2001 Anthrax Attacks against Dems not "military grade"

[MethuenProgressive]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5377744.stm

US attacks used 'common anthrax'
Investigators believe anthrax used in a series of attacks in the US in 2001 was not of military grade as originally thought, a US newspaper reports.

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Always remember *who* were targeted in these attacks. Maybe that's why nothing much has been done to bring anyone to justice.

[ck4829]

1. And it took 5 years to come to this conclusion, why?

[sweetheart]

4. It took 5 years for the military psyops

.. to be in gear enough to rewrite history and make everyone forget that
they supplied WMD's against US civilians, an utterly disgraceful act,
that those WMD's exist to start with, and that they got out.

But why deal with the real issue, lets just re-edit perception
in a vacuously informed public, OJ simpson could never have worn that bloody glove.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Because, as long as we believe it is military grade, all roads lead

to Ft. Detrick.

[sui generis]

7. oh good grief any college microbiology student can culture it

It occurs naturally in the soil anywhere livestock, and particularly cattle are pastured. All "weapons grade" means is that it can be effectively dispersed without destroying it or having it degrade under normal environmental conditions, and that it is made in a concentration and quantity adequate to cause infection.

[Warpy]

2. I call BULLSHIT

The anthrax was military grade, or it wouldn't have diffused through the air so rapidly and caused the shutdown of Congressional office buildings while offices and the ventilation system were decontaminated.

Ordinary anthrax spores are covered by a thick, waxy coating that helps them survive in soil but which render them very heavy and unlikely to cause anything but cutaneous (skin) anthrax. They woudln't have contaminated anything but the desk where the envelopes were opened.

This is utter and complete disinformation. It was weaponized anthrax, something we knew at the time. They tried to blame it on Iraq, which had abandoned its attempts to weaponize anthrax using Bentonite to abrade the outer coating. The strain of anthrax led directly to the CIA lab at Ft. Detrick.

Too many people out here in workaday land have read about weaponized anthrax, how hard it is to produce and handle, and what sort of facilities are necessary to fill envelopes and scrub their exteriors without contaminatng the environment and causing multiple deaths for them to ignore any more.

This is a lie. It was an inside job.

[zbdent]

3. Sure, NOW the anthrax was no longer weapons grade ...

and yet, more potent than the leftover "chemical weapons" that Iraq had left over from before Gulf I, that Bush and company said was such a threat to our country ...

Remember, in the early days of the war, the soldiers were not responding to "Democracy threats" when they had to put on their biohazard suits when the alarms sounded ... they were "prepped" for chem/bio warfare ... not "liberation" ...

[wakeme2008]

6. I think this is CYA BS

For 5 years they said Military Grade now it is common "oh anybody can get it and that why we have not got the perp" Anthrax

[Junkdrawer]

8. Same with the Pakistan Connection...

London Yank posts this on DKos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/18/82548/4524

And the Corporate Media publishes the "Bomb them back to the Stone Age" Rumor:

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/21/pakistan.threat.ap/

Someone is trying to cleanup all the most damning MIHOP evidence...

[Truthiness Inspector]

9. Very strange that it took 5 years

to figure this out. Hmmmm.

[Truthiness Inspector]

10. dupe, double posted somehow n/t