Anthrax, Congress and the Patriot Act

http://www.georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/09/918.html

On 9/18/01, the anthrax attacks started. The lethal anthrax spores -- which were sent along with notes purportedly written by Islamic terrorists -- used a weaponized anthrax strain from the top U.S. bioweapons facility, the Fort Detrick military base. Indeed, top bioweapons experts have stated that the anthrax attack may have been a CIA test "gone wrong"; and see this article by a former NSA and naval intelligence officer.

"Coincidentally", White House staff began taking the anti-anthrax medicine before the Anthrax attacks occurred.

Moreover, the only congress people mailed anthrax-containing letters were key Democrats, and the attacks occurred one week before passage of the freedom-curtailing Patriot Act, which seems to have scared them and the rest of congress into passing that act without even reading it (this is not a partisan issue, since this author believes that party affiliation is not a reliable indicator of loyalty to the Constitution; rather, the senators targeted just happened to pose a threat in 2001 to passage of the Patriot Act).While 9/11 was mainly aimed at the American people, the anthrax attacks were apparently aimed at Congress. Specifically, the bioterror scare appears to have been launched in order to instill sufficient fear and disruption among the few remaining legislators who still honor the Constitution that they would be willing to let the Patriot Act be passed without real analysis or debate.

Think this is all far-fetched to be true? Well, the bioweapons expert who actually drafted the current bioweapons law (the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989) has said that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal elements of the U.S. government. The motive: to foment a police state by killing off and intimidating opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the later Military Commissions Act.

Indeed, "The FBI has completely shut Congress out of its now five-year investigation into anthrax attacks on Capitol Hill and around the nation". In other words, Congress -- which legally has every right to know what really happened, and which was the main victim of the attack -- is being kept in the dark. (While many in Congress may be complicit in alot of dastardly deeds, you don't want the victims of a false flag attack to know who really attacked them).

And the authorities have mysteriously failed to investigate the main suspect in the anthrax attacks, yet another indication that the attacks were a false flag misdirection.

Without 9/11, the American public would not have given in to the Bush administration's imperial agenda. Without the anthrax attack, Congress would not have let the Constitution be demolished so quickly. A few legislators would probably have successfully stood against the Patriot Act, or at least demanded that that law be read and analyzed before it was adopted.

While not nearly as many people were killed by the Anthrax attack as by 9/11, the anthrax attack was also an important false flag operation - one aimed directly at Congress.

CBS - 2001 Anthrax was professionally manufactured

Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45YhI4VE0LE

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Anthrax Coverup: A Government Insider Speaks Out

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/24273

More on Google...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=anthrax+fort+detrick

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New Giuliani Company will Occupy Former Anthrax Building

By JILL BARTON, Associated Press

Wednesday, January 14, 2004

BOCA RATON Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's consulting firm and the company that decontaminated anthrax-infested buildings in Washington will team up to clean a similarly infected building here and use the space as their new headquarters.
Sabre Technical Services, which decontaminated two post offices and the Hart Senate Building after other anthrax attacks in 2001, will join Giuliani Partners to create Bio-ONE.

The new company will occupy the 65,000-square foot facility by early next year once the decontamination is complete.

"This is a building that was incapacitated by a person or persons who sent anthrax here," Giuliani said. "It will now be a building that's going to be at the cutting edge of making us safer, healthier and giving us a process to deal with possible further attacks by terrorists or perverse people."

The building was owned by American Media Inc., the publisher of The National Enquirer and its sister tabloids, when it became the site of the nation's first anthrax attack in October 2001. The facility has been quarantined since anthrax sickened and killed Sun photo editor Robert Stevens, the first of five Americans to die of anthrax from spore-tainted letters. No arrests have been made.

AMI sold the building last April for $40,000 to Crown Companies president David Rustine, ridding itself of the responsibility of 24-hour security and cleanup after federal efforts to take over the building and multimillion dollar decontamination stalled.

Bio-ONE plans to market its expertise in crisis management and response, along with the decontamination procedures it has developed.

The company will fumigate the building with chlorine dioxide, which kills anthrax spores and also is used to disinfect drinking water and treat fruits and vegetables, using a mobile generator developed by Sabre. The process will take only 24 hours but plans must first be approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

John Mason, Sabre president and CEO, said the generator could clean the water supplies for a city as large as Miami if it were infected in an emergency.

FBI investigators believe anthrax came into the building with a letter and spread when anthrax-laden papers passed through photocopy machines.

Investigators have entered the building hundreds of times and collected more than 5,000 hazardous samples, but the investigation has stalled and no suspects have been named.

Giuliani said company officials will cooperate with investigators, though the FBI has turned the building over to the new owner.

Cleanup costs have been estimated by lawmakers at $10 million to $100 million, which was the cost of clearing anthrax out the Brentwood Post Office in Washington. But Bio-ONE officials declined to say how much they think the decontamination would cost.

Giuliani said he will remain in New York at his Times Square headquarters of Giuliani Partners, but he will spend some time at his Bio-ONE offices, which will house about 100 employees.

He said the cleanup not only would help Boca Raton by removing a public nuisance, but also would help provide reassurance to a nation still shaken by the 2001 terrorist attacks.

"To have this building fully remediated, have it be perfectly safe, to actually be able to occupy it with Sabre as part of Bio-ONE is going to give me a feeling that we've come full circle, and that we can handle these things," Giuliani said. "Although terrorism has to be something we have to be very concerned about, it just means we have to learn more, we have to be more effective, we have to be brave and we have to move forward. And this will be a symbol of all that."

Source : http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2004/jan/14/ndn_new_giuliani_company_will_occupy_former_anthra/

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*** GW... You might want to add "Anthrax Attacks Commence" or similar to your blog title, "9/18" leaves you guessing ;-{) ***

great stuff veritas. but i

great stuff veritas. but i think GW probably went with just simply "9/18" for dramatic purposes. :-)

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Former Director, CIA

so often i forget to include

so often i forget to include the anthrax attacks in my activism. it really is right in your face obvious too, even more so than 9/11 in some ways.

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Former Director, CIA

Yes, the anthrax attacks deserve MUCH more attention

as they were clearly an inside job that was meant to be pinned on Islamic terrorists. (The anthrax was sent with letters saying 'Allah Akbar,' God is great,' etc.) Most people associate these attacks with 9/11 and terrorism, so by showing that it was the product of insiders within our government we establish a foundation for inside job vis-a-viz 9/11. The anthrax was the weaponized-grade emanating from Ft. Detrick, MD. Could Bin Laden have accessed the Pentagon's Ames strain anthrax? Of course not. Similarly, Bin Laden could not have stood down NORAD or imploded Building 7 either...

These were rogue insiders within our government. * We should also investigate the identities of the buyers of all those put options-- more insider activity!

1108th U.S. Army Signal Brigade Based in Fort Detrick

This story has been almost completely WIPED off the internet, with just one copy left on the Internet Archive (it may have no significance but posted here for posterity - sorry it's long).

Props to waterdancer

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Fort Detrick was home of the 1108th U.S. Army Signal Brigade on 9/11 and they just happened to have staff in New York on 9/11.

Fort Detrick Units : http://web.archive.org/web/20011124205014/http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/fort-detrick.htm

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Four soldiers, Four stories - 1108th U.S. Army Signal Brigade soldiers share their Sept. 11 World Trade Center stories

by Karen Fleming-Michael, Standard Staff Writer

When four communications soldiers from the 1108th Signal Brigade were on temporary duty to New York City Sept. 11 to support the Secret Service in preparing for the United Nations General Assembly 56, they had no idea how life-altering their trip would be.

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Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Wall

Wall and others with him were staying in the Marriott Hotel located in the World Trade Center tower. He had already started his day's work in a windowless room in World Trade Center 7 when he mistook the noise of the first plane crashing for the air conditioning system kicking on. Once he heard the building was being evacuated, he, along with his coworkers, headed for the stairwell and started the five-minute journey from the ninth floor to the lobby.

First from the lobby then the loading dock where he and others were allowed to exit the building, he saw an awful spectacle: a fireball from the plane crashing into Tower Two, debris falling from the sky, people falling and jumping from the towers.

"I couldn't believe what I was seeing," he said. "I couldn't move and even if I could, there was nowhere for me to go. The crowd had stopped, mostly to see the towers, and was frozen just like I was."

As he and his coworkers wound their way through the city's streets to ever-changing assembly points--a ball field behind a hotel, the Holland Tunnel and the Chelsea Pier on the Hudson River--Wall's cell phone rang. His friend, Alex Engels, from D.C. was on the line and took down the soldiers' home and office numbers to tell their families and office mates the group was alive and safe. While they waited for further instructions at the meeting point, the soldiers learned the building they had been in only hours earlier had collapsed.

After a night's rest in a hotel, a chartered bus took Wall and his team to D.C. because those who were staying in rooms at the World Trade Center Marriott lost everything.

Despite the horror he witnessed, Wall wants to return to New York to see the place, pay his respects and finish the job he was sent to do. "I, for one, hate leaving a job unfinished," the South Dakota native said.

Today, the father of three teenagers is still haunted by the family with small children he recalled seeing in his hotel the night before the attack.

"I can't help but wonder if they got out," he said. "I'm home and I am safe, but that's something a lot of people can't say right now."

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Sgt. Justo Andaluz

After serving in Desert Storm, Andaluz grew accustomed to precarious situations, but after the morning of Sept. 11, "there will be a few images that will not leave my mind," he said.

Working with Wall inside Building 7 as the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center, he recalled people were calm as they evacuated, although rumors of car bombs and missiles were beginning to spread.

As he looked through the lobby windows, he saw debris falling then realized people were jumping from office windows. "That sight still is in my mind," he said.

After the second explosion, the calm was shattered. People were screaming and rushing out of the area. "I have been in combat, I have seen my share of destruction, but when I saw this monumental building engulfed in fire, debris falling all over and more people jumping ... to say the least, it was a very hard thing to see," Andaluz said.

As the first tower collapsed, he and his group outran the cloud of smoke rushing through the streets. Once he reached Chelsea Pier and saw the devastation from a distance, he said, "All you could see is smoke and dust, like a combat zone, like something you would see in a old documentary of World War II."

From the pier, he witnessed the second tower's collapse. "It sounded like the whole island of Manhattan cried out, like all the people screamed at the same time with the victims in the tower, and then after a few seconds, silence...all you heard were sirens and more sirens," he said.

Reflecting on the tragedy and its effects on America, Andaluz said, "Now is the time to help each other, help wherever you can... grieve for the loss, but do not stop living."

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Sgt. 1st Class Stephen Atha

Although Atha's workday would normally start at 7 a.m., putting him in the basement of Tower One by 8 a.m. Sept. 11, his team's decision to have breakfast to kick off the first of 25 days in the Big Apple had him and another non-military team member firmly stuck in traffic in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel at 8 a.m.

While sitting in the Chevy Suburban, he told his coworker it looked like the World Trade Center was on fire. As he turned on the radio and heard that a "small plane" had crashed into Tower One, "we saw the second plane come in as clear as day over the water right into the building, and ... I said 'This was not an accident,'" Atha said.

When the truck emerged from the tunnel, Atha was two blocks from Ground Zero. He tried to call the people he knew were working in the buildings but wasn't able to get a line. When he spotted a payphone a block and a half away, he thought he might have better luck reaching them if he used that.

As soon as he got to the payphone, he heard a rumble and saw a stampede of people rushing toward him. "So I turned around and started running too," he said. With a cloud of smoke at his heels, he sprinted four to five blocks until he reached the Hudson River. "I thought the building was tipping over, from the point of impact up," he said. "I just knew I had to run fast enough to clear the building."

Atha didn't lose his belongings because he was staying at a hotel near the airport, so he stayed in the city until Sept. 15 helping the Secret Service field office recover. Atha's sister kept in touch with a secretary from the 1108th, so his parents knew he was safe long before he got a line out on his cell phone after 20 tries.

Although he and the truck were coated with a white, sticky powder, he said he was never in any danger. "What do you do? It's not like I did anything that I'm okay. I just happen to be lucky that I wasn't somewhere I couldn't get out," he said.

He admitted that since his return, "More people have been saying 'I'm glad you're okay' and 'Welcome back,' which is nice."

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Staff Sgt. Robert Curtis

For Curtis, Sept. 11 was "a long day that went on forever, like it was in slow motion."

He and other team members were in traffic trying to enter the parking garage for Building 7, when they heard the first airplane fly over. From where he was sitting, he saw the explosion.

He and the others got out of the vehicle, walked across the street and saw a plane had hit one of the towers.

While standing there, he didn't see the second plane hit the building, but heard the explosion.

The explosion sent debris flying and he ran, as many did. "Stuff was flying my way, and I'm a pretty big fellow, so I'm surprised it missed me," he said. "It's got to be some kind of luck--someone's looking after me."

Curtis helped the others who were hit by shrapnel by giving them shirts found on a loading dock that a worker said he could have. "I didn't realize I was so close," he said, adding he was only a quarter of a block away from the attack.

He met up with his group at the Chelsea Pier, and because he lost his belongings, was sent back to Detrick. He returned to New York Sept. 14 to keep working. "It helped that I got back up here. I didn't have to explain what happened to everyone, and I could get on with my normal life," he said.

Curtis has served tours in Bosnia and Macedonia, and has seen destruction up close. He said New York is slowly recovering. "People are starting to get back to normal here," he said. "Everybody has a tale to tell."

The hardest part about his return to New York was telling his mother in Beaumont, Calif., that he was going back. "She wasn't happy about that but she's okay with it now."

Last known Source : http://web.archive.org/web/20030920223454/http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/standard/6_21/local_news/11338-1.html

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MISSING HUGE CHUNKS OF THE STORY

WhatReallyHappenedhas (had) the scoop.

THE HIDDEN ANTHRAX LETTERS
SUSPECT

The FBI knows of a man who was
caught entering the lab where the Anthrax used in the
letters was kept,
after
he had been fired for a racially motivated attack on a
co-worker. So, why is the FBI wasting its time with
Steven Hatfill?


Already the hate email is pouring in insisting that
coverage of this story is "anti-Semitic".
Clearly, a certain nation is terrified of this story
getting wide coverage.

The time has come to face the
unpleasant fact the citizens of the United States may
well be the victims of the most incredible hoax in
history regarding who is really behind the attacks on the
World Trade Towers, the mailing of Anthrax letters to
political and media leaders, and even to target="_blank">doubts that Daniel Pearl's killers are
actually who we have been told they are.

The fact is that evidence presented to the public as
to who was behind 9-11 is largely faked while evidence that links
the Israeli Spy/Phone Tapping Ring
to the attacks has been classified by the US Government
itself, as reported in Carl Cameron's four part story on
the spy ring on Fox News (subsequently erased from the
mainstream media's web sites).

target="_blank">"reports that Israel was conducting
spying activities in the United States may have a grain
of truth
Note the of second paragraph
from the bottom of this story in which a US official
admits that even if the Israelis were running a spy ring
in the United States, the information would be kept from
the American people.

The time has come to seriously consider that the
American people are being tricked into a war. Such things
are hardly new. Recently declassified documents prove
beyond al doubt that Pearl
Harbor was not only NOT a surprise,
but was the
desired result of an 8 step ONI plan written by Arthur H.
McCollum and implemented by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in
order to trick the people of the United States into a war
against Hitler, via the back door of Japan. And according
to Victor Ostrovsky, a former Mossad agent, the bombing
of Libya during the Reagan administration was the result
of a trick played by the Mossad in which a radio
transmitter was smuggled into Tripoli and used to create
fake radio messages for the US to intercept. The motto of
the Mossad is, "By way of deception, thou shalt do
war". 

The Israeli government has a history of tricking the
United States into attacking their enemies for them. A
classic example is the Lavon Affair.

target="_blank">THE LAVON AFFAIR

In 1954, Israeli agents working in Egypt planted bombs
in several buildings, including a United States
diplomatic facility, and left evidence behind implicating
Arabs as the culprits. The ruse would have worked, had
not one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the
Egyptians to capture and identify one of the bombers,
which in turn led to the round up of an Israeli spy ring.
Some of the spies were from Israel, while others were
recruited fro the local Jewish population. Israel
responded to the scandal with claims in the media that
there was no spy ring, that it was all a hoax perpetrated
by "anti-Semites". But as the public trial
progressed, it was evidence that Israel had indeed been
behind the bombing. Eventually, Israeli's Defense
Minister Pinhas Lavon was brought down by the scandal,
although it appears that he was himself the victim of a
frame-up by the real authors of the bombing project, code
named "Operation Susannah."

So now we have the present situation. Ruined
buildings, dead people, Anthrax in the mail. There is a
constant hue and cry to try to blame Arab Muslims by the
Israeli government, which seeks to enlarge its territory
(Israel has invaded every single nation it shares a
border with since its creation) and by the US government,
which seeks to grab control of what remains of the
world's oil reserves. Either through this mutually
reinforcing agenda, of perhaps because of href="http://911blogger.com/blackmail.html" target="_blank">blackmail of our
officials by Israel, the US has become Israel's
partner in this hoax, which leads us to the reason for
the US to classify evidence that links Israel's arrested
spies with the events of 9-11.

"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is
classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has
been gathered. It's classified information."

-- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report
on the Israeli spy
ring.

History teaches us that since the dawn of the
industrial age, all wars have been started with
deceptions and manufactured provocations. Hitler staged a
fake attack from Poland to start WW2. FDR maneuvered
Japan into attacking the fleet at Pearl Harbor then
presented the attack as a total surprise to the American
people.

Evidence that 9-11 is another such deception mounts
every day. Almost a year ago, in March 2001, long before
the attacks on the World Trade Towers, while the American
people were being distracted by "All Condit, All The
Time", the United
States Government was already informing other nations of
plans to invade Afghanistan
in October, 2001. And, in
October 2001, the United States did in fact invade
Afghanistan, right on schedule, which means that the
attacks on the World Trade Towers occurred at just the
exact moment when the United States needed a population
angry enough to support a war.

Have we been hoaxed? Would someone really sacrifice
some buildings (as FDR sacrificed some ships) to start a
war? Against the $5 trillion worth of oil under the
Caspian Sea, the price of a new World Trade Center in New
York is just pocket change, a cheap price to pay indeed
for control of such vast oil reserves, and an even better
deal if the oil under Iraq can be added to the prize
package, especially for a government too deeply in debt
to get out without massive conquests of someone else's
resources.

The fact that the Anthrax Letters were NOT sent by an
Arab Muslim but by a Jewish gentleman with the intent to
FRAME an Arab Muslim strongly suggests that the entire
sequence of recent events has been one gigantic frame-up,
which would explain again why the US Government is itself
classifying evidence that links some of the arrested
Israeli spies with the events of 9-11.

History may be repeating itself again. We cannot
afford to dismiss the possibility that, once again,
Americans are the victims of a hoax designed to trick
them into sacrificing their wealth and the lives of their
children in a war of someone else's making; a war of the
worst kind, war for profit and empire.

One more lesson from history needs to be repeated.
Since the dawn of the industrial age, the overwhelming
majority of wars have been LOST by the side that
initiated them.

Just one more reason for caution.

"By way of deception, thou shalt do war" --
Motto of Israel's Mossad


target="_blank">A pathetic attempt to
shift the focus on the Anthrax letters
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As most readers are already aware, the
Anthrax contained in the letters sent to Congress was
determined to be from a US military laboratory. This
raised the question in the public's mind as to who,
inside a US facility, would be playing games with
Anthrax. Suspicion focused on Dr. Ayaad Assaad, an
Egyptian scientist working at Fort Detrick, based on an
anonymous letter. Because Dr. Assaad's race fit in
perfectly with the agenda of sparking a war into Arab
lands rich in oil, the media ballyhooed that the FBI was
closing in on the "Arab Anthrax Terrorist".

Ah, but the best laid plans gang aft
aglay, and the FBI discovered that the end of the hunt
for the sender of the Anthrax letters was NOT Dr. Assaad
the Egyptian, but Dr. Zack, who is Jewish. At this point,
both the FBI and the mainstream media stopped making any
public comments on the case.

The above BBC article is clearly
another step in the plan to try to shift the suspicion
for the Anthrax letters further away from the Dr. Zack,
to spare Israel further embarrassment in what appears to
be a modern day revival of the
Lavon
Affair
. However, the claim that
the Anthrax letters were simply an experiment in mail
delivery that went awry is discredited by recalling that
the envelopes and their contents were written in a way to
cast suspicion for the letters in a specific direction,
at Arabs! This clear evidence of a deliberate frame up
proves that not only was this not simply a test
procedure, but that the Anthrax in the letters was
intended to kill people, while the letters themselves
pointed the finger of blame.

It would appear that even the BBC is
not above spreading a little bit of propaganda.

Proof
of a deliberate frame-up is before your eyes
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John,

I added it Michael RIvero's page.

Thank you- great work

Hi Geo. Washington,

I've been reminding people of the anthrax attacks for several years. You guys really did your homework on this blog post- excellent work. Back in 2001, I remember hearing reports that the Ames strain used was genetically traceable to either the Ft. Dietrich, MD production facility or else those stored at Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) in UT. I worked for a NSF project that was located on the DPG base and have seen the outside only of many of the multitude of DPG storage bunkers firsthand (google maps has provided some interesting info about DPG in the past). There are likely huge stockpiles of many "national security" things hidden in the Great Basin Desert of UT and NV dating back several decades, many of them behind the "lethal force authorized" signs that I have also seen firsthand...

This is an excellent presentation of the "shadowy" facts of the media/Democrat-targeted anthrax attacks that closely shadowed the 9/11/2001 WTC attacks. Thank you for your diligence and thorough research!