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Anthrax, the Left and Saddam

Was Anthrax the first bio-terrorism attack on the United States, or another in a series carried out over the last few years? Certainly, mailing letters to prominent media types like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, congressional leadership, executive branch offices and the Supreme Court suggests a change in tactics, but was it the first attack?

The West Nile Virus was previously contained to Africa. Over the last three years it has been identified in Israel, Italy, Russia, Romania, the Czech republic and the United States. Hmmm, it just jumped across the Ocean—right? Sure.

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) has appeared in Hawaii with forty cases diagnosed by October 2, 2001. It is the first outbreak in 56 years. A Rather astounding coincidence considering this is contemporary to the Anthrax attacks along the United State’s east coast. Is anyone curious how it showed up at the same time, when it had been absent since 1945?

Along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border over the summer 2001, there has been an outbreak of the Crimea-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF). Over 63 people have been hospitalized with the fever. Who knows what Osama has tucked away in those caves?

Consider, the Foot and Month Disease (FMD) that devastated British, French, Irish and Netherlands herds. The problem spread through out Europe during the early spring and summer of 2001. This was sudden assault six months before the 9-11 attacks—must be another one of those nagging coincident?

Of course, these all might be unfortunate accidents or the work of right wing nutcrackers operating out of their basement labs. There is an extraordinary reluctance to look at the obvious culprit—Saddam Hussein and his biological weapon research—more on this later.

Note that DHF and CCHF are both hemorrhagic fevers similar to the dread Ebola virus. One of the problems with Ebola is certainly not its lethality, but the fact that it kills so quickly and so completely that it tends to burn itself out in small populations before it can infect larger populations. Might it be that DHF and CCHF provide a less lethal and more capable pathogen to attack a target population? Could it be the marvelous Taliban Muslim holy men unleashed a variant of the CCHF pathogen on their own people as a test and it got out of control in Afghanistan?

FMD is one of the most contagious pathogens known to mankind, and even as it devastated Europe early in 2001, there were whispers suggesting it was a biological weapon that had gotten loose from one of Britain’s biological warfare labs. There is little doubt that the source of the outbreak was artificially produced, the only question remains as to where it came from. The effect was to economically destroy an industry and attack Western Europe’s food supply.

Lurking behind all of this is the great killer of the Twentieth Century—Smallpox. Allegedly only two countries possess the pathogen—America and the Russian Federation. We know the American copy is locked away at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, but we are less certain as the security regarding the Russian copy. Just prior to the Anthrax attacks in the United States, the American Government was bracing for Smallpox. A curious posture for a disease supposedly eradicated in the late seventies.

Another development on the Anthrax front is the presence of Bentonite in the Anthrax samples delivered via the US Mail. Bentonite is a naturally-occurring clay found in America and Iraq. The Bentonite was bonded to the Anthrax spores to ensure they did not clump together and remained airborne for a longer period of time. Despite protestations to the contrary, this is a weaponized biological agent. There is only one country known to use Bentonite in their research programs—Iraq.

The relevant question is: Does Iraq have the know how to produce these weapons?

During my research for my novel Point of Honor, I discovered an interesting lady by the name of Doctor Rihab Rashida al-Awazi. In 1997 she was unassuming looking woman with newborn baby daughter, she remains Saddam Hussein’s chief biological weapon’s designer. She is known to western intelligence agencies as Doctor Germ. The U.N. weapon inspector’s claimed she was in charge of developing and testing biological weapons such as Anthrax and Botulinum toxin. She is married to General Amer Rashid al-Ubaidi who has handled Iraq’s most sensitive superweapon’s issues vis-à-vis the U.N.

Saddam hates the west, but particularly he hates Great Britain and America. These are the two countries that continue to enforce the no-fly zone over the southern and northern portions of his country, and maintain an embargo of sanctioned items.

When the final history is written of the War of Terror, I am confident that we will discover Saddam Hussein is the architect. Osama Bin Laden is little more than a very evil man, and his Al Qaeda network is more of a delivery system than an outright army. I am not mitigating Bin Laden’s participation in the 9-11 attacks, nor am I minimizing the carnage he brought to American shores. However, Bin Laden is nothing more than general carrying out his Great leader’s orders and that Great Leader is Saddam Hussein.

Which brings us back to the claim that right wing militia groups anxious to get back at the left wing elites perpetrated the Anthrax attacks. This is a myth emerging from the Clintonized FBI and CIA. Remember these are the geniuses that failed to provide warning on 9-11. This is the same political agenda ignored possible leads between Abu Sayyaf (Philippine Islamic Terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda And Osama Bin Laden) and Terry Nichols of Oklahoma City infamy. It is the same twisted logical that sanctions the murder of 82 men, women, and children at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. It is the same people who ignored 169 eyewitnesses that claimed a missile fired from Long Island Sound to TWA 800 and then there was an explosion.

There are elements inside and outside the Federal Government that have an agenda aimed at internal enemies (mostly Second Amendment types and the militia movement). Regardless, of your position on those issues and groups, it is highly doubtful that the right wing has the expertise to develop the weaponized Anthrax employed inside the United States in the Fall of 2001. The expertise to produce this type of weapon exists in three places: United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USARMIID) located at Fort Detrick, Maryland; the former Soviet Union; Iraq’s Doctor Germ.

The United States is engaged in a war, and the preponderance of evidence suggesting we have been hit several times over the last several years is difficult to ignore. To this writer, it is clear that Saddam Hussein is one of the main villains, but probably, not the only one.

Douglas De Bono / DouglasDeBono.Com Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota E-Mail readermail@DouglasDeBono.Com