That's called an assumption. There is absolutely NO reason to believe the powder was made from the Ames strain. They are only talking about how the powder LOOKED. A powder made from the Vollum strain or some other strain would not LOOK any different than a powder made from the Ames strain.
And even if it WAS the Ames strain, there could have been many reasons for creating it. There are news reports that they were making powders from Ames at Battelle and had reasons for doing so. Therefore, IF the attack powder was made at one of those facilities (which is EXTREMELY unlikely), there's no way to know which one made it -- using only publicly available information.
Your assumptions and beliefs may make the Fox article important in your eyes, but to the rest of the world it is clearly a manufactured story of little real significance.
“That’s called an assumption.”
No - that’s an analysis of the FACTS. The email clearly says “Ames spore powder”. That’s what you learn when you ANALYZE the FACTS.
Ed,
The leading anthrax scientist Ken and former deputy Charles were both consultants to Battelle in 1999.
You have a webpage titled anthraxinvestigation that you extensively advertise (see hyperlinks above) in which you promote your speculative belief that the letters were written by First Grader. Yet, you have not even bothered to disclose to your readers that Al-Timimi’s lawyer has said in federal district court that the FBI has considered Al-Timimi an anthrax weapons suspect.
Is it because you know that William Patrick kept his biochemistry information on his bookshelf in a black binder in his living room? Are you are privately asking yourself: “Damn, if WP kept it in his living room, where did Ken keep it?” “On his Dell?”
Is it because you don’t know why Ali Al-Timimi had a high security clearance for his work for the Navy while at SRA International?
Do you not credit that Mohammed Abdel-Rahman was on AQ 3- member WMD committee and tasked with recruiting scientists? And that he spoke with Ali at IANA charity conferences?
Do you not credit that Ali was not much more than 15 feet from Ken and Charles as a spitwad flies?
To have credibility, you should address alternative arguments and address the underlying evidence. This FoxNews email needs to be corroborated or debunked. If it is authentic, and if the law enforcement source is credited, it is extremely dramatic.
You have done such a great job in demolishing a Hatfill Theory I am trying to encourage you to attempt to do a similar great job at demolishing a Jdey Theory. I find the “shoe bomb” discussion in Ken’s theory superfluous to the logic of his theory as to Amerithrax. His logic as to Amerithrax is powerful, however. At the very least, you have to correct your false claim on your webpage that the hijackers did not have accomplices. Jdey is known to have been part of the “planes operation” until he pulled back.
You shouldn’t leave dramatic factually incorrect statements central to your argument uncorrected on your webpage.