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(1st FBI Finds Army ,Now CIA+PortonDown Linked To Anthrax Strain, Detrick Had To Be Original Source)
CNN, London Telegraph, Washington Post ^ | December 17, 16, 1001 | Ben Fenton, Rick Weiss, Susan Schmidt , David Ensor and Shankar Vedantam

Posted on 12/16/2001 7:44:00 PM PST by t-shirt

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:47 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

THE FBI is concentrating its hunt for the source of the anthrax used to terrorise America on laboratories used by the CIA and British government scientists.

Only five laboratories, including the defence science and technology laboratories at Porton Down, Salisbury, have been found to have spores of anthrax identical to the bacteria sent through the post to two Democratic senators and news organisations in New York and Florida.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthraxscarelist; bioport
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Pray for America.

REmember we have foriegn nationals working in all of these military, government, university and private labs and many of them are Arabs/muslims.

1 posted on 12/16/2001 7:44:01 PM PST by t-shirt
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good work
2 posted on 12/16/2001 7:46:44 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP
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Porton Down has been known to experiment on citizens/subjects......

(Horrific Govt Evil)Porton Down Probe Launched (20,000 Biological& Chemical Weapons HumanGuineaPigs)

3 posted on 12/16/2001 7:47:18 PM PST by t-shirt
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Ofcourse if they're dead what can they do???.....

Porton Down (Evil Human Gunea Pig Experiments) Probe is Thwarted by Deaths

4 posted on 12/16/2001 7:50:51 PM PST by t-shirt
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To: Libertarianize the GOP
good work

2 posted on 12/16/01 8:47 PM Pacific by Libertarianize the GOP

That we'll know based on how many lackeys attackey me little thready.....LOL!

.....And on how many people read it and open their eyes a little....

5 posted on 12/16/2001 7:53:23 PM PST by t-shirt
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The FBI is looking for someone or some group who began sending anthrax-laced letters through the mail in mid-September.

Huh? They should be looking prior to 9/11. That's my own pet theory....dead mail drops, or whatever they're called.

6 posted on 12/16/2001 7:53:37 PM PST by Fred Mertz
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BTTT
8 posted on 12/16/2001 8:06:59 PM PST by phelanw
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Trust Government

???

At your own risk...

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The Tuskegee Experiments

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1932-1972
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
600 low-income African-American males, 400 infected with syphilis are monitored for 40 years. Even though a proven cure (penicillin) became available in the 1950s, the study continues until 1972 with participants denied treatment. Perhaps as many as 100 died of syphilis during the study (Allen, 1978).

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Project Paperclip: Nazi Scientists Who Performed Human Experimentation in the U. S.

9 posted on 12/16/2001 8:08:27 PM PST by t-shirt
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Lots of assertions, but we need more; such as scientific proof, affadavits of the victims, genetic data, chemical analysis results. Bare assertions without evidence may be irresponsible. We do not want the US to look like a lynch mob.....or do we?
10 posted on 12/16/2001 8:09:12 PM PST by NetValue
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Who to believe?

Genetic Anthrax Match Inconclusive

By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer
December 16, 2001 10:32 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A genetic match between the anthrax spores in the letters mailed to Capitol Hill and those in the Army's stockpile wouldn't necessarily provide clues to who was responsible for the bioterrorist attack, an Army spokesman said.

Chuck Dasey, a spokesman at Fort Detrick, Md., said the Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease got its supply from the Agriculture Department and shared it with five laboratories.

The Washington Post reported Sunday that the genetic makeup of the anthrax used in the letters mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and to Sen. Patrick Leahy matched those in the Army's stockpile.

"I'm not sure it tells us anything about who the perpetrator is," Dasey said.

"You can't say it all came from USAMRIID," Dasey said. "We got it from another lab in the first place and so presumably USAMRIID is not the only lab that got it from the Department of Agriculture."

On Capitol Hill, cleanup efforts at the Hart Senate Office Building were continuing. Officials began pumping chlorine dioxide gas into portions of the building's ventilation system Sunday night in an operation expected to last for nine hours.

Environmental Protection Agency technicians also planned to use the liquid form of chlorine dioxide in the Daschle's office, which had been fumigated with the gas earlier.

The EPA had hoped to begin the operation Friday night, but were delayed because of problems reaching the high humidity level needed to effectively kill the spores, Capitol Police spokesman Lt. Dan Nichols said.

The Hart building has remained closed since Oct. 17, two days after an anthrax-filled letter was received in Daschle's office. EPA reported Friday that traces of anthrax remained after its initial fumigation efforts.

Federal health authorities also considering whether to recommend that an anthrax vaccine be made available on a voluntary basis for potentially up to 3,000 people who had high levels of exposure to anthrax in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Florida, New York and New Jersey.

Other options include handing out another 30 days of antibiotics, on top of the basic 60-day dose, or advising people to wait under the watchful eye of a physician.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson plans to make a decision in the coming week.

"They're looking at just those who were most highly infected," Health and Human Services spokesman Bill Pierce said Sunday. "Ultimately, it will be up to each individual to choose in consultation with appropriate medical personnel."

The Post also reported Sunday that the FBI was looking at various government programs, including a contractor who worked for the CIA, as a possible source of the anthrax used in the attacks.

CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield confirmed Sunday that the agency had some anthrax it used in its mission "to learn about potential biological warfare threats."

But he said the CIA did not mill any of its samples into powdered form and that none of its supply is missing. "Our work, for the most part, involved the use of simulants, rather than live bacteria," said Mansfield.

He said the CIA is working closely with the FBI "and other appropriate investigative agencies," but that any comment on details of an FBI investigation would have to come from the FBI.

An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment Sunday on the Post report or on any aspect of the anthrax investigation.

Fort Detrick obtained anthrax from an Agriculture Department laboratory at Ames, Iowa, in 1980, and then shared it with the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, two research labs in Canada and Britain, an Ohio research institute and the University of New Mexico. The Ames strain is relatively common and is used in numerous American labs.

Researchers have concluded that all the mailed spores were of the Ames strain.

USAMRIID uses the liquid strain in research, not the dry form that was used as a terrorist weapon, Dasey said. "The point is we don't have the technology to make that fine dry powder which was in the letters," he said.

The CDC has confirmed 18 cases of anthrax infection, 11 cases of inhalation anthrax and seven through the skin since the anthrax-by-mail attacks began in October. Five people have died; all had the more serious inhalation anthrax.

Links related to this article:
Fort Detrick site: www.usamriid.army.mil
EPA: www.epa.gov

URL for this article:
http://www.heraldsun.com/nationworld/14-174337.html

11 posted on 12/16/2001 8:29:04 PM PST by mykdsmom
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U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits (Clinton ClearVisionProgram CIA Developed Germ Bomb)
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What other biological warfare/anthrax/other programs and experiments did Clinton have the CIA working on that we don't know about?

12 posted on 12/16/2001 8:36:21 PM PST by t-shirt
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bump
13 posted on 12/16/2001 8:57:35 PM PST by t-shirt
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REmember we have foriegn nationals working in all of these military, government, university and private labs and many of them are Arabs/muslims. 1 posted on 12/16/01 8:44 PM Pacific by t-shirt [

AND NONE OF THIS WILL EVER BE REPORTED BY THE PRESS!!

14 posted on 12/16/2001 9:01:38 PM PST by timestax
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Join the Navy, there is no fear at sea!!

Unless you can't swim!!

15 posted on 12/16/2001 9:07:06 PM PST by Nitro
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This does not surprise me on biological warfare. In title 50 of the U.S.C. of War section it mentions about such biological warfare being implemented.
16 posted on 12/16/2001 9:07:59 PM PST by goldilucky
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So does this mean that Hillary stuffed some military grade anthrax down in the cushions of all that White House furniture she stole on the way out? Maybe she hid it amongst the art work and the silverware...
17 posted on 12/16/2001 9:08:49 PM PST by Nita Nupress
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bttt
18 posted on 12/16/2001 9:13:21 PM PST by Benson_Carter
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Thank you for the ping, my friend.

I heard about the link between the Senate letters and the U.S. supply of anthrax and I remember my heart skipping a beat. It only figures that it is our own supply being sent around....this is just to much to fathom sometimes.

19 posted on 12/16/2001 9:41:56 PM PST by JakeWyld
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Interesting stuff, T-shirt. Thanks.
20 posted on 12/16/2001 9:44:04 PM PST by 4Freedom
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