I knew within days that it was Saddam, and that it was supplied to the 9-11 bombers. A guy who lived in one of their buildings in FL was one of the first to die. I don’t think the FBI was that stupid to not know it, either. Question is, why the diversion to Hatfill?
Besides....The DEMS might have to say that "GD"...Not only did Saddam have WMD...he used them on us...
Remember....The Gorelick wall was still there when the letters went out.
See Response #4. You wouldn't want to blame Muslims, would you?
According to his lawyer, the FBI suspects an Iraqi Salafist. While his father did work at the Iraqi embassy, the closer connection drawn is that he was mentored by Bin Laden’s sheik al-Hawali (who was the subject of OBL’s Declaration of War). The microbiologist was at the building housing the DARPA-funded Center for Biodefense at GMU University. He spoke to Bin Laden’s sheik, his lawyer says, on September 16 and 19, 2001, coordinated with the “911 imam,” and arranged to hand deliver a message to every menmber of Congress on the first anniversary of the anthrax mailings (in the name of Bin Laden’s sheik). Given the signature was consistent with what had been developed at the DARPA Center, even assuming a cooperation and exchange between Zawahiri and Iraqi intelligence, it seems to add an unnecessary leap to assume the Saddam connection. Like the 911 imam, the microbiologist was preaching the end of times.
http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com
You are speaking, of course, of Robert Smith, a journalist who wasn't even an American (he was British). This was*all* supposedly "random", according to the FBI, but when the *first* victim had a "connection" to the 9-11 terrorists it's difficult to maintain that charade.
Look at the great lengths that the press went through to try and convince the public that Mr. Smith contracted his anthrax infection by "drinking from a rural stream in North Carolina", and other such nonsense.
It was only when it could no longer be denied tat his infection was a deliberate act (the stuff had beeen *mailed* to him, by name, at his workplace, for crying out loud). Then others started falling ill, some of them dying, so they had to change the paradigm, once again.
What was never in the cards, though, for the public, was the truth. Why? Because there were "plans" afoot, and keeping the knowledge of a deliberate bio-attack from a hostile foreign government secret was integral to those plans. Public knowledge of such an attack, with Saddam Hussein's involvement, would derail those plans, thus, the charade.
Perhaps it was truly necessary, at that time, perhaps not, but now is time for the truth to be told...
the infowarrior
Not to point out the obvious again, but both mailings occured after the 9-11 hijackers were long dead, the second mailing being long after they were dead.
Also, Bob Stevens never lived in any building with a hijacker.
And actually, the first mailings took place AFTER it had been widely reported in the media that the hijackers lived in Florida (So it's possible the first mailing was an attempt to link the hijackers to the mailings)