IP: Homegrown anthrax?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:40:11 -0700
> Subject:  Homegrown anthrax?
> From: Paul Saffo <psaffo () iftf org>
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> This is the most complete analysis of the growing possibility that the
> anthrax attacks are the work of domestic right-wing terrorists. Pogo was
> right: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
> -p
>
>
> Homegrown terror
>  Who's sending out anthrax? One possibility is becoming harder to ignore:
> The U.S.'s own far-right extremists.
>
> http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/10/26/far_right/index.html
>
>  - - - - - - - - - - - -
>  By David Neiwert
>
>  Oct. 26, 2001 | For weeks, government officials have publicly speculated
> that the source for anthrax attacks against the United States is almost
> certainly foreign -- either Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida, or a rogue state,
> most  likely Iraq.
>
>  But suddenly that's changed, and some officials, privately, are speculating
> to reporters that the "evildoers" behind this scourge may really be closer
> to home.
>
> Tuesday, the Washington Post cited a "government official with direct
> knowledge of the investigation" into the  origin of the anthrax spores found
> in Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office as stating that it is
> "unlikely  that the spores were originally produced in the former Soviet
> Union or Iraq." There's only one other country considered able to produce
> the kind of high-grade, chemically treated bioweapon discovered in Daschle's
> mail: the United States.
>
> Of course, even a homegrown weapon could be stolen by a foe, and it's quite
> possible these government experts, like others in recent weeks, are speaking
> prematurely and inaccurately. Still, their comments raise the specter of
> involvement by the United States' own internal agitators -- a bona fide
> fifth column pursuing its own agenda of  destruction. And there are already
> those on the far right who have gone out of their way to become suspects --
> thanks to their history of anthrax threats and their words since Sept. 11.
>
>
>  Less than a half-hour after two jetliners crashed into the World Trade
> Center  on Sept. 11, the national leader of the white-supremacist Posse
> Comitatus  posted a celebratory note on his Web site. "Hallelu-Yahweh!"
> wrote August  Kreis, a 40-ish neo-Nazi from Pennsylvania. "May the WAR be
> started!  DEATH to His enemies! May the World Trade Center BURN TO THE
>  GROUND! Rev. 18 ... Keep Yahweh in your hearts folks for His wrath is
>  upon His enemies! Praise His Holy name ... Hail Victory!"

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