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9-11 thug may have had anthrax
2002-03-23
  • One of the 9-11 hijackers, Ahmed Alhaznawi, who later died in the attack on the Pentagon, consulted an emergency room doctor in June about an ugly wound on his leg. He told Florida doctor Christos Tsonas he had bumped into a suitcase two months earlier. The dark, scab-covered ulcer was odd enough to incite the curiosity of Tsonas, who cleaned it and prescribed an antibiotic for infection. The antibiotic was found among the belongings of Alhaznawi following the September 11 terrorist attacks, leading FBI investigators back to the doctor. In reviewing the case, Tsonas told the newspaper, he believed the lesion "was consistent with cutaneous anthrax."

    The first of a string of anthrax cases which claimed five lives broke out in October. The September 11 attacks which killed more than 3,000 people, and the subsequent anthrax outbreak, triggered the biggest probe in US history. Investigators appeared to be leaning toward the theory of a domestic source of the anthrax scare in the absence of clear links to the 19 terrorists who turned four hijacked planes into guided missiles on September 11.
    I've doubted the anthrax attack was domestic ever since Daily Jang got a letter. Never heard what came of the guy they arrested, but then it showed up at the consulate in Lahore, and on the same day at the consulate in Ekaterinburg. Two days later (the mail is so unreliable) it showed up at a joint venture company in Vietnam and around the same time a doctor in Chile was hit. And after that, basically nothin'. Even with so many overseas hits, the source could still have been domestic, but the Daily Jang hit and the Lahore consulate hit make me think it was Pak-associated.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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