"The anthrax murders, which began shortly after the
9-11 terror attacks, remain officially unsolved. Was this
bio-terrorism a case of an Arab attack on Americans because 'they
hate our freedom'? Was it the work of a 'domestic terrorist'
motivated by hate of the US media or government? You're about to
hear the evidence, and the evidence points to none of these
things: Instead it points to the anthrax attacks being an
operation of a foreign intelligence service with capabilities and
motives identical to those of the murderous Israeli Mossad.
Listen to the evidence and decide for yourself as American
Dissident Voices presents "The Anthrax Murders, the Israeli
Connection," part 1:
ON OCTOBER 4, 2001, reporters in Florida announced the first case
in 25 years of a person contracting the deadly bacterium anthrax.
The following day, Robert Stevens, the photo editor of the
Florida-based tabloid Sun, died. His death was the beginning of
the Anthrax Mystery, America's worst-and most baffling-case of
bio-terrorism. Days later, four other persons in the New York
City and Washington, DC areas would die from anthrax spores that
leaked from tainted letters sent through the mail. Seventeen
others would become infected, and hundreds of millions of dollars
would be spent on cleaning up contaminated office buildings and
postal facilities. All of these events came just a few days after
the tragedy of September 11. It appeared the terrorists had
struck again, but this time the attack was biological.
Investigators believe seven letters containing anthrax spores
were mailed. Four of the seven are thought to have been mailed on
the same day and addressed to major media outlets in New York
City: ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and the New York Post. Of
these, only the NBC and New York Post letters were recovered.
Letters believed to be addressed to ABC News and CBS News offices
caused two persons to develop anthrax infections. One was a
seven-month-old boy brought in by his mother, a producer at ABC
News; the other was an assistant to Dan Rather at CBS. These
letters were never found.
The two recovered letters did not have a return address but were
postmarked September 18, 2001 in Trenton, New Jersey. They
contained identical messages tending to indicate that the
perpetrators were Islamic terrorists. The notes read, "09-11-01,
THIS IS NEXT, TAKE PENACILIN [sic] NOW, DEATH TO AMERICA, DEATH
TO ISRAEL, ALLAH IS GREAT."
It is also believed an anthrax-laced letter was mailed to the
National Enquirer.
Interestingly, hoax letters claiming to contain anthrax were
mailed days later from St. Petersburg, Florida. However, instead
of anthrax spores, these letters contained a harmless substance
described by some as looking like talcum powder. One of these
hoax letters was again addressed to NBC News in New York City. In
addition, Judith Miller, the author of a book on bio-terrorism
and a reporter on the Middle East for the New York Times,
received an anthrax hoax letter at her office. The St. Petersburg
Times and Fox News also received similar hoax letters.
The mailing of the hoax letters cannot be considered the work of
a copycat. For example, the NBC News hoax letter was mailed on
September 20. This would have been two days after the NBC News
letter containing anthrax was mailed from Trenton, New Jersey.
The remaining hoax letters were mailed between October 5 and 9.
News reports naming media outlets that received the original
anthrax letters were on October 12 and 13. A copycat mailer could
have acted only after October 12, when the public first became
aware of the media anthrax letters. The apparent purpose of
mailing the hoax letters was to foster the anthrax scare and
create a media frenzy.
The mailings of anthrax-laced letters from New Jersey and the
Florida hoax letters that followed were probably coordinated. The
mailing sites of Trenton, New Jersey and St. Petersburg, Florida
were chosen, perhaps, to emphasize an Arab or Islamic connection
in the minds of Americans. Trenton is the home of a large
Arab-American community. Also, several of the September 11
hijackers had lived in both areas. The mailers of the anthrax and
hoax letters wanted the public to think that remnants of al-Qaeda
were still around and active...
But only five of the seven anthrax letters were sent to media
outlets. The remaining two were addressed to members of the
United States Senate. These letters were posted on Tuesday,
October 9, exactly three weeks from the first anthrax mailings,
and four weeks from September 11. The letters were addressed to
two of America's most liberal Democrat Senators: Tom Daschle of
South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
An aide opened the Daschle letter on October 15. A puff of powder
quickly flew out of the letter. Capitol police were called and a
Hazmat team sealed off the Senator's office. This letter had a
different note that read, "09-11-01, YOU CAN NOT STOP US. WE HAVE
THIS ANTHRAX. YOU DIE NOW. ARE YOU AFRAID? DEATH TO AMERICA.
DEATH TO ISRAEL. ALLAH IS GREAT."
Once tests confirmed the Daschle letter actually contained
anthrax, all Capitol mail was stopped and impounded for further
investigation. The Leahy letter would be found on November 16 in
the impounded mail. It also contained anthrax spores and an
identical note. It is believed the Leahy letter was delayed and
misdirected due to an initial misreading of the letter's zip
code.
The Senate letters had a fictitious return address indicating
they came from school children. The return address read, "4th
Grade, Greendale School, Franklin Park NJ 08852." Apparently, it
was thought a letter coming from school children would have a
better chance of reaching the intended targets without raising
suspicions.
The envelopes and notes have yielded few clues leading to the
true identities of the persons who were responsible for the
anthrax attacks. Obviously, the senders tried to mask who they
were and to hide their true motives. Investigators turned to
analyzing the anthrax material itself.
Anthrax is a spore-forming germ, Bacillus anthracis, and can be
found in livestock such as sheep or cattle. Analysis of the
spores from the letters reveled them all to be of the same
strain. This particular strain, known as the Ames strain, was
first researched at the Army's Medical Research Institute of
Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland. This
strain of anthrax bacteria originally came from a single cow that
had died in Texas in 1981. Ames has the reputation of being
deadlier than other anthrax strains. Some have called Ames the
"gold standard" of anthrax.
From Fort Detrick, the Ames strain was sent to researchers in at
least fifteen laboratories within the United States and six
laboratories abroad. It is not known how many other universities
and labs may have had access to the strain, but according to one
law-enforcement official "more labs than you think" could have
obtained the Ames strain.
In the past, microbiologists attending conferences on infectious
diseases would take vials of various strains and simply swap them
with each other to aid in their research. Martin Hugh-Jones, a
scientist at Louisiana State University, stated that during this
period deadly pathogens were traded "like playing cards."
Investigators examining the anthrax spores within the letters
found them to be of different grades, with the best among them
considered by some to be "weapons grade" material. A modern spray
drying technique was used in preparing these spores, instead of
the older method of milling. Also, radiocarbon dating found the
spores to be relatively newly-created-not more than two years
old.
Of the two anthrax letters that were recovered in New York City,
the New York Post letter was found unopened and still contained
the anthrax material. The NBC News anthrax letter tested positive
for anthrax, but only a trace amount remained after it was
opened. Major General John Parker, with the U.S. Army Medical
Research and Materiel Command, said one of his scientists
described the New York Post sample as, "looking like Purina Dog
Chow." It had coarse brown granules but was densely packed with
anthrax spores and highly concentrated.
In contrast, the anthrax in the Daschle letter was like a fine
white powder; General Parker compared it to talcum powder. Under
the microscope the Daschle sample was ten times denser in anthrax
spores when compared to the New York Post sample.
A team of scientists at the Fort Detrick lab opened the Leahy
letter on December 5. This letter also contained a very fine
powder which was easily made airborne. The Leahy letter had
particles that were smaller and more uniform in size compared to
the Daschle letter. This made the anthrax spores in the Leahy
letter even deadlier: Smaller spores of a uniform size have a
better chance of entering the respiratory system and causing
death.
It was reported the quality of the anthrax spores found in the
Leahy letter surpassed previously known state-sponsored
bio-weapons programs. According to Newsweek, "The Leahy
anthrax?was coated with a chemical compound unknown to experts
who have worked in the field for years; the coating matches no
known anthrax samples ever recovered from biological-weapons
producers anywhere in the world, including Iraq and the former
Soviet Union." The anthrax in the Leahy letter has proven to be a
superior product. Bio-defense experts assisting the FBI have so
far been unable to duplicate the anthrax material through any
reverse engineering processes. Investigators are left with the
uncertain choice of deciding if this was the work of a lone
brilliant scientist-or a state-sponsored bio-weapons program...
Hatfill is said to be one of perhaps 30 scientists who could have
carried out this attack. His background as a former researcher at
Fort Detrick placed him on the list. However, Dr. Hatfill claims
to be an expert on viruses such as Ebola and Marburg, and not on
anthrax bacteria. Dr. Hatfill has publicly stated that he has
never worked with anthrax.
The FBI initially interviewed Dr. Hatfill in January 2002,
apparently as part of the investigation's broader look at
scientists with a connection to the bio-defense community. At
that time, Dr. Hatfill took a lie-detector test in an effort to
clear his name. The agent who gave him the test reportedly said,
"I'm satisfied. I believe you had nothing to do with the
anthrax."...
"Who had the means, the motive, and the opportunity to have
brought about these attacks?" is a basic question that needs to
be asked.
An extensive and well-developed biological warfare program exists
within Israel today. A motive for the anthrax attacks could be to
blame Arab terrorists or a 'rogue nation' for this atrocity and
to help launch the United States into war against Israel's
enemies. Lastly, Israel had prior knowledge of the planned
attacks on September 11.
Israel's bio-weapons programs date back to the earliest formation
of the Zionist state. Dr. Avner Cohen documents Israel's program
in his paper, "Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons: History,
Deterrence, and Arms Control." Cohen begins by describing how
Zionists during the 1948 war poisoned the wells and water
supplies of Arab villagers. According to Israeli military
historian Dr. Uri Milstein, the typhoid epidemic that spread
throughout the costal town of Acre in May 1948 was the result of
Zionist Jews contaminating the Arabs' water supply. In Gaza the
Jews failed in a similar attempt. The Egyptian Army found four
Jews disguised as Arabs near the water wells. The four terrorists
were caught with a canteen filled with dysentery and typhoid
bacteria. All four were tried, convicted, and hanged within a
three-month period. Dr. Cohen questions if the two incidents were
isolated or part of a larger program of bio-warfare during the
1948 war.
Israel's bio-weapons facilities are located at the Israel
Institute of Biological Research (IIBR) in Ness Ziona (also Nes
Ziona, Nes Tona) a few miles southeast of Tel Aviv. In 1952 the
IIBR consisted of a single building hidden in an orange grove.
Today, the IIBR has grown into a massive 14-acre compound with
several hundred employees surrounded by high walls and electronic
sensors. What goes on behind those high walls is something Israel
would prefer to be kept secret.
Dutch journalist Karel Knip has researched the IIBR and came up
with some interesting findings. Knip began by going through
medical literature he found on the Internet. Specifically, he
focused on the papers of 140 scientists affiliated with IIBR over
the last five decades. With the help of experts on chemical and
biological weapons, Knip developed an overview of the various
programs that exist at IIBR. Knip found IIBR research began in
the 1950s involving plague, typhus, and rabies. Dr. Avner Cohen
discusses Knip's findings in his paper and states, "? a
significant number of studies at IIBR focused on anti-livestock
agents, following the path of other national BW [bio-weapons]
programs at the time." 'Anti-livestock agents' is Cohen's cryptic
reference to Israel's anthrax programs.
[
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Israel/Biological/3646.html
]
A motive for Israel in launching the anthrax attacks would be to
bring America into war against Iraq and to remove that country as
a potential threat to the Jewish state. When Iraq invaded Kuwait
in 1990, the United States Senate was thrown into a heated debate
as to whether or not this country should go to war. Senator Tom
Daschle took the lead in being against American involvement. In
order for Israel to achieve her war objective, this time Senator
Daschle would have to be removed -- or turned toward Israel's
position. Either way, Israel would win.
Likewise, Senator Patrick Leahy ran afoul of the Israelis when he
introduced his Leahy Amendment to the Foreign Operations
Appropriations Act. The Leahy Amendment, also called the Leahy
Law, prohibits American arms sales to foreign security or
military units that systematically violate human rights. The
Israeli military routinely tortures Palestinian prisoners,
assassinates Arab political figures, and fires American-made
rockets and missiles into civilian crowds and apartment
buildings. If an American administration ever decided to enforce
the Leahy Law, Israel would find herself under an arms embargo.
Eliminating or 'turning' her Senatorial adversaries - a gamble
she couldn't lose - would be powerful motives for Israel to
target Senators Daschle and Leahy for political assassination by
anthrax. Remember also, as we discussed last week, there was a
qualitative difference in the anthrax sent to the Senators and
that sent to media figures.
For Israel to have initiated the anthrax attacks, prior knowledge
of the al-Qaeda plot was essential. The Mossad, Israel's external
intelligence service, has made it their mission to track Arab
terrorists around the world. Indirect evidence of Mossad's
surveillance of the al-Qaeda hijackers prior to September 11 can
be found in the Drug Enforcement Agency report, "Suspicious
Activities Involving Israeli Art Students at DEA Facilities," and
in an investigative report from Fox News.
[ http://cryptome.org/dea-il-spy.htm ]
In March 2001, an alert was issued by the National
Counterintelligence Executive, a branch of the CIA, warning
federal employees to be aware of "suspicious visitors to federal
facilities." There had been reports of Middle Eastern persons
showing up at government buildings -- many of them DEA offices --
claiming to be Israeli art students. At first it was thought the
Israeli art students might be Arab terrorists planning an attack.
However, it later turned out the art students were indeed
Israelis.
The Israelis would appear unannounced at various government
offices or at the homes of federal officials. They would falsely
identify themselves as art students from the University of
Jerusalem or Bazala Academy in Israel and attempt to sell their
artwork on canvas. Astute government employees soon discovered
the Israelis were more interested in obtaining information than
in selling artwork. The students, in the course of their
conversations, would ask for business cards and inquire about the
officials' work activities and those of their associates. At
times, the Israelis were found breaching government entrances
through back doors and parking garages. Others appeared at
government offices that were hidden or undisclosed to the local
community. Some were found with diagrams of government buildings
showing entrances and offices of various employees -- indicating
prior surveillance. Others were found with photographs of
government agents. One Israeli 'art student' had a computer
printout with the heading "DEA groups."
The DEA, with the help of the FBI, began to compile a report on
the Israeli art students. The report, prepared in June 2001,
listed over one hundred Israelis by name along with their
personal identifying information. After the Israelis were
arrested, the government, for sensitive political reasons, was
reluctant to prosecute any of them for espionage, so they let
them go.
One DEA agent, in an apparent attempt to prevent a government
cover-up, had the report posted on the Internet in March 2002.
The report provides information obtained from the Israelis during
their interrogations. In a general assessment of the Israelis,
the report states, "Most admit to having served in the Israeli
Military. This is not surprising given the mandatory military
service require [sic] in Israel, however, a majority of those
questioned has [sic] stated they served in military intelligence,
electronic signal intercept, or explosive ordnance units."
Within the various agencies of the U.S. government, there was a
debate regarding the entire Israeli art student phenomenon. Most
were convinced this was an intelligence operation, but at the
time its purpose was unclear. The best clue in understanding the
mystery was their main target: the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Although the Israelis penetrated other federal facilities, such
as military bases, the spies seemed focused on the DEA.
During this period, the DEA was investigating the activities of
Israeli organized crime. Israeli mobsters, along with the Russian
Mafia, control the distribution of the drug Ecstasy in America.
It should be noted there is no real difference between these two
criminal organizations. It has been known for a long time that
the Russian Mafia is made up of Russian Jews from the former
Soviet Union. Questions still remain: Why were Israeli spies
posing as art students interested in the activities of the DEA?
What connection does the Mossad have with the Russian Mafia? The
conclusion that best fits the known facts is that Israeli
intelligence launched an operation against the DEA to protect
their new intelligence asset, the Russian Mafia, from
prosecution.
After September 11, the activities of Israeli art students were
seen in a new light. The FBI began to investigate the trail left
by the Arab hijackers and found many of them had residences in
Florida. Interestingly, one third of the art student spies were
also based in Florida. It was discovered that some of the Israeli
art students had addresses in the same locations as the
hijackers. One commentator said that, at times, they were just
yards apart.
Carl Cameron with Fox News was the first major reporter to break
this story, in a four-part series that aired in December 2001 and
was subsequently pulled by Fox. In the series, Cameron gives
several examples of Israeli espionage activities in America. In
his first report, Cameron focuses on the Israeli surveillance of
the Arab hijackers. Cameron reported, "There is no indication
that the Israelis were involved in the 9/11 attacks, but
investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered
intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it."
Cameron based his reporting on information he obtained from
investigators in the FBI, DEA, and the INS. In his report, one
investigator acknowledged there were "tie-ins" between the
Israelis and the Arab hijackers.
Writer Alan Simpson appears to have obtained the unaired portions
of Carl Cameron's report concerning the Israelis' monitoring of
the hijackers:
"According to the FBI list, the Arab terrorist and suspect cells
lived in the same neighborhoods as the Israeli cells in Irving,
Texas and Hollywood and Miami, Florida from Dec. 2000 to April
2001. In the case of Irving, the Israeli cell used a rental
mailbox in a shopping center just one block away from an Arab
suspect's apartment. In Hollywood, the terrorists, including lead
hijacker Mohammad Atta, the Egyptian who piloted American
Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade
Center, used a rental mailbox drop two blocks from an apartment
rented by an Israeli 'art student' team leader."
"It is not the only case where the Israelis were found to be in
the same location as the Saudi cells. According to the DEA
Report, another Israeli team operating out of Hollywood, Florida,
led by team leader Hanan Serfaty lived at 4220 Sheridan St.,
#303, Hollywood, Florida 33021 (Emerald Greens Apartments) while
the Saudi hijackers Khalid Al Midhar, Abdulaziz al Omari, Walid
Al Shehri, and UAE national Marwan al Shehri, operated from a
mail drop at Mailbox Rentals, 3389 Sheridan St. #256, Hollywood,
Florida 33021-3608. Another Serfaty residence at 701 S. 21st
Ave., Hollywood was located near the homes of Atta and Al Shehri,
including a residence on Jackson Street, just a few blocks away,
and the Bimini Motel Apartments, Apartment 8, at 1600 North Ocean
Drive. On September 7, just days before their terrorist attack,
Atta and Al Shehri spent several hours at Shuckums Oyster Bar and
Grill at 1814 Harrison St., just blocks away form Serfaty's 21st
Ave. residence. A Miami-based Israeli unit, led by Legum Yochai,
operated from 13753 SW 90th Ave., Miami while hijacker Al Shehri
lived nearby at Horizons Apartments, 8025 SW 107th Ave."
[ http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2002nn/0207nn/020711nn.htm ]
There appears to be little doubt that Israeli intelligence knew
exactly what Atta and company were doing in the weeks leading up
to September 11th...
Carl Cameron's reporting of the Israeli spy ring appears in part
to be based upon a secret FBI document that shows the "tie-ins"
between the Israeli spies and the Arab hijackers. The fact that a
secret FBI document exists is also evident in the Die Zeit
article, "Next Door to Mohammed Atta." Die Zeit, a German paper,
based their article on information obtained from the French
intelligence agency. The FBI apparently shared their report on
Mossad activity with the French. The following portions of the
article "Next Door to Mohammed Atta," closely parallels Carl
Cameron's unaired report.
"Not until after the attacks of September 11 did the consequences
of the spy ring become clear. Apparently the agents were not
interested in military or industrial facilities [sic], but were
shadowing a number of suspects, who were later involved in the
terrorist attacks against the U.S. According to a report of the
French intelligence agency that Die Zeit examined, 'according to
the FBI, Arab terrorists and suspected terror cells lived in
Phoenix, Arizona, as well as in Miami and Hollywood, Florida from
December 2000 to April 2001 in direct proximity to the Israeli
spy cells.'
"According to the report, the Mossad agents were interested in
the leader of the terrorists, Mohammed Atta, and his key
accomplice, Marwan al-Shehi. Both lived in Hamburg before they
settled in Hollywood, Florida in order to plan the attacks. A
Mossad team was also operating in the same town. The leader,
Hanan Serfati, had rented several dwellings. 'One of Serfati's
apartments was located on the corner of 701st St. and 21st Ave.
[sic] in Hollywood, right near the apartment of Atta and
al-Shehi,' French intelligence reported later. Everything
indicates that the terrorists were constantly observed by the
Israelis. The chief Israeli agent was staying right near the post
office where the terrorists had a mailbox."
Le Monde, the French paper of record, in the article, "An Enigma:
Vast Israeli Spy Network Dismantled in the U.S.," also appears to
have had access to the secret FBI document or at least the French
intelligence agency's version of it. The French paper provided a
new detail and reported that six of the Israeli spies had
cellular telephones bought by an Israeli ex-vice-consul. Another
source reported some of the phones had a special walkie-talkie
feature which made them difficult to intercept. This would
indicate the spying was not some rogue operation-but was instead
directed by Israel.
The evidence is overwhelming that Israel, in the first half of
2001, launched an extensive intelligence-gathering operation
within the United States. One part of their assignment was to
learn as much as possible concerning the DEA investigations of
the Russian Mafia and Israeli organized crime. Their other task
was to monitor the al-Qaeda terrorists.
Through electronic surveillance of the hijackers, the Israelis
would have been able to learn the time and place for the
September 11 attack. If the spies were monitoring the hijackers'
Internet activities, they would have known the date of the
flights and airlines involved since the hijacker's tickets were
bought online.
A newspaper article that appeared in Haaretz, an Israeli paper,
further indicates prior knowledge of the coming attack. Haaretz
reported two Israeli employees of Odigo-an instant messaging
company with offices near the World Trade Center and also in
Israel-received a warning two hours before the attack. This,
roughly, would have been when the hijackers were seen boarding
their planes. The Mossad, in order to minimize Jewish losses
around the World Trade Center area, could have easily issued the
warning via the instant message service. The Washington Post
reported, "The Odigo service includes a feature called People
Finder that allows users to seek out and contact others based on
certain interests or demographics." Those whose interests relate
to Israel or Jewish topics could have received the message-even
if the persons were unknown to the sender. On that day, the Odigo
warning may have saved many Jewish lives.
Another mystery surrounding September 11 concerns insider trading
of "put" options days before the attacks. Put options, a
variation on short selling of a stock, are investments that
constitute a bet that a stock will decline in the near future. A
few Israelis would have been in a position to make a great deal
of money before the al-Qaeda attacks. An unknown number of
insider traders made millions of dollars by buying puts during
the three business days prior to the World Trade Center attack.
United and American airline stocks had highly significant numbers
of put options placed upon them, while other airline stocks were
not affected in a major way. Only United and American planes were
hijacked. A number of insurance and investment companies also had
unusual put options placed on their shares. The names of the
investors who profited from the tragedy of September 11 have
never been released.
Obviously Israel's overarching objective in the anthrax mailings
was to terrorize America. Once the people realized they were
again under attack, panic and shock spread throughout the land.
But Israel had a special reason for this type of bio-terrorism.
For Israel the anthrax attacks had an important strategic
purpose, namely shifting the new war away from al-Qaeda in
Afghanistan and toward Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Shortly thereafter, the cry went out concerning Iraq's alleged
weapons of mass destruction and her supposed ties to terrorists.
With the help of Israel's neo-conservative allies within the
Office of the Vice President, the Pentagon, think tanks (such as
the American Enterprise Institute), and some media outlets (like
the Wall Street Journal), the campaign for invading Iraq was
launched. The campaign, for the most part, was based upon lies.
Some of these lies came directly from Israel.
Within the office of Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a unit
was established to prepare "intelligence" reports in English for
a new group within the Pentagon known as the Office of Special
Plans (OSP). In addition to the Israeli input, some of the OSP's
questionable intelligence came from Iraqi exiles. The Office of
Special Plans bypassed the CIA and took the cooked intelligence
directly to the Oval Office. The CIA, for the most part, tried to
be professional in their analysis, but in the end the neocons and
the Israelis got their war against Iraq.
There was no massive intelligence failure that led America to go
to war in Iraq. Instead, it was a massive intelligence fraud.
Some suspect the forged Niger documents, concerning the
allegation that Iraq tried to obtain "yellow cake" uranium oxide
from that African country, may have originated with the Israelis.
Also, the unconfirmed report on the alleged meeting of Mohammed
Atta and an Iraqi agent in Prague was most likely disinformation
on the part of Israel. In one bizarre aspect of the story, the
London Times reported the Iraqi agent was seen giving Atta a vile
of anthrax. The Times reported this as if it actually
occurred-and said Israeli security sources observed the transfer.
Israel's objective was to bring America into a new war against
Iraq. When the al-Qaeda plot was discovered, Israel let the
terrorists proceed, thereby insuring America would go to war. The
anthrax attack that followed was the bio-terror event needed to
focus America's attention upon Iraq and its alleged weapons of
mass destruction. However, Israel had planned the anthrax attacks
upon America years before the discovery of the al-Qaeda plot. The
anthrax hoaxes that preceded the anthrax attacks were an integral
part of the conspiracy.
The planning for the anthrax attacks of 2001 goes back to at
least 1997. In April of that year, the national headquarters of
the Jewish organization B'nai B'rith in Washington, DC received a
package that contained a petri dish labeled Anthracis Yersinia,
implying the dish contained bacteria that could cause anthrax
infections or plague. The dish had been broken and was leaking a
red fluid. Tests later determined the petri dish to be relatively
harmless, and it did not contain the bacteria Anthracis or
Yersinia. However, it did contain Bacillus cereus, which is less
dangerous and is sometimes used as an anthrax simulant.
A two-page typed letter accompanied the petri dish. The letter
was largely incoherent and contained comments on Jews, Nazis, and
the 'Holocaust.' The letter was signed, "The Counter Holocaust
Lobbyists of Hillel." Months prior to the B'nai B'rith hoax, a
movement was forming on college campuses calling for a debate to
question some assertions concerning the 'Holocaust.' Those
responsible for the mailing chose to blame historical
revisionists or so-called "Holocaust deniers."
The B'nai B'rith hoax received a great deal of media attention.
Television outlets like CNN and other networks broadcast the
incident live to a national audience. The nearby area was
evacuated, and for a period of time office personnel were
quarantined. The case has never been solved, and the cost to the
government was two million dollars.
Israel's Mossad most likely was responsible for the mailing. The
hoax benefited Israel and the Jews in several ways. First,
national publicity was generated in this first major anthrax
scare. Second, sympathy was elicited for the Jewish organization
that was attacked. Third, the persons supposedly
responsible-namely, those who have questions concerning the
'Holocaust'-were demonized. However, on another level, something
more important was achieved: This would be the first anthrax hoax
used to implicate Dr. Steven Hatfill.
Dr. Hatfill was attending a terrorism seminar in Washington, DC
the day the B'nai B'rith incident occurred. At the time, Hatfill
was employed as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health
where he likely had access to petri dishes containing bacteria.
This, in all probability, was the reason a petri dish from a
bioresearch lab was used this time, instead of a suspicious
powder. This anthrax hoax, along with others that followed, would
help to make a circumstantial case against Dr. Hatfill if a real
anthrax attack ever occurred.
Dr. Hatfill likely came to the attention of the Mossad when he
first appeared in a photo with the pro-White Afrikaner Resistance
Movement leader Eugene Terre'Blanche and members of its
paramilitary unit Aquila. The Mossad's front organization, the
South African Board of Jewish Deputies, would have taken notice
of the newspaper photo. As an organization, they keep track of
individuals and groups they consider hostile to Jews and their
interests. The Afrikaner Resistance Movement would be the type of
organization they would want to monitor. The information they
obtained on Dr. Hatfill could very well have been passed onto the
Mossad. In America, the sister organization of the South African
Board of Jewish Deputies is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)...
Several other anthrax hoaxes were designed to implicate Dr.
Hatfill. The most important one was the anthrax hoax letter
mailed from London and addressed to Senator Tom Daschle. Hatfill
at this time was in England training with the United Nations
weapons inspectors. The Mossad used the anthrax hoaxes to
misdirect the authorities. By following these false leads the FBI
and other law enforcement agencies wasted valuable time and
resources investigating and shadowing Dr. Hatfill.
Israel is perhaps the only country in the world that could have
succeeded in the anthrax attack upon America. With the help of
Jewish scientists from the former Soviet Union, Israel's
bio-weapons research has probably surpassed that of all other
nations. The Soviet Union's bio-weapons program had 32,000
scientists and staff working in 40 different research and
production facilities. Two thousand of these scientists worked
exclusively on the Soviet anthrax program. A significant number
of these scientists may have immigrated to Israel and become
employed in her bio-weapons programs.
Anthony Cordesman with the Center for Strategic and International
Studies wrote a report, "National Developments of Biological
Weapons in the Middle East: An Analytic Overview," assessing
Israel's bio-weapons programs. Cordesman reports Israel has
stockpiled anthrax at her bio-warfare center, and at times
provides Israeli intelligence with deadly pathogens to be used
for assassinations. Anthony Cordesman unknowingly has given us
the "smoking gun" pointing to Israel's responsibility in the
anthrax attacks.
On the day of September 11, 2001 the Mossad was waiting for
al-Qaeda to strike. Soon the greatest bio-terror event in history
would follow. Different grades of anthrax were prepared at
Israel's bio-warfare center at Ness Ziona. Coarse brown granules
that would cause only skin infections were prepared for the New
York media letters. The deadlier "weapons grade" anthrax was
reserved for Senators Daschle and Leahy.
The envelopes were pre-addressed and waiting for the letters and
the anthrax material to be placed in them. The letters were
written with only the date at the top to be added later. In his
analysis, Ed Lake has suggested the "09-11-01" top portion of the
letter seems to have been printed at a different time and perhaps
by a different hand. This would be a necessary precaution if the
terror flights were changed or delayed by a few days.
On the day of September 11, or perhaps shortly thereafter, copies
of the original letter were made at a publicly accessible copier
in New Jersey. Through analysis of scratches on the glass, the
FBI is certain they have found the copier used to produce the
letters. The original letter used to make the copies may have
been destroyed. The Mossad officer could have taken the copies to
Israel the next day. The anthrax letters were likely prepared,
taped, and brought back to America days later via Israeli
diplomatic pouch into New York City or Washington, DC. This
speculative scenario could have all occurred within the week that
followed September 11. The first batch of anthrax letters was
mailed in Trenton, New Jersey, exactly one week after the
devastating airplane attacks.
Israel took a huge gamble when she attacked America, but this was
not the first time. In June 1967, at the height of the Six Day
Arab-Israeli War, Israel deliberately attacked an American
intelligence ship, the USS Liberty, in an attempt to destroy the
vessel and to lay blame on the Arabs. They failed to sink the
ship, but 34 navy crewmen were killed and 171 were wounded. A
cover-up was ordered at the highest levels by the U.S.
government.
Israel must not be allowed to continue in her attacks upon
America or in her misdirection of our foreign policy. Israel must
be disarmed of all weapons of mass destruction. If not stopped,
she may strike again, perhaps this time by exploding a
radioactive "dirty bomb" in a major American city. Fake signal
intelligence could be generated by Israel to indicate that a
country such as Iran was responsible. Jewish neo-conservatives in
America could then argue that since we were attacked by Iran with
a radioactive weapon, our response against Iran should also be
nuclear. If President Bush acceded to this advice, Israel would
have destroyed yet another Middle Eastern country and brought us
another step closer to global war. Israel is an enemy, not a
friend. America and her political leadership must finally realize
this important fact."
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