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I often experience this condition when I sleep. I came out of my body and saw my body was sleeping next to my partner's body and I walked around freely to keep watch in our bedroom. I wore the same clothes as my body was in bed. I could even see our baby was sleeping soundly in his bed in the room next to our room with our nanny.And I felt calm when I saw all of us fell asleep. The problem was when I felt I wanted to go out - and I could not go further out than The Outside like this --- but I felt my body calling me and I needed to get back into my body.
That was the hardest activities to do. I felt I was very light, but I had to be strong to break through a very tough field. I always had to try desperately to cope with such conditions. I was calling my partner to help me by holding my hand, but I knew he could not hear me. He just kept sleeping. But I kept trying to break through the field with a vengeance until my body woke up and We Were Together Again.
After reaching a condition in which We Had Been Together Again -- me and my body -- I felt I had been through a very long journey. My partner never knew where I was going, because he was sleeping. With me.
■ Further Reading - Astral Projection
* Books
- Christopher,Milbourne. ESP, Seers & Psychics (Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1970).* Websites
- Grim, Patrick. ed., Philosophy of Science and the Occult, second edition (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990).
- Sagan, Carl. Broca's Brain (New York: Random House, 1979), pp. 47-48.
- Crystalinks Astral Projection
- Keith Augustine's essays
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■ Here's a timeline of the 2001 Anthrax letters attack
Sept. 17-18, 2001: Five letters are sent to ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Post and American Media, the publisher of the National Enquirer, from a Trenton, N.J. postmark.
Oct. 2, 2001: Two weeks after sniffing powder in a letter sent to the American Media building in Florida, The Sun photo editor Robert Stevens, who worked at in the building in Boca Raton, is hospitalized.
Oct. 4, 2001: Stevens is diagnosed with inhalational anthrax. He dies the next day. Three days later, tests run on his computer keyboard also test positive for anthrax.
Oct. 9, 2001: Authorities believe this is the date when two more letters were sent to Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy.
Oct. 10, 2001: A third American Media employee tests positive for anthrax. The National Enquirer headquarters is shut down.
Oct. 12, 2001: A letter sent to NBC News, which tests positive for anthrax, is turned over to the FBI. It had already been opened.
Oct. 15, 2001: The letter sent to Sen. Daschle is opened. Two days later, 31 Capitol Hill staffers test positive for anthrax. Spores are detected in a Senate mail room.
Oct. 21/22, 2001: Two postal employees at the Brentwood post office in D.C., Thomas L. Morris, Jr., 55, and Joseph P. Curseen, 47, die of anthrax exposure.
Oct. 25, 2001: A mail service worker at the State Department is hospitalized and tests positive for anthrax.
Oct. 29, 2001: A New York City hospital employee, 61-year-old Kathy Ngyuen, is diagnosed with inhalational anthrax. She dies two days later.
Nov. 7, 2001: President George W. Bush says the anthrax letters represent another terrorist attack on the United States.
Nov. 20, 2001: Ottile Lundgren, 94, of Connecticut is diagnosed with anthrax. She dies the next day.
April 18, 2002: Anthrax spores matching the profile of those sent in the letters are found outside a containment area at Fort Detrick are found, including inside the office of Dr. Bruce Ivins. Ivins had been testing spores at Fort Detrick since the attack occurred.
April 11, 2007: Ivins is placed under periodic surveillance and is declared a suspect in connection with the attacks.
July 2008: Ivins is informed that the FBI is planning to press charges against him
July 29, 2009: Ivins dies of a drug overdose.
August 8, 2009: The FBI declares that Ivins was the sole person behind the anthrax attacks.■ RENSE.com : In Search Of The Anthrax Attacker - Following Valuable Clues. From Patricia Doyle, PhD dr_p_doyle@hotmail.comJeff,
Dr. Nass and Dr. Rosenber have made amazing progress on unveiling the anthrax attacker. We must, however, go a step further and look into other members of the Camal Club as well as those who were colleagues of the Camal Club, such as Dr. Ken Alibek.
I do find that the William Patrick's 1999 analysis report of anthrax sent by mail, written for a defense contractor (and not widely circulated) to be a good clue in finding the mastermind of the 2001 letters.
Furthermore, the lettering on the anthrax letters of 2001 matches the hoax letters of 1998. This could be either 1. the hoax letters culminating in the real anthrax letters were sent by the same person or persons. or...2. The mastermind had seen the hoax letters, as would have been discussed in meetings of biotech kingpins and had copied the lettering style.
I truly believe that the mastermind won't be sending out anymore anthrax letters as his point was made, his company and his patent profited and there is no further need to incriminate himself.
It is quite possible that the case may close and no culprit ever named.
Be on the look out for the Washington Post article on Dr. Assad, former Ft. Detrick scientist who was accused of being the anthax mail sender. Dr. Assad was a member of a group of Ft. Detrick scientists who called themselves "the Camal club".
About two days before the first Anthrax Letter was received, a letter went to Quantico describing Dr. Assad as a bioterrorist. The letter went on to describe the Camal Club and their clandestine nocturnal activities in the Detrick labs.
I believe that the author of that letter which pointed the finger at Dr. Assad, was actually the anthrax attacker.
Now, we must go back and look at the years when Dr. Assad was working at Detrick. Part of that time when Dr. Alibek was at Ft. Detrick. A time when Alibek was walking those halls as well...
Patricia
In Search Of The Anthrax Attacker - Following Valuable Clues
By Meryl Nass, MD 2-3-2
"Senior Bush administration officials have privately said that little progress is being made in the anthrax investigation, which has involved hundreds of investigators, [who] are no closer to finding the culprit, they say." So reported Todd J Gillman and Michelle Mittelstadt of the Dallas Morning News on January 31.
It has been four months since the first case of inhalation anthrax was diagnosed. Last week, the FBI announced that it would be sending flyers to 500,000 residents of the Trenton, New Jersey region, asking for leads. This week, the FBI arranged with the American Society for Microbiology to e-mail its US membership, in another attempt to reach out to scientists that might have insight into the attacks.
Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, an arms control expert at the State University of New York, Purchase, and chair of a bioweapons panel at the Federation of American Scientists authored an analysis of the attacks that may have prodded the FBI into investigating the US bioterrorism establishment. She thinks the scientific details could be too complicated for investigators to grasp.
But if the FBI has no anthrax expertise, there are plenty of scientists who do, and who would be happy to assist in the investigation.
Last October, both Ken Alibek (the defector who was #2 in the Soviet biowarfare establishment, and who also developed the most virulent Soviet anthrax) and William Patrick (the man who was #1 in the US biowarfare establishment, and developed a powder used for weaponizing anthrax, allegedly the same material used in the attacks) were quoted as saying that no one had sought their help in the investigation. That made me extremely curious, since they were two public figures most knowledgeable about weaponized anthrax, and would know how to analyze the anthrax and identify its origin.
Why had the anthrax been sent in letters, rather than released in ventilation systems, tunnels or subways? The (estimated) two trillion spores per letter could have caused a lot more mischief in another setting.
Something else was odd. The attacker had actually warned the recipients that the letters contained anthrax, and suggested they take penicillin. Then a lightbulb went off: someone was sending these letters to create an effect, not to cause damage. The letters were sealed with tape, presumably to further prevent the escape of spores. The point was to frighten, not to kill. And the targets were chosen with an eye to getting publicity and making an impact on Congress.
The attacker also had familiarity with forensic investigations. He avoided using saliva on the letters, used a form of printing that is most difficult to analyze, and otherwise left a paucity of evidence. Did he have professional help?
(I am referring here to the anthrax attacker in the singular and using the male gender, although I suspect that, for logistical reasons, it is unlikely that one person acted alone, or was even a loner, as the FBI profile has suggested.)
I subsequently learned of William Patrickís 1999 analysis of anthrax sent by mail, written for a defense contractor. Iíve not seen the report, but have been told he did not consider that envelopes contained pores, and was not aware that postal machines squeeze and compress the mail, forcing anthrax spores out of intact envelopes.
The attacker may well have read Patrickís report, or even used it as a model. Who had access to this report?
To commit a crime one must have a motive. Because of the unpredictability of who might become ill, or die after exposure to the letters, I doubt that the attacker had specific victims in mind. A grudge against Tom Brokaw or Senator Daschle has been postulated. Did the attacker really think they opened their own mail?
More likely, the attacker wanted to frighten Congress, which controls spending for bioterrorism. If new appropriations for bioterrorism defense are a measure of the attackerís success, he has certainly triumphed.
Who are the beneficiaries of a bioterrorism scare?
The biowarfare establishment has benefited so far: CDC got $450 million extra for bioterrorism, and the states will get $1.1 billion dollars. More money has been spent on stockpiling antibiotics, and the government has contracted for 209 million doses of smallpox vaccine, at a cost of $850 million. Other biowarfare vaccines in development have probably had new life breathed into them.
The US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (where the Armyís center for biodefense, Fort Detrick, is located) will receive increased funding and stature. Bioport, the anthrax vaccine manufacturer that tried in vain for the past 2 years to get FDA approval, after as major overhaul of its facility, just got it - though Congressman Ben Gilman has asked the GAO to investigate this, and the Defense Department has declined to say whether anthrax inoculations for the military will resume.
Who had the means?
After the attacks it was revealed that the powdered, weaponized anthrax is identical to that made by our own biowarfare establishment; that is, by the same people who are benefiting from the attacks.
One area of wasted investigative effort was the search for the origin of the "Ames" anthrax strain used. It was reported initially that hundreds of labs held Ames anthrax samples. Then it turned out that few actually did.
On October 11, after receiving FBI approval to do so, Iowa State University destroyed their anthrax collection. Did this result in the loss of crucial evidence?
But how would tracing back the Ames strain solve the case? Even if only 20 labs had samples, not all of them had high levels of security. After all, some are university labs. Scientists share strains with hardly a thought. Ames anthrax could have been stolen, shared, or even dug up from Texas soil. Or removed from one of the labs by a scientist with access.
Dr. Paul Keim of Northern Arizona University maintains an extensive anthrax database; he examined the Ames anthrax used in the attacks with a series of genetic probes, and said it was identical to the strain held at several government labs. But to be certain, the entire genome of the attack anthrax and the government anthrax are being deciphered, so that individual differences can be counted and examined, and estimates made as to precisely how close (or how many generations apart) the two strains really are. (Of course, this assumes that the actual government strain, and the actual letter strain were provided to the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Md.)
Reading William Broadís article, "Geographic Gaffe Misguides Anthrax Inquiry," in the January 29 New York Times, one finds confusion over the meaning of the strainís origin. Broad also takes Dr. Rosenberg to task over her earlier statement that the anthrax "may be a remnant of the US biological weapons program."
Broad discovered that the Ames strain came from a cow that died in Texas in 1981, not from a cow that died in Iowa in the 1930ís. He then inferred that the strain did not come from the US biowarfare stockpile, which was officially destroyed by 1975, when the Biological Weapons Convention went into effect.
But a CIA memo signed by Thomas Karamessines, and provided to the Senate, informs us that the CIA (at least) kept 100 grams of anthrax, illegally, after the Convention went into effect. So some of the old stockpile could still be around.
The fact that the Ames strain was isolated from a cow in 1981, and from a goat several hundred miles away in 1997, indicates that there is a lot of Ames in Texas, and it most likely was there well before 1981, and ever since. So it could have comprised part of the old US stockpile. William Patrick and others would know, and there should be records to show what was actually produced.
The more germane issue, however, is whether the isolation of Ames in 1981 exonerates the Defense Department, CIA, or US government contractors from possible involvement in the anthrax attacks. It does not.
No matter whether the government first got its supply of Ames before or after 1970, when it officially ended its offensive biowarfare program, Ames was eventually used to create a government supply of dry, weaponized anthrax, which at this time appears to be identical to that used in the attacks.
Of more importance to the investigation, however, is the origin of:
a) the material added to the anthrax spores that causes them to separate from each other, greatly enhancing virulence, and
b) the method that assured the spores were relatively uniform in size, and were sized for optimal lethality.
Although Ames was shared, this method of production, as well as the additive, would have been closely-guarded secrets. They are what made Ames extremely lethal, and the same could be done with other strains.
Furthermore, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, which the US initiated and signed in 1972, prohibits the possession of biological agents that are not used for defensive purposes. No defensive use for this form of anthrax has ever been publicly disclosed.
In contrast, the Ames anthrax that is used in (defensive) vaccine experiments is dispersed by an aerosolizer from a liquid slurry. No dry anthrax is used. (In liquid form, anthrax is a poor weapon.)
To test our defenses against dry anthrax, you can use a benign Bacillus spore, a cousin of anthrax. The mere possession of dry, weaponized anthrax could be deemed illegal under the terms of the Convention. So the United States kept its existence secret, and would have had little reason to share it. We wouldnít want the material or recipe for making highly dispersible spores to reach potential enemies.
The real question is: who had access to this material, or knew the method for its production? A clue: you will find the attacker among the very small clique of bioweaponeers with this specialized knowledge or access to the weaponized end product.
Now to the question of whether the anthrax was homemade, or snatched from a government inventory. It is much more likely to have been snatched, but either is possible.
Anthrax cannot be produced without leaving evidenceótelltale spores that have escaped into the environment. Companies that use spore-forming organisms to manufacture vaccines (for tetanus and botulinum toxoid, for instance) can never use the facility for making other products, due to persistent contamination with invisible spores. The Hart Senate Office Building clean-up took 3 months and cost $14 million, and may not have rid the building of every anthrax spore.
Therefore, production in a basement lab could lead to spore detection (and proof of guilt) for the foreseeable future, if environmental samples were obtained and cultured. Furthermore, the equipment and materials the attacker purchased to produce the anthrax could be traced.
In addition to increasing the attackerís chances of being detected, spore production is dangerous. Remember, this is someone who knows all about anthrax. He knows what these spores can do, and would not have wanted to expose himself to them.
Anthrax experts know that physical protection (particularly the use of a self-contained breathing apparatus) is your primary protection from inhaled anthrax. It has long been established that large spore counts can overwhelm vaccine-induced immunity and antibiotic protection. In fact, for a long time the Ames strain was called "vaccine resistant" at Fort Detrick. So anyone in-the-know would have worked with the spores in a safe setting. They might well have been vaccinated and used antibiotics, but would not have relied on them exclusively for protection.
Therefore, anthrax was almost certainly manufactured, mixed with the anti-cling powder, and placed into envelopes in a protected environment.
Placing the spores - two trillion at a time - into envelopes would have been particularly dangerous. These spores floated off the glass slides when scientists first tried to look at them. You canít fill an envelope without losing millions or billions of spores in the process.
It is only logical that the filling occurred within an official anthrax "hot suite"- a Biosafety Level 3 or 4 facility, by someone in a "moon suit" using a protected air supply. There are a small number of these facilities. They must have substantial security, possibly video cameras, and there must be logs that indicate who used them.
If the attacker used government-made (or defense contractor-made) anthrax, and filled the envelopes in hot suites already contaminated with Ames anthrax, he will have left no evidence. He could walk out of the hot suite with his filled envelopes in a plastic bag or other secure container, and no one would be the wiser.
Furthermore, the first known letters were postmarked September 18, and contained a fake Islamic message.
Yet another clue: although anthrax degrades extremely slowly, and could have been obtained or produced at any time, the choice of September and an Islamic message suggests the first envelopes, at least, were filled between September 11 and 18. Who used the hot suites then?
This past week a new, important wrinkle was reported. An Egyptian-born scientist, Dr. Ayaad Assaad, had been fingered as a possible bioterrorist in an anonymous letter sent to Quantico Marine Corps Base, before any anthrax letters had even been discovered. It is unclear whether the letter was sent to the military or to the FBI, which maintains a substantial presence on the base.
Assaad had worked at Fort Detrick for years, but was laid off in 1997, and had an age discrimination lawsuit pending against his former employer. Furthermore, while at Detrick he had been the butt of a salacious and demeaning poem circulated by a group of coworkers- all Army scientists- who called themselves the "Camel Club." Unauthorized nighttime research and missing anthrax slides at the lab where the club members worked embellish the story.
Although one might manage to grow anthrax from a spore found on a stolen pathology slide, itís unlikely. Slides are generally heated, and the material may have been treated with formaldehyde, which kills anthrax. There must be easier ways to obtain anthrax, especially if you work at Fort Detrick. Although itís a juicy story, there is a huge divide between anthrax on a pathology slide and the production of weaponized anthrax. They do not equate.
At first glance, the letter about Assaad seemed to have been written by a former Camel Club member, who decided to revive an old antagonism. But it is much more likely that the real attacker knew of the club, and meant to lay guilt on former club members. (The club members were not anthrax scientists, but instead worked on pathogenic viruses.)
Letís look more closely. The first letters to arrive with anthrax took a long time to cause illness. Until then, they were dismissed as hoaxes. The letters to the New York Post and NBC were postmarked September 18; the letter to The Sun, a Florida-based tabloid, has never been found. The first anthrax case was diagnosed in Florida on October 3, probably 15 days after the letter was sent.
It seems logical, therefore, that the Quantico letter (that insinuated Assaad was a bioterrorist) was meant to arrive after the public had become aware of an anthrax attack. Had that happened, the letter would have been perceived as a response to the attacks. But since it arrived first, indicating foreknowledge of the attacks, it could only come from the attacker himself.
Therefore, where the letter came from, when it was sent, and the personal details of Assaadís life that it contained are vitally important. Only a small number of people could be sufficiently familiar with Assaad and the Camel Club shenanigans to have written it.
A very important clue: one of these people is the perpetrator. He may also have some connection to Quantico.
Where does this leave us?
Most likely, the suspect still works in the biodefense field, but might be a former employee. He may have read William Patrickís report on mailed anthrax. Places where the perpetrator likely worked may include Fort Detrick, Dugway Proving Ground (where a large Biosafety level 3 facility for testing biowarfare aerosols exists), Battelle Memorial Institute, CDC, and Bioport, but there are others. All these entities potentially stand to benefit from the new interest in bioterrorism. The person probably worked at Fort Detrick years ago, and knew Assaad and the Camel Club members. Either recently, or in the past, the attacker had access to weaponized anthrax. He used a high containment, Biosafety 3 or 4 facility to prepare his anthrax-laden envelopes between September 11 and 18.
Where do we go from here?
People who fit this profile should be investigated, to include interviews possibly using lie detectors. If warranted, their homes and businesses should be carefully cultured for stray spores. Retired Fort Detrick workers, who are familiar with what was stockpiled, and how anthrax products were made, should be interviewed. Several are on record as saying they have not been approached. All appropriate Biosafety facilities, here and in other nations, should have their logs reviewed. It should be easy to construct lists of those who worked at Detrick and knew Assaad, those who had access to weaponized anthrax or knew the recipe, and those with access to the hot suites. However, if there do exist several attackers, the overlap might be hard to find. This person, or his program, if such is the case, is likely to benefit nicely from the anthrax scare.
The anthrax attacks were a heinous crime in a number of ways. First, they caused the deaths of five innocent civilians, who in military jargon might be considered "collateral damage." Second, they directly attacked the center of our government, and our free press. Third, they appear to have been motivated by the calculation that the country needed to be scared to death, in order to act in a way the attacker wanted. And so we have, allocating billions of taxpayer dollars for responding to and preparing for bioterrorism. That is not how decisions should be made in a democracy. Finally, biological attacks are a clandestine, cowardly method of attack, in which the perpetrator is usually difficult to identify.
If the attacker remains free, the attractiveness of future biological attack only increases.
■ Rense.com - On The Trail Of The Anthrax Attack Conspirators - By Patricia Doyle, PhD / dr_p_doyle@hotmail.com 7-7-2
I have been "hot on the trail" of the Anthrax Attackers. I am sure that the anthrax attackers of 2001 used the highly classified 1999 risk assessment of sending anthrax via mail authored by William Patrick III as a guide to the 2001 attacks.
The time line of the 2001 attacks goes back to 1997. Yes, that is correct 1997. The media and government and FBI etal would have us believe that 9/11 happened, and then the "lone nutty Professor" with a grudge went to his basement and "voila," 2 weeks later, anthrax in the mail. One of the big reasons why law enforcement cannot identify the conspirators is because they have the theory of a lone perpertrator and won't admit that the biological attackS were carried out by more then one individual. Law enforcement needs to widen the investigation and they need to supoena all phone records, computer drives etc of various individuals who were close to Dr. Steven Hatfill. Cars, storage rooms, even hotels in the area of Trenton need to be looked at. Who was where when the letters were mailed etc.
Well, it doesn't take a Harvard scientist to know that highly and finely weaponized anthrax cannot be milled in some basement and disbursed via mail within two weeks. Equipment and other preparations took time and well coordinated planning.
So, let us do some sleuthing.
OK, first of all we know that in 1999 there was a very highly classified and not widely distributed risk assessment that assessed the risk of sending anthrax through the mail. The assessment used b. globigii filling the envelopes with 2.5 grams of the anthrax simulant. Of course, the letters were not really sent through the postal service but handled in secure lab.
According to William Patrick III, the risk of the b. globigii escaping the envelopes was no risk.
So, being a good detective, we look at the real letters. They, as in the assessment, were all business size envelopes, taped closed. They also contained THE SAME AMOUNT 2.5 grams. The only difference was that in place of b. globigii, weaponized anthrax was used.
The anthrax in the attack letters of 2001 was milled by at least two different people. Anthrax as a weapon has its own signature. One of the letters, I believe the Daschle letter contained a more lumpy but more potent anthrax. All of the letters did have betonite and silica in the anthrax (telling us that the conspirators had their "schooling" in our own US bioweapons program, and they were all minutely milled i.e. smallest micron size.
One of the attendees to the April 1998 Clinton White House Bioterrorism meetings had alerted me to the 1999 risk assessment. This scientist thought that the assessment was pertinent in the case of the anthrax attacker and wanted me to go public with this info. I did so about 6 months ago and have been discussing it constantly on every radio show interview and in all my writings on the subjec.
One ultimate question on my mind was, "WHO ORDERED THE ASSESSMENT IN 1999." I learned that Dr. Steven Hatfill had comissioned friend, confident and colleague, William Patrick III to do a risk assessment for sending anthrax via the mail. Next question in my mind was, WHO IS STEVEN HATFILL? Why did he order the assessment? One would think that a real bioterrorist would use weaponized anthrax where it could kill the largest amount of people at one time.
I had heard of Dr. Hatfill, as did others in the Bioterrorism Preparedness community. Dr. Hatfill had much medai attention in 1997 after the manila envelope filled with b. cereus was sent to the Washington offices of the B'nai B'rith. He had also recently been hired by USAMRIID in 97 after he left the NIH. He had been at the NIH since 1995 but was seeking USAMRIID position. He had long desired to become involved in bioterrorism and his 1997 arrival at USAMRIID was his "dream job." It was quite strange, however, to hear that in 1999 he left USAMRIID quickly.
In 1999, he went to SAIC (Scientific Applications International Corp) while still maintaining lab privileges at USAMRIID, Dugway and the Chem. Weapons lab at Edgewood. He remained at SAIC until March 2002 when, for some strange reason not yet comprehended, his security clearances were revoked. In Feb. 2002, the Baltimore Sun did run an article on Dr. Steven Hatfill pointing out that in August 2000, Dr. Hatfill was seen leaving USAMRIID with 2 biosafety cabinents. His excuse was that he removed the cabinets to use as part of his lecture during a Special Forces bioterrorism course. He claimed that after 2 uses he destroyed the cabinets. I wonder if anyone has seen any receipts proving the cabinets were distroyed?
Dr. Hatfill had been very vocal and since 1997, tried to convince the media and Congress about the US being woefully unprepared to handle a bioterrorist attack.
There is much information on his speech to the bioterrorism conference at the Potomac Institute available on the Potomacinstitute.com website.
Dr. Hatfill, after leaving SAIC was recommended for a position at LSU and indirectly worked for the FBI and the DOJ in the capacity of training law enforcement about bioterrorism. (small conflict of interest and possibly why the FBI waited so long to search his home.) Dr. David Huxsoll of Plum Island and Dr. Dave Franz formerly of USAMRIID were the scientists who recommended him for LSU. As you may remember, I always believed that Plum Island was responsible for the WNV outbreak in New York in 1999. I felt that WNV was released as part of a 5 year epidemiological bioterrorism study of vectored virus spread.
I have been discussing the Patrick risk assessment for 6 months and wonder why the FBI/DOJ etal did not look into it sooner and investigate those who were responsible for it.
Some of the most intriguing part of Dr. Hatfill's bio was his African years. Dr. Hatfill went to medical school in Rhodesia. He was concurrently working for the US Army Institute for Military Assistance at Ft. Bragg and at the same time, for the Rhodesian Special Air Squadron After 1984 he went to work for the S. African Govt. and did a year tour of duty for S. Africa in Antartica. He was in Africa at the same time that So. Africa was at the height of its biowar program. Did he work with Wouter Bassoon? He was in Rhodesia during the time that there was a major anthrax outbreak. There is very little known about his years working for the white S. African govt. We do not hear about him again until 1995 when he went to the NIH. (National Institute of Health)
I believe that the actual time line for the anthrax attack was in 1997. I think that Dr. Hatfill had secretly considered releasing or causing a bioevent in the US in order to scare the Congress and public into accepting major public health changes as well as major funding. I do not think that he considered using an actual weapon until 1999. I think that he took one or more friends into his confidence and they originated the attack. I know that William Patrick and Steven Hatfill and Ken Alibek did pass polygraph tests. I have consulted a polygraph expert and asked if a well disciplined, highly motivated person,who believed he was acting in the best interest of the country were to take a polygraph test, could he pass even if lying. The experts said yes, this is why a polygraph is not admissible in a court of law.
I think that the anthax plot was a last resort. I think that after taking the 99 risk assessment into consideration, and after the June 2001 Dark Winter Smallpox Simulation exercise which gave us poor results as far as preparedness, the plotters decided to go ahead with the anthrax attack. I think that they decided to go ahead in July 2001. Preparations underway, 9/11 happened which definitely told our conspiratiors that they were doing the right thing. Thus, after 9/11, anthrax milled and ready, the attacks occurred.
I believe, although theory, that Dr. Steven Hatfill, and William Patrick III and perhaps one or more persons did send anthrax letters via US mail. They never intended to kill or contaminate facilities. Unfortunately, they never sent the b. globigii letters via mail. They should have used some high speed sorting machines in the lab when they did the risk assessment. They did not, so, they did not know that the machines would puncture the envelopes. Thus the attack resulted with people killed, sickened and facilities contaminated. The conspirators were successful in as much as the media, public and Congress were sufficiently scared and massive changes in Public health laws were implemented as well as massive funding for bioterrorism and vaccine makers.
I think that the FBI knows who was responsible, and have been dragging their heels on making an arrest. I do concur and admit that the anthrax was probably not milled at any of the homes, businesses or labs of the conspirators. Possibly, they even rented a hotel room paying cash and under an assumed name, thus making it hard to check.
I think, if we are going to solve this, we must go back to 1997 and reinvestigate the B'nai B'rith envelope case as well as the hoax letters of 1998 which I believe are part of the conspiracy. I think that this time the cospirators decided to use weaponized anthrax because the b. globigii and the b. cereus would not sufficiently scare congress or the public. Just sending a hoax letter would not create the response they wanted. After Dark Winter, when in the exercise we lost all of the first responders, it was obvious to Hatfill, Patrick, Alibek and CIA, FBI etc. that we are drastically unprepared for a bioevent.
I understand why they did it, but also think that they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.I ask people to keep the pressure on Sens.Daschle and Leahy to keep investigating and demand an arrest from the FBI. It was only because Sen Daschle heard about the risk assesment (finally after my 6 months of talking about it) that Dr. Hatfill was finally being investigated.
If you want more information on the cabal, please let me know. Also if you can distribute the data, please do so.
I think that releasing weaponized anthrax via the US mail was dispicable and punishment should be forthcoming. It is time that elite scientists as well as politicans learn that they are NOT above the law. Because they are in the highest level of bioterrorism science, they feel that they can use a bioweapon on the US population, get funding and have public health laws enacted that subvert our constitution and take away individual rights and do so without penalty.
We must keep the investigation going. I am afraid that as the public simply accepted West Nile Virus and has moved on forgetting how it arrived in the US, so too, the public will simply forget about the Anthrax letters. We must not let that happen.
Please keep the name of Dr. Steven Hatfill in the public media. Write to your local media and send them this information. I can provide more if they wish.
Thank you,
Patricia Doyle
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Petite. Colored. Colorful, illuminating the nature. A touch of wonderful work, if it is reflected well. The eyes of my heart see you are very special. Fly. Hover. Dancing and alighted on flowers. (On Fruit, Cisca! Not on flowers.)
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Q: What are you writing, Cisca?
A: Ehehehe ... I was imagining I was a butterfly as well as being a little girl admiring the butterfly.
Q: What? ...ahaha ..
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