Analysis of the means, motive, modus operandi and opportunity of the anthrax mailings in Fall 2001 suggests that US-based supporters of Ayman Zawahiri were responsible for the anthrax mailings in the Fall of 2001. The Federal Bureau of Investigation appears to have pursued all possible leads and left no stone unturned. Attorney General Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 18, 2007 that FBI Director Mueller was very committed to seeing it to “some kind of conclusion in the relatively near future.”
Zawahiri was head of Al Qaeda’s biochemical program. Ayman named it Zabadi or “Curdled Milk.” The Central Intelligence Agency has known of Zawahiri’s plans to use anthrax since July 1998, when the CIA seized a disc from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad military commander, during his arrest outside a restaurant by the CIA in Baku, Azerbaijan. The CIA refused to give the FBI the laptop. FBI’s Bin Laden expert John O’Neill, head of the FBI’s New York office, tried to get around this by sending an agent to Azerbaijan to get copies of the computer files from the Azerbaijan government. The FBI finally got the files after O’Neill persuaded President Clinton to personally appeal to the president of Azerbaijan for the computer files. O’Neill died on 9/11 in his role as head of World Trade Center security. He died with the knowledge that Ayman Zawahiri planned to attack US targets with anthrax — and that Zawahiri does not make a threat that he does not intend to try to keep.
The military commander claimed that Zawahiri intended to use anthrax against US targets. At the time, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (”DTRA”) set up a program at Lawrence Livermore to combat the Bin Laden anthrax threat. The CIA also snatched a particularly talkative member of EIJ shura or policy-making council. His confession runs 140 pages. He confirmed Ayman’s intent to use weaponized anthrax against US targets in connection with the detention of militant islamists. Yet another friend of Zawahiri, this one a Cairo lawyer who was the blind sheik’s attorney, in March 1999 said that Bin Laden and Zawahiri were likely to resort to the biological and chemical agents they possessed given the extradition pressure senior Al Qaeda leaders faced.
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Ross is just guessing here, but with the US government keeping quite on the issue and a total lack of public evidence at this point....his guess is as good as anyones at this point in the game.
Ross does make a few very interesting points however. Make sure that you read the full article....as I have only included the first couple of paragraphs.
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