Anthrax Mailings Part II: The Al-Qaeda Connection
A few days ago, I wrote this post about the Iraq connection to the anthrax mailings following 9/11. Due to space limitations and copyright stuff, I couldn't copy the entire article. If you would have clicked the link I provided, you could have read the entire article.
That same day, I received an email from the author of the following piece:
The Code Used In The Anthrax Letters
By Ross E. Getman
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told a recent conference in Washington, D.C.:
"People often ask me what keeps you up at night; what do you worry about? If someone were to have a sophisticated attack on our financial services system, let's just say cyber networks broadly, at the same time that they mailed through U.S. mail, FedEx, and UPS the equivalent of letters sprinkled with anthrax throughout the country, it would have a devastating impact. If you chose the right time, right place, right season, it may have a maybe even more overwhelming devastating impact."
While by his account in that speech, he starts his day at 4:00 a.m., let's consider whether Mr. McConnell has made the time to brief the President on the code used in the earlier anthrax letters.
(1) Atta's "Jenny" Code and the Jennifer Lopez Letter
The goofy letter sent to the publisher of the National Enquirer and Sun tabloids in Florida sought to dissuade Jennifer Lopez from a planned marriage. “Wedding” is known Al Qaeda-speak for “event” or “attack.” In the Summer of 2001, Mohammed Atta was communicating with a terrorist contact in Germany. He used tradecraft code in these contacts -- he used the code "Two sticks, a dash and a cake with a stick down" to convey to his contact the intended date of the 9/11 attack. In sending these emails to Germany, Atta pretended to be writing to an imaginary girlfriend named "Jenny." Khalid Mohammed used a similar code in communicating with Ramzi Binalshibh during the period, instructing Binalshibh to send "the skirts" to "Sally". (The 9/11 Commission Staff noted that "Sally" was Zacarias Moussaoui.) KSM admits that upon the death of military commander Atef, he came to supervise the cell planning on attacking the United States with weaponized anthrax. In 2003, after the interrogation of regional operative Hambali, "extremely virulent" anthrax was found at a house in Kandahar that could be readily weaponized. Al Qaeda had it prior to 9/11.
You can read the whole thing here. It's quite lengthy so make sure you have time to read all of it. I printed it out and it was 11 pages.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to connect dots. You have Iraq and Syria creating the anthrax. Remember, at this time it is still "Saddam's Iraq". Somehow, the anthrax gets in the hands of al-Qaeda. Then al-Qaeda mails out the anthrax. The brick wall to connecting all of this together is the talking heads keep telling us there was no cooperation between Saddam and al-Qaeda. I'm no investigative journalist but it doesn't take much effort to find bits of info concerning cooperation between Saddam and al-Qaeda. I've even posted a few of them.
The reason that we can't just say al-Qaeda created the anthrax is because the anthrax that was used, was very difficult to make. It takes a very skilled scientist to produce this type of anthrax. Mr. Spertzel, a biological weapons expert said that only 5 people in the United States could produce this type of anthrax and he was one of them. So, could a bunch of yahoo's running around caves be able to product this type of anthrax? I doubt it. I think the more realistic thought would be it was purchased or perhaps it was a gift for the common cause of defeating the infidels.
