Dec 16, 2007

Anthrax Linked to Government Sources; Foreign Terrorism Ruled Out by FBI

Finding link to anthrax, professor set NAU apart

The article states this:

It was here that Professor Paul Keim made a significant discovery: the 2001 anthrax letter attack on a Florida photo editor came from a genetic strain identical to one developed in U.S. government labs. The finding led the FBI to rule out foreign terrorist attacks in the jittery days after Sept. 11.

Here is the summary, with commentary, by CLG:

One of the world's foremost anthrax researchers toils in a cramped, windowless lab at Northern Arizona University. Inside a locked room only a few can enter, he and his research team study germs so dangerous that the U.S. government considers them top bioterror threats. It was here that Professor Paul Keim made a significant discovery: the 2001 anthrax letter attack on a Florida photo editor [AND Democrats poised to vote against the Patriot Act] came from a genetic strain identical to one developed in U.S. government labs. They compared the results with their anthrax database. They found a match: a virulent type called the Ames strain. The U.S. Army developed the lab strain in the 1980s as a test for the anthrax vaccine. The anthrax-spiked letters, which sickened 22 and killed five Americans, had been "weaponized." Someone Cheney's bioterrorists had concentrated the bacterial spores to make them easier to inhale and more lethal.

In fact their comment about Cheney has more credibility than some may think since it was Cheney who had the White House staff put on Cipro (the treatment for anthrax) just prior to 9/11, something Judicial Watch has questioned.

Despite "Allah is Great" on the fake letters from an elementary school, the FBI concurs that it was not a foreign terrorist attack, so then it must have been a "false flag" to paint it as if Islamists had done it. Now just who would do that?