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Link between ricin, anthrax mailings?
ArizonaCentral.com ^ | Feb. 3, 2004 | WP
Posted on 02/03/2004 7:15:22 PM PST by FairOpinion
Link between ricin, anthrax mailings?
WASHINGTON - The discovery of ricin in a Senate office building has prompted the FBI and other federal investigators to
consider whether the case could be connected to the unsolved anthrax attacks of late 2001, which killed five people and sickened
17 others.
Investigators and lawmakers stressed Tuesday that it was much too soon to determine if there is any link between the cases.
But FBI and postal officials noted a number of superficial similarities.
"That is obviously one of the main lines of inquiry that we're pursuing," one FBI official said Tuesday. "There are a lot
of similarities that certainly raise the possibility of a connection."
Authorities Tuesday were also investigating a powder found in an envelope addressed to the Republican National Committee
at the same Connecticut mail distribution center where anthrax spores were found in 2001.
Excerpted - click for full article ^Source: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0203ricin-anthrax-ON.html
TOPICS: Anthrax Scare;
Front Page News;
News/Current Events;
War on TerrorKEYWORDS: AMERITHRAX;
ANTHRAX;
ANTRAZ;
ATTACK;
HATFILL;
RICIN;
TERROR;
WMD
I excerpted it, because the article prominently features the source: The Washington Post, which needs to be
excerpted.
To: Badabing Badaboom; Shermy; pokerbuddy0; aristeides; Princeton
It didn't take the FBI long, did it?
But how can they blame this on Hatfill, when they have been shadowing
him 24/7 for the past two years?
To: FairOpinion
maybe the mods will allow the great satan to come back? we may need
him soon....
3 posted on
02/03/2004 7:17:38 PM PST by
oceanview
To: oceanview
I think the FBI are pointing themselves into a corner, because if they link the two attacks, they either have
to blame this on Hatfill as well -- despite of the FBI following him around 24/7, OR they have to admit that NEITHER attack
had anything to do with Hatfill and both attacks were perpetrated by Al Qaeda, with bioweapons they got from Saddam.
My
bet it that they will claim that Hatfill slipped away from them for an hour, and that's when he went to another lake, where
he processed ricin and mailed it.
To: oceanview
Well, I have a theory that TGS never really left, he is just keeping a low profile under some unobtrusive SN.
To: FairOpinion
let's see how many of these ricin appearances are legitimate, so far, its only the letter to Frist that has
been confirmed I think.
6 posted on
02/03/2004 7:29:49 PM PST by
oceanview
To: oceanview
Ricin was also sent to the White House in November, kept secret until now, but confirmed. That was a vial of
liquid, this is powder.
FBI Says Ricin Also Mailed to White House in Nov.
Powder Found in Frist's Senate Office
Is Confirmed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8403-2004Feb3.html The FBI said today that a letter containing a vial of the poison ricin was mailed in November to the White House. That
disclosure followed an announcement by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) that authorities have confirmed the white
powder found in a Senate office building yesterday was ricin.
The White House incident had been kept secret until
now. The letter, officials said, never reached the White House because it was intercepted at an offsite mail facility.
====
I wonder how hard it is to make ricin into powder form.
To: FairOpinion
I'd look to Greenpeace or some other such group.
To: FairOpinion
Haven't the feds learned their lesson yet? When will they end the horror by banning possession of turtle traps...err...tupperware
containers...err..portable synthetic sealable anthrax mixing chambers?
Comment #10 Removed by Moderator
To: swilhelm73
LOL!!!
They will just ban motor oil.
To: Medallion_Hunter
Did the trucker sent the anthrax too?
FBI says their operative theory is that the two mailings are related.
To: FairOpinion
With all the vitriol flowing from the left-wing, from Deaniacs, to the Moore-ons, to the cabal of socialists
sponsoring Answer and Move-On, the "person of interest" list at the FBI should be a mile long now.
13 posted on
02/03/2004 7:41:11 PM PST by
spodefly (This is my tagline. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: FairOpinion
FBI says their operative theory is that the two mailings are related.
[sarcasm] ya think??? [/sarcasm]
No
wonder the DUmmies are weting their beds. This ricin mailing to Frist and Bush disproves Rosenberg, and the loney left's,
theory of the disgruntled right winger anthrax mailer.
On a more serious note, I guess forcing that idiot who headed
Amerithrax to retire may reap some results after all.
To: FairOpinion
what was post #10?
if they have anthrax, and have demonstrated they can use it, why would they now send
ricin? are they out of anthrax now that saddam's supply channel has dried up?
To: FairOpinion
To: oceanview
Post #10 was just a post of an article, which talked about the ricin mailing in December, which was attributed
to a disgruntled trucker.
It may have been pulled, because the article was from the WP and the poster copied the whole
thing. ( I am not sure, I just read it, replied, and poof! it was gone, so that's what I surmise, because otherwise there
was nothing wrong with the article).
"The letter was addressed to the Department of Transportation, and the sender
was protesting the new hours-of-services rules for truck drivers. The typewritten letter was from someone who claimed to be
a fleet owner of a tanker company. It demanded that present laws regarding HOS remain unchanged."
http://www.truckflix.com/news_article.php?newsid=679
To: FairOpinion
The perpatrator's are doing a good job of sewing confusion.
18 posted on
02/03/2004 8:01:54 PM PST by
Smogger
To: spodefly
"I hold in my hand a list of all organizations suspected of sending Ricin to the RNC, the White House, Senator Frist...
I want all of you to ask me before I get any endorsements from you guys!"
19 posted on
02/03/2004 8:06:21 PM PST by
weegee
To: oceanview
I think the anthrax was just to see how we operate. If it was caught in time, there is a remedy. Ricin will
get you to the hospital where they will record your time of death.
20 posted on
02/03/2004 8:15:11 PM PST by
Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: FairOpinion
Lets see. Daschel got the Anthrax, then Frist got the Ricin.
Could it be the dems responding to what
they believe is the vast right wing conspiracy ?
It would explain their reluctance to go after WMD .....
(
Yes I'm JOKING for those who don't grasp it yet ).
21 posted on
02/03/2004 8:31:44 PM PST by
festus
To: FairOpinion
I can't help but wonder if a disgruntled Demoncrat sent it since the anthrax mailings haven't nailed anyone
yet and they are obsessing over unseating Bush.
22 posted on
02/03/2004 10:34:56 PM PST by
nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: nmh
My impression is that ricin is a lot easier to obtain/make, than anthrax.
In fact the weapons grade
anthrax had to be made in a sophisticated lab, as in Iraq, vs. in a home lab.
I wonder how hard it is to make ricin
in powder form. The ricin sent to Bush was in liquid form, also I read that the UN inspectors found 10 liters of ricin in
Iraq in 1998, just before they were kicked out. So apparently Saddam had it in a liquid form -- at least at that time.
But
the ricin sent to the Senate was in powder form.
To: FairOpinion
he is just keeping a low profile under some unobtrusive SN.
Only one?
24 posted on
02/04/2004 12:25:20 AM PST by
Allan
To: Allan
"Only one?"
==
You are right, probably more than one -- which has been carefully created years
ago, for such situations.
But he did make the mistake in tipping his hand, by using those to play around -- that's
what got him banned.
So now he has to be very careful, so people don't even suspect, or that those who may suspect,
will keep it to themselves. ;)
To: FairOpinion
26 posted on
02/04/2004 4:02:16 PM PST by
pttttt
To: pttttt
"Time to drain that pond again, what?"
Great link -- I didn't realize the CIA had this much stuff about
Iraq's WMD on the web.
You are right -- it's time for the FBI to drain another pond and try to figure out, how Hatfill
could have slipped away the make and mail the ricin letter.
To: FairOpinion
Link between ricin, anthrax mailings?
Yeah, the mail system ...
28 posted on
02/04/2004 4:46:52 PM PST by
_Jim ( <--- Ann C. and Rush L. speak on gutless Liberals (RealAudio files))
To: _Jim
Don't look at me -- I didn't make the stuff up.
The FBI said that is their main theory.
To: _Jim
Don't look at me -- I didn't make the stuff up.
The FBI said that is their main theory.
To: FairOpinion
Don't look at me -- I didn't make the stuff up.
A question was posed - I answered it. Any questions?
31 posted on
02/04/2004 4:56:03 PM PST by
_Jim ( <--- Ann C. and Rush L. speak on gutless Liberals (RealAudio files))
To: FairOpinion
Thanks for the info.. I didn't know that.
32 posted on
02/04/2004 10:56:23 PM PST by
nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: FairOpinion
But how can they blame this on Hatfill, when they have been shadowing him 24/7 for the past two years?
It just goes to show what a diabolical genius Hatfill is!
33 posted on
02/05/2004 11:06:58 AM PST by
mrustow
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