* Senator Daschle in 2013 book: “To this day, authorities have not conclusively figured out who mailed those letters.”
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CASE CLOSED ... what really happened in the 2001 anthrax attacks? 
DXer said
Capitol Hill police beat extends far outside Washington
‘Lone wolf’ attackers is a main focus
ISAAC WOLF, SCRIPPS NEWS
10:27 AM, JAN 16, 2015
http://www.wxyz.com/decodedc/capitol-hill-police-beat-extends-outside-dhttp://
Days after 9/11, letters laced with anthrax began arriving at news outlets and congressional offices. Several of Reynolds’ officers feared they had inhaled the deadly bacteria and were issued antibiotics. “That was pretty scary,” he said. “That pretty much shut the Capitol down.” Now all congressional mail is screened for anthrax.
DXer said
September 11, 2013
Did They Ever Figure Out Who Did That Whole Anthrax Attack Thing?
By Luke O’Neil
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2013/09/did_they_ever_figure_out_who_d046837.php
Excerpt:
“No matter, though, because in 2006 another potential suspect was finally uncovered in Ivins, a scientist at the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.The FBI found genetic similarities between the anthrax used in the attacks and the kind Ivins was working with in his lab. Case closed part two. Except aside from some superficial similarities in the mutations, and a weird circumstantial theory about Ivins’ admittedly peculiar obsession with a Virginia sorority for the past few decades (from whose vicinity one of the letters was mailed) the FBI didn’t have any actual hard evidence. What it did have, was testimony from his colleagues and supervisors saying that, even had he wanted to, Ivins couldn’t have produced that much anthrax to carry out the attacks.
A funny thing happened next though, haha, the FBI decided it had enough to charge him anyway. A sad conclusion to the 9/11 era, but a much-needed one. Or, you know, it might have been as much had Ivins not killed himself in 2008 with an overdose of painkillers. The evil, America-hating scientist with a vast knowledge of weapons-grade poison at his disposal took his own life with Tylenol, incidentally. A cruel irony, or a hackneyed twist?
It was either a sad tale of a man hounded by the government cracking under the pressure, perhaps, or of a government agency doing its imperfect best to solve a complicated case, depending on how you look at it.”
Unmutual76 said
Reblogged this on Liberating Memes.
DXer said
Anthrax mailing suspect Adnan El-Shukrijumah, son of a salaried Saudi missionary, was at this Sarasota, FL home with his accomplice, 911 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta. There will be a press conference tomorrow.
As Thomas Daschle once said:
“If we can’t even figure out how it was that they enacted the threats or moved through that attack, and if we can’t evaluate why we were as vulnerable as we were — if we can’t evaluate how it was the last 9/11 happened — how is it that we can prepare for the next one?”
Politicians push to declassify censored 9/11 reports
By Paul SperryJanuary 4, 2015
http://nypost.com/2015/01/04/politicians-push-to-declassify-censored-911-reports/
The drive to declassify the 28 censored pages of the congressional 9/11 report detailing the Saudi Arabian government’s possible role in the terror attacks has become a full-blown movement, complete with letter-writing campaigns, lawsuits and legislation.
On Wednesday, the former co-chairman of the panel that produced the heavily-redacted 2002 report will hold a Capitol Hill press conference calling for its complete release. Former Democratic Sen. Bob Graham will join Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), as well as 9/11 families, to demand President Obama shine light on the entire blanked-out Saudi section.
Graham claims the redaction is part of an ongoing “coverup” of the role of Saudi officials in the 9/11 plot. He maintains the Saudi hijackers got financial aid and other help from the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles and the Saudi embassy in Washington, as well as from wealthy Sarasota, Fla., patrons tied to the Saudi royal family.
Jones and Lynch say they will reintroduce their resolution urging Obama to declassify the information in the newly seated Congress. The bipartisan bill has attracted 21 co-sponsors, including 10 Republicans and 11 Democrats, since first introduced 12 months ago.
DXer said
The FBI engaged in wide-ranging speculation about Ivins might have been motivated to target Senator Daschle.
On the other hand, Dr. Ayman Zawahiri explained his motivation — which had been a stated intention — in a book published October 7, 2001.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-85005447.html
Daschle Demands Support for Israel; Says U.S. Stance Must Be absolute.(NATION)
The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
April 23, 2002
Byline: Ben Barber, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle yesterday said U.S. backing for Israel must remain “absolute,” and he criticized European, Arab and U.N. officials for anti-Semitism and unfairness toward the Jewish state.
“Our commitment to Israel must be unshakable – it must be absolute,” he told a luncheon crowd of several thousand at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the country?s largest pro-Israel lobbying group.
“The United States must honor a commitment to preserve Israel’s military superiority,” he said.
DXer: The Blind Sheik’s Lawyer Montasser Al-Zayat Announced In 1999 That Ayman Zawahiri Would Use Anthrax Against US Targets To Retaliate For Imprisonment Of Senior EIJ Leaders, Most Notably Blind Sheik Abdel-Rahman
Posted by Lew Weinstein on June 3, 2013
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/dxer-the-blind-sheiks-lawyer-montasser-al-zayat-announced-in-1999-that-ayman-zawahiri-would-use-anthrax-against-us-targets-to-retaliate-for-imprisonment-of-senior-eij-leaders-most-notably-blind/
DXer: With Bin Laden’s death, it is important to understand Dr. Ayman Zawahiri
Posted by Lew Weinstein on May 2, 2011
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/dxer-with-bin-ladens-death-it-is-important-to-understand-dr-ayman-zawahiri/
DXer said
MY CANDIDATE FOR THE PROCESSOR: YAZID SUFAAT
Wasn’t Yazid Sufaat the processor? He does not deny it when I questioned him extensively. He pled the Fifth Amendment and said he did what he did for the love of islam.
Rauf Ahmad had said he had made contacts and learned processing tricks (at the Porton Down-sponsored “Dangerous Pathogens” conferences which all the Russian and USAMRIID and Porton Down scientists attended in 1999 and 2000). Processing tricks travel in the mind of an individual.
In today’s installment of a continuing series, Al Qaeda anthrax lab technician Yazid Sufaat defends his decision to go to Afghanistan to work on his “anthrax project” for Al Qaeda
Posted by Lew Weinstein on March 20, 2012
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/interview-yazid-sufaat-released-in-november-2008-says-he-met-osama/
Al Qaeda anthrax lab tech says he had been part of Malaysian Armed Forces biological weapons program
Posted on March 23, 2012
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/al-qaeda-anthrax-lab-tech-says-he-had-been-part-of-malaysian-armed-forces-biological-weapons-program/
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
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/al-qaeda-anthrax-lab-tech-yazid-sufaat-discusses-zacarias-moussaoui-in-this-2001-french-language-television-interview/
Anthrax Lab Director Yazid Sufaat Wrote This Letter Of Introduction For Zacarias Moussaoui, Who Made The Cropduster Inquiries
Posted by Lew Weinstein on January 23, 2012
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/anthrax-lab-director-yazid-sufaat-wrote-this-letter-of-introduction-for-zacarias-moussaoui-who-made-the-cropduster-inquiries/
DXer said
MY CANDIDATE FOR THE MAILER: ADNAN EL-SHUKRIJUMAH
Who was the anthrax mailer? (Truth be told, the documents produced under FOIA now show that Ivins had an alibi both for his time in the lab where he was working with 52 rabbits and for his time at his regularly scheduled pain killer addictions group counseling session.)
Is Adnan El-Shukrijumah, the former head of Al Qaeda’s external operations, the anthrax mailer? He was killed this past month in a major operation in Pakistan. (His mom says he was a “good boy” and just wanted to cause alarm and wake America up.)
DXer says: Adnan El-Shukrijumah is the anthrax mailer … on or about 9/13/2001, he phoned from KSM’s house to tell his mom he was coming to the US
Posted by Lew Weinstein on June 6, 2014
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/dxer-adnan-el-shukrijumah-is-the-anthrax-mailer-on-9132001-he-phoned-from-ksms-house-to-tell-his-mom-he-was-coming-to-the-us/
Senate Torture Report: KSM wrote bin al-Shibh a letter referencing “Jafar the Pilot” and indicating that “Jafar” “ought to prepare himself” to smuggle himself from Mexico ; the letter was seized in September 2002
Posted by Lew Weinstein on December 10, 2014
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/senate-torture-report-ksm-wrote-bin-al-shibh-a-letter-referencing-jafar-the-pilot-and-indicating-that-jafar-ought-to-prepare-himself-to-smuggle-himself-from-mexico-the-letter-was-sei/
In February 2003, the FBI announced that “Jafar the Pilot” (aka Adnan El-Shukrijumah) had entered the country sometime after September 1, 2001
Posted by Lew Weinstein on September 26, 2014
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/in-february-2003-the-fbi-announced-that-jafar-the-pilot-aka-adnan-el-shukrijumah-had-entered-the-country-sometime-after-september-1-2001/
In Sarasota investigation, who was the person associated with the hijackers’ flight school who was discovered to have re-entered the country after 9/11?
Posted by Lew Weinstein on September 21, 2014
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/in-sarasota-investigation-who-was-the-person-associated-with-the-hijackers-flight-school-who-was-discovered-to-have-re-entered-the-country-after-911/
DXer said
ACCESS TO AMES STRAIN
What does Al Qaeda anthrax lab director Yazid Sufaat think about the GAO report?
Who gave Rauf Ahmad the samples taken from his luggage when leaving Les Baillie’s “Dangerous Pathogens 2000″ conference? (I don’t know). FN See news reports of MI5 authorized biography. Who gave him the samples at the second lab he visited in 1999? (I don’t know)
Was it Amerithrax scientist, UK’s Les Baillie? Dr. Baillie knew Rauf Ahmad was working with virulent anthrax killing mice with 100 injected spores — because the research was presented at the 2000 conference that Dr. Baillie organized and hosted.
Rauf Ahmad made this large bottle of “anthrax spore concentrate” in April 2001 before setting up Yazid Sufaat’s lab in Kandahar. The boots on the ground apparently were too late to seize the bottle.
Didn’t Les Baillie work at NMRC helping Amerithrax with the repository of samples? He is the one who organized the conferences attended by Rauf Ahmad and hosted him in 2000 when Rauf Ahmad’s work with virulent anthrax was presented. Dr. Baillie, the Ames anthrax genetics expert, came to Maryland in mid-September 2001 to discuss anthrax and then came to work for the FBI’s Amerithrax investigation for the NMRC, which handled the Amerithrax samples.
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/at-the-dangerous-pathogens-2000-conference-dr-zawahiris-infiltrating-scientist-rauf-ahmad-presented-on-the-isolation-of-bacillus-anthracis/
DXer said
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/at-the-porton-down-sponsored-dangerous-pathogens-2000-conference-dr-zawahiris-infiltrating-scientist-rauf-ahmad-in-addition-to-presenting-on-the-isolation-of-bacillus-anthracis-presente/
The learned forensic scientist, Dr. Michael Garvey, PhD (former FBI, former CIA, current head of forensic science for the City of Philadelphia) has explained:
“In the Amerithrax investigation, the FBI report discusses OCONUS samples that had inconsistent results for the presence of B. anthracis and possibly even indications of the presence of the Ames strain. However, these results were ultimately discarded by the FBI due to the inconsistencies in the various testing results, sampling procedures, and methodology used by the FBI and IC. As this case never reached trial and the details of this intelligence based collection is mostly classified, it cannot be fully addressed.”
Separately he noted:
“The reporting suggests that B. anthracis consistent with Ames strain was identified from this location. However, without full disclosure of the scientific data, one cannot ascertain whether these results are reliable. If reliable, did these results indicate the presence of Ames strain in an Al Qaeda lab from a laboratory transfer or is there an isolate of B. anthracis that is located in the undisclosed region of the world that developed similar markers to the Ames strain through parallel evolution. More importantly, these results show the importance of fully understanding the limitations of an assay in order to better explain its results.”
Microbial Forensics and U.S. National Security: Science and Strategy
Garvey, Michael
Date: 2014-08
http://digilib.gmu.edu/dspace/handle/1920/8957
If the CIA concluded from the molecular evidence that there was Ames at the Afghanistan lab — and the FBI discarded those results — and Ames anthrax genetics expert Les Baillie was working for the FBI on Amerithrax at the NMRC in Maryland (where the FBI repository was kept), wasn’t that a conflict of interest beyond pale?
Dr. Garvey notes:
“While the FBI would perform extensive investigations on each consultant in order to verify his/her suitability to assist the investigation and rule them out as a subject of the investigation, this unique aspect of the investigation could be correlated to a forensic examiner, who is suspected of a sexual assault, being consulted on and examining the sexual assault evidence in the same case.” (p. 79)
The UK Lab That Let Al Qaeda Scientist Rauf Ahmad Leave With Virulent Anthrax in 1999 Made A Mistake; To Keep The Lab’s Identity A Secret Prevents Us From Learning From History
Posted by Lew Weinstein on December 5, 2014
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/the-uk-lab-that-let-al-qaeda-scientist-rauf-ahmad-leave-with-virulent-anthrax-in-1999-made-a-mistake-to-keep-the-labs-identity-a-secret-prevents-us-from-learning-from-history/
DXer said
“There were two slants of Ames sent from Texas and Ivins only had one.”
Posted by Lew Weinstein on July 8, 2010
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/there-were-two-slants-of-ames-sent-from-texas-and-ivins-only-had-one/
DXer said
People interested in the Fall 2001 anthrax mailings should take a moment to submit a targeted FOIA request on a subject of interest to them. In addition to USAMRIID, DOJ and FBI, I recommend possibly submitting your request to NMRC.
Former USAMRIID scientists are especially well-situated to know what to request.
http://www.amerithrax.wordpress.com
Everyone needs to step up their game.
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JUPON KOJI KYLIX LUTZ MOXA MUJIK MUREX PUNJI QAID QAT
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DXer said
Senator Daschle, these graphics were done by a federal undercover after the Amerithrax case was “closed.”
The problem is that the same people who didn’t read your book haven’t read Ayman Zawahiri’s playbook.
I submit that Amerithrax is not really closed.
The Al Hayat letter bombs involved lethal letters sent to newspapers in NYC and DC and symbolic targets relating to the WTC 1993 plotters. Were the Al Hayat letter bombs the model for the Amerithrax letters? Were the same people responsible?
Posted by Lew Weinstein on November 25, 2010
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/the-al-hayat-letter-bombs-involved-lethal-letters-sent-to-newspapers-in-nyc-and-dc-and-symbolic-targets-relating-to-the-wtc-1993-plotters-were-the-al-hayat-letter-bombs-the-model-for-the-amerithra/
Ayman Zawahiri, Anwar Awlaki, Anthrax, and Amerithrax: The Infiltration Of US Biodefense
Posted by Lew Weinstein on April 12, 2011
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/ayman-zawahiri-anwar-awlaki-anthrax-and-amerithrax-the-infiltration-of-us-biodefense/
Anthrax, Al Qaeda and Ayman Zawahiri: The Infiltration of US Biodefense
http://www.amerithrax.wordpress.com
DXer said
The federal undercover said that the image gave the feel of “printing money” — but I guess FBI officials turned book authors Scott Decker and Vahid Majidi didn’t get the same memo. :0)