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Titolo: Who Planned the Anthrax Attacks?

Who Planned the Anthrax Attacks? 
It's the $5,800,000 question  
by Justin Raimondo 
You remember the anthrax attacks – or do you? It often seems, to me at
least, that this important catalyst for the invasion of Iraq and our
supremely wrong-headed post-9/11 foreign policy has been flushed down the
collective memory hole. For all the attention that's been paid to that
spooky chapter in the history of the "war on terrorism" in the intervening
years, it may as well have never occurred. That's why news of the former
prime suspect's ultimate vindication – and his victory in a $5.8 million
lawsuit in which he accused the feds of unfairly targeting him as a
"person of interest" (as John Ashcroft put it) – seems like a visitation
from another time, the ghost of 9/11 past, haunting and mocking us. It
sends chills down my spine – because, you see, the real culprits are still
out there.
The FBI's non-investigation of this heinous and sinister crime was a joke
from the beginning: after all, since when do FBI probes have official
names, and why such a silly one as "Amerithrax"? Such brazen corniness has
about it an unmistakable Keystone Kops air, which was certainly evident
throughout the long-playing media circus that will evermore be known as
the persecution of Steven J. Hatfill.
Hatfill, you'll recall, is the long-suffering victim of this horror story,
a bio-weapons expert and "insider" who was targeted as the culprit not
only by the FBI and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, but also by
dustbin Dylanologist A.J. Weberman, who, with characteristic restraint,
accused him of being "the scumbag who killed several people in an attempt
to awaken America to the dangers of biological warfare." This profile of
the killer or killers as a "rogue insider" was also pushed by Barbara
Hatch Rosenberg, a biowar expert at the State University of New York at
Purchase, who chairs the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Program of
the Federation of American Scientists. 
It was Rosenberg who became the mainstream media's expert-in-residence at
the height of the anthrax scare, and, although she never named Hatfill, it
was she who relentlessly pushed the "insider" thesis to the major news
organizations, which settled on her detective story as the conventional
wisdom. A story that turned out to be spectacularly, disastrously, and
tragically wrong. Tragic, that is, from the perspective of poor Hatfill,
who found himself vilified and hounded out of his job, deprived of his
position in the community, and practically run out of human society by his
relentless pursuers.
The Hatfill-haters' narrative went something like this: Senor Hatfill is a
right-wing nut-case with dubious connections to South Africa's apartheid
regime, and quite possibly a "bio-evangelist" (as Weberman put it) who
might conceivably have planned the attacks to "warn" us of the dangers of
biowar – by demonstrating, on a small scale, how terrorists might envelop
a nation in a miasma of fear. 
Which is precisely what the anthrax attacks accomplished. The
administration invoked them as part and parcel of the 9/11 terrorist
attacks, and the War Party pointed to Saddam Hussein as the probable
culprit. Andrew Sullivan, who had earlier accused the antiwar movement of
being part of a bi-coastal "fifth column," was so certain the anthrax
attacks were proof of Iraq's perfidy that he called on the U.S. to drop
nuclear bombs on the Iraqis in retaliation. 
The anthrax letters that arrived at major media outlets as well as the
Senate offices of two prominent Democrats certainly added a special fillip
of fear to the war hysteria that ensued in the wake of 9/11: the senders
definitely had an agenda, and there seems little doubt as to what they
aimed at: to prepare the nation for war, for some kind of massive
retaliation against the Arab world. That was the agenda, and it largely
succeeded – but whose agenda was it? Hatfill's exoneration raises the
question: if he didn't mail the anthrax letters, then who did?
The answer is not really a mystery, since all the facts are on the public
record, but I'll reiterate them here in case you aren't familiar with my
past writings on this fascinating subject. 
Just before the anthrax letters became public knowledge but after they'd
been mailed, military police headquarters at Quantico, Virginia, received
a letter that accused an Arab scientist who once worked at the USAMRID
facility, a biowarfare lab at Ft. Detrick, of being a terrorist about to
unleash biological warfare against civilian targets in the U.S. 
The author of this anonymous missive claimed to have been one of the
scientist's former co-workers, and appeared to have a detailed knowledge
of Assaad's career and daily routine. When the anthrax letters were
opened, the FBI paid a visit to Dr. Ayaad Assaad, a former Ft. Detrick
employee, and questioned him extensively. 
The FBI cleared Assaad of any connection to the anthrax letters early on,
but then seemed to have let this significant clue grow quite cold, failing
to follow up on it until the winter of 2004, when they launched an
investigation into the Quantico letter. It seems clear that whoever sent
that letter had at least foreknowledge of the anthrax attacks, and
discovering the writers' identity could certainly lead us to the source of
the attacks. Yet for years the FBI did nothing: instead, they chased
Hatfill around, following him everywhere, blackening his name – and
diverting attention away from the only hard evidence that has so far
surfaced in this baffling case.
What were the results of the Quantico investigation? The Hartford Courant,
which ran a series of articles on the anthrax case and the attempted
framing of Dr. Assaad, was the only media outlet, to my knowledge, that
reported on this development, which seems mysterious in itself. As for the
outcome, that, too, remains a mystery – as does practically everything
connected with this murky affair.
Dr. Assaad, an Egyptian-born biologist who worked at USAMRID in the early
1990s, was the target of a hateful harassment campaign that became the
subject of a federal lawsuit later settled out of court. The defendants in
the suit were a group of USAMRID employees who targeted Assaad by sending
him anti-Arab missives – including a rubber camel outfitted with a sex toy
– and composed poems that they left on his desk. An account in the Courant
depicts the bizarre atmosphere in which U.S. government scientists worked
on toxins powerful enough to kill off entire populations:
"Assaad said he was working on the Saturday before Easter 1991, just after
the Persian Gulf War had ended, when he discovered an eight-page poem in
his mailbox. The poem, which became a court exhibit, is 47 stanzas – 235
lines in all, many of them lewd, mocking Assaad. The poem also refers to
another creation of the scientists who wrote it – a rubber camel outfitted
with all manner of sexually explicit appendages.
"The poem reads: 'In [Assaad's] honor we created this beast; it represents
life lower than yeast.' The camel, it notes, each week will be given 'to
who did the least.'
"The poem also doubles as an ode to each of the participants who adorned
the camel, who number at least six and referred to themselves as 'the
camel club.' Two – Dr. Philip M. Zack and Dr. Marian K. Rippy –
voluntarily left Fort Detrick soon after Assaad brought the poem to the
attention of supervisors."
The ideological flavor of the Camel Club's jibes isn't too hard to fathom:
they sound just like the participants in the hate-fest over at Little
Green Footballs, or, come to think of it, the editorial board of the
Weekly Standard. The anthrax-laden letters read "Death to America" and
"Death to Israel," and invoked the name of Allah. Clearly this wasn't just
an attempt to set up a particular Arab, Dr. Assaad, but to finger all
Arab-Americans, and Muslims, as potential terrorists – weeks after bin
Laden and his boys downed the World Trade Center and took out the
Pentagon. 
The trail that leads us to the perpetrators of the anthrax letter
terrorist attacks ends at Ft. Detrick, where the "Camel Club" held court.
Check out this Courant story that details the incredible laxity of the
security controls in place at one of the U.S. government's most sensitive
military facilities – and then imagine how easy it was for the terrorists
to have smuggled out anthrax and other even more lethal toxins. 
Doesn't any of this merit investigation by our "law enforcement' agencies
– or are they too busy reading ordinary people's email and spying on
antiwar organizations to bother going after a gang of dangerous poisoners
and murderers? 
In settling with Hatfill for mega-bucks, the U.S. government isn't
officially admitting any wrongdoing, – and we shouldn't hold our breath
waiting for anything like an apology – but clearly something was going on
behind the scenes that looks very much like obstruction of the
investigation. Of course it's easy for a libertarian like me to scoff at
the inefficiencies of government agencies: that's comes with the territory
– and is, furthermore, a well-known fact [.pdf]. Yet there seems something
a bit more dicey than mere incompetence at work here. 
 
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Bisogna far richiesta al Mossad che prepari un filmino di Osama con la
confessione.
Anzi Osama dovrebbe fare una trasmissione di qualche ora per spiegare le 12
assurdita' di quel giorno.
Suvvia non vorrai che sembriamo dei complottisti vero?.
E' molto piu' comodo essere un coglione che si beve di tutto.
Fino a strozzarsi un giorno ovviamente.
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Who Planned the Anthrax Attacks? 
Semplice: la CIA ed il Mossad, lo sanno tutti!... tutti i paranoici!

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