10/14/01
6:04:46 PM

The Best Enemies Money Can Buy From Hitler To Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden - Insider Connections and the Bush Family's Partnership with Killers of Americans: Brown Brothers, Harriman - BNL- and the Carlyle Group

by Michael C. Ruppert

FTW, Oct. 9, 2001 - Since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, major media powerhouses and the increasingly influential alternative media alike have begun to focus attention on Bush family connections and a long history of arming and financing America's attackers in the months and years prior to the outbreak of war. Recent stories in the Wall Street Journal (Sept. 27 & 28, 2001), ABC News (Oct. 1, 2001), as well as a host of reports from so-called alternative news sources have begun to focus attention on the Bush family's profit-making role in creating and arming our enemies.

The following is a more comprehensive look at the documented history of these relationships that will also open some new avenues of inquiry for the press, Congress and the American people.

In a world now filled with biowarfare agents, backpack nuclear devices, and chemical weapons like Sarin gas -- where there are people in many countries with reasons to oppose the United States -- the Bush Administration is following predictable strategies in a way that redefines the concept of brinksmanship. Human survival may depend upon the will and the ability of both the Congress and the press to focus on these relationships and to take appropriate action. Moreover - and I am not the first to say this - if a national security priority is to seize the financial assets of those who support terrorists, then perhaps we should start right here at home.

Adolph Hitler

Meticulous research, including U.S. government records from the era, along with contemporaneous news stories from the New York Times and other papers are presented in the 1992 book entitled, "George Bush, The Unauthorized Biography" by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, Published by The Executive Intelligence Review and located at http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm. The following is sourced entirely from Chapter II of this essential work. [Note: Although FTW does not always agree with conclusions reached by the Executive Intelligence Review, or its founder Lyndon La Rouche, we have never found a single flaw in any of their factual research. History is history, no matter who presents it. And this history is essential to understanding our era.]

George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was the Managing Director of the investment bank Brown Brothers, Harriman from the 1920s through the 1940s. It was Brown Brothers, in conjunction with Averell Harriman, the Rockefeller family, Standard Oil, the DuPonts, the Morgans and the Fords which served as the principal funding arm in helping to finance Adolph Hitler's rise to power starting in 1923. This included direct funding for the SS and SA channeled through a variety of German firms. Through associations with the Hamburg-Amerika Steamship line, Nazi Banker Fritz Thyssen (pronounced Tee-sen), Standard Oil of Germany, The German Steel Trust (founded by Dillon Read founder, Clarence Dillon), and I.G. Farben, Prescott Bush used the Union Bank Corporation to funnel vast quantities of money to the Nazis and to manage their American interests. The profits from those investments came back to Bush allies on Wall Street. Thyssen is universally regarded as having been Hitler's private banker and ultimate owner of the Union Bank Corporation.

Early support for Hitler came from Prescott Bush through the Hamburg-Amerika line -- also funded by Brown Bothers -- that funneled large sums of money and weapons to Hitler's storm troopers in the 1920s.

"In May 1933, just after the Hitler regime was consolidated, an agreement was reached in Berlin for the coordination of all Nazi commerce with the U.S.A. The Harriman International Company. was to head a syndicate of 150 firms and individuals, to conduct all exports from Hitler Germany to the United States."

According to Tarpley and Chaitkin a 1942 U.S. government investigative report that surfaced during 1945 Senate hearings found that the Union Bank, with Prescott Bush on the board, was an "interlocking concern" with the German Steel Trust that had produced:

50.8% of Nazi Germany's pig iron 41.4% of Nazi Germany's universal plate 36% of Nazi Germany's heavy plate 38.5% of Nazi Germany's galvanized sheet 45.5% of Nazi Germany's pipes and tubes 22.1% of Nazi Germany's wire 35% of Nazi Germany's explosives

The business relationships established by Bush in 1923 continued even after the war started until they became so offensive and overt as to warrant seizure by the U.S. government under the Trading with the Enemy Act in 1942.

In 1942, "Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.'s stock shares.

". all of which shares are held for the benefit of. members of the Thyssen family, [and] is property of nationals. of a designated enemy country."

"On October 28, the government issued orders seizing two Nazi front organizations run by the Bush-Harriman bank: the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation."

"Nazi interests in the Silesian-American Corporation, long managed by Prescott Bush and his father in law George Herbert Walker, were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act on Nov. 17, 1942." These seizures of Bush businesses were reported in a number of American papers including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Prescott Bush went on to become an influential Republican Senator from Connecticut who went on to be a regular golfing partner of President Dwight Eisenhower. His attorneys were the lawyers John Foster and Allen Dulles, the later became the CIA Director under Eisenhower.

Saddam Hussein

After becoming President in January 1989, Prescott Bush's son, George Herbert Walker Bush - father of our current President - authorized a series of programs which not only armed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein but also provided him with technology that assisted in his development of chemical weapons like Sarin gas, and biological weapons, which he still possesses. Apologists for Bush (the elder) say that, after the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s left the region unstable, he was just trying to establish a new balance of power. Not so. Bush directives and policies, including relationships with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), the Banca Nacional del Lavoro (BNL) were directly and deliberately responsible for creating the army the U.S. fought in 1991.

In its March/April issue the Colombia Journalism Review (CJR), in a story by Russ W. Baker, published the most compelling overview of Iraqgate.

"ABC News Nightline opened last June 9 with words to make the heart stop 'It is becoming increasingly clear,' said a grave Ted Koppel, 'that George Bush, operating largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980s, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that built Saddam's Iraq into the aggressive power that the United States ultimately had to destroy..."

"Why, then, have some of our top papers provided so little coverage?."

" The result: readers who neither grasp nor care about the facts behind facile imagery like The Butcher of Baghdad and Operation Desert Storm. In particular, readers who do not follow the story of the Banca Nacional del Lavoro, which apparently served as a paymaster for Saddam's arms buildup, and thus became a player in the largest bank-fraud case in U.S. history.

"Complex, challenging, mind-boggling stories (from Iran-Contra to the S&L crisis to BCCI) increasingly define our times: yet we don't appear to be getting any better at telling them."

"Much of what Saddam received from the West was not arms per se, but so-called dual-use technology -- ultra sophisticated computers, armored ambulances, helicopters, chemicals, and the like, with potential civilian uses as well as military applications. We've learned that a vast network of companies, based in the U.S. and abroad, eagerly fed the Iraqi war machine right up until August 1990, when Saddam invaded Kuwait.

"And we've learned that the obscure Atlanta Branch of Italy's largest bank, Banca Nacional del Lavoro, relying partly on U.S. taxpayer-guaranteed loans, funneled $5 billion to Iraq from 1985 to 1989. Some government-backed loans were supposed to be for agricultural purposes, but were used to facilitate the purchase of stronger stuff than wheat. Federal Reserve and Agriculture department memos warned of suspected abuses by Iraq, which apparently took advantage of the loans to free up funds for munitions. U.S. taxpayers have been left holding the bag for what looks like $2 billion in defaulted loans to Iraq."

". In fact, we now know that in February 1990, then Attorney General Dick Thornburgh [appointed by George H.W. Bush] blocked U.S. investigators from traveling to Rome and Istanbul to pursue the case."

". As New York Times columnist William Safire argued last December 7, 'Iraqgate is uniquely horrendous: a scandal about the Systematic abuse of power by misguided leaders of three democratic nations [The U.S., Britain, and Italy] to secretly finance the arms buildup of a dictator."

As Democrat Henry Gonzales, Chairman of the House Banking Committee during the period, stood as the lone voice from the wilderness in raising alarms about Bush's obvious corruption, the rest of the Congress sheepishly ignored all the signs demanding immediate action. Gonzales' voice reportedly fell silent after his empty car was machine-gunned in a Washington suburb in what passed for a drive-by shooting.

The CJR continues: "Meanwhile, The Village Voice published a major investigation by free-lancer Murray Waas in its December 18, 1990 issue. "That American troops could be killed or maimed because of a covert decision to arm Iraq,' Waas wrote, "is the most serious consequence of a U.S. foreign policy formulated and executed in secret, without the advice and consent of the American public."

The L.A. Times, on Feb 23, 1992, dug deep enough to find secret National Security Decision Directives by the Bush Administration in 1989 ordering closer ties with Baghdad and paving the way for $1 billion in new aid. The Times' series, co-authored with Waas, emphasized that, "buried deep in a 1991 Washington Press piece - that Secretary of State James Baker, after meeting with Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz in October 1989, intervened personally to support U.S. government loans guarantees to Iraq."

The CJR report also noted, "On October 3, the [Wall Street] Journal reported [BNL official Christopher] Drogoul's assertion that the director general of Iraq's Ministry of Industry and Military Production had told him, 'We are all in this together. The intelligence service of the U.S. government works very closely with the intelligence service of the Iraqi government.' Three weeks later, the Journal reported that [Henry] Gonzales 'produced a phone-book- sized packet of documents' showing the involvement of U.S. exporting firms. The documents mentioned one. which designed parts for Iraq's howitzers and was financed through BNL."

In the wake of highly suspicious anthrax outbreaks in Florida, just miles form where several of the WTC suicides pilots trained, we add one final note. In his 1998 book "Bringing the War Home" author William Thomas writes, " Under that same [weapons transfer] program, 19 containers of Anthrax bacteria were supplied to Iraq in 1988 by the American Type Culture Collection company, located near Fort Detrick, MD, the site of the US Army's high security germ warfare labs."

The Carlyle Group, the Bushes and bin Laden

The warnings about Carlyle Group, the nation's 11th largest defense contractor, and the Bushes came long before the World Trade Center attacks. The Carlyle Group is a closely held corporation, exempt from reporting its affairs to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Little is known of what it actually does except that it buys and sells defense contractors. As of October 4, 2001, it has removed its corporate web site from the World Wide Web making further investigation through that channel impossible. Its Directors include Frank Carlucci, former Reagan Secretary of Defense; James Baker, former Bush Secretary of State; and Richard Darman, a former White House aide to Ronald Reagan and Republican Party operative.

On March 3, 2001, just weeks after George W Bush's inauguration, the conservative Washington lobbying group Judicial Watch issued a press release. It said:

(Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government abuse and corruption, called on former President George Herbert Walker Bush to resign immediately from the Carlyle Group, a private investment firm, while his son President George W. Bush is in office. Today's New York Times reported that the elder Bush is an "ambassador" for the $12 billion private investment firm and last year traveled to the Middle East on its behalf. The former president also helped the firm in South Korea.

The New York Times reported that as compensation, the elder Bush is allowed to buy a stake in the Carlyle Group's investments, which include ownership in at least 164 companies throughout the world (thereby by giving the current president an indirect benefit). James Baker, the former Secretary of State who served as President George W. Bush's point man in Florida's election dispute, is a partner in the firm. The firm also gave George W. Bush help in the early 1990's when it placed him on one of its subsidiary's board of directors.

"This is simply inappropriate. Former President Bush should immediately resign from the Carlyle Group because it is an obvious conflict of interest. Any foreign government or foreign investor trying to curry favor with the current Bush Administration is sure to throw business to the Carlyle Group. And with the former President Bush promoting the firm's investments abroad, foreign nationals could understandably confuse the Carlyle Group's interests with the interests of the United States government," stated Larry Klayman, Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel.

"Questions are now bound to be raised if the recent Bush Administration change in policy towards Iraq has the fingerprints of the Carlyle Group, which is trying to gain investments from other Arab countries who [sic] would presumably benefit from the new policy," stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

Judicial Watch noted that "even the Clinton Administration called on the Rodham brothers to stop their business dealings in [The former Soviet Republic of] Georgia because those dealings started to destabilize that country."

Since the WTC attacks the Wall Street Journal has reported (Sept. 28, 2001) that, "George H.W. Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin Laden family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group, an international consulting firm." The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden family at least twice in the last three years - 1998 and 2000 -- as a representative of Carlyle, seeking to expand business dealings with one of the wealthiest Saudi families, which some experts argue, has never fully severed its ties with black sheep Osama in spite of current reports in a mainstream press that is afraid of offending the current administration.

The Nation, on March 27, 2000 - in a story co-authored by David Corn and Paul Lashmar - wrote, "In January former President George Bush and former British Prime Minister John Major paid a social call on Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah." This story confirms at least one meeting between the elder Bush and Saudi leaders, including the bin Ladens. That the bin Ladens attended this meeting was confirmed in a subsequent September 27, 2001 Wall Street Journal (WSJ) story. The January 2000 meeting with the bin Ladens was also later confirmed by Bush (the elder's) Chief of Staff Jean Becker, only after the WSJ presented her with a thank you note sent by Bush to the bin Ladens after that meeting.

James Baker visited the bin Ladens in 1998 and 1999 with Carlyle CEO Frank Carlucci.

The WSJ story went on to note, "A Carlyle executive said that the bin Laden family committed $2 million through a London investment arm in 1995 in Carlyle Partners II Fund, which raised $1.3 billion overall. The fund has purchased several aerospace companies among 29 deals. So far, the family has received $1.3 million back in completed investments and should ultimately realize a 40% annualized rate of return, the Carlyle executive said.

"But a foreign financier with ties to the bin Laden family says the family's overall investment with Carlyle is considerably larger."

In other words, Osama bin Laden's attacks on the WTC and Pentagon, with the resulting massive increase in the U.S. defense budget have just made his family a great big pile of money.

More Bush connections appear in relation to the bin Ladens. The WSJ story also notes that, "During the past several years, the [bin Laden] family's close ties to the Saudi royal family prompted executives and staff from closely held New York publisher Forbes, Inc. to make two trips to the family headquarters, according to Forbes Chairman Caspar Weinberger, a former U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration. 'We would call on them to get their view of the country and what would be of interest to investors.'"

President G.H.W. Bush pardoned Weinberger for his criminal conduct in the Iran-Contra scandal in 1989.

Our current President, George W. Bush has also had -- at minimum -- indirect dealings with Carlyle and the bin Ladens. In 1976 his firm Arbusto Energy was funded with $50,000 from Texas investment banker James R. Bath who was also the U.S. investment counselor for the bin Laden family. In his watershed 1992 book, "The Mafia, The CIA and George Bush," award winning Texas investigative journalist Pete Brewton dug deeply into Bath's background, revealing connections with the CIA and major fraudulent activities connected with the Savings & Loan scandal that took $500 billion out of the pockets of American taxpayers. A long-time friend of George W. Bush, Bath was connected to a number of covert financing operations in the Iran-Contra scandal, which also linked to bin Laden friend Adnan Khashoggi, one of the richest men in the world and the arms merchant who was at the center of the whole Iran-Contra scandal. Khashoggi, whose connections to the bin Ladens is more than superficial, got his first business break by acting as middle-man for a large truck purchase by Osama bin Laden's older brother, Salem.

Another key player in the Bush Administration, Deputy Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage, left his post as an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration after a series of scandals connected to CIA operatives Ed Wilson, Ted Shackley, Richard Secord and Tom Clines placed him at the brink of criminal indictment and jail. Shackley and Secord are veterans of Vietnam operations and have long been linked to opium/heroin smuggling. The Armitage scandals all focused on the illegal provision of weapons and war materiel to potential or actual enemies of the U.S. and to the Contras in Central America.

Armitage, a former Navy SEAL, who reportedly enjoyed combat missions and killing during covert operations in Laos during the Vietnam War, has never been far from the Bush family's side. Throughout his career, both in and out of government, he has been perpetually connected to CIA drug smuggling operations. Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a 1995 Washington Post story, called Armitage, "my white son." In 1990, then President Bush dispatched Armitage to Russia to aid in its "transition" to capitalism. Armitage's Russian work for Bush has been frequently connected to the explosion of drug trafficking under the Russian Mafias, which became virtual rulers of the nation afterwards. In the early 1990s Armitage had extensive involvement in Albania at the same time that the Albanian ally, Kosovo Liberation Army was coming to power and consolidating its grip, according to The Christian Science Monitor, on 70% of the world's opium trade. [See FTW Vol. II, No 2 - April 24, 1999]

Armitage and Carlucci are both Board Members of the influential Washington think tank, the Middle East Policy Council.

The connections continue with Vice President Dick Cheney. Amongst the multitude of oil pipelines construction running through the new war zone is one project - according to a Sept. 19, 2001 Wall Street Journal story - a joint venture in which the bin Laden family joined with the construction firm H.C. Price. Price subsequently changed its name to Bredero Shaw, Inc. and is now owned by a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation, Dresser Industries. It was Dresser industries that gave George H.W. Bush his first post war job in 1948.

Vice President Dick Cheney, who served as Secretary of Defense during Desert Storm, directing the campaign against Saddam Hussein, was Halliburton's CEO until last year's election.

And, according to a 2000 story from Harper's Magazine, in 1990 our current President, through a position as a corporate director of Caterair, owned by the Carlyle Group - at a time when the bin Laden's were invested in Carlyle - had additional connections to the bin Laden family. In addition, on March 1, 1995, when George W. Bush was Texas governor and a senior Trustee of the university, the University of Texas Endowment voted to place $10 million in investments with the Carlyle Group. As to how much of that money went to the bin Ladens we can only guess. But we do know that there is a long tradition in the Bush family of giving money to those who kill Americans.

Now, as the people of America are beginning to awaken to what is really being unleashed upon them, as a few brave souls are asking who's going to get all the money the Bush Administration is "borrowing" from government coffers and who's going to pay for it - the above history is more than ominous.

Considering that during the 1980s, under the pretext of fighting a Sandinista regime in Nicaragua that never once launched an attack on the U.S., these same people oversaw an explosion in U.S. cocaine consumption that went from 80 metric tons in 1979 to 600 metric tons in 1989 - considering that the CIA trained and equipped death squads that tortured and murdered hundreds of thousands of people from Guatemala to Panama - considering that these same people have brutalized Iraq, leaving portions of it radioactively contaminated by depleted uranium for the next 4 billion years and causing a fivefold increase in the number of childhood leukemia cases amidst a starving population, one can only wonder what they will produce for the world now given the context of the World Trade Center attacks.

Mike Ruppert

"From The Wilderness" http://www.copvcia.com

10/14/01
5:56:48 PM

Letter To The FBI Concerning The Anyibiotic Cipro

by Leonard G. Horowitz

Mr. Kevin Dunton Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 250 Northwest Blvd. Ste 200 Coeur D'Alene, Idaho 83814 October 1, 2001 fax: 208-665-2525

Dear Mr. Dunton:

I am reaching out to you as a patriotic American, a loving human being seeking world peace, and a Harvard graduate independent investigator with expertise in the fields of behavioral science, biological warfare, and biochemical terrorism. I relay this information in the hope that it will prompt you, and other FBI officials, to critically examine what I believe is legitimate intelligence bearing on global efforts to fight terrorism. May what I share herein lead to important discoveries regarding the recent terrorist attacks on America, prevent future attacks, and deter escalating global warfare.

I understand that the FBI is currently investigating terrorist group financing, and the likelihood that individuals and organizations with advanced knowledge concerning the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on America "shorted" certain stocks and commodities for profit, akin to "inside trading." You are likely familiar with the concept of "wagging the dog" to advance political policies and gain profit. I also know that you are familiar with neo-Nazi organizations operating in the United States, particularly in the northern Idaho area, and their possible involvements in acts of domestic, and international, terrorism. Given this introduction, what follows is evidence strongly suggesting the urgent need to investigate three organizations for leads concerning the funding of global terrorists. The primary suspect is the Bayer Corporation.

Last week, based on a report by ABC News, and previous unprecedented actions by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that were likely influenced by industry lobbyists, ABC was caught "wagging the dog" for Bayer engaged in price gouging panicked American's seeking protection against anthrax. Besides this being of relevance to the FBI's ongoing terrorism investigation as I explain below, this should be investigated as a conspiracy to commit fraud against the U.S. Government and the hundreds of thousands of Americans induced to buy the antibiotic Cipro through such manipulative methods.

According to ABC News (Thursday, Sept. 27), sales of Bayer's antibiotic Cipro have skyrocketed 1,000 percent from fears of anthrax retaliations in "America's New War." Anchorman Peter Jennings reported anxious consumers spending an outrageous $700 per person for a mere two-month supply. Two month supplies of other antibiotics regarded safe and effective against anthrax, and traditionally recommended by experts, are available for as little as $20 at farm feed stores.

Black's Law Dictionary includes within its definition of fraud, "a concealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her injury." Peter Jennings heralded ABC's special story the preceding evening by saying, "Preparing for a possible anthrax attack. We're going through these fears, one by one, day by day. Good night." In this context, ABC's special segment on anthrax and Cipro sales may be seen as a form of "white collar bioterrorism." Through this savvy and fraudulent form of drug promotion, consumers are being disadvantaged, over-charged, and placed at risk of injury from the potentially dangerous side effects of an antibiotic that offers no significant advantage over less costly alternatives for anthrax.

The Bayer Corporation maintains several serious skeletons in its corporate closet. In my thirteenth book, Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare (Tetrahedron Publishing Group; 1-888-508-4787), released in June, 2001, I examine a small number of multinational corporations, including Bayer, that have historically sponsored fear, espionage, and even terrorist campaigns for profit and global domination. Besides being found guilty of transmitting the AIDS-virus, HIV, through contaminated blood products to thousands of trusting consumers during the early 1980s, Bayer was blacklisted by the U.S.Government during, and shortly after, World War II. The OSS and CIA learned that Bayer maintained intimate ties to the German chemical/pharmaceutical cartel known as I.G. Farben. This consortium produced the earliest pesticides, drugs, and war gasses, including Zyclone B used in concentration camp gas chambers. According to the first CIA director Allen W. Dulles, as reported by CBS News war correspondent Paul Manning, the Farben cartel provided the chief economic and industrial engines behind the rise of the Third Reich and Hitler.

The Bayer Company evaded U.S. Government controls during and following the holocaust in which millions of mostly Jewish people were used as experimental subjects in medical atrocities overseen by I.G. Farben's president Hermann Schmitz, who also directed the German-multinational Bayer A.G.

Of urgent pertinence to the FBI's current investigation into terrorism's money trail, a recent investigation into terrorist group funding, issued by The Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee (OBIC) directed by Representative Charles Key, found "Neo-Nazi figures have actually been implicated in Middle Eastern special weapons procurement and terrorist activity." For example, the group reported, "since the 1960s, an old Swiss Nazi named Francois Genaud has reportedly masterminded several airplane hijackings for the PLO." The now defunct "Odessa" organization, the post-war successor to Hitler's S.S., according to OBIC, "had numerous documented meetings with representatives of various Arab organizations; and, during the early 1980s, a Neo-Nazi named Odfried Hepp attacked several U.S. military installations in Germany with bombs. Hepp was later found to have been financed by Al Fatah." Hepp, OBIC reported, did his Ph.D. on "Neo-Nazi/PLO bombings of U.S. housing, cars and military facilities in Germany." Given these facts alone, an FBI investigation into this matter is critical.

I am also contacting congressional leaders at this time urging an immediate U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation into the FDA's "advisory committee" that sponsored the unprecedented sole endorsement of Bayer's Cipro for anthrax. Nowhere in the Physician's Desk Reference (2000) is it claimed that Cipro is especially indicated for anthrax. In fact, Bacillus anthracis is not even mentioned. What is mentioned is that, "although effective in clinical trials, ciprofloxacin is not a drug of first choice in the treatment of presumed or confirmed pneumonia secondary to Streptococcus pneumoniae." This organism, like anthrax, is an aerobic gram-positive microbe. (Likewise, Bacillus anthracis causes pneumonia in the form of commonly terminal hemorrhagic bronchopneumonia.) Furthermore the PDR states: "WARNINGS-THE SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CIPROFLOXACIN IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS AND ADOLESCENTS (LESS THAN 18 YEARS OF AGE), PREGNANT WOMEN, AND LACTATING WOMEN HAVE NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED." Alternatively, numerous bioweapons experts have consistently recommended far less costly and time-tested antibiotics to fight anthrax, including the natural and synthetic penicillins, erythromycin, cephalosporins, and the tetracyclines.

This knowledge is consistent with the published works of pharmacist and attorney, Dr. Lawrence J. Joyce, also an expert in biological warfare with training at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds. Dr. Joyce advised that in the event of a required emergency response to anthrax, "the choice of therapy should simply depend on the availability of each antibiotic." He also advised consumers, in advance of an emergency, to spend as little as $20 to purchase such antibiotics at their nearest farm feed and veterinary stores. A complete list of alternative antibiotics and instructions for the general public for anthrax preparedness is currently listed on my affiliated website at http://www.tetrahedron.org.

Any advantages Bayer's product could conceivable offer over these other trusted antibiotics, could not be worth Cipro's extraordinary $700 cost. The U.S. government, in stockpiling this drug following the advisory committee's report, and consumers nationwide obviously frightened into a drug-demanding frenzy, have been royally bilked by this historically untrustworthy multinational company.

Given our current urgent concerns regarding terrorism, drug industry officials whose economic motives clearly conflict with U.S. national security interests, and the health and safety of all Americans, should be investigated forthwith. Given the Bayer Company's infamy and possible financial links to contemporary neo-Nazi and terrorist organizations, ABC, Bayer, and the FDA's "advisory committee" should be investigated by the FBI along with other leads regarding the September 11, 2001 attacks. For all we know, inside traders in these organizations may be funding contemporary terrorist groups in support of industrial espionage operations and global conflict.

This would be textbook Machiavellian theory in practice. That is, create the political problems, fear, and associated financial opportunities, and create the solutions-costly and risky products and services for profit, regardless of the lives lost.

Please provide me with a written response to this urgent request and shared intelligence as soon as possible.

Yours in the Spirit of health and world peace,

Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H. President, Tetrahedron Publishing Group

Cc: Members of the U.S. Congress, Allied peace organizations and the news media.

Source: http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/letter_to_fbi.html

10/14/01
5:38:59 PM

Terrorism Prevention And Treatment Starts With Accurate Diagnosis

by Leonard G. Horowitz

If you are as stunned as most Americans by the horrifying social, economic, and political realities currently unfolding in the aftermath of the "terrorist" attacks on America's icons-the World Trade Center and the Pentagon-don't be fooled. This is history repeating. These events were predictable and predicted by a careful study of history, science, and economics. Much like the ghastly attack on Pearl Harbor that initiated America's involvement in World War II, the September 11, 2001 "Attack on America," and news coverage of its aftermath, is fueling a new world war mentality, global economy, and calls for unprecedented social controls. These controls are reminiscent of the fascist controls of Nazi Germany, and consistent with a long developing globalistic agenda.

Obviously, this could not have been the intended result of suspected Islamic fundamentalists. Are we to believe that such sophisticated intelligence operators, capable of hijacking four planes within minutes of one another, from different airports, and precisely flying these airborne menaces directly into America's most populated and powerful economic and military icons, would have missed predicting what was so predictable?

That is, the outcomes of this day's catastrophes run strikingly contrary to what experts have presumed terrorists typically intend. That is, to win international political favor for their assorted causes.

Recall that in the days and weeks prior to the "Attack on America," world opinion of America and Israel had been seriously degraded. Internationally, leaders voiced outrage over Israel's position concerning the Palestinians. The fallout from the United Nations World Summit on Racism was seriously anti-American and pro-Palestinian. The global community rallied to the side of the Arab world. The American-Israeli alliance was globally condemned.

Would intelligent Islamic military leaders, cunning enough to evade all security enroute to pulling off the greatest and gravest civilian attack in world history, have jeopardized the substantial political concessions they gain during the weeks preceding the attacks? Could these attacks have been authorized simply for the Satanic satisfaction of seeing American civilians bleed, or gaining revenge in a "Holy War" as media spin directors want us to believe?

One could rationalize such an attack against the Pentagon. But against thousands of innocent civilians? Many, if not most of these victims were foreign speaking and born. Many of Islamic or Black. Have you been to New York recently? There are certainly more foreigners driving taxis, working in stores, and running concessions, than stereotypic white Americans.

This simply does not add up.

In order to effectively treat this terrorism problem, or prevent this type of devastation in the future, we need to accurately diagnose the root cause of the problem.

And if Arab world leaders are denying their involvement in these attacks, and other suspects need to be considered, who else remains suspect in this tragic conspiracy.

"The ends justify the means" This phrase is well known. So is the edict, "All is fair in love and war." Aldous Huxley broached these related topics when he wrote, "The nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end."

Ask yourself, "What social, political, and economic outcomes have resulted from this gravest tragedy?"

Officials and legislators are insisting on levying greater social controls over all people across America. The military and security industries are getting a heavy infusion of support for corporate and investor profits. Global meltdown of U.S. and allied currency markets are prompting calls for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and leading bankers to establish greater economic controls. Oil prices are soaring.

Who wins by all of this? Islamic fundamentalists? Not particularly. Especially since OPEC was established and continues to be largely controlled by the British and American petrochemical consortium. The Islamic people in general certainly don't win. But key globalists absolutely and entirely do.

In a book published a few months ago entitled, "Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare" (Tetrahedron Publishing Group, 2001; 1-888-508-4787) I precisely identified certain "white collar terrorists" fully capable of such attacks. I critically examined historic records linking petrochemical industrialists, leaders in the globalistic transition, to contemporary terrorist groups.

I conclude, EVEN IF radical Islamic groups orchestrated these horrific attacks, it is urgent that we, as a nation and world, consider the economic and political powers behind such groups. It is apparent and unnerving that certain petrochemical global industrialists, who manipulated the markets and politicians leading up to World War II; whose families and industries profited then from such managed chaos, are the only ones clearly profiting in the aftermath of this "Attack on America."

Who Am I To Make Such Claims? Let me briefly summarize my training. In 1977, I received my doctorate in medical dentistry from Tufts University in Boston. I later received several advanced degrees... One in public health from Harvard University. I joined the faculties at Tufts University and Harvard. I directed an alternative health center for more than a decade. In the early 1980s, the Associated Press featured my work as a trendsetter. My clinic integrated dentistry with general medicine, acupuncture, chiropractic, nutrition, massage, homeopathy, and other "alternative" methods of healing.

In 1999, I won the prestigious "Author of the Year Award" from the World Natural Health Organization for my tenth book. This became my first best-seller, Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola-Nature, Accident or Intentional? This book is said, by government health officials, to be largely responsible for America's growing anti-vaccination movement.

Suffice it to say, I have been extremely critical of petrochemical / pharmaceutical industrialists for suppressing more information than they have been telling... Including potentially lifesaving information that could stem the rising epidemics of cancer, autoimmune diseases, and much, much more.

Economic and Political Motives for "Managed Chaos" Over the years I have gathered and published documented evidence that the military, medical, pharmaceutical, and petrochemical industries are intimately linked-economically and administratively-by a virtual cartel of special interests. These, might best be called "white collar terrorists." The threat they pose is adequately demonstrated by the recent "Attack on America." This day may seem like an extreme aberration. In fact, it is more rationally diagnosed as a symptom of global politics. Like World War II, those who funded Hilter's rise to power, those insulated corporate collaborators, simply MANAGED CHAOS.

This political diagnosis and prescription is, after all, written in Latin on the back of every U.S. dollar bill--"Annuit Coeptis Novus Ordo Seclorum." Literally translated this means, "Announcing the Birth of the New World Order Without God," or "Announcing the Birth of a New World Order Out of Chaos."

This seemingly outrageous explanation and conclusion in not simply a "conspiracy theory." As a journalist with dozens of scientific peer reviewed publications to my credit, my conclusions are based on meticulously documented intensive investigations. I've identified organizations, institutions, and individuals instigating, and profiting from, such globally managed chaos. I'll cite some examples.

Your Reality Check into Terrorism Did you know that our government's and media's greatest perceived nemesis, said to be responsible for most terrorist attacks against the United States-Osama bin Laden-took his direction and money from the CIA. This implicates also the British Oligarchy's MI6.

See story at: http://www.msnbc.com/news/190144.asp#BODY

Likewise, did you know that the George H.W. Bush administration supplied Sadam Hussein with the majority of his military armaments, chemical weapons, and biological warfare agents, just weeks prior to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait? Included in this war-making arsenal was the West Nile virus. This bioweapon was shipped by, the Congressional Record reported, Rockefeller University President, Dr. Joshua Lederberg. He is also the curator of the American Type Cell Culture Collection. This is among the world's leading bioweapons suppliers. Oddly, this virus too, struck New Yorkers first.

If you didn't know the above facts, you might be additionally dismayed to learn that the British Secret Service's top-secret alphanumeric (letter/number) code translates the name "New York" into the number "666!" Here's a reality check for you.... The MI6 uses the Pythagorean-based code transcribing the multiples of six (6) where A=6, B=12, C=18, and so on through Z=156. Do the math. The sum of "New York's" letters total "666." That is the Bible's prophesied "Mark of the Beast."

Knowledge is power and ignorance is no longer bliss. Today ignorance is deadly! For instance, based on the above knowledge, three years ago, I moved my family from Boston and New York where I used to work. We moved to a place I felt my children could grow in peace and safety. During the past three years, I have consistently lectured audiences nationwide during television and radio interviews, and live presentations, about the urgent need to "move away from Metropolis"-that is, the corridor between Washington, D.C. and Boston. Obviously, my advice still holds.

You remain at greatest risk by remaining in denial about these facts. Elizabeth Kubler Ross's "Death and Dying" model predicts this risk in reaction to a horrific threat or loss. A normal first reaction is denial. Thus, it is natural for you to want to dismiss my writings and warnings as "foolish conspiracy theory," "religious fanaticism," or even random coincidence. But, believe me, this terrorism is no such thing.

Personal Prayers For Victims and Our Families Our hearts and prayers go out now to the thousands of people who were sacrificed, as I insist, for economics and political advantage in this new world war against humanity. Millions of people now pray for the victims, their families, our great nation, our deceived and deceptive political leaders, and our rapidly changing world. Whether you want to admit it or not, our global family has been attacked. Other forms of "white collar terrorism" continue to threaten, maim, and kill us. The death toll resulting from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks simply pales by comparison to the historic and ongoing atrocities.

A True Story To Learn From the Past Let me explain how my family, and likely yours as well, has been victimized by these same global conspirators. This is a true story. It should make my counsel to you very clear and urgent. . . It should also demonstrate that this message is about saving lives. . . Your loved ones included.

At Nazi gunpoint, in 1938, my mother scrubbed the streets of Vienna. She, like other holocaust victims, became slave labor. How? The petrochemical company largely directing the Third Reich had a labor shortage. This company was called I.G. Farben. To solve their problem, they simply forced white European Jews and political prisoners to labor.

Massive killings occurred in "showers" under the guise of "PUBLIC HEALTH" and "DISINFECTION."

This story reflects what is secretly happening today in our country pertaining to contemporary acts of "terrorism." Keep reading...

By sheer miracle, my mother escaped. She fled to America and settled in Boston. I was reared in America's medical Mecca.

In 1993, my mother died of cancer. Initially, she was struck down by a simple flu shot. She developed a common vaccine injury. Surprisingly, viral proteins in vaccines often cause immune cells to attack and destroy nerves. My mother became weaker. Then paralyzed. With her immune guard down, she developed cervical cancer. A few months later, after a few radiation treatments, she died.

The sad thing is, had my mother integrated this lesson, it's likely she would be alive today to watch my children play.

The critical deadly fact that my mother failed to learn, and we are all at risk for learning "the hard way" is . . .

TODAY'S BIOCHEMICAL WEAPONS, VACCINE, AND DRUG INDUSTRY IS PART OF THE SAME GLOBAL PETROCHEMICAL-PHARMACEUTICAL CARTEL THAT HAS SPONSORED NUMEROUS ACTS OF TERRORISM. THIS LIKELY INCLUDES THE MOST RECENT DEBACLES IN THE UNITED STATES. THIS CARTEL IS A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF THE ROCKEFELLER/I.G. FARBEN MONOPOLY THAT INSTIGATED THE HOLOCAUST.

Please stop what you are doing, and link to my publisher's website at http://www.tetrahedron.org. Review the articles, news stories, and intelligence reports I have posted to share potentially lifesaving knowledge. You will see that I am not making this up.

The Vast and Silent Threat Continues The threat my mother escaped by miracle in 1938 apparently killed her in 1993. She entrusted medical deities for their knowledge and vaccine prescriptions. She trusted mainstream media's messages. This was a great and grave mistake.

I, like other doctors, trained under certain academic standards. The question is, who set these standards? Documents prove that "scientific" organizations, individuals, and pharmaceutical interests, heavily influenced by Rockefeller relatives, set these standards. Conduct a simple library investigation. You will learn this family, and its British cohorts, largely control the news media and entertainment industry as well.

With such varied resources for committing, concealing, and profiting from "white collar terrorism," its no wonder so many are being intoxicated and killed today. With millions of people in hospitals, and thousands now in emergency rooms... Today's physicians' offices, public health units, and hospitals, are effectively like the killing camps of yesteryear. Millions of Americans will go to their early graves this year, like my mother. Members of your family could be struck down similarly. This, as the result of doing what millions of holocaust victims did during World War II. They simply followed authoritative and coercive direction. The direction was given under the guise of "PUBLIC HEALTH," "PUBLIC SAFETY," "RACIAL DISPARITY," and even "DISINFECTION!"

The AIDS and Cancer Terrorists In case you don't know, the Rockefeller family created the cancer industry in the 1920s. Today, the world's leading AIDS research facility is the Aaron Diamond Research Center affiliated with Rockefeller University. AIDS, in fact, is a very bizarre form of cancer. The AIDS virus (HIV) is a cancer virus associated with immune suppression. It leads to three types of cancer: leukemia, lymphoma, and sarcoma. In Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola, I exposed for the first time that these types of viruses were man-made during the 1960s. That's before the modern age of gene splicing! Another Rockefeller-linked company, Litton Industries, directed this research and development through their medical subsidiary, Bionetics. Contaminated hepatitis B vaccines, given to gay men in NYC, and central African Blacks, in 1974, best explains the first AIDS cases. This vaccine was partially prepared by growing hepatitis B viruses in contaminated chimpanzees shipped by Bionetics to New York. There, the Merck Pharmaceutical Company, also financially tied to staggeringly large Rockefeller investments, produced the vaccine that apparently triggered AIDS. Today, the pandemic and profit-making continues.

The Choice to Diagnose and Treat a Horrifying Reality We have a choice to correctly diagnose, and because of this, successfully treat, a horrifying reality, or be killed by it. Much like the undermining of American "public health," drug-based medicine, and U.S. National Security, our country is being attacked by multinational corporate profiteers. These people alone have prospered, and should be blamed, for the recent "Attack on America."

Indeed, knowledge is powerful. But ignorance, or inaccurate intelligence, is deadly. Before we blame the Arab nations and people, retaliate against perceived Islamic threats, and declare World War III, I believe we need to carefully diagnose what ails our planet. Diagnosis means to "see through." It is a requirement for correct and successful treatment of every disorder. It requires accurate intelligence.

I believe we have the intelligence to make an accurate diagnosis to guide treatment. What's missing, by political and economic design, and by effect of the media, is widespread awareness of this intelligence. Without this, the will of the people cannot be exercised to correct what ails us.

If I am right, the thorn in America's side is a symptom of what's on our dollar bill--"Annuit Coeptis Novus Ordo Seclorum." We are being managed through chaos to birth a New World Order. I believe that people around the world want to live in peace. Everyone wants a new world order as opposed to an old world of managed chaos.

"This aggression will not stand," President Bush and the past two American presidents have periodically warned. Proudly, our dollar bill also declairs, "In God we trust." The Bible predicts a new world order too, heralding a thousand years of world peace. I just don't think a planet being "peacefully" managed by multinational corporate fascist population controllers who earn vast revenues from humanity's suffering is what God has in mind. I believe this Father of all nations will ultimately make good on our presidents' repeated warnings. "This aggression will not stand."

About the author: Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz is an internationally recognized authority in public health education. One of healthcare's most captivating speakers, Dr. Horowitz's tenth book, Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola--Nature, Accident or Intentional? became a national bestseller in 1998. His latest book, Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare, released in June 2001, by the non-profit Tetrahedron Publishing Group, is previewed at

http://www.Tetrahedron.org

More information may be obtained by calling 1-888-508-4787

10/14/01
4:45:10 PM

VIRGINIA TECH STUDENTS DISCOVERIES CAN HELP PREVENT WATER-BORNE DISEASES

A Virginia Tech engineering graduate student has made discoveries that may help prevent outbreaks of water-borne diseases in the future.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011008065941.htm

NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE GOES TO DISCOVERS OF KEY REGULATORS OF THE CELL CYCLE

This year's Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine have made seminal discoveries concerning the control of the cell cycle. They have identified key molecules that regulate the cell cycle in all eukaryotic organisms, including yeasts, plants, animals and human. These fundamental discoveries have a great impact on all aspects of cell growth. Defects in cell cycle control may lead to the type of chromosome alterations seen in cancer cells. This may in the long term open new possibilities for cancer treatment.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011008114147.htm

NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS GOES TO DISCOVERS OF NEW STATE OF MATTER: BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2001 jointly to Eric A. Cornell, of JILA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado; Wolfgang Ketterle, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Carl E. Wieman, of JILA and the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011009070037.htm

STABLE POWER SUPPLY THANKS TO WIND TURBINES

Wind turbines can help keep the voltage in the electricity network at a constant level. The power electronics in the turbines can effectively correct peaks and dips in the mains voltage. This is the conclusion reached by NWO-funded researchers.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011009070518.htm

CRAYFISH RESEARCH ILLUSTRATES ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Crayfish boils may be the delicacy of choice at some Southern dinner parties, but environmental studies indicate there's something else cooking in the lobster-like crustacean's future. And understanding the ecological recipe may help researchers predict the health of our nation's streams.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011010073136.htm

KEEPING COOL: MODELING MICROCHIPS INCREASES RELIABILITY

Responding to demands, the microelectronics industry is producing devices that weigh less and do more, faster. But the faster microchips in these devices produce more heat, which can cause the chip to fail. University of Arkansas wind engineering expert Panneer Selvam, a professor of civil engineering, has developed a method to accurately identify areas of chip overheating, the most common cause of chip failure.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011009071231.htm

SCIENTISTS SHARE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY FOR THEIR DEVELOPMENT OF CATALYTIC ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2001 for the development of catalytic asymmetric synthesis, with one half jointly to William S. Knowles of St Louis, Missouri, and Ryoji Noyori of Nagoya University in Japan, "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" and the other half to K. Barry Sharpless of the the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011010073855.htm

MATTER WAVES ON A MICROCHIP: MUNICH MAX-PLANCK RESEARCHERS REACHED "QUANTUM LEAP" TO MINIATURIZE ATOM LASERS

A few years ago, the first atom lasers were built, devices that produce a beam of atoms with many of the properties of a laser beam. Now physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich have demonstrated that atom lasers can be integrated on a microchip (Nature, 4 Oct. 2001).

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011010074437.htm

OREGANO OIL MAY PROTECT AGAINST DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIA, GEORGETOWN RESEARCHER FINDS

Oil from the common herb oregano may be an effective treatment against dangerous, and sometimes drug-resistant bacteria, a Georgetown researcher has found. Two studies have shown that oregano oiland, in particular, carvacrol, one of oreganos chemical componentsappear to reduce infection as effectively as traditional antibiotics.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011011065609.htm

TERRORIST THREATS TO AGRICULTURE STUDIED

Researchers at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station say prevention, detection and clean up methods for bioterrorism at the farm level must be found now to avoid human harm and economic devastation of the food and fiber supply.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011012073420.htm

ACCUMULATED CHANGE COURTS ECOSYSTEM CATASTROPHE

Subjected to decades of gradual change by humans, many of the world's natural ecosystems - from coral reefs and tropical forests to northern lakes and forests - appear susceptible to sudden catastrophic ecological change, an international consortium of scientists reports today, Oct. 11, in the journal Nature.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011011065827.htm

10/14/01
4:27:02 PM

Journalism Groups Critique Security

by Joel Eskovitz, Associated Press Writer

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Heightened security measures implemented in reaction to the terrorist attacks are limiting the ability of news media to give people the information they need to stay safe, the leaders of 21 journalism groups said Saturday.

While the government must take ``unusual measures'' in time of war, the restrictions ``pose dangers to American democracy,'' according to the statement released at the annual Associated Press Managing Editors conference.

Al Cross, president of the Society of Professional Journalists, said the restrictions on military coverage are understandable. But he said journalists covering other topics, such as the environment and health care, also are facing unnecessary burdens.

``They're finding it increasingly difficult to fulfill their role as watchdogs,'' he said. ``It just seems like things have been done willy-nilly.''

Andrew Holtz, a free-lance reporter in Portland, Ore., said he was told in the days following the Sept. 11 attacks that he could not interview a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researcher because the Department of Health and Human Services banned all interviews related to terrorism or disasters.

The researcher, who had investigated the long-term mental health effects of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, would have provided crucial information for the public's well-being, he said.

``How could there possibly be any harm in discussing the mental health results of a terrorist attack?'' said Holtz, president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. ``It does seem irrational and overreaching.''

Tony Jewell, a spokesman for Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, did not return messages left by The Associated Press seeking comment.

Barbara Cochran, president of the 3,200-member Radio-Television News Directors Association, said news crews have had problems because the Federal Aviation Administration grounded news helicopters in major cities following the attacks. Restrictions were recently lifted for 15 of the 30 major metropolitan areas, but any bans seem excessive, she said.

``People are very edgy, and if something untoward happens, they want and deserve the factual information as soon as possible,'' Cochran said. ``Helicopters are often the fastest way to get to the story.''

Messages left at the FAA headquarters in Washington seeking comment were not returned.

Brant Houston, executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., said the public should be concerned about restrictions.

``We require more vigilance in our government activities now since they have let us down,'' said Houston, whose Columbia, Mo.-based nonprofit organization compiles information from several databases for more than 100 news outlets.

Houston said information about airport security, bridges and dams, among other things, has been removed from a number of federal Web sites ``without explanation.''

``I think it's outrageous that we're seeing the government remove databases meant to protect the public,'' he said. ``It's really easy to get caught up in the national cause. But in getting caught up, we lose some of the freedoms that the cause is all about.''

On the Net:

SPJ: http://www.spj.org

FAA: http://www.faa.gov

APME: http://www.apme.com

CDC: http://www.cdc.gov

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011013/us/security_journalists_1.html

10/14/01
4:15:33 PM

The Inner Truth

by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Riverside Church, New York City, April 4th, 1967

"A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty. But we must move on."

"Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. For we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us."

"We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation, for those it calls "enemy," for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers. I think of them, too, because it is clear to me that there will be no meaningful solution until some attempt is made to know them and hear their broken cries."

"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

"A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." A nation that continues year and year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

"America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities over the pursuit of war."

"This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursed this self-defeating path of hate."

"We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who posses power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight."

"Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves in the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." "May our country, on the brink of war, take to heart the final refrain of "America, the Beautiful": "America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law."

10/14/01
4:13:44 PM

Declaration Of Humanity

by Michael Brownlee

Since the shocking events of September 11, and the cascade of reactions and responses that have followed, people everywhere have been asking, "What can I do? How can I possibly make a difference in this complex and volatile situation?"

Perhaps what we can do - as a beginning - is to join together on behalf of humanity in a simple Declaration:

* We shall peacefully and lovingly bring to an end human want, violence, war, hatred, crime, hunger, poverty, disease, and inequitable distribution of prosperity.

* We shall accept responsibility for the evolution of life and consciousness on our planet.

* We shall restore, protect, and nurture Earth's ecosystems.

* We shall meet our material and energy requirements without diminishing natural or human resources.

* We shall heal our hearts, our minds, and our bodies - individually and collectively.

* We shall heal our relationships with one another, with the Earth, and with the Cosmos.

* We shall be one united people, the sovereign people of Earth.

* We shall live in harmony with one another and with all other species of intelligent life that we encounter.

* We shall learn to balance within ourselves the material and the spiritual realms.

* We shall consciously evolve as a species, continually enhancing our intelligence, our creativity, our ethics, our compassion, our love, our wisdom, and our Knowledge.

* We shall successfully pass through our current evolutionary threshold and those that await us in the future.

* We shall vigorously protect, defend, and nurture the sovereignty and freedom of our people and our world.

* We shall respect, honor, and support the sovereignty and freedom of all sentient species we encounter.

* We shall responsibly venture beyond our home planet.

* We shall be conscientious participants in and generous contributors to the Greater Community of the Universe.

Michael Brownlee mailto:t@mindspring.com

10/14/01
4:09:14 PM

The Perplexing Puzzle Of The Published Passenger Lists

By Gary North

Maybe you like puzzles. I hope so. I don't like them. I regard them as a challenge, not a game. I avoid them because, when I cannot find a solution, my mind won't stop working on them. Then I get very frustrated. So, I avoid magic shows, crossword puzzles, and similar brain- twisters.

Yet I am also a historian with a Ph.D. Historians are trained to solve puzzles with insufficient pieces. Historians never have all of the evidence that they would like in order to come up with a coherent explanation of what happened. They always want another piece in the puzzle before they go into print. (Of course, once they go into print, they will tend to reject any newly discovered piece that messes up their version of the completed puzzle.) At some point, they are supposed to come to a conclusion. They are supposed to make a judgment about what happened.

I am presently stuck. So, I am sending out this report. Maybe there is someone my list who can get me unstuck.

Years ago, I saw a movie, "My Cousin Vinnie." Vinnie was studying to be a lawyer. He wasn't a good classroom student, but he had a unique ability. He could figure out how things fit together. Show him a magic trick, and he could tell you how the magician did it. Tell him a story with a missing link, and he could identify where the missing link was, and maybe what it was. He could solve puzzles.

I am trying to locate Vinnie.

This puzzle is no game. The United States has gone to war on the basis of one solution to this puzzle. We have not yet been told what this solution is.

The puzzle begins with the crash of four airliners. We must work our way backward from this.

To do this, I decided to begin with official information that was published 16 days after the attack. To work my way backwards, I first leaped forward.

ALLEGED HIJACKERS

On September 27, the Associated Press released a story about the hijackers. The version that I read, published in the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, referred to these men as alleged hijackers. I shall do the same.

I located this article by using www.daypop.com. Daypop is the most complete archive of recent news stories on the Web. Daypop allows you to search for stories that are up to four weeks old.

I searched for "passenger list" and "hijackers." Daypop produced three pages of links -- not that many. Almost all of these links were to the same AP story, which was published by numerous on-line news sources. Here is the version I used.

< FONT SIZE=+1>http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/terrorism/nation/0927hijackerlist.html< /FONT>

The headline reads: "FBI releases updated list of alleged hijackers." Above the headline is a link that says, "Click here to see 19 suspected hijackers." I clicked it. A large box popped up. It took a while for the photos to appear. There are 19 photos, along with names. The names appear to be Middle Eastern -- Arabs. Most of the men look like Arabs, although a few might pass as Mexicans. Only one of them looked vaguely like a European.

They are divided into four lists, according to which flight they are said to have boarded. There were five men on American Airlines Flight 77, five on AA Flight 11, five on United Airlines Flight 175, and four on UA Flight 93 -- the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania.

Let's return to the AP story itself. We read the following:

As Attorney General John Ashcroft launched a "national neighborhood watch" with the release of the photos, FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged that questions remained about whether an accompanying list contained the true names of the 19.

"What we are currently doing is determining whether, when these individuals came to the United States, these were their real names or they changed their names for use with false identification in the United States," Mueller said.

The FBI director said there was evidence that one or more of the hijackers had had contacts with al-Qaida, the network associated with Osama bin Laden, the exiled Saudi millionaire who is the Bush administration's top suspect in the attacks.

This story indicates that, as of September 27, the FBI was not certain whether these suspects had used their real names. The remainder of the story listed each of their names, along with possible aliases. The aliases all look like Arab names.

I have discovered no additional information released to the general public regarding these suspects.

I now backtrack to the morning of September 11. The issue that I am trying to deal with is airline security. To draw rational conclusions about how the alleged hijackers accomplished their acts of terrorism, we must begin with airline security.

The United States has now gone to war because of a breakdown somewhere in airline security procedures. Yet nobody in government is blaming the specific airlines. They are blaming the procedures. This is why I want you mentally to go through the procedures with me. I have hit a brick wall. I am asking you to help me knock it down. I will show you how I went through the procedures mentally. See if you can figure out which step I missed.

Step One is check-in.

STEP ONE: CHECK-IN

On September 11, airline check-in counters were the only places in the United States that required travellers to present a photo ID in order to travel. A photo ID meant (and still means) a card issued by some branch of civil government. Years ago, the United States government took the first step toward a national ID card when it mandated the requirement that all passengers present a photo ID card before being allowed to get on a commercial airplane.

This means that the tightest security that the typical American ever confronts is airport security. This is the model for all other security systems governing the general public.

Let's go through the check-in routine together. Pretend that it's September 11, and you are a check-in agent at either a United Airlines counter or an American Airlines counter. It is your job to ask the standard questions. "Did you pack your own luggage? Have you had it in your possession at all times?" Then you ask for a photo ID. The name on the ID must match the name on the ticket. The photo must match the person presenting the card.

I began with American Airlines, Flight 11. This was the plane that crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. I began with the list of passengers. This was not difficult. The passenger lists for all four planes are posted on CNN's Website.

Click on the link. This is a long link for the formatting of my newsletter. If it is broken on your screen, you will have to paste it into your Web browser's address box. This will take two steps.

< FONT SIZE=+1>http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA11.victims.html< /FONT>

The CNN page says that there were 92 people on board. I suggest that you print out the list. Part of my exercise was to count the names of the passengers. Besides, you never know when a Web page will disappear.

Do you have the print-out in front of you? Count the names. I get 86 names, including the crew. But the CNN page says 92 people were on board.

None of the 86 names is an Arab name. This is very, very strange. First, how did the CNN list-compiler know that there were 92 people on board? Five of them are not listed. Second, how did anyone get on board who was not on the list of ticketed passengers?

To get onto the flight legally, each passenger had to have a ticket with his or her name on it. Each passenger had to present a photo ID to the check-in agent. The check-in agent was supposed to look at the picture and the person, and then make a judgment. Was it the same person? If the mandated procedure was followed, the check-in agent decided that the ticket's name, the photo ID's name, the photo, and the ID-holder's face all matched. If there was any doubt, the check-in agent was supposed to ask for some other form of identification. If there was none, the person was not allowed to board the plane.

We are told by the United States government that five Arabs somehow got through this initial screening procedure. How did they do this? This is puzzle number one regarding Flight 11. Puzzle number two has to do with the incomplete passenger list.

Airlines keep a list of passengers on board. This is for insurance purposes, should there be a crash. It is also for the purpose of notifying relatives after a crash. It is also for the purpose of in-cabin screening. "Has everyone paid who is on the plane?" And, finally, is there a hijacker on board?

On American Airlines Flight 11, there were no Arab names on the passenger list. So, how does the government know who the hijackers were?

Why does CNN's Web page list 92 dead, when there are only 86 name listed? Who was the non-Arab?

I have seen nothing about government accusations against American Airlines for substandard check-in security procedures. In fact, I have seen nothing about the discrepancy between the published names and the published numbers regarding how many people were on board.

Let's go to American Airlines Flight 77. This plane crashed into the Pentagon.

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We are told that 64 people were on board. I count 56, including 6 crew members. There is no explanation offered for the absence of 8 names. There is no Arab name on this list.

Something is definitely wrong here.

What about United Airlines? Did the company's employees follow the same check-in procedure? Presumably, they did. I checked Flight 175, which crashed into the south tower.

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There were 56 people on board, according to CNN's summation. I printed out the list. I counted the names. Once again, they don't add up. The summation says there were 2 pilots, 7 flight attendants, and 56 passengers. I counted the names. The total is 56 -- the number attributed to the passengers. Nine names are missing. None of the listed names is Arab.

This leaves United Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania. It had 45 people on board, according to the summation.

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Again, there is a discrepancy. Only 33 names appear on the list. A dozen names are missing. Among the missing names are the four Arabs who allegedly hijacked the plane.

So, the published names in no instance match the total listed for the number of people on board. CNN really should offer an explanation for this discrepancy.

In no case does an Arab name appear on a list, let alone one of the alleged hijackers.

How did CNN fail to count the names accurately? Did the airlines not provide the full list of each flight's names? Perhaps so.

This raises the next question. How did the airlines know how many people were on each of these flights? The airlines must have had a list for each flight. What possible reason could they have had for not releasing the full lists? Finally, why are there no Arabs listed on any of these lists, let alone the specific Arabs identified by the Attorney General and the head of the FBI in an Associated Press story?

I do not understand how 19 Arabs could have evaded the check-in procedures. I also do not understand why every passenger's name is not on the published lists.

I have seen no other source of the passenger lists. (Another search word: "manifests.") It has now been over a month since the attack. Where is a complete list? I don't know. Where is a complete list of all four flights that has the alleged hijackers' names on it? I don't know.

Finally, where is some enterprising reporter who is trying to get answers? I don't know.

What about Step Two?

STEP TWO: ON-BOARD SEATING

There were multiple terrorists in the cabin of each plane when the plane left the ground. They did not get there through the ticket-screening system. Or did they? If they did, then how?

I assume here -- again, maybe I am wrong -- that they got there through another entrance. Maybe they were part of the food service team.

These were all cross-country flights. The planes were loaded with lots of fuel, which is why they were selected: flying bombs. On cross-country flights, passengers still are given meals, not just pretzels and soft drinks. The number of meals is supposed to match the number of people on board, or at least come close.

Flight attendants have a list of passengers and their assigned seats. This is to enable them to identify passengers who have requested special meals, such as kosher meals. It is also to enable them to identify people who have not bought a ticket. Flight attendants are supposed to know who has been assigned to which seat.

It is September 11. Here is the situation: there are an extra five men on three flights, and four extra men on Flight 93.

You have already seen the photos of these men. If I had been a flight attendant, and I saw five extra men who looked like they did -- young, Arabic, and without tickets -- I would have asked them to explain why they were on board. I would not have assumed that they belonged there.

Are we to assume that on four separate flights, none of the flight attendants noticed that something was wrong? Are we to believe that they failed to notice that five or four extra passengers were on board who were not on the passenger list? Furthermore, these men looked as though they were of one ethnic group. They all had Arabic accents, I presume.

Why did the flight attendants ignore all this? There is no indication from the government that these men took over all four planes while the planes were still on the ground. Even if they had, the pilots would not have taken off if there were hijackers on board. They would have waited to hear the demands, and the demand to "take off now" would have been refused by at least one flight crew -- and I believe all four.

We need a theory of the co-ordinated hijacking that rests on a plausible cause-and-effect sequence that does not assume the complete failure of both the check-in procedures and the on-board seating procedures on four separate flights on two separate airlines. If the explanation does rely on a theory of check-in procedural breakdown, where is the evidence?

I have heard no such theory from the government. I have heard no such theory from the news media. In fact, I have heard neither the government nor the mainstream media even mention these perplexing problems. Perhaps you have. If so, I would like to see the Web link or a reference to the newspaper or other source where these matters have been discussed.

I don't mean this or that discussion forum devoted to conspiracy theories. I mean the mainstream press. It is very peculiar that the mainstream media and the government have not offered a detailed theory of how the hijackers evaded both the check-in procedures and the pre-takeoff seating procedures.

Perhaps some airline industry publication has dealt with this. If so, I would like to see the document.

I would also like to see passenger lists that include every passenger's name. I want to see 19 Arab names on these complete lists.

If these updated lists are ever released, I want to see that they match the original lists that were not released immediately. I want to know that any new names have not been added retroactively. I want evidence -- from travel agencies' records and credit card records -- that everyone on each plane's updated passenger list actually bought a ticket.

Is this to much to ask? So far, apparently it is.

CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen. Well, not all of them. We have gone to war based on one of them. But I don't see how anyone can make an accurate judgment about who was behind the attacks until he has a plausible explanation of how the hijackers got onto the planes and were not removed.

I am not interested in any theory about who did it until I have a plausible explanation for how he did it.

The key to discovering who planned this attack is inescapably tied to the procedures used by his agents to do it.

I don't see how they did it, yet I know that three planes crashed into highly visible targets. A fourth plane had veered off course, and it seems plausible that it was part of a co-ordinated attack. This has yet to be proven, but it seems plausible.

We keep hearing about plastic knives and box cutters. But we hear nothing about how these 19 men took plastic knives and box cutters onto four planes, and no one noticed that anything was amiss until the planes were in the air.

So, you tell me. How did 19 Arabs get onto these planes and then remain inconspicuous until the planes were aloft?

CONCLUSION

I have no conclusion. I told you this at the beginning. I am stuck.

I am looking for Vinnie. Maybe you're Vinnie. After you have drawn your own conclusion, and it seems reasonable, let me know.

But before you do, please run your theory by someone whose judgment you trust. See if that person thinks your theory is plausible. See if he or she can pick holes in it. Don't make me your first guinea pig. I want to be at least second. Third would be even better.

We need to get the division of intellectual labor working here. As the Bible says, "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up" (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10).

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10/14/01
3:54:19 PM

It Would Be Worse Than Chernobyl

The Sellafield reprocessing plant - on a busy air corridor just 50 miles from Lockerbie - could be the &#8216;perfect&#8217; target for terrorists in a hijacked aircraft.

by Kate Foster (kfoster@scotsman.com) http://www.scotsman.com

IF A hijacked airliner plunged into Sellafield&#8217;s nuclear reprocessing complex, the radiation that followed could cause more than two million cancer cases and make some places uninhabitable, scientists have warned.

Gordon Thompson, executive director of the Institute for Resource and Security Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said the impact would "almost certainly" break open some of the tanks containing high-level radioactive liquid waste, and the accompanying explosion would fling a plume of radioactivity into the atmosphere.

He said: "The explosion and the fire would just be the beginning. The burning fuel would continue to pump radioactivity into the air.

"Putting this fire out wouldn&#8217;t be easy. Fire crews struggled to damp down the fire after the Pentagon crash on 11 September, and they didn&#8217;t have deadly radiation to contend with.

"A crash of such magnitude would probably destroy the cooling systems, too," he added. "Tanks that survived the initial impact would heat up and start to spew out more radioactivity within hours."

The warning comes after fears were voiced that Britain&#8217;s emergency services are under-equipped and under-resourced to cope with terror attacks and not properly trained to deal with the casualties of chemical or nuclear warfare.

Ministers responded to demands from firemasters with a £200 million package for emergency services, but fire sources have insisted that the biggest risk from terrorist attacks are nuclear or chemical installations.

Contingency plans are currently being reviewed but, according to the Fire Brigades Union in Scotland, resources for such specialist training have not been made available.

After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, an exclusion zone was set up around the plant and more than a quarter of a million people were resettled. Radiation spread so far that sheep in Wales still have to be tested to check they are safe to eat.

So far, 11,000 cases of thyroid cancer have been reported in the Ukraine and Belarus.

According to Mr Thompson, who has been investigating the high-level waste tanks for local authorities in Britain for the past five years, if a passenger jet were to plough into building B215 at Sellafield, which contains 21 concrete and steel waste tanks, as much as half of its 2,400kg of caesium-137 could escape into the air.

Reprocessing involves dissolving old fuel rods in acid and extracting the plutonium. The leftover liquid, which contains a mixture of wastes including caesium-137, is stored in the tanks in B215. It is so radioactive the tanks have to be cooled constantly to prevent their contents from boiling and leaking out.

Mr Thompson said: "The amount of caesium-137 that would be escape into the atmosphere is 44 times more than was released by Chernobyl ."

He added: "Immediately after the attack, there would be widespread chaos as authorities tried to organise mass evacuations. In years to come, the death toll might be terrible."

In a statement, British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) said: "Major nuclear facilities, including reactors and highly active waste stores, are constructed to extremely robust engineering standards and incorporate large quantities of reinforced concrete as an integral part of the construction.

"These facilities are resistant to many terrorist threats, including aircraft impact. Safety cases and contingency plans take these events into account."

But according to a safety report published last year, the 21 high-level waste tanks in B215 have not been constructed to withstand crashing planes.

It states: "There has been no specific design provision to protect against crashing aircraft."

John Large, an independent nuclear engineer, has identified seven potential terrorist targets at Sellafield, including the high-level waste tanks and a store containing 70 tonnes of plutonium. He said all their radioactive inventories are published, and aerial photographs showing their precise locations are easy to get hold of.

Mr Thompson says he is "disturbed" that Sellafield is storing so much high-level waste in such a dangerous form.

He said: "BNFL is meant to solidify the liquid waste into blocks of glass to make it safer, but technical problems are holding up the process."

Meanwhile, according to New Scientist, aviation sources have pointed out that every year thousands of large passenger jets fly along the coast near Sellafield, on their way from European airports to the west coast of the US.

Lockerbie, where Pan Am Flight 103 crashed in 1988, is less than 50 miles away.

But, according to Mr Thompson, Sellafield is not the only possible target for a terror attack. There are similar storage facilities in several countries, including the US and Russia.

Kate Foster

mailto:kfoster@scotsman.com

Source: http://www.scotsman.com

10/14/01
2:43:21 PM

Anthrax Confirmed in 3rd State Letter From Malaysia Tests Positive in Nevada; 2nd NBC Case Possible

By Michael Powell and Justin Blum Washington Post Staff Writers

Federal officials confirmed yesterday that they had found anthrax in a third state, as law enforcement and health officials scrambled to investigate a growing number of illnesses and letters carrying the deadly bacterium.

Nevada officials said that a letter postmarked in Malaysia had tested positive for anthrax spores, and New York physicians were investigating a possible new case of anthrax infection at NBC.

In Florida, American Media Inc. officials reported five new cases of anthrax exposure at their office building, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said test results were too preliminary to make that statement. If additional analysis, which is expected to be completed in a week, shows that the five were exposed, that would bring the number of infected employees to eight. One man has died. Authorities said that none of the new people identified in preliminary tests had displayed any symptoms, and all were being treated with antibiotics.

In New York City, health officials reported that a second employee had shown symptoms of skin anthrax exposure. A personal assistant to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw already is known to be infected with a form of anthrax, apparently after she handled a letter postmarked in Trenton, N.J., on Sept. 18.

And in Edison, N.J., a man who works at a Ford Motor Co. plant had an ambiguous test result for anthrax and is undergoing additional tests. The man, 58, had a rash on his body similar to the type associated with cutaneous anthrax, and he went to a hospital, where a nurse notified the FBI, according to the FBI's Newark Field Office.

The letters, test results and instances of powder found on commercial airliners raise new questions about a possible concerted attempt to spread the rare and often deadly disease. The letter to Nevada was postmarked in Malaysia and the letter to NBC was postmarked in Trenton. Both places are believed to have relatively heavy concentrations of operatives and supporters of Osama bin Laden, intelligence experts said.

Jersey City was the cradle of the plot to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. And bin Laden associates met in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's largest city, in January 2000 to help plan the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen later that year.

FBI officials are pursuing a possible link between the anthrax cases and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. But they emphasized that it was too soon to gauge the importance of the postmarks.

"These cases are all at different stages," one FBI official said. "It's really too early for us to make any judgments yet."

Bard O'Neill, a Middle East terrorism expert at the National Defense University, cautioned against quick conclusions but added that the letters suggested a pattern.

"What's more likely in my mind is this is somehow being encouraged or instigated by bin Laden's people," O'Neill said. "If this was just a bunch of nuts doing this from around the world, the letters probably wouldn't fall in the same time frame."

In Nevada, Gov. Kenny Guinn (R) confirmed that a suspicious letter sent to a Microsoft subsidiary in Reno had tested positive for anthrax. The state epidemiologist said that investigators had performed three tests on the letter and its contents and that they had found anthrax bacteria.

At least six employees of Microsoft Licensing Inc. apparently handled the letter or its contents, but examinations of their skin, noses and throats found no trace of anthrax.

The letter included several pages of pornographic pictures, apparently ripped out of a magazine. It had sat unopened in the Microsoft subsidiary for several weeks.

"We want everyone to know that all our laboratory microbiologists feel this is a very, very low risk for public health," Guinn said at an afternoon news conference in Carson City. He said the letter did not contain powders likely to become airborne. The disease is far more lethal when the spores enter the lungs.

In New York, the investigation took a new turn as city health officials found a second female NBC employee with signs of anthrax infection. She had a low-grade fever, headaches and lesions, which a spokesman defined as sores that did not appear to be healing.

This woman was the NBC employee who first opened the letter from Trenton on Sept. 19 or 20 and found a brown granular substance inside.

"At the time she opened this, some brown stuff spilled out," said Neal Shapiro, president of NBC News. "She thought nothing of it at the time. It was long before Florida, the anthrax scare. It was placed with some of the hate mail."

The letter was passed on to Brokaw's assistant, Erin O'Connor. A few days later a different letter arrived from St. Petersburg, Fla., containing a white substance. Then NBC news staffers began trying to track down any other letters with white substances.

At that point, the second woman recalled opening a letter with a brown substance.

"This person helped us close the loop, solve the mystery," Shapiro said.

O'Connor, meanwhile, had fallen ill, as what she had thought was a mosquito bite near her collarbone spread into an inch-and-a-half black rash. "It was more than a rash," said her father, John O'Connor. "It looked like something had gouged it out."

City and federal health officials described her symptoms as mild. But her father said his daughter became quite ill the weekend of Sept. 29. "She had a very high fever," he said. "She got a little delirious from it."

On Monday, Oct. 1, she visited a specialist, Richard Fried. He suspected anthrax and placed her on Cipro, which has stanched the infection. Fried said he notified the city health department, but some authorities said the case revealed holes in the public health system. Fried said he was surprised to find that the city knew nothing of the NBC incident when he called.

The network had turned the letter over to the FBI almost a week earlier.

"I was surprised to learn on October 1st that they had no prior knowledge of this," Fried said.

The reports of potential new anthrax cases in Florida came one day after the FBI announced that only one of the nearly 1,000 nasal swabs of company employees, contractors, messengers and relatives had tested positive for the disease. Now, more sensitive blood tests, which measure a body's response to an infection, have found five new cases, AMI officials said. AMI advised its employees yesterday to continue taking antibiotics, said AMI general counsel Michael B. Kahane.

"Five people have tested positive for anthrax antibodies, which would indicate that at some point in their lives, they have had exposure," said Kahane, who said he arranged with Florida officials to provide antibiotics for as long as necessary. He said he was afraid that employees had interpreted Friday's FBI news as a reason to stop taking the medicine.

Lisa Swenarski, a CDC spokeswoman, said last night that the blood analysis completed so far is inconclusive. "We do not have final results. . . . Once we get the second part of this test, that will show us whether they have been exposed."

Two of the five whose blood tested positive work for the National Enquirer, according to an Enquirer employee who was briefed by an editor and spoke on the condition of anonymity. One employee has a fever, but it is unclear whether the fever is connected to anthrax.

AMI owns the Enquirer and the Sun.

Three of the employees found to be infected do not handle mail and sit in a separate section of the third floor, far from Bob Stevens, the Sun photo editor who died Oct. 5 from anthrax. They work down a hall and around the corner from the Sun.

News of the new infections rattled employees.

"It's like what does this mean? The infestation is more widespread than we thought and it came a different way," the Enquirer staffer said. "It's scary."

Public health officials in Florida urged caution about the newest reports of anthrax exposure. AMI employees so far have given one of two required blood samples, Tim O'Connor, spokesman for the Palm Beach County Health Department, said last night. "It's going to take a second test to get any confirmation. Nobody's ready right now to say there has been any exposure," he said.

The FBI, meanwhile, continues to pursue its criminal investigation, and agents have questioned several AMI employees. The FBI asked basic questions at first, employees said, and began follow-up interviews late this past week. Investigators are asking employees if anyone in their families has worked as a biologist, or is familiar with chemicals.

Investigators also have been asking about disgruntled former employees.

"They were interested in pretty much anything we had to tell them, the mail we received, if we received anything unusual," said Edith Schorah, a senior editorial assistant at the National Enquirer, one of the AMI tabloids.

Schorah said FBI agents on Thursday went to her house and asked if Stevens had any enemies who worked in the building.

"I said that was not possible," said Schorah, a long-time friend of Stevens, who said he was widely liked.

The reports of new cases of anthrax, coupled with repeated federal warnings that a terrorist attack could be imminent, have rattled many Americans. Police report that thousands of people have visited emergency rooms requesting antibiotics. In New York, subways have periodically been slowed, as officials check false reports of problems.

US Airways Flight 121 from Charlotte, N.C., to Denver, which was carrying 60 passengers, was diverted yesterday to Indianapolis after a flight attendant found a powdery substance on the plane. Tests found that the substance was not hazardous, and it was believed to be a packing powder used to separate plastic bags.

Seventeen people aboard United Airlines Flight 1 were checked by a hazardous materials unit after the plane arrived at Dulles International Airport yesterday afternoon following the discovery of a white powder in a lavatory while the plane was en route from London, authorities said.

United's Boeing 777, with 216 passengers, landed safely at 3:50 p.m., and the crew and passengers who were checked were permitted to leave at 5:30 p.m., a Dulles spokeswoman said. She said the powder, which reportedly was found by a passenger, was turned over to the FBI for testing at Fort Detrick, Md.

In California, 80 passengers and five crew members aboard United Flight 1669 from Chicago to San Jose were held on the jetliner for three hours after it landed because a passenger said a man had dispersed a powdery substance in the ventilation system. FBI spokesman Andrew Black told the Associated Press the substance was confetti from a greeting card that a longtime San Francisco Bay area resident had accidentally spilled.

Staff writers William Booth, Dan Eggen, Tom Jackman, John Mintz, Dale Russakoff and Peter Slevin and special correspondent Christine Haughney in New York contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.truthout.com/0677.Afghan.Day.7.htm

10/14/01
2:41:06 PM

Saturday, 13 October, 2001, 22:45 GMT 23:45 UK BBC | Al-Qaeda threatens US and UK

Bin Laden: Prime suspect for the 11 September attacks

The al-Qaeda organisation of Islamic militant Osama Bin Laden has threatened fresh terror attacks against both the United States and the United Kingdom.

The truth shows that Bush is an agent of Israel and sacrifices his people and his country's economy for those, and helps them occupy the Muslims' land and persecute their sons

Al-Qaeda spokesman Spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith said there would be strikes in retaliation for the military action being taken against Afghanistan by US and British forces.

He advised Muslims in the US and UK not to travel by plane and not to live in skyscrapers - a clear reference to the 11 September suicide attacks on New York's World Trade Center using hijacked aircraft.

White House spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise described the al-Qaeda statement as "just more propaganda".

The World Trade Center was destroyed by hijacked aircraft

Ghaith warned the US and UK to leave the Arabian peninsula or else "the land will be set on fire under their feet".

Ghaith added: "The storm will not calm as long as you [the United States and Britain] do not end your support for the Jews in Palestine, lift your embargo from around the Iraqi people, and have left the Arabian peninsula."

He threatened US President George W Bush and his father, former President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for their "terrible crimes and the worst crimes".

"Millions of Muslims, men, women and children, have died without doing anything," he said.

The message came as the US-led air strikes on Afghanistan continued and fears grew over the anthrax outbreak in the US.

The al-Qaeda statement was made in a recorded message broadcast on the Qatari satellite TV network al-Jazeera.

The US networks did not broadcast the message following requests by the government, amid fears that Bin Ladin was using them to send coded messages to supporters.

Al-Jazeera was also asked not to broadcast anything which incited Muslims to violence.

Source: http://www.truthout.com/0677.Afghan.Day.7.htm

10/14/01
2:36:29 PM

Fresh US raids follow bombing error

The US says the air strikes are succeeding

The United States has carried out a seventh night of air strikes on Afghanistan after Pentagon officials admitted a targeting mistake led to a bomb being dropped on a residential area of the capital, Kabul.

The bomb was meant to hit a helicopter at Kabul airport, but a wrongly entered digit in the bomb's global positioning system meant it missed its target by a mile.

The Defence Department regretted any loss of life.

"We have no accurate way of estimating the number of casualties, but reports from the ground indicate there may have been four deaths and eight injured," a Pentagon statement said.

In the latest air raids, Kabul airport, the military academy and an artillery base were among the reported targets.

Witnesses said warplanes dropped three bombs on Kabul, rocking the city with huge explosions and creating a fireball over the airport.

Military positions around the city of Jalalabad and a Taleban military camp in Kandahar also came under attack, and strikes were reported on an airport near the western city of Herat.

Reuters news agency quotes US military officials as saying that pilots are increasingly going after "targets of opportunity" that they spot from the air, such as parked aircraft or troop convoys.

The ruling Taleban in Afghanistan - who are sheltering Osama Bin Laden, accused of masterminding last month's devastating terror attacks on the US - say at least 300 civilians have been killed in the strikes, but only five deaths have been independently confirmed so far.

The rebel Northern Alliance in Afghanistan say the US strikes have crippled the Taleban's fighting ability.

"They have lost their capacity to launch counter-offensives," said the Alliance's Foreign Minister, Abdullah Abdullah.

But the BBC's Afghanistan correspondent, Kate Clark, reports that in practice, Alliance commanders admit they need America to attack Taleban front-line positions if they are to have any hope of capturing Kabul, which they lost to the Taleban six years ago.

In his weekly radio address, President George W Bush declared the first phase of the military campaign against Bin Laden a success, saying a week of bombing had disrupted "the terrorist network inside Afghanistan".

"American forces dominate the skies over Afghanistan and we will use that dominance to make sure terrorists can no longer freely use Afghanistan as a base of operations," President Bush said.

The Taleban have rejected a "last chance" to surrender Bin Laden that was offered by President Bush at a White House news conference on Thursday.

The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported the reclusive Taleban leader Mullah Omar as saying in a message: "Our sin is that we have imposed an Islamic system in our country and have given protection to a homeless Muslim, oppressed, who cannot even find a place in any part of the world to sit for an hour."

Source: http://www.truthout.com/0677.Afghan.Day.7.htm

10/14/01
2:28:46 PM

Bush's Volatile Coalition

The Islamic Conference Snubbed the Taleban

by Bridget Kendall BBC Diplomatic Correspondent

From President George W Bush downwards, United States officials continue to remind us that this is an unconventional war, like no military conflict that has gone before it.

But so far, on a superficial level, the echo of Nato's conflict with Yugoslavia is unmistakable.

The same nightly sorties by state-of-the-art fighter planes from airbases and aircraft carriers many miles away, the same sophisticated and powerful bombs, launched at high altitude.

And the following day, inevitable pictures from inside Afghanistan of craters and shattered buildings, and worrying reports, impossible to verify, of civilian casualties.

It is undoubtedly true that the longer air strikes continue, the harder it will be for the US and its allies to keep global support solid.

Initial reassurance

When the first bombs were dropped on Sunday night, the initial response must have reassured the US and its partners.

There was immediate support from close allies in Europe and beyond, including President Vladimir Putin in Russia.

Further afield, only a few countries issued swift denunciations.

Iraq, of course, lambasted the US; Iran called the action unacceptable.

But elsewhere, governments that had previously signalled misgivings were, for the most part, silent or non-committal.

As the US and its allies take stock nearly one week into the campaign, they have reason to feel both relieved and worried.

Taleban snubbed

Perhaps most reassuring for Washington is that, despite widespread disquiet in the Muslim world about the idea of US strikes against another Muslim nation, the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers in Qatar on Wednesday did not call for an end to military action in Afghanistan - a direct snub to the Taleban who had appealed to the conference to do so.

What's more, in the course of the week, important allies have signalled they will co-operate.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt broke several days of silence to indicate his acceptance, noting that Egypt had had its fair share of terrorist attacks.

Under orders from Yasser Arafat, Palestinian police have moved to curb pro-Osama Bin Laden demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza.

It has emerged that Uzbekistan, one of Afghanistan's neighbours, has signed a new security pact with the US.

Pakistan co-operation

And another vital player in this drama, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, has acted swiftly to mute the influence of Taleban sympathisers in his country.

He has reshuffled his military top brass, put several clerics under house arrest, issued stern warnings against rowdy protests and announced two airbases would be made available to the US for what is euphemistically described as "logistics".

This means they will be available for refuelling, humanitarian or search and rescue operations but not, say Pakistani officials, for launching combat missions.

Nonetheless the global coalition that has so carefully been put in place is fragile. Any miscalculation by the US could have serious consequences.

Fragile coalition

Already a warning from hawks in Mr Bush's administration that the wa