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To: chance33_98
I am a little curious about the article cited. It states that there were 37 incidents in the United States in 1998 affecting 5,529 people where anthrax was the weapon used. This caused 1,202 people to be either decontaminated, treated for the disease, or simply quarantined. Maybe I don't get out much, but I don't recall hearing about even one of them.

They say the targets of these attacks were: "Government buildings and officials, individuals, clinics, religious institutions, antiabortion activists, financial institutions, schools, retail establishments, office buildings, media, nightclub."

They cite the source as "press reports" but I would be curious to see what a NEXIS search came up with for that year. My guess is that they are including threats and hoaxes in with their data. Based on their figures, the average number of people affected by each attack was 149.4 and the average number of people requiring some type of attention was 23.5 , so at least one attack had to affect 150 people and require that 35 receive some type of medical treatment. Considering that this is an average number, it is more likely that at least one outlier must have occurred affecting hundreds. I would have thought that this would be a major news story at the time. If it was, I would be interested in reading about it, or at least some specifics.

The article does reference two incidents, one where Larry Wayne Harris made some threats and was found in possession of anthrax vaccine - not anthrax, and the other is where the group named CSA had obtained a drum of cyanide and had plans to poison a city's water supply. Their plan was thwarted when their group was infiltrated by the FBI.

The rest of the article appears to be pure pontification about who likely biological terrorists might be. Considering that the actual source of the article (while written by someone from CFR) is the Center for Disease Control, I would consider it to be much like their gun control studies - fiction at best, but mostly propoganda.

18 posted on 10/28/2001 7:29:17 PM PST by L_Von_Mises
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To: L_Von_Mises
Hoaxes have been around for a long time. As for Harris he wrote a book about the possibility of Bio-Warfare("Bacteriological Warfare: A Major Threat to North America," ) and supposedly knew an Iraqi woman who was working on Anthrax, he also reported the women were bringing it into the us hidden inside them. I don't know whether he is a wacko or looking for fame or what but I will bet $1000 that he has been under surveillance since the anthrax letters broke...

http://www.servtech.com/~montgome/cw980221.htm

http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/bioweapons/Larry_Harris_Followers_Beware.htmlhttp://www.emergency.com/antrxhox.htm

http://www.infowar.com/wmd/99/wmd_030599a_j.shtml

Ken Alibek, ex russian.

http://cryptome.org/bioweap.htm
21 posted on 10/28/2001 7:58:58 PM PST by rolling_stone
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