Posted on 08/15/2002 10:49:53 PM PDT by Mohammed El-Shahawi
Stix has an unusual writing style. Who is he?
"There have been a number of occasions when we've said in frustration, 'What we need is a biological weapons attack to wake the country up.'"
That's interesting; here's another article from the author Stix:
Calling Agent Frank Black! Leftwing Dr. Strangelove Stole Anthrax theory from TV's Millennium
CLINTON TO SEEK $340 MLN FOR ANIMAL DISEASE STUDY
January 19, 2000
Reuters
Barbara Hagenbaugh
WASHINGTON -- Administration officials were cited as saying on Tuesday that President Clinton will seek $340 million to boost research on the diseases. This story explained that some $40 million of the White House's planned request for fiscal 2001 would pay for building a more sophisticated research facility on Plum Island, New York, to study diseases in large animals that can easily infect humans and for which there are no vaccines. The rest would, this story says, be spent to upgrade the U.S. Agriculture Department's 30-year-old research facility in Ames, Iowa. Officials were cited as saying that currently, some research in Ames, including studies of anthrax and madcow disease, is done in rented space in strip malls. The proposal will appear in Clinton's budget request for fiscal 2001 that begins on Oct. 1. Officials was further cited as saying that the extra funds for animal disease research would be spent over a seven-year period. Clinton is expected to unveil the 2001 budget formally on Feb. 7.
* Strip malls?
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Thursday Oct. 25, 2001; 5:07 p.m. EDT
Clinton Salmonella Scare a Hoax?
Was the salmonella scare reported at the Harlem offices of ex-President Bill Clinton early Thursday the result of an insider hoax?
At least one prominent media personality thinks so, based on Clinton's long record of dissembling and all too apparent hunger for the spotlight.
"You're going to have to pardon me if I'm suspicious of this," talk radio mega-star Rush Limbaugh told his audience at the opening of his Thursday show.
"I don't doubt that a vial of salmonella was sent. I just question who did it."
"You don't send vials of salmonella. If you really want to hurt somebody with it, it's in chicken or it's in food. It's somewhere where you don't know that it lurks," the nationally syndicated radio talker said.
The Clinton salmonella story appeared just two days after President Bush revealed that the White House had been the target of mail contaminated with anthrax. The confluence with the Clinton scare seemed more than a little coincidental for some.
"Bill Clinton's one of these poor guys who feels left out of all the action," Limbaugh noted. "And I wouldn't be surprised if he sent (the salmonella) to himself.
"I know a lot of you are upset with me (and are saying), 'Do you really think he would send it to himself?'"
Limbaugh answered his own question unequivocally, "Yes, especially a vial -- just to get in on the action."
In early 1998, Hatfill staged this photo to help Insight illustrate an article about the specter of biological warfare. Today, some of his accusers are trying to use the picture as "proof" that he sent letters containing anthrax.
Insight first published this article about the effort to blame Steven Hatfill for the anthrax attacks in the Fair Comment section of the Aug. 12 issue.
Just point and click. Those two steps, and a long e-mail "cc" list, apparently are all that it takes to spread a hoax around the world today. It works like a computer virus, and with consequences no less dangerous.
Just ask Dr. Steven J. Hatfill.
Readers of Insight and her sister daily, the Washington Times, know Hatfill through his attempts over the years to warn the public of America's lack of readiness against biowarfare attacks. However, the mainstream liberal press ignored Hatfill — until late June, that is.
Since then Hatfill has gained international notoriety with a slew of stories in Time magazine, the American Prospect, the Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant, the Washington Post, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Sun-Sentinel and on Websites as far away as Zambia. The stories played up FBI searches of Hatfill's home and a refrigerated storage locker he rents — implying that he is the anthrax terrorist who killed five people last fall with contaminated mail. On July 2, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof referred to Hatfill as "Mr. Z" and strongly suggested that the FBI should jail him as the anthrax terrorist.
"If Mr. Z were an Arab national, he would have been imprisoned long ago. … It's time for the FBI to make a move: Either it should go after him more aggressively, sifting thoroughly through his past and picking up loose threads, or it should seek to exculpate him and remove this cloud of suspicion."
Why would the FBI need to "exculpate" someone on whom it has nothing? The only cloud of "suspicion" hanging over Hatfill's head is the one manufactured by the media, who have let Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg lead them around by the nose.
Rosenberg blames the U.S. government for last fall's anthrax attacks. She long has called on the United States to sign on to biowarfare protocols that would permit international inspectors to visit our biodefense installations.
In a sympathetic portrait in the March 18 New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann wrote that "Rosenberg believes that the American bioweapons program, which won't allow itself to be monitored, may not be in strict compliance with the [1972 Biological Weapons] convention. If the perpetrator of the anthrax attacks is who she thinks it is, that would put the American program in a bad light, and it would prove that she was right to demand that the program be monitored."
Rosenberg has provided no evidence to support her charges. Meanwhile, as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Bolton has argued, her prescription would allow rogue nations such as Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria to learn through protocol inspections about U.S. defensive programs and develop their own offensive programs.
Journalists usually refer to Rosenberg as a "microbiologist" and "State University of New York professor." Officially, she is a professor of environmental science at a performing-arts college, but she neither has conducted scientific research nor taught in years. And she has little biowarfare expertise. Working with the far-left Federation of American Scientists, Rosenberg is a taxpayer-supported, full-time activist.
Immediately after last fall's anthrax attacks, Rosenberg began claiming that the terrorist was an American scientist from within the biodefense establishment. However, her stories diverged wildly depending on her audience. In the European version, the terrorist was a CIA agent/contract scientist who acted on agency orders as part of a deadly germ-warfare experiment. Unbeknownst to European reporters, they were getting a plotline from the brilliant but little-watched TV show Millennium (1996-99).
In the American version, the terrorist was a "bioevangelist" (The Sun's Scott Shane) who sought not to harm anyone, but to warn the public of the dangers of biowarfare.
In setting up an American scientist to take the fall for the killings, Rosenberg may have seen an opportunity to discredit the U.S. biowarfare-defense program, get the Bush administration to sign on to international biowarfare protocols that would give our enemies access to our biodefense secrets and exact political revenge on Hatfill.
In seeking to convince readers of Hatfill's guilt in last fall's attacks, Kristof and the other journalists claimed that in the late 1970s, Rhodesian special forces attacked black-owned farms with anthrax, and sought to link Hatfill to these "attacks."
No one ever has provided any evidence showing that the Rhodesian army carried out anthrax attacks, much less that Hatfill participated in them. Kristof and company merely are regurgitating a tainted 1992 article by longtime Rosenberg associate Meryl Nass. The Nass report purported to explain the 1978-80 anthrax outbreak that affected 10,000 black farmers, predominantly with cutaneous anthrax, killing 182. In her "explanation," Nass leaped from one politically loaded speculation to another without any evidence.
The flamboyant, brilliant Hatfill earned his medical degree in Rhodesia in the late 1970s and early 1980s while serving in U.S. and Rhodesian special forces. In Rhodesia, he fought against communist guerrillas. One must recall that in Rhodesia — now named Zimbabwe, and ruled since 1980 by genocidal communist Robert Mugabe — the choice was never between apartheid and freedom, but rather between white or black apartheid.
Hatfill's attorney, Thomas C. Carter, told me, "My client doesn't want to do anything, right now. … He's really upset that his name continues to be mentioned, and he's decided that the best approach is to ignore everything and to try and stay as much removed from it as he can. He might change his mind at some point in the future and participate in something but, right now, he doesn't."
If Hatfill doesn't engage the campaign against him in a hurry, he soon may find himself sharing a cell with the likes of José Padilla.
Nicholas Stix is a free-lance writer based in New York who contributes to the New York Post and Middle American News.
Amen to that.
I've suspected for several month now that Rosenberg was somehow involved with the mailings. She is so far out on the left, Daschle et al must look like conservatives to her. One thing we must never forget about the left, is that they abandoned principle 40 years ago. To them the end justifies the means. The only active domestic terrorists today are leftists and she fit the profile perfectly. What is so disgusting is how the media has simply parroted her propaganda.
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