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Here are some results of a Google search on microbiologist and retired Malaysian Army Officer, Yazid Sufaat.  His Malaysian  apartment was used by the 9-11 terrorist for  meetings monitored by Malaysian government and CIA.  He provided forged papers and funding for Moussaoui to get into the country and into flight school.  He was the 20th hijacker..He was arrested by the Malaysian government upon returning from Afghanistan.  His wife who goes by the names Sejarahtul Dursina or Sejahratul Dursina was also later arrested.  His company Green Laboratory Medicine SDN BHD purchased 4 tons of ammonium nitrate which has not been found. ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - A statement claiming to be from al Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman bu Ghaith has warned the United States it would face more attacks, which could involve non-conventional weapons. The statement was carried Sunday on a Web site, www.alneda.com, which has in the past issued statements that claimed to be from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and news on Afghanistan, where the group was based. "We are still at the beginning of the road," Bu Ghaith said in the statement. "The Americans have not yet suffered from us what we have suffered from them." He said the United States...

In recent weeks, we've learned there were all kinds of tips about an anticipated terrorist attack on America on or around Sept. 11: The Egyptians warned us. The Israelis warned us. The CIA had information. The FBI had information. It seems incredible today that these leads were ignored or at least not properly analyzed and turned into a major national security alert. Let me explain, once again, why all this data was not properly processed. Back in 1999, well after the first attack on the World Trade Center, after the Oklahoma City bombing and after the downing of TWA Flight...

<p>June 4, 2002 -- ALBANY - To better track potential bioterrorism cases, the state Health Department has quietly added six diseases to the list of illnesses that doctors must report to the state.</p> <p>Some of the diseases added to the reportable communicable disease list, which also includes sexually transmitted diseases, haven't been seen in the United States in decades. Among them is smallpox and glanders, which is a virus that usually affects horses, mules, dogs, sheep and goats. Glanders can cause large lesions and ulcers in the skin and can be highly lethal for humans.</p>

<p>FBI Director Robert Mueller has scrambled the boxes on his organization chart, and dropped his previous stonewalling about mistakes prior to the September 11 disaster. The question is whether this actually changes the FBI mindset, and to my mind the test is the Bureau's position on the subsequent anthrax attacks.</p>

Source: Federation of American Scientists, December 10, 2001. A Compilation of Evidence and Comments on the Source of the Mailed Anthrax Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists (revised December 10, 2001) All the available evidence indicates that the source of the mailed anthrax, or the information and materials to make it, is a US government program. 1. ANTHRAX STRAIN All letter samples contain the same strain of anthrax, corresponding to the AMES strain in the N. Arizona State University database (which has been used for identification). The Ames substrain possessed by N. Arizona State is referred to herein as...

Heard this last night and confirmed it today while @ church. Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) was recently under "surveillance" by several Muslim appearing men. It seems that these Muslim appearing-men were taping the parking garages, emergency room entrances, and indeed the Trauma Center of Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn just last week. When they were noticed by a Trauma Center Nurse (my contact) she immediately contacted Hospital Security. Hospital Security pursued the Muslim appearing men can caught them with video records and digital cameras. A fight ensued, and the Muslim appearing men escaped. Hospital...

SALT LAKE CITY -- As always, the American Society for Microbiology's annual meeting here this week was part science, part fellowship. But this year, the meeting of 10,000 members of the group was something else: part Agatha Christie. • Today in the Sky: Real-time airport weather, delays, and travel news • Trim your overworked day • Tips for getting better returns on your investments • 10 great places to get high atop a mountain Like a scene from a mystery novel in which the key suspects in a crime are gathered in one place, the scientists' meeting was shadowed by...

SEATTLE -- Police and firefighters responded to a hazardous material scare at Safeco Field after a low-flying airplane dropped a box of powder on the Seattle ballpark. Police spokesman Duane Fish says the powder was determined to be the cremated remains of a person who had requested that the ashes be scattered there. Fire Lieutenant Harold Webb says a box carrying the ashes hit the roof of Safeco Field shortly after ten o'clock. He says the haz-mat crew wasn't sure about the powder until they heard through the F-A-A what the pilot was doing. The incident was over in about...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday some of its mail had tested positive for anthrax but stressed the result was not conclusive and further tests were being carried out. In the third announcement in about 12 days of a positive test in Washington for the potentially deadly bacteria, the IMF said the batch of mail first tested negative in an off-site facility. But another test was ordered when the mail arrived at IMF headquarters after the nearby World Bank Monday detected possible anthrax contamination on its mail. That second test yielded a positive result, the IMF said....

<p>BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Eighteen British soldiers at the Bagram air base have been sickened with a mysterious, contagious illness that resembles meningitis, and 350 military personnel have been quarantined to prevent it from spreading.</p> <p>Brig. Rodger Lane, spokesman for the Royal Marines, said two of the 18 victims have been airlifted out of Afghanistan in very serious condition, and their next of kin have been notified.</p>

NEW YORK -- Authorities believe a U.S. postal employee in custody here helped draft a letter of introduction that may have been used by two men who posed as journalists to assassinate a leading opposition figure in Afghanistan last fall, according to a U.S. official familiar with the case.Click here for full Washington Post article

May 7, 2002 Anthrax Sent Through Mail Gained Potency by the Letter By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID JOHNSTON eepening the mystery of the biological attacks that terrified the nation last fall, federal investigators have discovered that the anthrax sent through the mail, in general, grew more potent from one letter to the next, with the spores in the final letter to be opened — the one sent to Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont — the deadliest of all. The finding has surprised and worried investigators, who say it poses a new riddle: was the culprit an amateur making...

<p>ST. LOUIS, Missouri (CNN) -- Authorities are investigating the possibility that a white powder inside a letter opened Monday in the Thomas Eagleton Federal Building in downtown St. Louis might be anthrax.</p> <p>"We ran a task force over there for an anthrax scare," said Fire Department Captain Bob Hennicke.</p>

5-2-2 This Emergency Health Bill - Mandated Vaccination and other demands, is pending (or passed) in every state, but under different names. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said that all Americans should know that they "have their name on a vaccine shot in our inventory." Hope you can stop this in your state-- we couldn't. Sponsored by Rep. Greg Underheim and Rep. Frank Urban-Wisconsin The Assembly Bill # 849, 850 without a name or titled, (Mandated Vaccinations/Emergency Health Powers Act ) was passed under Rep. Greg Underheims directions. Underheim deserves all the credit for the passage...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  U.S. investigators no longer believe suicide hijacker Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Europe last year, eliminating the only known link between Saddam Hussein's government and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.</p> <p>American and Czech officials had believed the meetings between Atta, the alleged ringleader of the 19 hijackers, and Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani, an Iraqi diplomat widely believed to be an intelligence agent, took place in Prague in April 2001.</p>

<p>We sure do.</p> <p>"They" - whoever "they" are - tried to kill us.</p> <p>That's not easily forgotten - nor forgiven.</p> <p>Continues.</p> <p>Media mum on Anthrax: Apathy, or love affair?</p> <p>The 'mystery' behind the wave of deadly Anthrax mailings, which terrorized the nation last fall, finds the normally meddlesome press horde oddly phlegmatic. Aside from the recent Connecticut case, in which traces of Anthrax spores were detected at its Wallingford office, Anthrax -- The Mystery, for all intents and purposes, has vanished into thin air. Probative stories -- even half-hearted -- are few and far in between. 'Investigative journalism', as far as Anthrax is concerned, has gone on sabbatical, it seems.</p>

Anthrax: Experts fear a widespread attack A single biological attack on the US could cause 10 times more deaths than a nuclear strike, claims a report from an influential think-tank. The Brookings Institution is advising President Bush to concentrate anti-terrorist efforts on thwarting "doomsday" scenarios such as these. The report, "Protecting the American Homeland", to be published on Tuesday, estimated that the greatest threat is posed by widely dispersed smallpox, anthrax or ebola. Doctors expert in the lethal nature and potential spread of such infections helped compile it. It suggests that a nuclear device exploded in a major US city...

Report: Arab daily says Chechen warlord buried in Saudi, believed to be poisoned Mon Apr 29, 1:20 PM ET CAIRO, Egypt - Khattab, one of Chechnya (news - web sites)'s most powerful warlords, has been buried in Saudi Arabia after being poisoned in Chechnya, the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported Monday, quoting a family member. Khattab's fate stirred debate last week after Russian state television showed footage that it said proved beyond a doubt the warlord is dead. Officials had warned that a number of Chechen warlords, including Khattab, had been known to fake their deaths to escape the attention of...

NEW YORK -- For years, Ahmed Abdel Sattar seemed a friendly, mild-mannered postman -- who happened to know a lot of terrorists. Now the government says there was a reason for that: He was a terrorist, too. Sattar is being held without bail on charges of helping a blind Egyptian cleric deliver a message of hate across the world from behind bars. But while the charges are new, Sattar is a familiar face to government investigators. Nearly a decade ago, the government suspected Sattar used his postal job to track down the home address of an FBI terrorism investigator....