2001 Anthrax attacks
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| Date | September 18, 2001 - October 9, 2001 |
| Type |  Bioterrorism |
| Weapon | Anthrax |
| Deaths | 5 |
| Injured (non-fatal) | 17 |
| Exposed by | Matt DeHart |
| Interest of | Emergent BioSolutions, Michael B. Green, Graeme MacQueen, Operation Dark Winter, Russell Welch |
| Subpage | •2001 Anthrax attacks/Timeline |
| Description | The 2001 'Amerithrax' anthrax attacks in the US began just a week after the 9/11 attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores and crude anti-Israeli references were mailed to media offices and to two U.S. Senators who were obstructing the rollback of civil liberties after 9/11. An FBI investigation concluded that the anthrax was from a US lab, and blamed a lone nut researcher whom was found dead some days previously. Details of the FBI's $100M investigation remain classified. |
Contents
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| 2001 Anthrax attacks/Timeline | 37,298 | A detailed and revealing timeline about the Amerithrax attacks, deleted from Wikipedia in April 2014, recovered from an archive at Deletionpedia. |
The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, also known as Amerithrax from its FBI case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, killing five people and infecting 17 others. The ensuing investigation is said by the FBI to have become "one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement" [1], and cost around $100,000,000.[2]
Foreknowledge
As "a precaution", according to the Washington Post, Cipro was administered to Dick Cheney and his close staff on the evening of 9/11 as the Vice President was secreted off to an undisclosed location, days before the first anthrax letters were mailed.[3], on the advice of Jerome Hauer. Bush's reactions to the anthrax mailings were, at best, slow and he took every opportunity to invoke "Osama Bin Laden" in the rhetoric he employed in his public utterances about them. [4]
Bruce Ivins
- Full article: Bruce Ivins
- Full article: Bruce Ivins
Bruce Ivins was a microbiologist, vaccinologist and biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. He allegedly committed suicide by taking a drug overdose on July 29, 2008. On August 6, 2008, he was officially declared the lone nut behind the Amerithrax Attacks, 8 days after his alleged suicide. On February 19, 2010, the FBI formally closed its investigation. No direct evidence implicating Ivins was presented and some documents relating to the investigation remain under seal. [5]
Conspiracy Charge
Patrick Leahy, one of the targets of the letter, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, charged conspiracy to that committee, in September 2008:
"If he [Bruce Ivins] is the one who sent the letter, I do not believe in any way, shape or manner that he is the only person involved in this attack on Congress and the American people. I do not believe that at all. I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before or accessories after the fact. I believe that there are others out there, I believe there are others who could be charged with murder. I just want you to know how I feel about it, as one of the people who was aimed at in the attack."[6]
Patrick Leahy, head of the US Senate Judiciary Committee, 2008
Some commercially-controlled media quoted him briefly, but quickly generally ignored his remark.
Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program
A secret program entitled The Mail Isolation Control and Tracking Program was instituted in the wake of the 2001 Anthrax Attacks. This was hidden from the public for 12 years until cited by the FBI in its investigation of April 2013 ricin letters. Under the program, Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces in 2012. These images are kept so that the US Postal Service can retroactively track mail correspondence at the request of law enforcement.
Legal Action
In 2008, the Justice Department agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle a lawsuit by another former Fort Detrick scientist, Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, whom investigators pursued for years before they cleared him.[7]
On 2011-07-15, the Justice Department lawyers acknowledged in court papers that the sealed area in Ivins' lab — the so-called hot suite — did not contain the equipment needed to turn liquid anthrax into the refined powder that floated through congressional buildings and post offices in the fall of 2001. These statements were retracted 8 days later.[8]
On 2011-11-29, an 8 year legal battle was finished which exposed slack rules and sloppy recordkeeping at the Army’s biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, the federal government agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of Robert Stevens, the first person killed in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, settling a lawsuit claiming that the Army did not adequately secure its supply of the deadly pathogen. As part of the agreement, Justice Department lawyers are seeking to have many documents that were uncovered in the litigation kept under court seal or destroyed.[7]
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Anthony Fauci | “After the 9/11 attacks, and the mysterious anthrax mailings that began a week later (which said, “TAKE PENACILIN [sic] NOW / DEATH TO AMERICA / DEATH TO ISRAEL / ALLAH IS GREAT”), the desire for biopreparedness became all consuming. Now there were emerging biothreats from humans as well as from the evolving natural world. Fauci’s anti-terror budget went from $53 million in 2001 to $1.7 billion in 2003.” | Anthony Fauci Nicholson Baker | 4 January 2021 |
| Robert Kadlec | ““If several kilograms of an agent like anthrax were disseminated in New York City today, conservative estimates put the number [of] deaths occurring in the first few days at 400,000. Thousands of others would be at risk of dying within several days if proper antibiotics and vaccination were not started immediately. Millions of others would be fearful of being exposed and seek or demand medical care as well. Beyond the immediate health implications of such an act, the potential panic and civil unrest would create an equally large response.”” | Robert Kadlec | 1998 |
| Operation Dark Winter | “Dark Winter not only predicted the 2001 anthrax attacks, but some of its participants had clear foreknowledge of those attacks.” | Whitney Webb | 1 April 2020 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:911 Plotters Bury Anthrax Evidence | essay | 3 August 2008 | Michael B. Green | |
| Document:All Roads Lead to Dark Winter | report | 1 April 2020 | Whitney Webb | |
| Document:FBI Anthrax Frame-up | article | 19 August 2008 | Michael B. Green | |
| Document:American Anthrax | webpage | 1 November 2001 | Joe Vialls |
The Official Culprit
| Name | Description |
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| Bruce Ivins | A biodefense researcher at Fort Detrick, Maryland who, the FBI concluded, sent anthrax letters with crude anti-Zionist messages to the US politicians who were holding up the rollback of civil liberties in the wake of 9/11. After an investigation costing around $100,000,000 Ivins was declared to be a "lone nut" responsible for the crime shortly after he was found dead. |
Rating
30 November 2018 Robin A good overview of this event which although at time was attributed to Al Qaeda, was later admitted to have been a false flag.A thought provoking introduction to the 2001 Anthrax mailings, which were used to cow opposition to the PATRIOT Act, including the remarkable fact that the FBI's case lead has sued the agency, alleging malpractice!
External Sites
- Dr Meryl Nass web site
- Deep Politics Forum Thread
- Timeline of the 2001 anthrax attacks
- Anthrax War - 2009 book and film
References
- ↑ FBI web site Anthrax case links
- ↑ UG#561 - $100,000,000 to Crack A Lone Nut? (Amerithrax, Gladio, 7/7 and The Conspiracy against Conspiracies), radio show including 1 hour about the Amerithrax case
- ↑
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- ↑ F.B.I., Laying Out Evidence, Closes Anthrax Letters Case New York Times 19 February 2010
- ↑ http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26759983/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/senator-suspect-had-help-anthrax-attacks
- ↑ a b Anthrax Families To Recieve $2.5 million settlement New York Times, 30th Nov 2011.
- ↑ Justice Dept Filing Casts Doubt On Guilt of Bruce Irvins. ProPublica.com. 15th July 2011.
