5. THE ANTHRAX ATTACKS
So ... whoever perpetrated September 11 obviously has tons of money and a tight military organization. You would expect that this would not be an isolated event, but the start of a coordinated campaign. If this was the work of Islamic fundamentalists, then where is the Jihad? Where are the Holy Warriors who should have been positioned and ready to follow up on the opening shot of the war?
There was a second wave of attacks--the dissemination of anthrax letters to both random and carefully selected targets. However, everyone now acknowledges that this was an inside job--that the weapons grade anthrax used would only be available to a very limited number of scientists and military/intelligence officers working in the United States on highly classified projects.
In fact, according to the leading expert on the anthrax attacks, Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, the FBI has long known exactly who was behind these attacks--attacks that have so far have killed at least five American citizens--but the Bureau has decided to let the perpetrator off the hook, just as the sponsor of the September 11 hijackings has been let off the hook. Professor Rosenberg is a microbiologist and an expert on biological warfare who has served as a Presidential Advisor and testified before congress on this subject. She was selected by the Federation of American Scientists to investigate the anthrax attacks. Over one year ago, in January 2002, Professor Rosenberg stated:
The FBI has surely known for several months that the anthrax attack was an inside job. A government estimate for the number of scientists involved in the US anthrax program over the last five years is 200 people. According to a former defense scientist the number of defense scientists with hands-on anthrax experience and the necessary access is smaller, under 50. The FBI has received short lists of specific suspects with credible motives from a number of knowledgeable inside sources, and has found or been given clues ... that could lead to incriminating evidence. By now the FBI must have a good idea of who the perpetrator is.
"Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks," Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists, January 17, 2002-September 22, 2002
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/BHR-FAS2.html Another leading expert on biological warfare, Professor Francis Boyle of Indiana University, concurs with Rosenberg's opinion. Professor Boyle is a renowned expert on international law who has testified before Congress on legal issues concerning biological warfare. He was instrumental in drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989. His analysis of the anthrax attacks has led him to the same conclusion reached by Professor Rosenberg, which he states even more bluntly:
I believe that the FBI knows exactly who was behind these attacks and that they have concluded that the perpetrator was someone who was or is involved in illegal and criminal biological warfare research conducted by the US government (the Pentagon or the CIA) or by one of the government's civilian contractors. For that reason, the FBI is not going to apprehend and indict the perpetrator.
"Bio-Warfare and Terrorism," Francis Boyle, Professor of International Law, University of Illinois School of Law, Synthesis/Regeneration 30, Winter 2003
http://web.greens.org/s-r/30/30-12.html As with the investigation of the funding channel for the September 11 hijackers, the anthrax investigation started off fast and made great progress only to come to a screeching halt with the perpetrator in easy reach.
The most obvious pieces of evidence were the notes that accompanied the anthrax mailings. These contained crude misspellings and praised Allah while calling for the downfall of the United States. These notes were quickly recognized as a transparent hoax. As Professor Rosenberg has stated:
Expert analysts for the FBI believe that the letters were written by a Westerner, not a Middle Easterner or Muslim, although the text was clearly intended to imply the latter.
"Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks," Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists, January 17, 2002-September 22, 2002
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/BHR-FAS2.html The anthrax strain used was consistent in all letters. A detailed genetic analysis narrowed the search to a single laboratory: the U.S. Army's Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland:
Further, the sophisticated weaponization process used to treat the spores, and the highly specialized expertise needed to store and handle the spores, narrows the search even much further. This leaves us with just a handful of suspects involved in the Fort Detrick program:
With the field narrowed down so drastically, Professor Rosenberg points us to what I believe is the key piece of evidence in identifying the perpetrator:
On Sept. 21, three days after the first anthrax mailing and before any letters or anthrax cases were in the news, an anonymous typed letter was mailed to Quantico accusing an Egyptian-American scientist, formerly of USAMRIID, of plotting biological terrorism. The accused scientist was quickly exonerated by the FBI. The letter's writer displayed familiarity with work at USAMRIID and claimed to have formerly worked with the accused scientist.
"The Anthrax Case: What the FBI Knows," Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Ph.D., June 13, 2002
http://www.911dossier.co.uk/ax02.html Obviously the anonymous accuser himself fits the profile of the actual perpetrator. Furthermore he was able to correctly anticipate that there would be an anthrax attack and that the strain of anthrax used would lead to Fort Detrick. The conclusion seems inescapable that the anonymous author of this false accusation was the author of the attack itself.
The falsely accused was an Egyptian born scientist, Dr. Ayaad Assaad who worked at USAMRIID during the 1990's. During his employment there he was the target of racist attacks from a Jewish coworker, Lt. Col. Philip Zack. In one incident Zack mailed Assaad a rubber camel with a huge model sexual appendage attached, together with an eight page poem that described Dr. Assaad among many other things as a "life form lower than yeast."
As a result of this and a string of similar racist attacks by Lt. Col. Zack, Assaad filed a harrassment suit and Zack was forced to resign his position at USAMRIID. However, Zack continued to have access to the lab illegally with the help of a personal friend there:
Certainly Lt. Col. Zack must be considered to be the prime candidate as the author of the letter falsely accusing Dr. Assad. In my view this also makes him the prime suspect in the attacks themselves--especially when you take into account the fact that his illegal comings and goings at Fort Detrick occurred at the time when anthrax spores matching the genetic profile of those used in the attacks went missing there.
In any event, the suspects in this crucial investigation are certainly NOT fanatical Islamic fundamentalists. Everyone close to the investigation agrees that the perpetrator is a highly qualified bio-warfare expert who has worked on highly classified projects for the United States government. He has very specific and rare skills that in themselves narrow the field to a mere handful people, without even taking into account the evidence surrounding the mailings themselves. The postmarks provide a series of time stamps associated with specific locations. An investigation like this can stall when there are thousands of possible suspects; it cannot stall when there are a handful of suspects and abundant clues to resolve the perpetrator's identity. Professors Rosenberg and Boyle are quite correct: the FBI is deliberately shielding the perpetrator of these terrible crimes, which have taken the lives of five innocent American citizens and which attack the foundations of our free and open society.
But not everyone is going unprotected. With exceptional foresight so notably absent elsewhere in this case, Vice President Dick Cheney was able to anticipate that anthrax would become a problem in the Capitol. He and his staff started taking an anti-anthrax medication (Cipro) on the night of September 11, before the letters containing anthrax started to arrive:
Obtaining and preparing the anthrax will have been a difficult and lengthy process. The attacks, beginning just seven days after September 11, must have been prepared well in advance by a highly sophisticated government insider. Like the hijackers themselves and their sponsors in the ISI, the perpetrator clearly has powerful protectors high inside the U.S. government. The two attacks seem to have been perfectly coordinated to work towards the same objective. The ever-incisive Professor Rosenberg observes:
The perpetrator was probably ready before Sept. 11 and simply took advantage of the likelihood that Sept. 11 would throw suspicion on Muslim terrorists. Was the perpetrator trying to push the US toward some retaliatory military action?
"Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks," Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists, January 17, 2002-September 22, 2002
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/anthraxreport.htm 
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