs. Scary stuff.
Request signed for approval by Professor Saddam Hussein, Ph.D.
``We're not sure what to make of that yet,'' a source close to the inquiry said. ``It may mean absolutely nothing.''
Maybe they just appreciate good journalism.
United States Senate, 103d Congress, 2d Session
May 25, 1994
http://www.gulfweb.org/bigdoc/report/riegle1.html
http://www.gulfweb.org/bigdoc/report/r_1_2.html#biotoxins
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has oversight responsibility for the Export Administration Act. Pursuant to the Act, Committee staff contacted the U.S. Department of Commerce and requested information on the export of biological materials during the years prior to the Gulf War. After receiving this information, we contacted a principal supplier of these materials to determine what, if any, materials were exported to Iraq which might have contributed to an offensive or defensive biological warfare program. Records available from the supplier for the period from 1985 until the present show that during this time, pathogenic (meaning "disease producing"), toxigenic (meaning "poisonous"), and other biological research materials were exported to Iraq pursuant to application and licensing by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Records prior to 1985 were not available, according to the supplier. These exported biological materials were not attenuated or weakened and were capable of reproduction. According to the Department of Defense's own Report to Congress on the Conduct of the Persian Gulf War, released in April 1992: "By the time of the invasion of Kuwait, Iraq had developed biological weapons. It's advanced and aggressive biological warfare program was the most advanced in the Arab world... The program probably began late in the 1970's and concentrated on the development of two agents, botulinum toxin and anthrax bacteria... Large scale production of these agents began in 1989 at four facilities in Baghdad. Delivery means for biological agents ranged from simple aerial bombs and artillery rockets to surface-to-surface missiles."
Included in the approved sales are the following biological materials (which have been considered by various nations for use in war), with their associated disease symptoms:
Bacillus Anthracis: anthrax is a disease producing bacteria identified by the Department of Defense in The Conduct of the Persian Gulf War: Final Report to Contress, as being a major component in the Iraqi biological warfare program.
Anthrax is an often fatal infectious disease due to ingestion of spores. It begins abruptly with high fever, difficulty in breathing, and chest pain. The disease eventually results in septicemia (blood poisoning), and the mortality is high. Once septicemia is advanced, antibiotic therapy may prove useless, probably because the exotoxins remain, despite the death of the bacteria.
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[Here is a list of shipments from the U.S. to Iraq of Anthrax. I'm wondering if a Freeper could determine which of these agents might tag to export from Iowa?]
Date : May 2, 1986 Sent To : Ministry of Higher Education Materials Shipped:
1. Bacillus Anthracis Cohn (ATCC 10) Batch # 08-20-82 (2 each) Class III pathogen
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12. Bacillus Anthracis (ATCC 14185) Batch #01-14-80 (3 each) G.G. Wright (Fort Detrick) V770-NP1-R. Bovine Anthrax Class III pathogen
13. Bacillus Anthracis (ATCC 14578) Batch #01-06-78 (2 each) Class III pathogen
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Date : September 29, 1988 Sent To : Ministry of Trade Materials Shipped:
1. Bacillus anthracis (ATCC 240) Batch # 05-14-63 (3 each) Class III pathogen
2. Bacillus anthracis (ATCC 938) Batch # 1963 (3 each) Class III pathogen
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5. Bacillus anthracis (ATCC 8705) Batch # 06-27-62 (3 each) Class III pathogen
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8. Bacillus anthracis (ATCC 11966) Batch #05-05-70 (3 each) Class III pathogen
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Supposition: U.S. labs shipment to Iraq for research. Iraq mass produces and provides tech or samples to Bin Laden (reports last month said Iraq sold biological tech to Bin Laden's group which hid missiles and warheads with bio/chem materials in Yemen and them manufacturered it in Sudan). Bin Laden, always willing to share gives it back to U.S. (couldn't get crop duster so used U.S. mail)?
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