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Presented by the International News Net. A made for television event at Walker Stage in lower Manhattan on September 11th, 2011
11:30 till 5pm
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56 Walker Street, Manhattan
Take 6 or N trains to Canal St. Station
Walker St. is 1 block south of Canal St., between Broadway and 6th Avenue
Join us for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as we examine issues of media coverage, plane evidence of pilot and airplane anomolies, procedural discrepancies, the Bin-Laden effect, the 9/11 Commission cover-up, the NIST cover-up, remembering the reality not the myth, and more.
Our panel presentation will contain objective analysis gathered from 10 years of independent research by leading professionals into the events leading up to, the day of, and following that fateful day.
Speakers include:
Mike Rivero, whatreallyhappened.com
Richard Gage, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Wayne Madsen, former Naval officer, former NSA, investigative journalist, thewaynemadsenreport.com
Barbara Honneger, author of "October Surprise", researcher of Pentagon attack
Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Journalism, NYU
Webster Tarpley, author & historian
More to be announced soon.
Our panel presentations are sure to be a very special discourse in objective analysis gathered from 10 years of alternative research into the events of 9/11 which pose profound questions of the official narrative. Afterall, 10 years is time enough for truth!
This event will be followed by a premier screening of 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out. Founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Richard Gage, will be there to introduce this new, ground-breaking film.Presented by the International News Net. A made for television event at Walker Stage... more
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That Taliban dope is working!!
Deep Cover Operatives Find A Way to Deal With It - British warn drug users of Anthrax-laced heroin http://twurl.nl/wapu30That Taliban dope is working!!
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Now that it looks like we are heading into a war with Iran, I think it is important to look back at what events led us into the quagmire that is Iraq.
"War By Way of Deception" is a video with research based on Ryan Dawson's "Welcome To The USSA" which details the Neocon cabal with its roots in ISRAEL created a false flag attack, a cover up of the anthrax attacks and 911 van bombs, followed by war propaganda, known forgeries, pre-written lies about WMDs, etc which led to a war in Iraq that has now killed over a million people.
Research and narration by Ryan Dawson of Rys2sense.Now that it looks like we are heading into a war with Iran, I think it is important to... more
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Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., one of the targets of the mailed anthrax attacks that killed five people in 2001, said Wednesday he is convinced that the FBI's sole suspect - dead microbiologist Bruce Ivins - did not act alone.
"If he is the one who sent the letter, I do not believe in any way, shape or manner that he is the only person involved in this attack on Congress and the American people," said Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before or accessories after the fact. I believe there are others who can be charged with murder."
Leahy's comments, made as FBI Director Robert Mueller testified before the Judiciary Committee, came as skepticism builds on Capitol Hill about the government's case against Ivins and the handling of the seven-year anthrax investigation.
Ivins, a researcher at a U.S. Army biological laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., committed suicide in July as federal investigators prepared to indict him.
After his death, the FBI announced that they had solved the case and blamed Ivins for the attacks that, in addition to killing five people, sickened more than 20 others. Bureau officials described the scientific sleuthing that led to that conclusion, including a genetic match between the anthrax in the mailings and the toxin found in a flask in Ivins' laboratory.
Ivins' attorney has said his client was innocent.
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Whole article at link.
I personally have great doubts about the culpability of Dr. Ivins.Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., one of the targets of the mailed anthrax attacks that... more
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WASHINGTON — A month after the F.B.I. declared that an Army scientist was the anthrax killer, leading members of Congress are demanding more information about the seven-year investigation, saying they do not think the bureau has proved its case.
In a letter sent Friday to Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Democratic leaders of the House Judiciary Committee said that “important and lingering questions remain that are crucial for you to address, especially since there will never be a trial to examine the facts of the case.”
The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, committed suicide in July, and Mr. Mueller is likely to face demands for additional answers about the anthrax case when he appears before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on Sept. 16 and 17.
“My conclusion at this point is that it’s very much an open matter,” Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the Senate committee, said of the strength of the case against Dr. Ivins, a microbiologist at the Army’s biodefense laboratory who worked on anthrax vaccines. “There are some very serious questions that have yet to be answered and need to be made public.”
Bureau officials say they are certain they have solved the nation’s first major bioterrorism attack, in which anthrax-laced letters killed five people, after a long and troubled investigation that by several measures was the most complex in the bureau’s history.
But in interviews last week, two dozen bioterrorism experts, veteran investigators and members of Congress expressed doubts about the bureau’s conclusions. Some called for an independent review of the case to reassure the public and assess policies on the handling of dangerous pathogens like anthrax.
Meanwhile, new details of the investigation, revealed in recent interviews, raised questions about when the bureau focused on Dr. Ivins as the likely perpetrator and how solid its evidence was.
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Public health experts are warning senior U.S. officials against moving ahead with a plan to give the public advice on how to stockpile antibiotics against a bioterror attack. The move would be "unwise" because it could promote unsafe uses of the drugs, says the National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB), a panel of independent experts that advises the government.
The warning, included in a letter soon to be sent to Michael Leavitt, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was prompted by the circulation late last month of a draft HHS fact sheet. It answers 16 questions about stockpiling drugs that could be used after an attack with the deadly bacteria that cause anthrax. Although the document warns that "home storage of antibiotics involves risks that you should consider very seriously," members of the science board fear it would be seen as government endorsement of stockpiling--which some critics say may not work and could create other problems.
Since the 2001 anthrax attacks, federal officials have been making preparations to defend the public against a similar bacterial onslaught. They've stockpiled huge caches of antibiotics near major cities, for instance, so that they can be distributed quickly during a crisis. They have also begun to develop prepackaged emergency packets of drugs--called "MedKits"--that families could buy and store. And some officials have argued that people should go to a doctor, get a prescription for antibiotics, and then tuck them away at home.
That strategy "could reduce your need to depend upon public health agencies as they try to get antibiotics to everyone at risk during an anthrax emergency," the fact sheet, dated 31 July, states. It also specifies which drugs work against anthrax and warns that giving them to children can be dangerous.
But the board believes the government is moving too fast. At a meeting on 18 June, several board members--and officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration--raised serious concerns about stockpiling after HHS officials described their work on the issue. According to meeting minutes, one concern was that people wouldn't understand how to properly store or use the drugs, potentially leading to greater antibiotic resistance, possibly dangerous side effects, and a false sense of security. Another was that doctors and public health officials hadn't been fully consulted.Public health experts are warning senior U.S. officials against moving ahead with a... more
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I guess they're not lazy after all.
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The party affiliation of the bio-terror researcher who worked at U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) adds a notable twist to the ever increasing questions surrounding the bizarre case following Ivins' reported suicide last week. He was, according to media reports, soon to be indicted for charges related to the post-9/11 terror attacks that rocked the nation and, as Salon's Glen Greenwald has very effectively argued, served as a crucial influence in marching the country towards war with Iraq.
Last week, as the story of Ivins' reported suicide was breaking, The BRAD BLOG excoriated the corporate mainstream media for failing to note that the targets of the multiple post-9/11 terror attacks on American soil were primarily powerful men, perceived as "liberals" by the Republican right wing. Nonetheless, despite two senior Democratic U.S. senators, Tom Daschle of SD and Patrick Leahy of VT, having been the only known governmental targets in the deadly letter campaign which also included perceived "liberal" media figurehead Tom Brokaw, the MSM coverage --- almost uniformly --- failed to note the obvious correlations in the attacks. Most even failed to even mention the names of those who were directly targeted in what was clearly meant to appear as a follow-up attack from Muslim extremists.
I guess they're not lazy after all.
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WASHINGTON — A few days before the anthrax attacks of 2001, the scientist who has emerged as the suspect in the case sent e-mails with wording that was sometimes identical to the language used in deadly anthrax-laced letters that autumn, according to documents released by the government on Wednesday.
Moreover, the government said, the scientist, Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, was the sole custodian as a microbiologist at Fort Detrick, Md., of the particular strain of anthrax used in the attacks, although he was not the sole person with access to that anthrax.
The e-mails, whose recipients were not revealed, warned that Osama bin Laden’s “terrorists for sure have anthrax and sarin gas” and have “just decreed death to all Jews and all Americans,” according to the documents.
The documents, released on the orders of a federal judge, were made public to bolster the Justice Department’s contention that Dr. Ivins was the only person behind the mailings that killed five people and made at least 17 others ill while the country was still traumatized by the Sept. 11 attacks.WASHINGTON — A few days before the anthrax attacks of 2001, the scientist who... more
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Scientist Bruce Ivins became depressed under the strain of FBI scrutiny, writes Joby Warrick.
For nearly seven years, a scientist, Bruce Ivins, and a small circle of fellow anthrax specialists at Fort Detrick's army medical lab lived in a curious limbo: they served as occasional consultants to the FBI in the investigation into the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, yet they were all potential suspects.
Over lunch in the bacteriology division, nervous scientists would share stories about their unpleasant encounters with the FBI and ponder whether they should hire defence lawyers.
In tactics the researchers considered heavy-handed and often threatening, they were interviewed and polygraphed as early as 2002, and reinterviewed many times. Their labs were searched, and their computers and equipment carted away. The FBI eventually focused on Mr Ivins, whom federal prosecutors were planning to indict when he committed suicide last week.
The FBI believed Mr Ivins had the skills and access to equipment needed to turn anthrax bacteria into an ultra-fine powder that could be used as a lethal weapon. Court documents and tapes also reveal a therapist's deep concern that Mr Ivins, 62, was homicidal.
Yet colleagues and friends of the vaccine specialist remained convinced he was innocent. They contended that he had neither the motive nor the means to create the lethal powder that was sent by mail to news outlets and congressional offices in 2001. Mindful of previous FBI mistakes in fingering others in the case, many are sceptical that the FBI has it right this time.
"I really don't think he's the guy. I say to the FBI, 'Show me your evidence,"' said Jeffrey Adamovicz, formerly of the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases. But investigators are so confident of Mr Ivins's involvement that they have been debating since Friday whether and how to close the seven-year-old anthrax investigation. The move would amount to a strong signal that the FBI and Justice Department think they got their man - and that he had died, excluding the possibility of a prosecution.
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More at link.Scientist Bruce Ivins became depressed under the strain of FBI scrutiny, writes Joby... more
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For nearly seven years, scientist Bruce E. Ivins and a small circle of fellow anthrax specialists at Fort Detrick's Army medical lab lived in a curious limbo: They served as occasional consultants for the FBI in the investigation of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, yet they were all potential suspects.
Over lunch in the bacteriology division, nervous scientists would share stories about their latest unpleasant encounters with the FBI and ponder whether they should hire criminal defense lawyers, according to one of Ivins's former supervisors. In tactics that the researchers considered heavy-handed and often threatening, they were interviewed and polygraphed as early as 2002, and reinterviewed numerous times. Their labs were searched, and their computers and equipment carted away.
The FBI eventually focused on Ivins, whom federal prosecutors were planning to indict when he committed suicide last week. In interviews yesterday, knowledgeable officials asserted that Ivins had the skills and access to equipment needed to turn anthrax bacteria into an ultra-fine powder that could be used as a lethal weapon. Court documents and tapes also reveal a therapist's deep concern that Ivins, 62, was homicidal and obsessed with the notion of revenge.For nearly seven years, scientist Bruce E. Ivins and a small circle of fellow anthrax... more
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The government is trying to bury the 2001 anthrax attack scandal (the anthrax came from a U.S. military base) by claiming that one of the key suspects - Bruce E. Ivins - was a "lone nut" who committed suicide. The government claims that the anthrax letters were an innocent mistake which was "part of an Army scientist's warped plan to test his cure for the deadly toxin". Case closed.
There are just a couple of loose ends...
...you can find them as well as many in-text links by clicking on the imageThe government is trying to bury the 2001 anthrax attack scandal (the anthrax came... more
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A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
Bruce Ivins, 62, who for the past 18 years worked at the government's elite biodefense research laboratories at Fort Detrick, Md., had been informed of his impending prosecution, said people familiar with Ivins, his death and with the FBI investigation.
Ivins, whose name had not been disclosed publicly as a suspect in the case, had played a central role in research to improve anthrax vaccines by preparing anthrax formulations used in experiments on animals.
Regarded as a skilled microbiologist, Ivins also had helped the FBI analyze the powdery material recovered from one of the anthrax-tainted envelopes sent to a U.S. senator's office in Washington, D.C.
Ivins died Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital after having ingested a massive dose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine, said a friend and colleague who declined to be identified out of concern, he said, that he would be harassed by the FBI.
The death - without any mention of suicide - was announced to Ivins' colleagues at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in an e-mail.
"People here are pretty shook up about it," said Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman for USAMRIID, who said she was not at liberty to discuss details surrounding the death.
The anthrax mailings killed five people, crippled national mail service, shut down a Senate office building and spread fear of terrorism in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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More at link.
Dead men don't talk... A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax... more
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