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FBI Missed White Powder in Atta's Car
Newsmax ^
| Oct. 29, 2001
| Carl Limbacher and Newsmax Staff
Posted on 10/29/2001 11:11:48 AM PST by spycatcher
FBI investigators performing anthrax tests on vehicles used by kamikaze terror pilot Mohamed Atta failed to discover a suspicious spot of white powder in a rental car he used just two days before the Sept. 11 attacks.
A Pompano Beach rent-a-car company owner told the Miami Herald Monday that Atta had rented the 1995 Ford Escort twice - once in August and again in September.
When the kamikaze terror pilot returned the vehicle, its trunk contained a "teaspoon" of unidentified powder, he told the paper. "I don't know what [the powder] is," said Bradley G. Warrick, 48, owner of Warrick Rent-A-Car and Budget Truck Rental. "I don't know if it's anything I need to be concerned about."
The 1995 Escort had been in FBI custody for two weeks after the attacks, but went unchecked for anthrax during that time.
Warrick told the Herald he hadn't alerted the bureau to the white powder in Atta's vehicle earlier because he assumed they had discovered it on their own and analyzed it. But FBI Miami spokeswoman Judy Orihuela was surprised to hear about the white powder. "We were not called out on that," she told the paper. "I find it hard to believe."
Over the weekend the FBI examined two cars owned by Atta and another hijacker after reports surfaced revealing investigators had failed to do so. Both vehicles tested negative for presence of the deadly bacterium.
Based on the negative test results for the two vehicles, investigators had decided not to test Atta's Florida residence for anthrax. But that decision is expected to change in the wake of news of the suspicious powder in Atta's rental car.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; 911attacks; anthrax; atta
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The FBI needs to be reorganized and de-Clintonized
To: spycatcher
This is NewsMax -- so the mysterious "white powder" was probably in a sealed McDonald's sugar packet.
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posted on
10/29/2001 11:15:29 AM PST
by
Sparticle
To: spycatcher
Apparently the FBI needs to be told to test for Bentonite, too. After all, a test for Anthrax won't have anything to do with detecting the non-biological ADDITIVE that was mailed with the anthrax.
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posted on
10/29/2001 11:15:35 AM PST
by
Southack
To: spycatcher
Lovely.....
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posted on
10/29/2001 11:16:15 AM PST
by
cmsgop
To: Sparticle
This is NewsMax -- so the mysterious "white powder" was probably in a sealed McDonald's sugar packet.Actually, I saw this story this morning on ABC.
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posted on
10/29/2001 11:16:42 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: cmsgop
I didn't know Barney Fife was a FEEBEE now.....
To: spycatcher
The white powder was finger printing dust according to the feds. And NewsMax is not the best source.
To: spycatcher
I believe the correct term is "de-Hooverized" the little drag queen still haunts the halls of that building.
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posted on
10/29/2001 11:20:08 AM PST
by
SEGUET
To: spycatcher
We all need to buy guns,rubber gloves and masks..in short we need to take care of ourselves...Because sure as heck the Government isnt doing it!
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posted on
10/29/2001 11:20:28 AM PST
by
RnMomof7
To: dirtboy
OK, but "teaspoon" sounds a little fishy.
To: spycatcher
What is the F.B.I. problem are they out of practice..their acting all like rookies ....where is the leadership I know these guys are busy but surely someone there has to lead.....
To: Southack
The rental car tests were delayed becasue the FBI thinks the terrorists are "basically good people." And the bentonite test was delayed because it didn't advance their "right-wingers did it" theory.
To: cmsgop
You know I used to think that everything the FBI did was for a reason. When I thought they did something stupid...I used to think "well they know what they are doing" Now...I do not believe that. They are stupid
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posted on
10/29/2001 11:22:45 AM PST
by
Lucas1
To: Sparticle
OK, but "teaspoon" sounds a little fishy.They showed a video snippet, it looked like about that much. It was spilled in a small pile on the floor directly underneath the trunk latch. Gotta wonder about the wisdom of opening the trunk and having a cameraman close enough to get that shot, but maybe it'll get the FBI out to check the powder.
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posted on
10/29/2001 11:23:24 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: SEGUET
Tsk, tsk, posting long-disproved innuendos. Do your homework next time.
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To: BunnySlippers
When the kamikaze terror pilot returned the vehicle, its trunk contained a "teaspoon" of unidentified powder,The white powder was finger printing dust according to the feds. And NewsMax is not the best source.
This guy says it was there pre F.B.I. not post F.B.I.
Probably just looking for his 10 minutes of fame.
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posted on
10/29/2001 11:24:21 AM PST
by
mdittmar
To: spycatcher
The Renoites...FBI ... are operating on the assumption that it is a vast right wing conspiracy....and they have hired MadMaddie's stooge Rabin and his wife Mr.Iran Christiane Amanpour as their Public Relations Office.
To: BunnySlippers
That's strange. The powder was there on Sept 9th and finger printing dust is black. I wonder if the CIA will produce the video of how it got there for a gullible press? Should be as wacky as the TWA 800 simulation video.
To: chemainus
You're kidding about the liberal P.S. hires right?
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