ANTHRAX-IVINS

PROJECT ANTHRAX & THE COVER-UP (PART FOUR): THE BIOPORT LOOP, HATFILL & SPECIAL FORCES, INTRODUCTION TO VAXGEN, IVINS REDUX & RUMSFELD

By Alex Constantine
(Updated)

The media concentration on the anthrax mailings has taken the heat off of BioPort and the Pentagon for the highly toxic vaccine - which, by some measures, produced a medical situation far more dire than that brought about by the 2001 mailings currently blamed solely on Bruce Ivins:

"'Our family has been through a living hell, to almost see your 23-year-old son die...' exclaims Cheryl. 'The government is wrong, and they need to take care of all these people that they've hurt.' The Department of Defense says they continue to believe that the vaccine is 'safe' ..." - Firstcoastnews.com

Fuad El-Hibri arranged investments for well-heeled Saudi clients as a broker at Citibank's Jeddah office. Tom Suber, a contributor to the Rouge Forum, a grassroots Internet think-tank, reports that the broker handled "the individual financial holdings of the bin Laden family group and the larger $18 billion Carlyle Group."

The bin Ladens and Carlyle are "reputed to have had partnership interests with Fuad El-Hibri's Porton International and Bioport investments. These embarrassing partnerships are the result of complex web of interlocking private corporate holdings and are publicly denied by the El-Hibri family."1

Carlyle Management Group, of course, is America's eleventh leading defense contractor, founded by Iran-contra's Frank Carlucci, James Baker III and George H.W. Bush.

Ties to the bin Ladens and Carlyle constituted one "embarrassing" pact with the devil.

Another was El-Hibri's acquisition of the Center for Applied Microbiology and Research (CAMR) at Porton Down in the UK, a government-held toxic stockpile-research laboratory privatized by Margaret Thatcher. CAMR was launched under private ownership - El-Hibri's - as Porton International in 1993.

Porton Down was the English mirror-image of Ft. Detrick. Both military laboratories conducted Auschwitz-style experiments on human subjects during the Cold War. In 2002, Express reported that scientists of the Ministry of Defense faced prosecution "over horrifying experiments on service men and women during chemical and biological weapons tests."

Subjects were duped into volunteering, led to believe that the military doctors were searching for an innocuous "cold cure." The guinea-pigs said they were "impregnated with deadly chemical agents such as sarin and mustard gas." Ronald Maddison, a volunteer airman, died after a cloth treated with sarin was wrapped round his arm. Another subject said he was coerced to participate "under threat of court martial. During three nightmare weeks at the center, he said he was stripped to his underpants and marched repeatedly into gas chambers where he was impregnated with sarin, tabin and mustard gas."2

El-Hibri inherited a horror factory, and this it remained.

By 1996, Suber says, "the rape of the public resources of Great Britain was virtually complete," speaking of the "conservative" agenda behind privatization.

The profit-lusting "interests of the Saudis and the Carlyle Group began to look to the United States for more promising plunder."

Michigan Governor John Engler was urged by fellow Republicans to privatize the state-owned vaccination lab - exactly as Thatcher had done with CAMR. It was renamed the Michigan Biologics Products Institute.

"Governor Engler gave the most respectable and profitable agency in Michigan government to Fuad El-Hibri without any individual investment whatsoever," Suber writes. The new owners "incurred no individual expense, made no investments, and did not owe any individual promissory notes or obligations of any kind for their new lab purchase. Receipt of a $180 million business for absolutely nothing. The next hand-out the company received was an unsecured, interest-free loan of $18.7 million as an advance payment from the Defense Department ..."3

All this fuss over a vaccine that didn't even work against inhalation anthrax ... it just made people sick.

But homeland defense was never the idea, as Houston attorney Linda Minor noted after scanning BioPort's directors' page: "This group is obviously an investment syndicate composed of numerous intelligence agency members representing assorted countries..."4

Bio-economic terrorism is the CIA's kind of low-intensity conflict. Dr. Edgar J. DaSilva, director of the Division of Life Sciences of the UN, says the approach is predicated on "the undermining and destruction of economic progress and stability" by "the development and use of biological agents against economic targets such as crops, livestock and ecosystems."

Germs, bacilli and viruses have certain advantages over conventional armaments - explosives and noxious gases have to be explained, but viral agents are plausibly deniable: "Such warfare can always be carried out under the pretexts that such traumatic occurrences are the result of natural circumstances that lead to outbreaks of diseases and disasters of either endemic or epidemic proportions."5 The Zimbabwe anthrax outbreak, the West Nile Virus, conceived at SAIC-USAMRIID, for instance. Add a trained provocateur – a biochemical warfare specialist hailing from a Rhodesian death squad with a parafascist history will do – a little media manipulation, and the result is anthrax psychosis.

That's exactly what the collective response was called in Argentina when a false alarm was tripped by a suspect piece of mail. "Anthrax psychosis," an Argentine newspaper reported, spread in October 2001, "when a travel brochure mailed from Miami to a Buenos Aires family initially tested positive." The spores tested inactive the second time, but "within hours, frantic citizens swamped police stations, hospitals and all kinds of government offices throughout the country with about 1,000 pieces of suspicious mail, most of them posted from the United States or Pakistan."6

The Ames strain did get around. The lethal dust was found in mail rooms ... in a Princeton borough ... in the Senate ... in Dan Rather's CBS office ... in a Kabul factory ... in New York City Hall ... in a diplomatic pouch to the US Consulate General in Yekaterinburg, Russia ... in the Supreme Court's basement mailroom ... in a letter mailed to Kenya ... at the Bureau of Prisons headquarters in Washington ... at the broadcaster's headquarters … 30 Rockefeller Plaza ... on and on.

And the FBI, by focusing on Hatfill alone, gave the impression that the perpetrator was a lone gunman. But he had accomplices, apparently ran with a death squad in the United States as he did in Rhodesia.

The West Nile and anthrax plots – as reconstructed by Leonard Horowitz, Robert Lederman and other independent researchers – began with the meeting at the White House regarding the fate of OraVax, attended by representatives of the company, the administration, and DoD officials. It was agreed that the company, facing bankruptcy, would receive a pass to inventory vaccines.

But some of those attending this meeting were active in this American Pinay Circle. One of them was William Patrick III, President and CEO of Advanced Biosystems Inc. (ABS). Patrick ran the anthrax "weaponization" program at the Ft. Detrick-SAIC lab where Hatfill worked. In 1999, Patrick wrote a study, according to the Baltimore Sun, that discussed "the danger of anthrax spores spreading through the air and the requirements for decontamination after various kinds of attacks. The author, William C. Patrick III, describes placing 2.5 grams of Bacillus globigii, an anthrax simulant, in a standard business envelope – slightly more than the estimated amount of anthrax in each of the letters that killed five people last fall..."

Stephen Hatfill, come to find out, "is a friend and protegé of Patrick, 75, a bio-weapons legend who has himself experienced the dual status of expert and possible suspect..."7

"Protegé?"

In 2002, the Washington Post reported allegations that Partick had produced a blueprint for the anthrax mailings:

"Hatfill commissioned William Patrick III, a biological weapons expert, to write a report on how to deal with anthrax sent through the mail. "It was a public service," Glasberg said, and Patrick was paid only $500. Hatfill and a colleague took Patrick's report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and submitted it to its bioterrorism preparation center. The CDC was working on the same project, Glasberg said, and produced the same findings and recommendations as Patrick. ...

"The concept of a report on anthrax mail attacks - two years before last October's mailings - intrigued the FBI. In particular, Patrick's report discussed mailing 2.5 grams of anthrax powder, about the same amount contained in the deadly anthrax letters.

Glasberg said Patrick used 2.5 grams because that was the amount of talc he poured into an envelope, as a test, to see how much could pass unobtrusively through the mails. Some media reports have called Patrick's report a "blueprint" for the fatal mailings. ...

Boris Lederer, who worked with Hatfill at Science Applications International, recalled his colleague's reaction when the anthrax mailings occurred. "It was just shock and complete disbelief that this was happening," Lederer said.8

Disbelief at a lethal domestic covert operation? The most relevant clues went unreported by the "mainstream" media, for instance, per the Washington Post:

"... Hatfill's résumé detailing those periods has created another storm. Hatfill claimed on a 1997 résumé that he served in the Army Special Forces. Army records show that he enlisted in the Reserve in 1975, served a year of active duty and attended -- but dropped out of -- Special Forces training. Glasberg declined to comment on Hatfill's military record. ... "9

The relevant corporate connections, ala BioPort, were played down. One of them was especially interesting in light of the deep history of the AIDS virus. McClatchy reported recently:

" ... Before the Sept. 11 attacks, Ivins had worked on and held a share of two anthrax vaccine patents, at least one of which was licensed to VaxGen, Inc., a California firm that later won an $877 million contract to make the vaccine for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Bioshield program. But when VaxGen failed to meet deadlines, the government scrapped the contract. ... "
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/46642.html
Details of background of the VaxGen contract reveal a motive for one of the mailings. The motive for the overall plot centers on this pharmaceutical house - VaxGen and BioPort together had the most to gain from the patent on the anthrax vaccine, though this charge has since been widely leveled at the late Bruce Ivins:

A few months before he was targeted in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle sent a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld questioning whether the anthrax vaccine the military was giving soldiers was unsafe and should be discontinued.

The letter, obtained by The Courant, was written with the help of a number of Connecticut officials. They were concerned about complaints from local National Guard members who refused to take the vaccine because they feared it would make them ill.

Apart from raising the issue of the vaccine's safety, the criticism may have had an unintended effect. NBC News reported Tuesday that federal authorities today will reveal that those same complaints could be among the motives in the anthrax attacks that left an Oxford woman and four others dead.

The suspected killer, Bruce Ivins, was one of the Army's lead scientists on the anthrax vaccine and was angered by suggestions that it made recipients ill, NBC reported. ...

Ivins ... was a member of a panel that the government convened to study the vaccine's effectiveness. ... The committee was formed by the Department of Defense before the anthrax mailings and was still meeting at the time the letters were mailed, according to Chairman Jack Melling. He is the former head of Porton Down

Now the anatomy of an inside job becomes apparent to anyone - even Americans reporter who have helium in their heads - there is no "lone gunman."

Donald Rumsfeld was in the loop:

"In the letter to Rumsfeld, Daschle raised concerns that the vaccine didn't work and may have made soldiers sick. He noted that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves drugs only after they are proven safe and effective.



"'A growing number of people believe that the use of the anthrax vaccine as currently formulated to protect humans against inhalation of anthrax spores fails to meet this test,' wrote Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat. 'We all acknowledge that the threat posed by biological weapons, including anthrax, is a real one that the Administration and the Congress have a responsibility to address.'

"

The letter, also signed by then House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, was sent to Rumsfeld on June 21, 2001. The first anthrax letters were postmarked Sept. 18, 2001. The anthrax-laced letters sent to the offices of Daschle and Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy were postmarked Oct. 9, 2001.



Ottilie Lundgren, 94, of Oxford, was killed in November 2001 when she opened an anthrax-laced letter that passed through the same sorting machine in a New Jersey postal facility as the letter to Daschle.

Daschle could not be reached for comment Tuesday night.

"He has criticized the FBI investigation of the anthrax letters and the agency's refusal to update him and other victims on their progress. The FBI is expected to meet with the victims and their families today and might release documents that authorities say link Ivins to the crime.

Daschle got involved in the anthrax vaccine issue through U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, whose office represented Connecticut National Guard members who refused to take the anthrax vaccine.



"Blumenthal said Tuesday that attorneys in his office worked closely with Dodd and Daschle to craft the letter to Rumsfeld.
 ... "11

TO BE CONTINUED

Also see: "Who First Wrongly Linked Anthrax to Iraq -- and Why?"
A: RUMSFELD'S PENTAGON - TO PROVOKE A WAR

NOTES

1) Tom Suber, "3500 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd," Rouge Forum, February 2003.
http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/rouge_forum/newspaper/winter2003/SuberAnthrax.htm

2) Alun Reesand Cyril Dixon, "Scandal of the British soldiers 'poisoned in MoD tests,'" Express, November 7 , 2000.
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/profreedom.co.uk/n1020-d.html

2) Suber. Also see, The Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations of the House Committee on Government Reform, June 30, 1999.

4) Linda Minor, e-mail exchange with author, November 8, 2004.

5) Wayne Madsen, "Combining biological and economic warfare," Online Journal, May 3, 2003.
http://www.911review.org/Wget/www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/050303Ma dsen/050303madsen.html

6) Juan Pérez Cabral, "Anthrax, Anti-Semitism and Anguish In Argentina," NOVEMBER 9, 2001..
http://www.thegully.com/essays/argentina/011109_debt_default_wtc.html

7) Scott Shane, "Scientist theorized anthrax mail attack - FBI searched apartment of expert linked to study," Baltimore Sun, June 27, 2002. http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-te.anthrax27jun27,0,3331733.story

8) Tom Jackman, "Ex-Army Scientist Denies Role in Anthrax Attacks," Washington Post, August 11, 2002.

9) Ibid.

10) Marisa Taylor and Greg Gordo, "After suicide, prosecutors reveal circumstantial anthrax case." http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/46642.html
By Marisa Taylor and Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers

11.) Dave Alatimari, "Anthrax Vaccine Safety Complaints Part Of Ivins Case," Hartford Courant, August 6, 2008.
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-anthrax0806.artaug06,0,5888202.story

http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/

ANTHRAX_IVINS

The ANTHRAX attacks had to be tied to 9/11
They happened at the same time. It takes time to get your hands on weaponized anthrax,
then plan and follow through with those mailings.

FACT: Anthrax has the same type fo "TERROR" effect that the 9/11 attacks did.

FACT: In 2003 Ivins received the highest non-military award there is from the Pentagon.

FACT: On approximately 4 Sept. 2001 AMI received a fan letter containing powder and a star of David, addressed to actress Jennifer Lopez

FACT: the Washington Post reported in 2006 that the FBI no longer believes the anthrax was weaponized.

FACT: anthrax was mailed only to democrats and democratic members of the media

FACT: an anonymous letter accusing a former USAMRIID scientist of plotting terrorism was sent to police BEFORE any anthrax letters or disease were reported.
The letter contains evidence that the anonymous writer had probably worked at USAMRIID.
This letter may also come from the anthrax perpetrator.

This is what one of the letters said.
It very much appears that it is tied to the 9/11 attacks

09-11-01
THIS IS NEXT
TAKE PENACILIN NOW
DEATH TO AMERICA
DEATH TO ISRAEL
ALLAH IS GREAT

Was IVINS a radical MUSLIM ???

'Weird Love Letter to Jennifer Lopez'
On its Web site, Newsweek magazine reported that on Sept. 4 AMI
received a "weird love letter to Jennifer Lopez" containing a "soapy" powder
and a star of David, addressed to the singer-actress  c/o The Sun tabloids. 
That report is the only source of information concerning the date of receipt
of the letter, or that it was addressed to Lopez specifically in care of the Sun.
Inside the Lopez letter was a "soapy, powdery substance" and a cheap Star of David
charm, Sun employees confirmed. Knowledgeable sources told NewsMax.com
that the letter, which Blanco had taken to the Sun, was opened by one
of the editors in the absence of an editorial assistant who would have
ordinarily opened it.

The editor looked at it and then tossed it into a wastepaper basket.
Another Sun staffer, who NewsMax.com was told had a daughter who is a Lopez
fan, retrieved it, found the contents amusing but of no interest to his
daughter, and passed it around to other staff members, according to our
sources.
The last person to touch the letter, they told NewsMax.com,
was probably Bob Stevens. (anthrax now dead)

FBI's Strange Reaction
Moreover, the FBI, which dismissed the letter out of hand and denied it
had any significance, for reasons not disclosed asked AMI not to go
into detail about it with the media or anyone else. The whole thing
just vanished from the investigative radar screen.
The Newsweek report that the Lopez
letter arrived Sept. 4th, seven days before the events of the terrorist
hijacking attacks, would have assumed enormous significance had the
letter been kept. It would seem to point the finger of guilt directly
at the 9-11 hijackers, most of whom lurked nearby until leaving for
their deadly rendezvous with the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Its pretty obvious to me that the anthrax attacks were tied to 9/11
and they are trying to cleanup all loose ends before BUSHCO leave office.

Something smells to me about this Bruce Ivins.
They just aired an audio clip of his "psychiatrist"  who said something
about him wanting to
"go out in a blaze of glory" with guns etc...

If thats true, how come he was not put in jail ?
What would have happened hadhe actually WANTED to go out in a blaze of glory
dont you think he would have used ANTHRAX instead of guns ?

ALso, im not sure if i buy the VICODEN line.
it would take a hell of a lot of that to die from
I would think he would have used morphine and valium at least.
I would think he would know something about drugs, and have access to
them ??
He was the son of a pharmacist.

OK, so have someone who was supposedly responsible for the Anthrax attacks
who then goes and buys a gun, and a bullet proof vest, and says hes 
going out in a "Blaze of Glory"

BUT, hes walking around on the street not locked up ?

LOL
Looks like the patriot act wasnt working too good eh ???

==========

Therapist Jean C. Duley testified on July 24 that Bruce E. Ivins
described a "detailed homicidal plan" to kill his co-workers after
learning he was going to be indicted on capital murder charges.
Duley testified that Ivins had been diagnosed as a "sociopathic,
homicidal killer" by several top psychiatrists.

During a recent group therapy session, Ivins said he had bought a
bullet-proof vest and obtained a gun after learning of the pending
charges, Duley said.

"He was going to go out in a blaze of glory," testified Duley, who said
that Ivins also threatened her.

Frederick County District Judge W. Milnor Roberts issued a temporary
protective order on July 24, ordering Ivins to not to contact Duley and
to stay away from her workplace.

He was due in court Thursday.

Two sources familiar with the investigation said that on Tuesday, the
day Ivins died, lawyers were to meet and discuss a possible plea deal
for him.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/02/anthrax.suspect/?iref=mpstoryview


At a Pentagon ceremony on March 14, 2003, Ivins and two colleagues from
USAMRIID were bestowed the Decoration of Exceptional Civilian Service,
the highest honor given to nonmilitary employees of the Defense
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-anthrax2-2008aug02,0,3650657.story?page=2


As a co-inventor of a new anthrax vaccine, Ivins was among those in
line to collect patent royalties if the product had come to market,
according to an executive familiar with the matter.
The product had languished on laboratory shelves until the Sept. 11
attacks and the anthrax mailings, after which federal officials raced
to stockpile vaccines and antidotes against potential biological terrorism.
A San Francisco-area biotechnology company, VaxGen, won a federal
contract worth $877.5 million to provide batches of the new vaccine.
The contract was the first awarded under legislation promoted by
President Bush, called Project BioShield.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-anthrax2-2008aug02,0,3650657.story?page=1




I would like to hear from someone more medically qualified on one
subject: If this man tried to commit suicide with tylenol-3. How could
they have taken him to the hospital where he died TWO DAYS LATER? I
have abused the same drug and I couldn't even get into a coma.

Also, in listening to Jean Duley's testimony posted on NYTimes, I
noted she had worked at that facility for the exact length of time she
was treating Dr Ivins--six months. Does she supplement her income?
Hard to find any background on her, but I am looking.

Finally, this comes very quickly on the end of a 5+ million dollar
settlement of the last  lead suspect in the case. Which is unusual on
its own, seldom are suspects paid restitution like that as far as I
know.


More on the anthrax attacks
http://www.911review.org/Wiki/AnthraxAttacks.shtml

Project Anthrax (6 part series)
http://911review.org/Alex/PROJECT_ANTHRAX_1_.html
>

http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=120074;title=APFN
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/the-fbis-new-patsy-jean-duley/