* What biological laboratory equipment did Atef ask KSM to move to the special laboratory near Tarnak Farm that KSM came to think was related to the anthrax development efforts?
Posted by Lew Weinstein on April 26, 2011
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Posted by Lew Weinstein on April 26, 2011
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Dxer said
The same people who did not know that the lyophilizer was not in the B3 with Dr.Ivins likely do not know the answer to this question.
DXer said
“Immediately prior to the fall of Kandahar in late 2001, JI member stayed at detainee’s home for six days. Yazid told detainee he was developing anthrax for al-Qaida, and was happy in his work.”
Comment: That was in August 2001, correct? Yazid does in fact seem like a happy guy by his nature. As he says, life may not be what you want but you might as well as dance while you’re at the ball.
“”Yazid was giving biology lessons to two al-Qaida operatives, detained Abu Bakr al-Filistini aka (Samir Hilmi al-Barq) and al-Hud al-Sudani.”
Comment: These are the operatives that for years I have called Barq and Wahdan.
“When detainee queried Yazid about the danger of his research, Yazid indicated there was little to worry about since he (Yazid), Bakr, and al-Hud all had anthrax vaccines.”
Comment:
The suggestion by some (like Milton L.) that Al Qaeda was not working with virulent strain(s) of anthrax was mistaken. Yazid Sufaat is on Facebook and by chat tells me that “what I did was for the luv of islam. I feel if I write, I may jack myself up [DXer]… than risk will come in.. than riak will come in… riak may wipe out those amal, that is the most I scared of, let people write, I will tell everything, let people judge, but Allah will give the best judgment… plan is on the way, if Allah says that by having a book is better than it be there , one day insyaAlloh.”
DXer said
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/01/2778230/ksm-4-others-to-face-murder-charges.html
In his war court charge sheet he comes off as a meticulous micromanager of the largest mass murder in American history — coaching the mostly Saudi hijackers on the most basic brutish English for their mission — “if anyone moves, I’ll kill you” …
Walid bin Attash, 33, a Yemeni who lost his leg in a 1997 battlefield accident in Afghanistan, sits behind Mohammed in court and is cast in the charge sheets as the No. 2 of the so-called “Planes Operation.”
He’s a former al-Qaida training camp instructor who allegedly handpicked some of the Sept. 11 hijackers out of a hand-to-hand combat training course two years before 9/11 — and brought them to Mohammed in Pakistan. There they practiced on a computer-driven flight simulation program and learned the English they needed for their mission.
Comment:
t always cracked me up that the talking heads used to say that the anthrax letters were written in short brutish english rather than flowery prose like you would expect. Ha! The documents from the anthrax planning session involving balloons had the handwritten note saying “You die now!” The talking pundits were just uninformed. The journalists did not inform themselves and repeated the punditry rather than what the documents showed.
GAO needs to obtain the handwriting exemplars and FBI handwriting analysis for both Hani Hanjour and Nawaf Al-Hazmi.
DXer said
It would have taken KSM, Yazid and Yazid’s earnest mentee, Samir Al-Hilmi al-Barq, together to move equipment as big as the lyophilizer that the DOJ speciously suggested was used by Dr. Ivins in B3 on those nights — given the huge thing was down in B5.
Yazid assured KSM that Samir Al-Hilmi al-Barg and his other pupil were all vaccinated and so there was nothing to worry about in terms of infection.
DXer said
May 28, 2007
ANTHRAX, BOMBS AND AL-QAEDA
BY SEAN M. MALONEY
The terrorist network has been pursuing WMDs for years
Outside of Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan is a complex of compounds and
ranges known as Tarnak Farms. Site of the notorious 2002 “friendly fire”
deaths of four Canadian soldiers, Tarnak Farms was one of several sites in
the country where al-Qaeda pursued research into acquiring weapons of mass
destruction. My friend, whom I will call Muhammad, showed me around the
now-bulldozed area in 2006. “It was back in 2001. We had 12 American special
forces soldiers with us,” he said. “Two helicopters came in at night and
brought another 65 men. Our men surrounded the place. We also did this at a
mosque in Kandahar city. We spent several days protecting the teams as they
searched.” When I asked Muhammad what they were looking for, he told me that
al-Qaeda was making a chemical weapon that he called “stinky gas”–and that
they may have tested it: “They used it once, against people on the road to
Herat. These people had blood coming from their noses and openings.”
Indeed, back in 2002, personnel from Lt.-Col. Pat Stogran’s 3rd Battalion,
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, assisted in “SSEs,” or
sensitive site exploitation–missions associated with the hunt for what
al-Qaeda was up to in the weapons of mass destruction field during that
time. In the wake of 9/11, anything was possible, especially when
anthrax-filled letters arrived in the United States in the fall of 2001.
The furor over WMDs is generally associated with Iraq, and the UN Special
Commission’s cat-and-mouse games with the Saddam Hussein regime in the 1990s
or, more recently, the Bush administration’s attempt to sell the war in Iraq
back in 2002. “WMD” has become a catch-all term for what specialists call
chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and the technologies and
scientific knowledge that support their construction. A lot of effort has
been put into debunking U.S. claims that Iraq possessed WMDs prior to the
2003 invasion. Almost no public investigative effort has, however, focused
on al-Qaeda’s interest in WMDs.
The recent publication of former CIA director George Tenet’s book, At The
Center of the Storm, should rekindle such an examination, but distressingly
the focus has been on Tenet’s “slam dunk” remark and the issue of
politicized intelligence and the drive to war in Iraq. When it comes to
al-Qaeda, however, Tenet connects several dots, some of which have been in
the public domain, some not. The Kandahar facilities were used by al-Qaeda
to isolate anthrax: the work was done by Yazid Sufaat, a member of the
affiliated Jemaah Islamiya from Malaysia. The labs were established by a
Pakistani, Rauf Ahmad (both were apprehended by 2002). Information from the
SSE missions resulted in the unravelling of a sophisticated al-Qaeda anthrax
network. Though Tenet doesn’t say so, others have speculated that the
anthrax used against targets in North America was connected to this network.
(The attacks stopped after Ahmad and Sufaat were apprehended.)
Tenet explains that some 20 al-Qaeda plots against North America were
disrupted by the invasion of Afghanistan. SSE missions seized laptops and
other files that led to the apprehension of senior al-Qaeda leaders.
“Aggressive interrogation techniques” were used to extract vital information
from “only a handful of the worst terrorists on the planet, including people
who planned the 9/11 attacks.” Tenet goes on to say that this information
“helped disrupt plots aimed at locations in the United States, the United
Kingdom, the Middle East [and Asia].” He credits “the arrest of operatives
in Canada” as contributing to stopping a major plot against London.
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It is easy to argue that the Bush administration got it wrong when it comes
to WMDs in Iraq, and maybe they got in wrong on the matter of WMDs and
al-Qaeda. Tenet has only just lifted the lid: we must dig deeper, because
chances are Canada is as much a target as Britain or the U.S. Sherlock
Holmes reminded Watson that sometimes it was the dog that didn’t bark that
was the significant thing. The same goes for al-Qaeda’s search for weapons
of mass destruction capability, truncated and disrupted as it is.
DXer said
DXer said
Was this equipment in place by May 2001 obtained by Rauf Ahmad?
Zawahiri’s Correspondence With Infiltrating Scientist Was Part of Parallel Compartmentalized Cell Operation
Posted by Lew Weinstein on February 20, 2010
http://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/from-dxer-infiltration-of-u-s-biodefense-zawahiris-correspondence-with-infiltrating-scientist-was-part-of-parallel-compartmentalized-cell-operation/
DXer said
Will the GAO review include a review of the documents from peer reviewed literature in Ayman Zawahiri’s possession?
http://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/dxer-documents-in-the-possession-of-ayman-zawahiri-and-his-associates-illustrate-the-dangers-of-scientific-openness/
Will the GAO include a technical review of the spraydrying documents on Al-Hawsawi’s laptop?
http://caseclosedbylewweinstein.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/aaa_laptop.jpg
DXer said
Will the GAO review include a technical review of Rauf Ahmad’s notes and handwritten letter (he was one of the scientists working for Ayman Zawahiri)?
http://caseclosedbylewweinstein.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/abdur-rauf-notes.jpg
http://caseclosedbylewweinstein.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/abdur-rauf-handwrittenpage21.jpg
Will the GAO review include a technical review of the later typed correspondence from a later visit by Rauf Ahmad indicating that he had successfully achieved the targets?
http://caseclosedbylewweinstein.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/abdur-rauf-i-have-achieved-letter.jpeg
DXer said
In the indictment announced earlier this month of KSM, Al-Hawsawi and the others, in the use of bioweapons were conducted?
http://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/in-the-indictment-announced-today-of-ksm-al-hawsawi-and-the-others-the-indictment-mentions-experiments-in-the-use-of-biological-weapons-what-experiments-in-the-use-of-bioweapons-were-conducted/
DXer said
Was There A Connection Between Pearl Kidnapping and Anthrax Planners?
Posted by Lew Weinstein on January 20, 2011
http://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/was-there-a-connection-between-pearl-kidnapping-and-anthrax-planners/
DXer said
RESPONSE TO TERROR; Indonesian Cleric Had Role in Skyjacking…
Pay-Per-View – Los Angeles Times – Feb 2, 2002
[Yazid Sufaat]‘s signature also appears on a phony letter that the FBI found in …. said Sufaat went to Pakistan last June because he wanted to do his …
Comment: By March 2002, I was posting on Sacramento State alum board asking for info about Yazid. The Amerithrax investigators did not get around to visiting him in detention until November 2002. At that time, they asked him mainly how he knew Zacarias Moussaoui. A blood test would have shown that Sufaat had been vaccinated for anthrax. So when President Bush says they had no idea about Sufaat’s role in anthrax until after Hambali was captured in August 2003, isn’t that because there was insufficient and untimely pursuit of the lead?