* Al Qaeda anthrax lab tech Yazid Sufaat discusses Zacarias Moussaoui in this 2011 French language television interview
Posted by Lew Weinstein on March 28, 2012
Posted by Lew Weinstein on March 28, 2012
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DXer said
• May 28, 2013, 1:01 AM
Malaysian Police Re-Arrest High-Profile Terror Suspect
http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2013/05/28/malaysian-police-re-arrest-high-profile-terror-suspect/
By Abhrajit Gangopadhyay and Celine Fernandez
Malaysian police on Monday arrested a high-profile terror suspect for alleged links to a locally based terrorist group.
Yazid Sufaat, a former captain in the Malaysian army who has a degree
in biochemistry from California State University-Sacramento, was arrested for allegedly being a member of a little-known terror group called Tanzim Malaysia Al-Qaeda. Mr. Yazid and his employee Muhammad Hilmi Hashim were arrested under the Security Offenses Special Measures Act.
Mr. Yazid had earlier been jailed for seven years for allegedly aiding two of the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S., and only a week ago he and Mr. Hilmi had been set free from another terrorism charge. They denied those allegations of wrongdoing.
The police announced the arrests but gave no further information. Both men say they are innocent of the latest accusations.
“When they were arrested [on Monday], all that the police told them was they were being arrested under Section 130KA for terrorist activities, and that it is a security offense,” said Fadiah Nadwa Fikiri, a lawyer for both the detainees.
Mr. Yazid and his employee were arrested in February for alleged Syria terror links, becoming the first to be charged under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act (SOSMA). Offenses related to terrorism under section 130KA of the Penal Code are regarded as security offenses under SOSMA.
DXer said
Here is a video of attacker justifying his machete attack minutes earlier in Woolrich today. His justification for evil rings as hollow as Yazid’s justfication for an attack that killed civilians. Just because Yazid bothers to memorize some old book doesn’t give him the moral high ground. Not at all. If you see evil done, tell the world. But don’t harm civilians. (Even under the book you think governs your conduct, it violates the hadiths and koran).
Yazid has the same blood on his hands even if his family can’t see it because he doesn’t have the courage of his convictions to be truthful.
He avoids the truth and thinks that Allah somehow looks on favor with a murderer who does not even have the courage to take responsibility for his actions.
DXer said
Yazid Sufaat talks about his friend, Moussaoui, in this interview.
The FBI failed to disclose for over a decade that Jdey had been detained at the same time (with biology textbooks) at the same time Moussaoui was detained (with crop-dusting manuals).
The suit filed recently in federal district court against the Federal Bureau of Investigation states: “Plaintiff is misleading the public about Abderraouf Jdey, a leading suspect in the 2001 anthrax mailings case.”
Shouldn’t FBI share information relating to his detention and release so as to avoid botched analysis that results from the compartmentalization of information?
http://www.amerithrax.wordpress.com
DXer said
Yazid says that the queue is very long of those who want to attack in the name of Osama Bin Laden. It seems that he would have spoken of his views with the two young men alleged to be headed for Syria. Did he also openly describe his work with anthrax to them (given that is what he is famous for)? Is the US receiving good cooperation from the countries involved in this prosecution?
In the past, Yazid has had an integrity that ricin defendant, Everett Dutschke, lacked. (See evidence revealed in the recent Affidavit unsealed yesterday).
Yazid, in my experience, has not engaged in false denials. He simply respectfully declines to answer.
I appreciate that may vary on any given day given the stress of a situation. The temptation to make false denials of wrongdoing can be strong. But judging from the detailed questions I submitted to him, his cordiality combined with a steadfast declination to provide substantive responses was greatly to the credit of his integrity. For example, I asked him about the pictured brown bottle that was harvested on June 7, 2001. He complimented the question but declined to answer. He informally pled the Fifth (even though inapposite as a formal matter).
The analysis in Amerithrax could be advanced by his response to a question as simple as what strain he was using. Tests (see Relman article) point to it being virulent Ames.
http://www.popscreen.com/v/6jxml/Yazid-Sufaat-i-dirottatori-e-Moussaoui
DXer said
In June 2002, I posted an inquiry about information concerning Yazid Sufaat from his former classmates. (Maurice was my cat and he allowed me to post under his account).
At one point, I got a response from someone who says he knew that Zacarias Moussaoui was in New Jersey the weekend of July 4th.
When Zacarias finally went on trial, the timeline did not extend back to July 4th and so I was never able to corroborate the account.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topic/sacramento.jobs/cEAdJbivaZ0
anthrax inquiry — Yazid Sufaat of Sacramento State (Class of 1987)
1 post by 1 author in sacramento.jobs
Maurice Sign in to reply
6/3/02
anthrax — $2.5 million reward/looking for classmates of Yazid Sufaat
Graduated California State University — Sacramento in 1987 Age 37.
Pathologist/biochemist/microbiologist. Former Malaysian Army
Captain. Gave Zacarias M. $35,000 and a cover. (as Infocus Tech
representative).
FBI hasn’t sought extradition. US investigators now believe part of
9/11 planning done in Malaysia. Hijackers stayed at his condo outside
of Kuala Lumpur. Arrested on December 9 upon his return from Pakistan
(and Afghanistan) after he arrived in Thailand and went to travel to
Malaysia. Member of Jemmah Islamiyah, a group suspect of planning an
armed struggle to form an Islamic state across Malaysia, Indonesia and
the southern Philippines. Connection to Moro Front (e.g., bought
explosives for them). Travelled with papers from Zawahiri.
Filipino-looking man bumped into former Kabul Times reporter in
Afghanistan last Fall who then reported on the incident in the US
News. Claimed to be expert in manipulating anthrax. Has relatives
/ friends in New Jersey? Am I missing anything? Wrong about any of
the above? Are any of his classmates out there? Who do you know who
knows someone who knows someone who took biology classes with him.
http://www.atimes.com/se-asia/DB06Ae01.html
http://www.islamonline.net/english/news/2002-04/14/article31.shtml
DXer said
The most intriguing information though came from people who knew Yazid from Malaysia — through his internet posts and through allegedly hacked personal emails to Chomel.
I had posted on an internet board for discussion about Malaysia, the essay here:
“the role of Malaysian biochemist Yazid Sufaat in Al Qaeda’s anthrax production program”
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topic/soc.culture.malaysia/OcvALStCSsk
Someone joined the conversation who had previously posted on the subject of Yazid in a February 2002 internet post. The poster (from Malaysia) reported Yazid Sufaat’s identify first became known to the cyber world around month July / August 2000 in a forum gebang thorikat. (that no longer existed by February 2002). Yazid attacked others with various accusations of polytheism and invite others repent. 1/
The poster explained that realhackerz hacked into Yazid’s email with his wife and posted it on the internet. In his original February 2002 post, the poster in Malay described the correspondence as poignant. 2/ (And indeed now with Facebook and Twitter expressions of love and poignancy are formally shared). Yazid reportedly asked his wife to be patient and confident will reward of God, pleased with the fate, etc., and asked that his wife take whatever money the company / business is to meet the necessities of life. At the same time, Yazid related that he had already got better.3/
He apparently was disturbed and in the Fall of 2000 had gone off wandering looking for something.
Yazid himself would now say that he felt that his family was financially provided for and so he felt free to go find some adventure in Afghanistan.
The February 2002 post is provided in full in the thread at the URL above but here are some pertinent excerpts.
The poster has his own views about the US. And he is mistaken in dismissing the role Yazid had come to play in the Hambali’s organization. The greatest usefulness lies in the Yazid’s original July/August 2000 internet posts — and his emails that were posted.
1/ In case I have mistranslated the passage appears as follows in Malay:
pertama kali identiti yazid sufaat diketahui dunia siber ialah sekitar
bulan julai/ogos 2000. ketika itu yazid telah tersilap masuk satu forum
bertajuk “sembang gebang thorikat.” (malangnya forum ini dah tak der lagi).
melalui nama samarannya, yazid telah menyerang pengamal thorikat dengan
pelbagai tuduhan syirik, sesat dan sebagainya dan mengajak orang lain
bertaubat.
2/komunikasi e-mail antara yazid dengan isterinya ada bab yang
memilukan. isteri yazid menceritakan hal ketiadaan duit untuk menyara keluarga,
dan dalam e-mail balas, yazid meminta isterinya supaya bersabar dan yakin
akan ganjaran Tuhan, redha kepada takdir dsb, dan meminta supaya isterinya
mengambil apa juga duit syarikat/perniagaan yang ada untuk menampong
keperluan hidup. di masa yang sama, yazid menceritakan bahawa beliau
sudah semakin sembuh.
3/ I cannot reliably translate what disturbed him or what he hoped to find in his wandering.
dipendekkan cerita, yazid menghilang dari forum sembang gebang
thorikat. tapi pergerakan yazid telah dijejaki oleh realhackerz. rupanya
(sangkaan ini mungkin betul, mungkin tidak) ekoran dari di-psaiko dek
x-jahiliyah dan netters lain, yazid stelah “diganggu” tidurnya, dan sesak nafas atau
telah diganggu perasaan sedar pergerakkan nafas seharian beliau, hinggakan
memerlukan rawatan “kerohanian”. apa pun sakitnya, yazid telah
memerlukan rawatan yang pada sangkanya tiada di malaya.
menurut e-mail yazid kapada isterinya, sebagaimana yang telah
dipaparkan di-internet oleh realhackerz, yazid telah ke indon mencari orang alim
untuk berubat, dan mula berkelana dari Dumai (kemungkinan-nya), menaikki bas
atau pun kenderaan lain, tapi nampak macam dia berhenti dibeberapa bandar
di sumatra dan jawa, dalam perjalanan menuju ke suatu tempat di pulau
jawa yang tidak disebut.
DXer said
Here is the February 2, 2002 essay by “Dollah X” about Yazid and his past internet posts in a Summer 2000 forum.
Yazid Sufaat Si-badot Lemah, FBI, & Amerika yang Nampak Sangat Nak Balun Malaya
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topic/soc.culture.malaysia/f-_n0ZP6jBQ
You can click “translate to English” for a very rough translation. But it would require human translation to make greater sense of it.
“Dollah X” as a general matter seems confused to think that mentally troubled and the weak-minded did not have an important place in Al Qaeda. Al-Zubaydah and Yazid’s friend, Moussaoui, are two counter-examples. (I don’t consider Yazid troubled or weak-minded — I just think his moral system needs overhauling.)
Moreover, “Dollah X” is overly defensive to think that the geographic location of the January 2000 terror summit factored significantly in Bush’s thinking. It was widely accepted that Kuala Lumpur was just a convenient place at the time for the terrorists to meet. (The Malaysian government was similarly defensive in public statements at the time).
But to the extent there are underlying corroborated contemporaneous posts and emails from Summer 2000 by Yazid, then that forum chat (if an archived copy can be located) might shed some insight into Yazid’s thinking. Given that KSM confirmed that Yazid was working with virulent anthrax, understanding his role is more important than may have been realized at the time.
KSM says he talked to the CIA because he thought they already knew what he was telling them.
Now the CIA does know — but FBI scientists say that they are withholding information because they do not want to embarrass a third party government.
Avoiding embarrassment is not a reason to withhold information == certainly not 13 years after the fact. Indeed, it points to the importance that such information be disclosed so that the history can be written and any ongoing threats can be understood.
As for the travels he embarked upon in Fall 2000, “Dollah X” writes:
“Yazid had to find someone knowledgeable to indon
medicated, and began to wander from Dumai (likely-its), taking the bus or
any other vehicle, but look like he stopped in several cities in
Sumatran and Javanese, on the road to a place on the island of Java
not mentioned.”
DXer said
Here is an example of a participant at the “terror summit” at Yazid’s KL condo who was not reformed by his stay in prison.
USS Cole bomber Fahd al Quso threatens attacks on US in an Al Qaeda in Yemen Video
News & Politics Examiner (USA) – Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Author: Jane Novak
A convicted terrorist made new threats against the US in a propaganda video release by the Yemeni al Qaeda affiliate Wednesday.
Fahd al Quso convicted in Yemeni court for the terror attack on the US warship, the USS Cole, was featured in a video released by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), MEMRI reported Wednesday.
AQAP is the Yemeni branch of the terror organization. This is the first time that Al-Quso appeared in an AQAP propaganda video. Al Quso was convicted by the Yemeni courts and received a ten year sentence. He was granted early release by the Yemeni government in 2007 after serving about four years in prison.
In the video, al Quso threatens attack on the US homeland, embassies and war ships.
Quso attended the al Qaeda summit in Malaysia in January 2000 where both the USS Cole and 9/11 terror attacks were planned. Other attendees included Nawaf Alhazmi, Khalid Almihdhar, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Khallad bin Attash, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Hambali. Yazid Sufaat , and Ramzi bin al-Shibh.
Al Quso was part of the terror conspiracy that targeted the USS Cole in October 2000 in the port of Aden. On day of the attack, al Quso was tasked with video taping the attack, which killed 17 US service members and wounded 49. He told investigators that he overslept and missed the bombing.
Al Quso was jailed in 2002, escaped prison in 2003 along with nine other USS Cole suspects and at that time indicted on 50 counts of terror related charges in US Federal court. He was captured and returned to jail in 2004. In 2007, al Quso was given a early release by the Yemeni government within a larger pattern of al Qaeda releases, described by some as “co-optation” of terrorists by the Saleh regime. Others believe it is the Saleh regime itself that has been co-opted by the ranks of Salafists in its ranks including former jihaddists and current bin Laden loyalists.
The danger of al Quso in particular is that he is trusted by the al Qaeda leadership, has operational experience, international connections and a major terror attack under his belt.
Al Qaeda in Yemen’s stated strategy is to lure US troops into Yemen, and their media presence reflects that. US military presence would generate likely substantial opposition in the heavily armed country from many Yemenites with no affiliation or sympathy to al Qaeda
AQAP released a video interview with Anwar Al Awlaki, the Yemeni-American al Qaeda internet recruiter and inspirational speaker on Sunday. Both Awlaki and al Quso hiding in a remote region of the Shabwa province of Yemen and belong to the Awlaki tribe. Most of al Qaeda in Yemen’s current leadership was formerly imprisoned in Yemen.
DXer said
Quso continued to threaten attacks on the US, to include attacks on airplanes.
He was killed by a drone in May 2012. Like Yazid, he showed no remorse for the 3,000 civilians killed on 911.
He should not have been released by Yemen.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-57429253-503543/who-was-fahd-al-quso/
DXer said
Oregon Resident Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists in Connection with Suicide Bombing of ISI Headquarters in Pakistan
U.S. Attorney’s Office
March 05, 2013
http://www.fbi.gov/portland/press-releases/2013/oregon-resident-charged-with-conspiring-to-provide-material-support-to-terrorists-in-connection-with-suicide-bombing-of-isi-headquarters-in-pakistan
Comment: These charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists do not appear to implicate First Amendment issues.
DXer said
Yazid’s wife not too worried over FBI interview
Yap Mun Ching
9:56AM Nov 15, 2002
While American enforcement officials are expected to query terrorist suspect Yazid Sufaat over his alleged links with an al-Qaeda suspect detained in the US, his wife is confident that he will come out of the interrogation just fine.
Sejahratul Dursina @ Chomel Mohamad said she was “not too worried” about the upcoming Monday interview because her husband was barely acquainted with Zacarias Moussaoui, a French national who is currently in detention in the US on terrorism-related charges.
“I am not too worried because (Yazid) doesn’t know Zacarias Moussaoui that well. Yazid knows (Zacarias) as a businessman. That’s all,” she said when contacted today in Kuala Lumpur.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers are expected to arrive in here today to interrogate Yazid over his alleged links to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
Yazid has been held under the Internal Security Act (ISA) since December last year on charges that he is a member of the Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia (KMM), a ‘militant’ organisation which is said to have plotted to overthrow the government.
He was found to have hosted Zacarias during a visit to Malaysia a year before the Sept 11 attacks and provided him with a letter of appointment as a US marketing agent for Infocus Tech, a Malaysian computer software compan’y
Comment:
Yazid did not know Zacarias as a businessman. Moussaoui in fact was not a businessman – he was a jihadist learning to fly planes to use in an attack. Chomel reportedly was 20% shareholder in the business Infocus Tech. But she and the Infocus Tech Managing Director in 2002 explained that Yazid had no position in the firm -as officer or shareholder. Yazid’s firm was GREEN LABORATORY. Indeed, he gave Zacarias an email greenlaboratory@usa.com which was secretly accessed by the FBI on September 18, 2001. Thus, all of Yazid’s lies were for nothing.
The letter of introduction for Zacarias from Infocus Tech signed by Yazid, uploaded at the blog, was just a cover. Zacarias, who made cropduster inquiries that KSM apparently related to Hambali’s work with Yazid with anthrax, was a fellow jihadist. Zacarias told the federal court judge that he wanted anthrax to use that would only kill a particular religion. At the root of the problem is religious brainwashing and a lack of critical and moral thinking. Criminal defendants and their families — and their attorneys — commonly propagate lies without appreciating that it is the truth that will set the defendant free, in this life and in any afterlife.
DXer said
Yazid says that authorities arrested Chomel in 2002 only to try to gain leverage over him to talk about his work in the Al Qaeda anthrax program — but that he refused to talk about that or his work for the once secret Malaysian biological weapons program. He says he refused to cooperate because he had felt betrayed by his country. For the first couple of months the interrogators had not known that he had worked in a secret biological weapons program — until a “friend” told them. Then Chomel was picked up, Yazid explains, to bring leverage.
The US media has never reported this.
FBI Director Mueller was unsuccessful in his trip to KL in March 2002 in arranging Yazid’s extradition. The failure of Amerithrax — the biggest counterintelligence analysis failure in the history of the United States — then flowed inexorably from that. The FBI first interrogated Yazid in November 2002 — at which time Yazid told them nothing (other than the lies).
If Yazid wanted to knock the United States Department of Justice and CIA on its rear, all he would have to do is tell the truth.
The problem is that both Yazid and the US DOJ are all about covering their ass rather than truth-telling.
Thursday, 18 April, 2002
Malaysia swoops on Islamic militants
Militants have been accused of targeting US interests
Police in Malaysia have arrested 14 suspected Islamic militants, including the wife of a man who is accused of helping two of the hijackers who carried out the 11 September attacks on America.
The 14 suspects were arrested across Malaysia on Wednesday and early Thursday, said police inspector general Norian Mai.
They have been held under Malaysia’s controversial Internal Security Act which allows for indefinite detention without trial of those who are accused of threatening national security.
There will definitely be more arrests, that’s for sure
Police Assistant Superintendent Samsudin Ali
Malaysia’s crack-down on Islamic militants has been warmly welcomed by the US. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is preparing for a visit to the White House in May where President George W Bush will thank him for his support on Washington’s war on terror.
Altogether 38 suspected militants have been detained in Malaysia since last December, although the raids on such groups date back to before the September attacks on America.
Many suspects are thought to belong to the groups Jemaah Islamiyah and the Malaysian Mujahideen Group (KMM), both of which analysts say want to establish an Islamic state across Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore.
Al-Qaeda links
Among the latest detainees was Sejahratul Dursina, wife of former Malaysian army captain Yazid Sufaat, who has already been detained under the ISA since December on accusations that he let two of the hijackers that flew a plane into the Pentagon stay in an apartment belonging to the couple in January 2000.
The US alleges that he also gave assistance to Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen who has been jailed in the US on charges of conspiracy in the September attacks.
Authorities say south-east Asian Muslims have plotted bomb attacks on the US embassy and other pro-West targets in Singapore.
In January, Singapore arrested 13 people it accused of plotting attacks on US interests and servicemen there.
Muslim militant suspects have also been arrested in Singapore and the Philippines. On Thursday an Indonesian man, Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi, was jailed in Manila for 10 years on for illegal possession of explosives.
DXer said
KUALA LUMPUR: Yazid Sufaat, who was arrested together with two others for their alleged involvement in promoting terrorism, has been linked to terrorist activities in the past.
The trio, who were arrested in Kajang by police on Thursday, are believed to be the mastermind in recruiting several locals for terrorist activities.
Born on January 20, 1964 in Johor, Yazid received his degree in biochemistry from California State University, Sacramento in 1987 before serving as medical technician in Malaysian army (ranked as a Captain).
In 1993, he set up a pathology laboratory called Green Laboratory Medicine and he was believed to have been affiliated with Al-Qaeda as an anthrax researcher.
In 2000, there was majorAl-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) meeting in Kuala Lumpur to which four people who attended the meeting had stayed with Yazid at his home.
He has also been alleged to provide lodging for two of the September 11 hijackers, Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaf Al-Hazmi and providing working documents for Zacarias Moussaoui.
Through his laboratory, Yazid acquired four tonnes of ammonium nitrate for JI/MILF bomb-maker Fathur Rahman Al-Ghozi.
The intention was to create bombing spree in Singapore but the plot was discovered by the authorities and Fathur managed to escape arrest in Singapore in December 2001 but was captured in Phillipines a month later.
During the September 11 tragedy, Yazid was in Afghanistan and fled to Malaysia via Pakistan.
He was soon arrested in Malaysia in December 2001 and was wanted by United States for his links to the tragedy.
His assets was frozen by the US government on September 5, 2003.
During that time, he was already detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) but was freed in December 2008.
Read more at:http://english.astroawani.com/news/show/yazid-sufaat-and-his-alleged-track-of-terror-6712?cp
DXer said
Phantom Menace Or Looming Danger?:
A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats
Kathleen M. Vogel
JHU Press, Jan 1, 2013 – 374 pages
“The horrifying terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the anthrax strikes that soon followed gave the United States new reason to fear unconventional enemies and atypical weapons. These fears have prompted extensive research, study, and planning within the U.S. military, intelligence, and policy communities regarding potential attacks involving biological weapons. In Phantom Menace or Looming Danger? Kathleen M. Vogel argues for a major shift in how analysts assess bioweapons threats. She calls for an increased focus on the social and political context in which technological threats are developed. Vogel uses case studies to illustrate her theory: Soviet anthrax weapons development, the Iraqi mobile bioweapons labs, and two synthetic genomic experiments. She concludes with recommendations for analysts and policymakers to integrate sociopolitical analysis with data analysis, thereby making U.S. bioweapon assessments more accurate. Students of security policy will find her innovative framework appealing, her writing style accessible, and the many illustrations helpful. These features also make Phantom Menace or Looming Danger? a must-read for government policymakers and intelligence experts.”
Comment: The context and contents associated with Moussaoui’s laptop would make a good case study. The socio-political context included Bin Laden’s relationship with Khattab (which should have been known by the FBI officials making the decisions re the FISA warrant). Knowing that would have permitted access to the laptop under FISA if not also Title III. Knowing the socio-political context was necessary before the data analysis was even possible. Additional context concerned Moussaoui’s support for the blind sheik Abdel-Rahman. Fellow blind sheik supporter Jdey was detained and released at the same time but the FBI kept that secret for a decade — and still hasn’t admitted it. Moussaoui had the cropduster manuals while Jdey had the biology books. Then when you picture Yazid seeing his buddy Moussaoui off at the airport you don’t so easily get distracted by a theft of a book from a sorority a quarter century ago or some stained panties in the garbage.
DXer said
A friend delivered to me a copy of the book. At page 47, Kathleen Vogel writes:
“On the heels of the anthrax attacks and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, U.S. government forces captured a laboratory site consisting of a fwe pieces of equipment known to be used by al-Qaeda operatives. Although crude and not yet operational, the laboratory findings suggstd that al-Qaeda had acquired an avirulent strain of anthrax bacteria, limited biotech equipment, and some scientific articles. U.S. officials determined that one Ph.D.-level microbiologist from Pkistan was in charge of planning the design and work of the laboratory; he had also visited bioctechnology companies and conferences. Subsequent open-source publications by intelligenc officials and prominent scientists calld attention to these findings as evidence of a growing bioweapons threat by al-Qada and other terrorist groups.”
On this point she cites the early 2003 (I think) excellent article by Petro and Relman in SCIENCE titled “Understanding Threats to Scientific Openness.” She uses the word “biotech companies.” Did he not visit a B3 lab? And weren’t the 1999 and 2000 Porton Down conferences sponsored by the leading US and UK Ames researchers? And isn’t this established both by SFAM records and the correspondence betwen Rauf Ahmad and Ayman Zawahiri? Dr. Relman who has seen the material relating to the testing says it is not prudent to conclude that Al Qaeda had not acquired virulent anthrax. indeed, he points to the discovery of Ames anthrax in testing. He published that view in the SCIENCE, the very publication she relies upon. So then why is she relying on Milton’s years-old (8?) conclusions based on his reversrng of the undated handwritten and typed letters and Milton’s failure to disclose in the cited treated Rauf Ahmad’s announcement to Zawarahi that he had achieved the targets? Virulent Ames was precisely the reason for his visit to the B3 labs.
http://www.amerithrax.wordpress.com
Now Milton and Kathleen are free to conclude that a letter from Rauf to Ayman means that he had achieved the targets — on his mission to acquire virulent anthrax — just meant that he had done his laundry and was on schedule. But others might conclude that he had achieved the targets of the mission to acquire virulent anthrax. Indeed, some ambitious reporter might even think to pick up the goddamn phone and call Rauf or Yazid and ask them.
Kathleen writes:
“Yet declassified U.S. government reports about this Afghani makeshift laboratories have indicated that al-Qaeda was unable to obtain a pathogenic culture of the anthrax bacteria, and there was no evidence of any technical work done at this site, suggesting that al-Qaeda’s 2001 bioweapons capabilities never went beyond the trivial.” \
Now who does she cite on this last point? None other than Milton’s treatise from years ago when he reversed the order of the undated correspondence, mistakenly concluding (without any basis) that the handwritten letter post-dated the typed letter. The NYT reporter, after interviewing ML, then did the same. To the contrary, the handwritten letter was written after the visit to the lab that had only nonpathogenic strains which is why he had to go to the second lab. Kathleen should first take greater care in her data analysis and documentary examination before concerning herself with socioeconomic analysis. Why is she citing secondary material when primary material has been uploaded? A full set of Rauf Ahmad’s correspondence has been uploaded on Lew’s blog. On the general issue of approaching the correspondence useful sources include Joby Warrick’s Washington Post article combined with the official history of the MI5 that mentions the equipment taken from Rauf’s luggage after a conference.
I have had email exchanges with Rauf Ahmad but while he can be as chatty as Yazid, he is interested in money.
http://www.amerithrax.wordpress.com
DXer said
Kathleen writes:
“In 2001, moreover, US forces captured a Malaysian biological technician who was seeking to acquire bioweapons materials and equipment for al-Qaida.”
Oh, really? Yazid sure will be surprised to hear that it was US forces captured him when he was caught crossing into Malaysia.
He will also be surprised to learn he was seeking to acquire bioweapons materials.
She writes:
“Subsequent interrogations revealed that he had failed to procure a virulent strain of anthrax bacteria.”
Now who does she cite? Wait. Wait. Let me guess. ML’s treatise Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Treatise. … Which is from 2005!
Does she know the FBI did not even interrogate Yazid until November 2002? And did not know that he had worked in the Malaysian offensive biological weapons program?
http://www.amerithrax.wordpress.com
DXer said
After relying on ML’s 2005 book and his dismissive view of Yazid’s capabilities (note that Yazid, for his part, tells me that he can do “magic”), she then cites the contrary views of the USG.
At the outset, I should note that she might have first mentioned the unclassified 2003 CIA report that said Moussaoui’s inquiries relating to cropdusters related to dispersing anthrax. (Kathleen should take to heart that Yazid and Moussaoui were buds.)
http://www.amerithrax.wordpress.com
She writes of a 2005 USG report:
“However, these shortcomings in al-Qaeda’s alleged bioweapons activities were not discussed in a high-level U.S. government report issued in 2005 by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (also known as the WMD Commission). Instead, the report emphaized, that, in spite of the crude laboratory setup, al-Qaeda appeared to have achieved more progress before the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan than had been previously been assessed by the U.S. intelligence. The report concluded that the U.S. intelligence community had once again underestimated another diffuse, nonstate bioweapons threat. In a separate chapter, this same 2005 commission report emphasized the growing risks of bioterrorism from advances in biotechnology.”
Milton and those he influences should heed an important lesson. If you want information, go get it. And don’t content yourself with thinking that citing some 8 year-old secondary source in a library constitutes sound intelligence analysis when the safety of the American public is at issue. Failure in analysis is not an option.
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Kathleen doesn’t address Amerithrax besides relying on ML’s 2005 book. She come from Peace Studies at Cornell with funding by Ploughshares, I think. (ML also). I do not mean to address or undermine her extensive discussion of Curveball (which I have not had a chance to read). Curveball proved tremendously important to the course of history and involvement of the US in an expensive and needless war. Someone from Cornell’s Peace Studies deservedly focuses on that. But put most simply, Curveball serves to illustrate that the IC should have gone to the source rather than rely on secondary sources.
Kathleen should stay the heck away from Amerithrax unless she is going to learn something about it. Her comments on AQ and anthrax are contained at page 46-47 of her exensively sourced 374 page book. On Amerithrax she notes in a footnote only the fact of Dr. Ivins;’ suicide and that there as no trial. Given that the threat comes from Al Qaeda, however, and not Iraq, the entire book seems to have missed the boat — the train too. It does not matter if the train is on time if it is going in the wrong direction and on the wrong track.
She claims to emphasize the social and political context but yet nowhere discusses Zawahiri, the blind sheik, the announcement of Zawahiri’s plan to use anthrax (or the reasons), the Egyptian Islamic Group etc. Indeed, she is the one ignoring the social and political context of the anthrax mailings just as ML did before her.
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Yazid Marwan Hadeed (Yazid Sufaat) today writes by Blackberry:
“There is no Islam without unity, no unity without leadership, and no leadership without obedience.” — Umar ibn al-Khattab (رضي الله عنه)
Comment:
Umar ibn Al-Khattāb was one of the most powerful and influential Muslim caliphs (rulers) in history He was a sahābi (companion) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was an expert Islamic jurist and is best known for his pious and just nature, which earned him the title Al-Faruq (“the one who distinguishes between right and wrong”). While Umar was on his way to visit Syria, he was received by the governor of Syria, who informed him about plague and its intensity and suggested Umar go back to Madinah. The plague cost 25,000 lives.
Question: I’ve noted my respectful disagreement with Kathleen M. Vogel and Milton L on the question whether Yazid was working with virulent anthrax. (Apart from the positive tests relating to the Ames strain of anthrax noted by Dr. Relman in his recent article in SCIENCE (see documents submitted to NAS), I’ve separately pointed to the plans established by the documents to move the lab every three months and to decontaminate it with paraformaldehyde upon each move.)
But I find the more difficult question to be: Did Al Qaeda have plague?
What does Yazid say? While pleading the Fifth Amendment on the Ames strain of anthrax, he might be less reticent on the issue of plague.
Why was the former Zawahiri associate supplied virulent Ames by Bruce Ivins vaccinated for plague? Was the decontamination agent being tested also tested on plague? If so, who assisted with the research?
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Returning to Dr. Vogel’s book, she starts the book explaining that
:”For this study, I draw on concepts rooted in the sociology of scientific knowledge to analyze how the judgments produced through the U.S. bioweapons accessessments are the result of an assemblage of technological frames — …. — and anaytic practices….”
Then at page 46-47, with ML providing a review of an early draft, she advances ML’s conclusions relating to Al Qaeda and anthrax based on his 2005 discussion of some correspondence that had been seized between Rauf Ahmad and Ayman Zawahiri.
This book is published by a distinguished academic press (JHU). Such a press tends to take a full year to get a book out. (I don’t know offhand when this manuscript was submitted.) In the acknowledements, she describes ML review as relating to an “early draft” so I don’t know when it occurred given that the manuscript was written over a period of years.
As a result, the author is citing a 2005 book about a lab found in 2001 without any mention or citation to the numerous details in Detainee Assessments that were provided to the public via some hacker group (Wikileaks, as I recall). This blog has uploaded those witness statements.
Moreover, as far as I’ve seen so far, the author does not discuss the NAS testing regarding the Al Qaeda lab. Why not? She makes no mention fo the important David Relman in article about such testing. Why not? She certainly is hardworking and skilled and thoughtful judging by the book. The reason is the reality of the vehicle in which she is publishing her analytic conclusions (at page 46-47) about Al Qaeda and anthrax. If an analyst or researcher publishes conclusions based on information that does not come close to representing the best source of information, and then it takes a year to publish those conclusions, there is a very good chance that the conclusions will be in error. Ironically, that is what the entire book is about — the systemic reasons why so many intelligence assessments about bioweapons have been wrong. The book is Exhibit A of the perils of a process she chose to use in publishing her conclusions about Al Qaeda and anthrax. I haven’t yet seen that she even made mention of the pending GAO review.
The book nonetheless gets sent off to lilbraries around the world. The history is written. The publisher encourages Intelligence analysts at government agencies to read it. And as a result the world faces whatever hazards there are with seriously flawed assessment based on seriously dated information.
We saw the same thing with Mr. Willman’s book. He never corrected his reliance on Judith McLean. Neither did Gregroy Saarthoff correct his EBAP report submitted to the federal court. And so we just have an unending parade of books citing previous books that relied on seriously dated and flawed information. In the case of MIRAGE MAN, Judith had already published her 2009 book in which she explained that at the time of counseling Dr. Ivins she thought she was controlled by an alien that had implanted a microchip in her butt… and thought murderous entities were attached to her clients… for which she would have to have emergency exorcisms.
Athough not the points intended by the distinguished author, the take home I get from the book, starting at the beginning and just a few a pages in, is:
1. DON’T RELY ON DATED INFORMATION.
2. GO TO THE PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL.
3. MAKE THAT PRIMARY SOURCING AVAILABLE AND TRANSPARENT.
4. DON’T HORDE.* OR ALLOW WITHHOLDING OR COMPARTMENTALIZATION OF INFORMATION TO OBSCURE THE CORRECT ANALYSIS
5. CORRECT ERRORS.
Let J.M. Berger’s approach to issues be a guide — and see how helpful his uploading of document excerpts is to sorting out the apparent error in Fox News current report about Awlaki booking some mid-August 2001 flights.
*Milton wouldn’t share the Rauf correspondence with me so I had to request it for myself. He hadn’t uploaded it but just selectively characterized it. If I hadn’t obtained the documents from DIA I would not have seen that, to my eye, his interpretation of the documents is mistaken. I think his failure to disclose the lead sentence announcing that the targets had been achieved in the second visit resulted in a seriously flawed analysis. It certainly seems to have served to have mislead Dr. Vogel.
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She discusses cognitive biases at page 21 and their influence. I raised the issue of Milton’s cognitive bias when he called me in 2002 or so to ask if I was Mossad.* He said “Sure, everyone knows who I am and where I’m coming from.” But, he said, that I was new and he was seeking to understand where I was coming from.
I come from a land where documents and intercepted communications are king.. A land of Lt. Columbo. Where you go to the bad guy and ask them respectfully if they did it. Some lawyer up. Some politely plead the Fifth. Some say that they are not going to address it. Some ask if I am ever going to mention their name. And some help you understand what the facts are.
There’s no tenure at the Columbo / Monday Mystery school of intelligence analysis. There is no need to publish. Just tomorrow’s news story. Milton’s view of the supporters of the blind sheik and friends of Ayman Zawahiri as unskilled has no factual basis. He is just uninformed.
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Ayman has 40 doctors in his family including leading faculty at Cairo Medical where he recruited every Friday. Dr. Vogel should have spent less time reading Howard Aldrich and David Sklansky and more time reading Lawrence Wright if she wanted to understand Al Qaeda and anthrax. (The name Zawahiri does not even appear in her index hich is absurd given the subject of her book.) Better yet, people should read everything that might bear.
Knowing an analyst’s cognitive biases, if any, is indeed important. But that is best avoided by transparency in the documents being relied upon. The document should speak for itself. See J.M. Berger’s exampler in his FP blog today in addressing the Awlaki story.
Now what page of the Rauf correspondence Dr. Vogel show — revealing her cognitive bias and Milton’s cognitive bias that led to his critical error in analysis? She pictures the handwritten letter from Rauf reporting on his FIRST visit in 1999 to the lab that did not have nonpathogenic bacteria. (see page 22 of her book) It was the result of that lack that he promptly arranged a SECOND VISIT — which was reported on in the TYPED letter — in which in the first sentence Rauf Ahmad tells Zawahiri that he had achieved the targets.
The key to being an good intelligence analyst is to have a curious mind and not accept gaps in knowledge. What second lab did Rauf Ahmad visit? Doesn’t Dr. Vogel think it important to know?
*Who is ML’s wife? Why was she in Afghanistan? Does that lead to his cognitive bias? I love Ithaca more than KV does — and so it’s not the water. It’s what one chooses to read. And it is a big mistake not to read everything that might bear.
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Here is an early report on Yazid’s arrest by Malaysian authorities and the lies he was telling. After a “friend” told Malaysia that he had been part of the Malaysian offensive biological weapons program, authorities detained his charming wife, another Sac State alum (for a couple of months). Authorities sought to gain leverage over him and get him to cooperate. He never cooperated.
Alleged Al-Qaeda Operative Sufaat Denies Terror Charges
Islam Online ^ | April 14 2002 | Kazi Mahmood
Posted on Sun Apr 14 18:42:11 2002 by knighthawk
JAKARTA, April 14 (IslamOnline) – Alleged Al-Qaeda operative, Yazid Sufaat, denied terror charges, while he admitted that he met two Arab nationals at his condominium in Kuala Lumpur two years ago, a news report from Malaysiakini.com said on Sunday.
However, Sufaat, high on the FBI list of suspects from South East Asia, who might be members or operatives of the Al-Qaeda, stressed the duo could not be involved in the Sept 11 attacks as they were amputees shopping for prosthetic legs in Malaysia.
The 37-year-old pathologist and former army captain, who is also a businessmen in Malaysia, told this to a three-member review panel at the Kamunting Detention Centre in Perak last Thursday. This was his second hearing, one of his lawyers told IslamOnline.
Sufaat was arrested in December last year following a petition filed by the FBI against a French-Morocan citizen Zacharias Massaoui, who is believed to be the first Al-Qaeda operative charged in court.
In the pettition, Yazid Sufaat’s name was mentioned as a business sponsor of Massaoui, who was entitled to a salary of US2000 for representing the import export company of Sufaat.
Sufaat was arrested under the Internal Security Act (ISA) and is now currently in detention in Kamunting, without trial, for two years.
His lawyer Saiful Izham Ramli said the detainee had presented his defence in a 29-page affidavit to the panel, answering each allegation made against him.
Ramli said the second hearing of Sufaat was not really fair because police refused to provide them with certain “privileged information”.
The U.S. has urged Malaysia for the extradition of Sufaat, considering him a main link to Osama bin Laden in the region. Malaysia has refused to accede to the request arguing that there were no proof yet that Sufaat was engaged in activities linked to the Al-Qaeda.
Malaysian police said it was detaining Sufaat for allegedly attempting to cause trouble on Malaysian territory. Police also linked him to the Malaysian Mujahidin Movement (KMM), which Sufaat denies.
According to information passed to IslamOnline by a lawyer who preferred to remain unnamed, the suspect told the police that he was not involved in the KMM or the Al-Qaeda.
Sufaat was among 23 people rounded up by the police early this year for their alleged involvement in Jemaah Islamiah, said to be a secret cell under the so-called KMM.
The KMM is believed to be part of a regional network to overthrow Southeast Asian governments and set up an Islamic state in their respective countries.
Jemaah Islamiah was also said to have ties with the Osama bin Laden-helmed Al-Qaeda network, which was blamed for the Sept 11 attacks on the United States.
The police have alleged that Yazid contributed money to Jemaah Islamiah to fund sectarian violence in the Ambon Islands of Indonesia, and against the Philippine army in Mindanao.
A lawyer to Sufaat said the latter never denied assisting Muslim in Ambon or in Mindanao, considering this his duty as a Muslim to help others in need, IslamOnline was told.
He was also alleged to have purchased four tons of ammonium nitrate to be made into bombs in the jihad or holy war against Christians in Ambon.
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Note that according to this April 2002 news report, Yazid Sufaat admitted to knowing Khallad bin Attash who was being refitted for a prosthetic leg in December 1999 and then moved into Yazid’s condo in early January a few days before the meeting with the 911 planners at the condo — and just a day before key 911 hijacker Nawaf arrived.
From History Commons (which has hyperlinks to sources):
“Some attendees of the January 2000 al-Qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (see January 5-8, 2000), arrive early. Al-Qaeda leader Khallad bin Attash had lost a leg while fighting in Afghanistan in 1997. In early December 1999, he was in Afghanistan with Abu Bara al-Taizi (a.k.a. Zohair Mohammed Said) and others, attending a hijacking training course (see Late 1999 and Early December 1999). Bin Attash and al-Taizi have been selected by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to be hijackers for a planned Asian portion of the 9/11 plot (which will later be cancelled).
Surgery for Bin Attash’s Leg – Bin Attash goes early to an al-Qaeda summit where hijacking plans will be discussed, in order to have prosthetic surgery for his leg. Al-Taizi goes with him. Malaysian security is said to be lax for Islamist militants, and Malaysia does not require a visa for citizens of many Middle Eastern countries. There is a clinic in Kuala Lumpur called Endolite, and other wounded militants have said they successfully concealed the origins of their combat wounds when receiving treatment there. Bin Attash got a prosthetic leg in Malaysia not long after losing his leg in 1997, but he is coming back to get a better one. He apparently gets the money for the prosthesis from his father, Osama bin Laden, and another al-Qaeda figure.
Link with Hambali – When bin Attash and al-Taizi arrive in Kuala Lumpur, they contact Hambali, the top al-Qaeda leader in Southeast Asia. Hambali picks them up at the airport and takes them to his home. Then he takes them to the Endolite clinic. Bin Attash and al-Taizi stay at or near the clinic for about 10 to 14 days. Bin Attash then takes about four flights in Southeast Asia to learn about security for the hijacking plan (see December 31, 1999-January 2, 2000), while al-Taizi apparently stays in Kuala Lumpur. According to Hambali’s later Guantanamo prison file, bin Attash and al-Taizi also investigate the security of US aircraft carriers in the region.
Others Arrive – On January 3, with bin Attash back from his flights, the two of them move to Yazid Sufaat’s condominium where the al-Qaeda summit will be held. Future 9/11 hijacker Nawaf Alhazmi arrives there the next day. 9/11 hijacker Khalid Almihdhar arrives the day after that, and other attendees are arriving as well, allowing the summit to begin (see January 5-8, 2000). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 158-159; US Department of Defense, 12/6/2006; US Department of Defense, 10/25/2008; US Department of Defense, 10/30/2008] Note that this information is based on prisoner interrogations, which can be highly unreliable. However, it should be noted that the accounts of bin Attash, Hambali, and al-Taizi appear to largely match.”
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Former CIA Director has an important discussion of the Kuala Lumpur meeting, Nawaf, and Moussaoui in Chapter 11 of his book which is online here.
The letter from Yazid Sufaat introducing Moussaoui, he notes, was sufficient to close the loop and show Moussaoui’s connection to the plotters meeting in KL at Yazid’s condo.
In his book, Mr. Tenet did not disclose that Jdey had been detained at the same time as Moussaoui and released.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Kc3bg29llREJ:georgejtenet.com/files/Chapter_11.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgSzCrsQmP4tqp0V2dC75uFjYOWJ4ygNjWbN6T45XY46MFp-NJ9A4URWwZA_H5q13Y4eaESfTz826TgVCzNWe1v58QxRMfBhtY5-PGwzpQnr83Su9pnxotfD7Ounk03dTv-CyV3&sig=AHIEtbTR8cCG3RZ_yEwuSbRl16pBOaKCIw
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Trained and unrepentant murderer Yazid Sufaat looks forward to the New Year.
He writes:
“The Roman ruler Julius Caesar established January 1 as New Year’s Day in 46 BC. The Romans dedicated this day to Janus , the god of gates, doors, and beginnings. The month of January was named after Janus, who had two faces – one looking forward and the other looking backward” The World Book Encyclopedia. Nak celebrate jugak ke~
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Evidence piles up that Bush administration got many pre-9/11 warnings
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/11/13809524-evidence-piles-up-that-bush-administration-got-many-pre-911-warnings?lite&google_editors_picks=true
An analyst handed out the briefing packages Tenet had just seen and began to speak. “His opening line got everyone’s attention,” Tenet wrote, “in part because it left no room for misunderstanding: ‘There will be a significant terrorist attack in the coming weeks or months!’”
The team laid out in a series of slides its concerns, based on intelligence that included information “from the past 24 hours.”
Citing his notes on the briefing, Tenet wrote, “A chart displayed seven specific pieces of intelligence gathered over the past twenty-four hours, all of them predicting an imminent attack. Among the items: Islamic extremists were traveling to Afghanistan in greater numbers, and there had been significant departures of extremist families from Yemen. Other signs pointed to new threats against U.S. interests in Lebanon, Morocco, and Mauritania.”
A second chart followed, listing a summation of the most chilling comments by al-Qaida. According to Tenet, they were:
• A mid-June statement from Osama bin Laden to trainees that there will be an attack in the near future.
• Information that talked about moving toward decisive acts.
• Late June information that cited a “big event” that was forthcoming.
• “Two separate bits of information collected only a few days before our meeting in which people were predicting a stunning turn of events in the weeks ahead.”
Another slide detailed how Chechen Islamic terrorist leader Ibn Kattab had promised some “very big news” to his troops.
Comment:
Yet note tthat the warrant was not allowed by FBI HQ because Moussaoui’s known connection was to Ibn Khattab rather than BIn Laden.
If we don’t learn from history, we are bound to repeat it.
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Home Stockpiles of Anthrax Kits Not the Best Idea, FDA Says
By Anna Edney on April 02, 2012
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-02/home-stockpiles-of-anthrax-kits-not-the-best-idea-fda-says
Making anthrax treatment kits available to the 114 million households in the U.S. isn’t prudent because it could lead to misuse of the medicines, regulatory advisers said. …
Consumers could misuse the so-called medkits by taking them for reasons other than an anthrax attack, a move that may exacerbate antibiotic resistance, FDA advisers said.
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9/11: A public health failure
[ Laurie Garrett ] said the anthrax threats and infections were a form of asymmetric warfare—where one side spends very few resources and has a huge impact on the other side. While those responsible for the biological attacks spent an estimated $200,000, the United States spent millions in chemical forensics and tracking down “phony” tips.
http://sites.duke.edu/dukeresearch/2012/03/29/911-a-public-health-failure/
Comment: Yazid Sufaat lacks the moral courage to admit Al Qaeda is behind the anthrax mailings. He initially said he was available to answer all questions and people can think what they will. But then he “took the Fifth” on every single substantive question. He was a very gracious fellow and I respect that. But I had to “defriend” him because I only find substantive details and truth-telling interesting. When the Amerithrax 302s are uploaded, his thunder will have been stolen and it will be the FBI documents that write the history.
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What is our military doing in response?
Holding exercises in DC whereupon in the event of an anthrax attack, personnel report to a greeting table and fill out a survey.
http://www.dcmilitary.com/article/20120330/NEWS10/120339996/exercise-prepares-ncr-for-attack
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Assessing a decade of public health preparedness: progress on the precipice?
Gursky EA, Bice G.
Biosecur Bioterror. 2012 Mar;10(1):55-65.
A decade of countering bioterrorism: incremental progress, fundamental failings.
R. Danzig, Bosecur Bioterror. 2012 Mar;10(1):49-54.
The evolution of law in biopreparedness.
Hodge JG Jr.
Biosecur Bioterror. 2012 Mar;10(1):38-48.
Commentary seems pretty academic when the head of the lab at Kandahar who gave Moussaoui $35k and a monthly stipend, knowing he was studying to fly a 747, was never charged with conspiring to use anthrax against the US. Tara O’Toole, in the inaugural edition of the journal in January 2003, should have published the relevant commentary that might have moved Director Mueller off his apparent fixation on Dr. Hatfill. Later, as Homeland person in charge of biosecurity, she should have seen to it that Amerithrax was reopened.
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FDA Mulls Need for Anthrax Protection Kits
By Emily P. Walker, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today
Published: March 30, 2012
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/PublicHealth/31952
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In this 2011 interview, I believe Yazid is saying that Moussaoui told him he wanted to fly 747s like the others but Yazid felt that Moussaoui wasn’t well-suited.
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Ky. letter carriers test carrying anthrax antidote
Mar 21, 2012 12:24pm
http://www.necn.com/03/21/12/Ky-letter-carriers-test-carrying-anthrax/landing_health.html?&apID=c99f64cb3d5a454aba76af9a60a10927
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Billions to Stem an Unlikely Bioterror Attack, March 30, 2012
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/03/30/Billions-to-Stem-an-Unlikely-Bioterror-Attack.aspx#page1