Dr Frank says he never bought the "domestic lunatic" theory of the anthrax attack. He points to Andrew ("My permalinks don't work") Sullivan and his suspicion that Iraq was behind the attack, as a warning shot. As I discussed not too very long ago, I don't buy the domestic loon theory, either, if only because of the targeting. The original MSNBC/Newsweek source opines thatBut a new scientific analysis sent to top government officials suggests the anthrax attacker may be a scientific whiz so smart that he succeeded in making a âweaponizedâ form of the bacterium more sophisticated than any previously known. Again, I must disagree with Sullivan and the Iraqi school. My guess would be that the source, if it's ever found, will be in Pakistan, very likely a side project of the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau, a Pak "NGO" headed by Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood and Abdul Majid, who worked for Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission until retiring in 1999. This bunch was declared a terrorist group by the United States on Dec. 20 and the principals admitted to "briefing" Binny on nukes. The "warning shot" thesis is shaky at best; Sammy's a lunatic, but even he's not that far off the deep end. I would strongly suspect that any attack, especially on US soil, using a Weapon of Mass Destruction would involve retaliation also using WMDs - but not necessarily the same WMD. In other words, if it's traced to Sammy, that'd be a really good way for him to become radioactive. Dr Frank suspects the attacks may have been a probe with the objective to evaluate our public health system's response. My personal opinion is that they were meant to be follow-up attacks to 9-11 but that the medium was too hard for the small team used to control - somebody may get an unpleasant surprise when they open up their Jersey shore beach house next month. Or Dr Frank could be right in his theory that the Feds picked up the Bad Guys on an unrelated charge, which is probably just as likely as Mahmud accidentally dosing himself, if not as satisfying.Maybe it's possible that our side nailed the responsible parties? Weren't there supposed to be "victories that never made public"?
Posted by ray 4/10/2002 1:07:32 AM I think that was the idea behind rounding up everybody in sight. I think I read somewhere that a Pakistani died in custody in New Jersey back in October or thereabouts... Don't know the cause, though I'm sure they'd have said if it was anthrax...
Posted by Fred 4/10/2002 11:04:15 AM Bingo! There it is! Hmmm... Time frame's right, too...
Posted by Fred 4/10/2002 11:08:09 AM |