http://www.secinfo.com/dSAKe.4fB3v.d.htm
Alexandria, VA, December 20, 2001 — Hadron, Inc. (OTC BB: HDRN) today publicly announced the biodefense research plans and product development strategies being pursued by its Advanced Biosystems, Inc. subsidiary. This announcement is being made in response to the high level of public interest in biowarfare research following recent anthrax attacks.
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The Company has been involved in basic research in this field since May
2000, when it received its first contract award from the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA). To date, Hadron Advanced Biosystems has
received $12 million in funding for medical biodefense research from DARPA, the United States Army Medical Research and Material Command and the National Institute of Health. Dr. Alibek has been a leader in the field of biowarfare agent experimentation and the treatment of diseases caused by biowarfare agents for more than 25 years.
A former leader of an armed Islamic group in Libya, Numan Bin Uthman, wrote a letter to al-Qaeda second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri telling him that Jihadi groups in Arab countries have failed and that Ayman’s plan to use WMD to deter invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq was a failed strategy:
“Dear Doctor Ayman, as I told you during a meeting in Kandahar [in Afghanistan] in 2000, the experience of the Jihadi groups in Arab countries is failed and despite our appeals, the armed groups are divided and will not unite.”
“I ask you and whoever is behind you to review the way you behave because the Jihadi groups are acting very badly towards those who think differently from the way they do.”
“I ask you to stop the armed operations in the Arab countries, to guarantee the security of Muslims and to retract your threats toward the West, to take away from them the terrorism card used by some Western governments to hate Islam and Muslims.” .
“Only in this way, will it be possible to rebuild ties with other Sunni guerilla groups.”
Uthman reports that he had taken part in an important al-Qaeda summit in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2000, in which al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had defined search for and use of weapons of mass destruction as a “Sharia obligation”.
“During this occasion, I had a strong dispute with the martyr Abu Hafs al-Kumandan, because he was heavily involved in acquiring weapons of mass destruction.” [Abu Hafs aka Atef was the former Cairo police sergeant who Ayman wrote the above memo to about his anthrax planning; the anthrax was sent from 4th Grade, Greendale School. 4th Grade is code for sergeant; Greendale School is code for the Egyptian Islamic Jihad; Ayman used “school” as code for EIJ in May 2001 correspondence to long-time followers explaining the merger with Al Qaeda]
“He wanted to use these weapons to dissuade the United State from attacking Afghanistan. And yet I knew that al-Qaeda did not have any strategic vision and would have used the weapons to kill indistriminately and not to dissuade”.
“After seven years since that meeting, my convictions on these issues have only grown stronger.”
“At that time I said that provoking the United States would turn them against the Taliban and by striking the country in an unconventional way would bring occupation to the entire Middle East and not only Afghanistan and that’s what’s happened.”