Posted on 10/25/2001 2:14:28 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:01:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Ultra-right-wing organizations - including a particular West Coast group - have become a key focus of the massive federal investigation into the murderous Anthrax attacks, The Post has learned.
Investigators have been zeroing in on members of several anti-government hate groups that they believe have obtained or attempted to get the deadly bacteria from several U.S.-based laboratories before it surfaced in Florida, Washington and New York this month.
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Hmmm, what a convincing argument. I am so impressed.
Wasn't Van Zandt the guy who thought Chandra must have been the victim of a "random" serial killer?
I'm still betting on Iraq given that most evidence so far reports to government or military grade anthrax.
As much as I resent the characterization of anyone as a "right wing hate group," (especially since I have never heard the media say "left wing hate group"), I think that if we learn that this is a domestic group, we should respond as fiercely as if they were foreign.
That said, I think this profiler is looking for his 15 minutes of fame.
Oh really?
Investigators have been zeroing in on members of several anti-government hate groups that they believe have obtained or attempted to get the deadly bacteria from several U.S.-based laboratories before it surfaced in Florida, Washington and New York this month.
Whose investigators? The government's, or just some sleazy reporter's hired help?
Several sources told The Post taht (sic)
Sources? Government sources, or just some people chatting at Starbucks'?
* Probers also see similarities between the anthrax letters and some of the so-called hoax letters that contained talcum powder and were initially brushed aside as not being linked to the bioterror scare.
Which 'probers?' Government ones, or just some guys down at Appleby's?
Some investigators believe the same person may have written both sets of letter.
Whose investigators?
"Our feeling is the anthrax does not point to an international terrorist group," a well-placed source said.
Oh, a 'well placed source.' Hmmm... placed where? A source in a chatroom? what exactly is a well-placed source? A Hillary staffer?
"The anthrax letter writer did not fall off a turnip truck after the World Trade Center destruction," another source said.
This one evidently is not so well-placed, whatever that means. Still, is he a government source or just some schmuck who writes his own news on the web?
"There are a number of strong leads and some people we've known of for some time who are being looked at," another highly placed source said.
Ooh! ANOTHER highly placed source, who is placed highly somewhere, though we don't know where. Maybe he's sitting in a high chair. This reporter has found a LOT of DIFFERENT sources... none of which say much. Usually 'highly placed sources' get fired. How many can there be, if they are not congressmen looking to spin?
From the start, FBI profilers cautioned about channeling investigative efforts toward Mideast terror groups because the anthrax-tainted letters to the New York Post, NBC-TV and Sen. Thomas Daschle contained the date "09-11-01," but were in envelopes postmarked Sept. 18.
Now this is the first one the author actually says is a federal source. But it only says profilers cosidered middle eastern terrorists. (Note the only government source so far in the article says nothing about 'right wing domestic groups.')
Sources said international terrorists would unlikely feel the need to spell out an obvious link to their earlier horrific handiwork.
Back to 'sources again. Sources from where? The Psychic Friends network?
"That's real overkill," agreed Clint Van Zandt, a former top FBI profiler. "It is someone other than a bin Laden trying too hard to link up to Sept. 11. It is a gratuitous reference."
Note that even Zandt doesn't make a reference to home grow stuff- he just makes a jab at what it isn't.
"Daschle represents the government, and the government is what the right-wing groups hate," a source said. "By contrast, the media is something they use to get publicity and spread fear."
Back to 'a source,' when the author wants to claim domestic right-wing. Note, not a government source, and not the 'former profiler.' Just a 'source.' Who? Bill Clinton? George Stephanopolous? Some homeless guy?
The sources declined to name the hate groups being eyed in the investigation or the laboratories where the anthrax may have been obtained or milled.
More 'sources.' Maybe they didn't name or at least get more specific about them because they don't know what they are talking about, or don't know their comments have been cut into bites and reassembled to means omething wholly different from what they actually said.
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