Gość: Michal
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18.12.01, 16:11
Dziwie sie ze tak malo miejsca media poswiecaja obecnie zagrozeniu anthraxem.
Jestesmy ciagle karmieni informacja o "polowaniach" w Afganistanie a nie za
bardzo wiemy co sie dzieje na wlasnym podworku. Informacje o postepie w sprawie
anthrax sa bardzo lakoniczne i skape. Wiadomym jest ze zostal on wyprodukowany
w laboratoriach US. Ponizej jest artykul, ktory podnosi co niektore
watpliwosci. Ciekaw jestem czy ktos ma inne informacje, ktore byc moze uciekly
mojej uwadze.
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Feds Can’t Admit Anthrax Source One of Their Own.
The government most likely knows the source of the anthrax-laced mail, says a
respected group of scientists, but has been reluctant to say so.
Exclusive to American Free Press
By Christopher J. Petherick
The uncomfortable silence regarding the recent anthrax attacks which
contaminated congressional buildings, post office distribution centers and
several media offices indicates that government investigators have an idea of
who is behind it and it is most likely one of their own people, reports a U.S.
scientific organization.
“All letter samples contain the same strain of anthrax, corresponding to the
AMES strain in the North Arizona State University database (which has been used
for identification),” reports Barbara Hatch Rosen berg of the Federation of
American Scientists, the successor to the 1940s Federation of Atomic Scientists
(FAS).
“It has just been reported that the complete sequence has been determined for
the genomes of both the anthrax used in the Florida attack and the AMES strain
to which it corresponds,” says FAS. “This work was done under government
contract by the Institute for Genomic Research, a private non-profit
organization. The results have not been made public but they are in government
hands and there has been no retraction of the oft-repeated official statement
that the letter anthrax matches the AMES strain.”
Fort Detrick in Maryland controls at least four substrains of AMES anthrax. At
least 20 laboratories have obtained strains for research purposes from the Army
base, according to FAS, but only four are suspected of having the capabilities
to “weaponize” anthrax.
Bioweapons experts note that the AMES strain is probably the earliest form of
anthrax cultured in laboratories, dating back to as early as the 1920s in the
United States.
Bill Patrick, the inventor of the U.S. weaponization process, says the process
of turning the bacteria into a biological weapon is secret but involves a
combination of chemicals. Weaponized anthrax can be easily identified by
researchers.
Government investigators ruled out Iraq as the source because the sample
collected from the office of Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) “contains a special form
of silica used in the U.S. process. It does not contain bentonite (used by the
Iraqis),” says FAS.
THE PERPETRATOR
The source of the anthrax-laced mail “appears to be a forensic expert,” says
FAS. “The perpetrator is most likely an American microbiologist who has access
to wea ponized anthrax or to the expertise and materials for making it, in a
U.S. government or contractor lab.
“The U.S. government has undoubtedly known for some time that the anthrax
terrorism was an inside job,” FAS continues. “They may be reluctant to admit
this.”
Moreover, FAS reports:
“The recent anthrax attack was a minor one but nonetheless we now see that it
was perpetrated with the unwitting assistance of a sophisticated government
program. It is reassuring to know that it was not perpetrated by a lone
terrorist without state support.
“It is not reassuring, however, to discover that a secret U.S. program may have
been the source of that support, and that security is so dangerously lax in
military or defense contractor laboratories.”
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