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2001 anthrax attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. The crime remains unsolved. Senator Patrick Leahy, one of the recipients of an anthrax letter, publicly stated just before the sixth anniversary of the case that he believes people within the US government know the source of the anthrax powder.[1]
Although the anthrax preparations were of different grades, all of the material derived from the same bacterial strain. Known as the Ames strain, it was first researched at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland. The Ames strain was then distributed to at least fifteen bio-research labs within the U.S. and six locations overseas.
(Have I mentioned how much I like TribEXT?)
Now, I will not claim that it was perceived as a general death threath to opposing politicians and journalists. Perceived among themselves that is. I have no way of proving that, in fact it is the sort of thing that generally stays unclear until a regime falls and archives are opened or until people die and historians are let into archives and given access to letters and diaries. I am merely submitting that it is a possibility which (if true) I think would go a long way in explaining the extremely weak spines in DC. Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
And then, of course, the Cheney hunting accident.
The Bushco death-threats are really not so subtle.
But their real effect comes from the fact that even as they rattle opponents, the public refuses to notice them.
It is the denial and collaboration which is the heart of the disease.
Unlike Hitler, Bush is really incompetent, and without the denial and collaboration would have been swept away (voted out or impeached) long ago. The Fates are kind.
And then, of course, the Cheney hunting accident. The Bushco death-threats are really not so subtle.
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