Anthrax Research Timeline
compiled by John Heartson in 2003

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John Heartson is a former engineer with a degree in mechanical engineering, currently working as a carpenter and songwriter in Vermont. His curiosity and detailed investigation into events surrounding 9/11 and anthrax made him the target of domestic spying,  unconstitutional searches of his home and a threat to his life in 2004.

Anthrax Research Timeline compiled by John Heartson in 2003

1948 Fort Detrick mission include biomedical research and development, medical material management and global telecommunications.

1950 (circa): The military released uninfected female mosquitoes in a residential area of Savannah, Georgia. It then checked on how many entered houses and how many people were bitten. In 1956, 600,000 mosquitoes were released from an airplane on a bombing range. Within one day, the mosquitoes had traveled as far as two miles and had bitten a number of people. In 1957, at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, the Q-Fever toxin was discharged by an airborne F-100A plane. If a more potent dose had been used, the Army concluded 99 percent of the humans in the area would have been infected (Biological Warfare in the 21st Century, Malcolm Dando)

1960 (circa): Conscientious objecting Seventh Day Adventists, serving in non-combat positions in the Army, were exposed to airborne tularemia. A retired high-ranking U.S. Army civilian official reported that the Army used aerosol forms of influenza to infect the subway systems of New York, Chicago and Philadelphia in the early 1960s. (Biological Warfare in the 21st Century, Malcolm Dando)

1972 The US produced and stockpiled weapons containing anthrax prior to the Biological Weapons Convention but has destroyed them. http://www.intelbriefing.com/afi/afi011009.htm

1977 Smallpox was officially declared eradicated by the World Health Organization, after treating the last known case in Merca, Somalia.

1978 Wolf Szmunes, the National Institutes of Health and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) experimented on more than 1000 nonmonogamous men with vaccines, designed by Merck and other pharmacy companies

Early 1980s a significant part of the "civilian" component of the British Porton Down complex, the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research [CAMR], was privatized as Porton International, a creation of Wensley Haydon-Baillie, who reputedly became one of the 50 wealthiest persons in Britain as a result of what was alleged to have been political favoritism in the acquisition of government assets by Porton International. [Forensic Intelligence International, LLC Re: Investigation into Responsibility for Recent Anthrax Incidents, Stephen P. Dresch, Ph.D.]

1985-1989 "The Center for Disease Control (CDC) was responsible for most of the shipments of lethal American-produced Biochemical Warfare agents that were sold to Iran.." Source: Devon Jackson, NY Times/Village Voice

 

1989, Microbilogist Vladimir Pasechnik defected from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to Great Britain. He was a top scientist in the FSU's bioweapons program, which is heavily dependent upon DNA sequencing. Dr. Christopher Davis of Virginia, member of British intelligence de-briefed Dr. Pasechnik when he defected. Dr. Pasechnik spent the 10 years after his defection working at the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research at the UK Department of Health, Salisbury

 

Early 1990s Ibrahim and Fuad El-Hibri acquired an interest in Porton International and/or related Proton Down spin-offs, Porton Products and Speywood Holdings, and were instrumental in obtaining anthrax vaccine in the U.K. for Saudi Arabia. [Forensic Intelligence International, LLC Re: Investigation into Responsibility for Recent Anthrax Incidents, Stephen P. Dresch, Ph.D.]

 

1992: Ken Alibek, former Deputy Chief of the Soviet BW program defected to the U.S. in 1992 [Chemical & Biological Arms Control Dispatch #154, Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute]

 

1992: Government records show that Dugway has had the Ames strain anthrax since 1992. Dugway's production of dried anthrax is part of the government's secret research program on how to defend against germ weapons, which gained momentum in the late 1990's. The Clinton administration began a series of projects aimed at understanding the nation's vulnerabilities to biowarfare and devising ways combat the threats.

 

1994, Jose Trias met with a friend in Houston, Texas and was planning to go public with his personal knowledge of HHMI "front door" grants being diverted to "back door" black ops bioresearch. The next day, Trias and his wife were found dead in their Chevy Chase, Md. home. Chevy Chase is where HHMI is headquartered. Police described the killings as a professional hit.

 

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) funds a tremendous number of research programs at schools, hospitals and research facilities, and has long been alleged to be conducting "black ops" biomedical research for intelligence organizations, including the CIA.

 

1996: Dr. Christopher Davis of Virginia, was the member of British intelligence who de-briefed Dr. Pasechnik at the time of his defection left British intelligence service in 1996

 

May 7, 1996 Tsunao Saitoh, who formerly worked at an Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)-funded lab at Columbia University, was shot to death on May 7, 1996 while sitting in his car outside his home in La Jolla, Calif. Police also described this as a professional hit. (HHMI) funds a tremendous number of research programs at schools, hospitals and research facilities, and has long been alleged to be conducting "black ops" biomedical research for intelligence organizations, including the CIA.

 

1997 BioPort, from Lansing, Michigan (former Michigan Biologics Products Institute MBPI) is founded by Fuad al-Hibri (Ex-Porton International UK) and Admiral William Crowe, 76, former military chief under President Ronald Reagan. Their main purpose is to develop anti bio-agents. BioPort Corporation was founded for the express purpose of buying the Michigan Biologic Products Institute from the State of Michigan. MBPI was the only firm in the U.S. making Anthrax vaccine, and their sole client was the U.S. government. BioPort now has on its Board of Directors Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. In October 1985 Crowe was appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He retired from that position in 1989 and was appointed US Ambassador to Britain. Admiral Crowe, a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations, was given ownership of 22.5% of BioPort's stock without investing any money. Crowe's role at the company was to facilitate cooperation and good relations with government agencies and to secure military contracts from the Department of Defense.

 

In 1997 the U.S. Department of Defense awarded a defense-biologics contract in excess of $300 million to Dyn-port LLC, which is a joint venture of Porton International and U.S. defense contractor Dyncorp. By the late 1990s Haydon-Baillie had lost control of Porton International (accused of personal enrichment at the expense of the company), entered bankruptcy and been arrested for tax fraud. Haydon-Baillie’s current activities have not been reported, but his history is instructive with reference to the careers of those who have secured control of significant components of the biowarfare complex. . [Forensic Intelligence International, LLC Re: Investigation into Responsibility for Recent Anthrax Incidents, Stephen P. Dresch, Ph.D.]

 

April 24, 1997, a package containing a Petri dish labeled "anthrachs" was received by the B'nai B'rith in Washington, D.C. According to researchers reporting in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists this triggered a new era in mailed anthrax hoaxes and threats. http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html

 

1997: Battelle Memorial Institute, a military contractor in Ohio, has experience making powdered germs participated in a secret Central Intelligence Agency program, code-named Clear Vision and begun in 1997, that used benign substances similar to anthrax to mimic Soviet efforts to create small bombs that could emit clouds of lethal germs.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) initiated a second project, "Clear Vision," in 1997. This project replicated portions of a bomblet developed by the former Soviet Union to disseminate BW in order to measure its potential effectiveness in dispersing the agents. Additional research into BW programs has been undertaken as part of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) "Jefferson Project." [Jane’s Defense Weekly, September 12, 2001]

 

1998, the president launched the first national effort to create a biological weapons defense for the United States.

 

1998: Officials at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah said that in 1998 scientists there turned small quantities of wet anthrax into powder to test ways to defend against biowarfare attacks. 1998 paper study on anthrax in the mail was one secret project. ( post 9/11 attack: Dr Rosenberg is making the astonishing suggestion that there may have been a deadly follow-up by somebody else. Last time she questioned the investigation, she was attacked by the FBI and the White House. But she says she's prepared to speak out again because she's so afraid of what might happen next.) The CIA have told Newsnight they totally reject Dr Rosenberg's theory and say they were unaware of ANY project to assess the impact of anthrax sent through the mail.

 

1998 The OraVax company (Bioweapon Vaccines) linked to backroom dealings with Clinton administration officials in 1998 regarding government orders for a yet to be tested West Nile Virus vaccine. (source: . Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Public health consumer advocate and author of Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare (Tetrahedron Publishing Group; 1-888-508-4787), http://www.baltech.org/lederman/816proof.html "....The role of Oravax, the commercial vaccine manufacturer directly connected to the major players in this issue-the CDC, the Ft. Dietrick bio-warfare lab, Plum Island, former OEM chief Jerry Hauer and Mayor Giuliani-remains unexamined in the media yet Oravax stands to make billions from its West Nile Virus vaccine if WNV hysteria continues to spread. That Oravax was developing a WNV vaccine before the 1999 outbreak, that its VP went to Washington with Jerry Hauer and the head of Rockefeller University in 1998 to pressure President Clinton to stockpile billions of dollars worth of vaccines or that according to the NY Times, Oravax's stock value had lost 90% of its value-making a mosquito-born epidemic the only chance of company survival-are clues of significance that might prove a financial angle to WNV...."

 

1998 Ibrahim and Fuad El-Hibri and Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., (just returned as ambassador to UK) created BioPort Corporation, which acquired the State of Michigan’s Biological Products Laboratory, the principal function of which was the production of anthrax vaccine for the U.S. Department of Defense. This "privatization" of a state laboratory was highly questionable in a number of respects. The managers of the public laboratory, director Robert Myers and deputy director Robert van Ravenswaay (an attorney on the state’s central administrative staff assigned to oversee the privatization process), appear to have insured that the successful bidder (one of only two final bidders) would give them a significant share of the ownership (as muchas 32 percent) of the new entity. Admiral Crowe obtained his interest (approximately 13 percent) as what appears to have been a "gift" of the El-Hibris. Together, the ownership interests of Crowe and Nancy Grunenwald El-Hibri were claimed to give American citizens majority ownership, even prior to Fuad El-Hibri’s adoption of American citizenship. Although BioPort has yet to obtain FDA approval to sell a single dose of vaccine, the Department of Defense, immediately after the privatization, agree to a contract modification which increased the per-dose price from $3.50, charged by the state-owned lab, to $10.64, with "advance payments" to cover the cost of renovating the production facility. In the meantime, BioPort has been engaged in a vitriolic dispute with three members of the state lab’s scientific staff who claim a proprietary interest in the lab’s technology, in the course of which certain critical documents were claimed to have been taken by the disgruntled former employees. In mid 2000 a lab employee died of questionable causes.

 

1998 BioPort signed a new contract with the US government. They have to develop vaccines against anthrax and have 3 years time for that to finish the production. The vaccines should be available in 2001. They got a $50 million contract for developing AVA (Anthrax Vaccine Absorbed) for 2.5 million US Soldiers

 

April, 1998, OraVax/Acambis Vice President, Dr. Thomas Monath met with President Clinton, New York's Emergency Management Director, Jerry Hauer, Rockefeller University president emeritus and American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) curator, Dr. Joshua Lederberg, CIA Director John Deutsch, and government biological weapons expert William C. Patrick, III, to discuss/negotiate the first of several multimillion dollar anthrax, smallpox, and West Nile virus vaccine contracts. According to New York Times reporters William Broad and Judith Miller,(37) "seven scientists endorsed the stockpile…." These included "two men who stood to gain financially from the decision. . . ." These men included Dr. Monath and Dr. J. Craig Venter, president of The Institute for Genomic Research near Washington working on anthrax genetics. "The apparent consensus on acquiring vaccines masked deep divisions among scientists and military officials," according to the Times reporters.(10,37) http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html

 

1998 (exact date needed) Jerome Hauer convinced New York Mayor Rudi Guilliani to develop a vaccine against the West Nile virus - almost one year before this virus broke out in New York. To this end, Hauer introduced Col. Thomas Monath of Oravax (now Accambis) to Guliani and organised a business deal. [The Fly on the Wall 0802 News Special, August 13, 2002, 5:10 pm]

 

May 1998, Jerome Hauer started working at the OEM (Office for Emergency Management) in New York. In the same year, Hauer and (future) anthrax suspect Hatfill both supported the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) as experts in their respective fields. The CFR is one of the most important think-tanks advising the US government, as well as many other governments abroad. CFR members include the Pentagon's top advisers, Richard Perle, Henry Kissinger, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, ex-CIA chief James Woolsey, biosciences specialist Joshua Lederberg, and many others. On May 28, 1998, Hatfill and Hauer spoke together at the same CFR meeting about "Building a 'Biobomb': Terrorist Challenge" http://www.cfr.org/public/resource.cgi?meet!102

June 1998, Think Tankers, Defence Contractors, Lobbyists, military officials and Dr. Hatfill met. Hatfill spoke of contacts with Northrop Grumman to build a nationwide network of rail cars specifically dealing with the massive numbers of casualties associated with a widespread Anthrax attack http://www.potomacinstitute.org/pubs/bt2proc.pdf

September 1998, Bioport Corporation took over a failing anthrax vaccine business from state-owned Michigan Biologic Products Institute. Less than a month later, the company landed an exclusive $29 million contract with the Department of Defense to "manufacture, test, bottle and store the anthrax vaccine." Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and close personal aid to President Clinton, with no financial investment of his own, received 22.5% of Bioport's stock to promote, secure, and manage military anthrax vaccine contracts.(14)

Bioport's principal investor was Saudi business man Fuad El-Hibri-a close friend of the bin Laden family, and a previous merger and acquisitions manager for the Rockefeller-linked Citigroup in New York.(14,15)

According to some investigators,(16) additional Bioport shares were believed to be held by The Carlyle Management Group-America's 11th leading defense contractor largely directed by past CIA director Frank Carlucci, James Baker III, George H.W. Bush, and former British Prime Minister John Major.

According to the Associated Press, Past President George H.W. Bush acts as a business agent for the Carlyle Group and wealthy Saudi families including the bin Ladens.(17) http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html

 

Feb 1999: William C. Patrick III, a scientist who made germ weapons for the United States and now consults widely on biological defenses, told a group of American military officers in February 1999 that he taught Dugway personnel the previous spring how to turn wet anthrax into powders Mr. Patrick told officers at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, the process was not as refined as the one used in the heyday of the government's germ warfare program, but it worked. "We made about a pound of material in little less than a day," he told the officers. "It's a good product."

 

February 1999, the CDC (center for Disease Control) reported that seven major anthrax threats were recorded during a three month period in 1998. Perhaps not coincidentally, the same day this report was issued, the media reported four more incidentshttp://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html

 

March 16, 1999, Robert C. Myers, DVM, COO of BioPort,-America's only anthrax vaccine maker-appealed to a Senate Appropriations Committee for urgent funding for both anthrax and smallpox vaccines. In 1996, in his own words, he "was part of a team of organizations, led by Battelle Memorial Institute, which came together to compete for the [Department of Defense's Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program] JVAP. Despite dozens of potential bioterrorist threats, Dr. Myers stated these two threats were the greatest since anthrax is easy to handle and "because smallpox is highly contagious and probably most of the world is now susceptible. . . ." He also testified, "Suppose we have a smallpox vaccine stockpile and a manufacturing capability. . . . Funding for adequate security must be included in this program if the threat is to be optimally minimized. Included in these security measures and to prevent against natural disaster, there should be two or more geographical separate manufacturing facilities and two or more facilities for storage of the manufactured vaccine." He further stated that few companies wished to become involved in the production of anthrax and smallpox vaccines due to the high expense and risks involved in research and development. Today, the only other companies linked to smallpox vaccine production include Baxter, Aventis (Hoechst-Rhone Poulenc subsidiary) OraVax/Acambis, and Fort Dodge Animal Health as detailed in the accompanying flow chart.(13)http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html

 

March 16, 1999 According to the U.S. Congressional Record, the "official meeting" to discuss what had already been predetermined regarding the government’s nearly half-billion dollar smallpox, anthrax, and West Nile virus vaccine purchases took place before a joint meeting of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies of the Senate Appropriations Committee, on March 16, 1999. The sole American anthrax vaccine maker is British-owned BioPort Corporation. Dr. Robert C. Myers of BioPort worked with the Battelle Memorial Institute (CIA contractor for project "Clearvision" under which the hyper-concentrated anthrax weapon that was later mailed was initially developed). Dr. Myers testified concerning the urgent need to stockpile both the anthrax and smallpox vaccines. Given the earlier official assessment of smallpox’s less than optimal use as a biological weapon, Myer’s precise words to senators included:

 

BioPort manufactures the only FDA-licensed anthrax vaccine in the world. We are also making and testing vaccine . . . to protect against five different types of botulism, . . . It is probably next on the threat list behind anthrax and the rapidly emerging threat of smallpox. . . . Because smallpox is highly contagious and probably most of the world is now susceptible, it is a potential biowarfare agent of serious concern. . . . There exist similar challenges to the further development and manufacture of new vaccines for anthrax, smallpox, and, for that matter, any other biodefense vaccine. . . . Suppose we have a smallpox vaccine stockpile and a manufacturing capability. Suppose a terrorist group has smallpox as a weapon. . . . there should be two or more geographically separate manufacturing facilities and two or more facilities for storage of the manufactured vaccine. [Smallpox and Anthrax Frights Planned Years Before 9-11 Government and Drug Industry Collusion Cited.htm]

 

May 25-27, 1999 Conference for biological vaccines at Fort Detrick. Thomas Inglesby (Hopkins Institute) speaks: "..the DOD involvement in ongoing medical research also is important and instrumental to helping cities prepare for such emergencies... the Fort Detrick institute is the most important component of ongoing research and development of effective defenses and treatment.." Fort Detrick about anthrax: "one of the most treacherous enemies". (Source: http://www.af.mil/news/Jun1999/n19990602_991091.html )

 

March 18, 1999 Press Release Of Senator Bill Frist, M.D.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- To evaluate the United States' ability to respond to a terrorist attack using biological weapons such as anthrax or smallpox, U.S. Senator Bill Frist (R-TN), Chairman of the Labor Subcommittee on Public Health, will hear from frontline medical and public health experts at a hearing to examine the nation's readiness for bioterrorist attack. The hearing will take place on Thursday, March 25, at 9:30 a.m. in room 430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

The hearing, "Bioterrorism: Our Frontline Response," will review surveillance, response and treatment in the event of an attack using biological agents. As more countries develop bioweapons programs, experts believe the possibility of an growing, the possibility of attack is considered increasingly high by experts. The challenges in preparing for a bioterrorist attack include recognition of diseases by medical personnel, sufficient public health and law enforcement systems to cope with the crisis, and capacity of cities and states to deal with the aftermath of an attack.

The following witnesses are expected to testify:

Panel I: Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC; Jeffrey Koplan, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, Georgia; William E. Clark, Deputy Director, Office of Emergency Preparedness, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC; Panel II: Donald A. Henderson, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies School of Hygiene and Public Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Richard L. Alcorta, M.D., State EMS Medical Director for Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, Baltimore, Maryland; John G, Bartlett, M.D., President, Infectious Disease Society of America, Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland;

Panel III: Stephanie Bailey, M.D., Director of Health for Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson Country, Representative, National Association of County and City Health Officials, Nashville, Tennessee; Jerome Hauer, M.P.H., Director, Mayor's Office of Emergency Management, New York, New York; Michael Osterholm, M.D., M.P.H., Chairman and CEO, Infection Control Advisory Network, Inc., Representative, The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR BILL FRIST, MD Bioterrorism: Our Frontline Response,
Evaluating US Public Health and Medical Readiness March 25, 1999. ...
www.senate.gov/.../hamburg/koplan/clark325/henderso/bartlett/ bailey/hauer/osterholm/frist325/frist325.htm - 12k

July 1999: Thomas Inglesby, Hopkins Institute and top advisior of the Pentagon, writes his first popular scenario: "Anthrax: A Possible Case History" http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no4/inglesby.htm

 

October 12, 1999 A planned attack on Bin Laden, ordered by President Clinton, was aborted on that day, when Sharif was overthrown in a military coup by General Pervez Musharraf.

 

October 20, 1999 Ken Alibek is President of Hadron Advanced Biosystems, a subsidiary of Alexandria, Va.-based Hadron, Inc. Hadron describes itself as a company specializing in the development of technical solutions for the intelligence community. As chief scientist at Hadron, Alibek gave extensive testimony to the House Armed Services Committee about biological weapons on Oct. 20, 1999 Hadron did medical biodefense research for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, and the NIH. Hadron said it was working in the field of non-specific immunity. (translated means biological weapons technology)

Dr. Joshua Lederberg, previously reported to have met with vaccine industry and Clinton administration officials regarding in preparation for the West Nile virus outbreak of 1999, was ATCC's director during the time anthrax was shipped to Iraq. He is also the bioterrorism study group leader for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), largely directed by David Rockefeller, and President emeritus of Rockefeller University.(10) Bioport's C.E.O. Fuad El Hibri, again, had been previously employed by Rockefeller controlled Citibank.

 

Jan. 22, 2000 The CFR Project held its first big event: a scenario of a global financial meltdown, run as a war-game simulation at its Manhattan headquarters. James Woolsey, ex CIA director, played the role of Secretary of Defense. http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2000/2729_cfr.html

 

Feb. 20, 2000, Vladimir Pasechnik announced that, along with partner Caisey Harlingten, Pasechnik had formed a company called Regma Biotechnologies Ltd. Regma describes itself as "a new drug company working to provide powerful alternatives to antibiotics." Like three other microbiologists detailed in this article, Pasechnik was heavily involved in DNA sequencing research. During the anthrax panic of this past fall, Pasechnik offered his services to the British government to help in any way possible. Despite Regma having a public relations department that has released many items to the press over the past two years, the company has not announced the death of one of its two founders.

 

March 2000: In early March 2000 at his home in Irvine, Orange County, California, Larry C. Ford, M.D., died of a shotgun blast. His death was later ruled a suicide, notwithstanding the fact that his firearms had supposedly been confiscated by the police several days before, after the attempted murder of his business partner, a crime for whichhe was a principal suspect. Only later was it revealed that Ford had served as a consultant to both the CIA and the chemical- and biological-weapons program of the South African Defense Forces, headed by Wouter Basson. Ford’s contributions to Basson’s program included lecturers on converting ordinary items into lethal biological weapons. After Ford’s death his Irvine neighborhood was evacuated for several days as federal authorities excavated a weapons’ bunker in Ford’s yard and removed samples of various toxic biological agents found in Ford’s refrigerators. The specific biological agents found in Ford’s home have never been identified by the authorities, nor have they reported if any toxic agents were found in the university and other laboratories used by Ford. An initially frenzied FBI investigation quickly became quiescent. One Ford associate reports that Ford had been in contact with BioPort Corporation, sole U.S. manufacturer of anthrax vaccine. Recently discovered evidence indicates that, shortly before his death, Ford was actively preparing to move his medical-scientific work abroad. Close Ford associates expected a revival of the investigation after the onset of the recent anthrax incidents but have observed no evidence of any current Ford-related activity on the part of the FBI or other agencies. [Forensic Intelligence International, LLC Re: Investigation into Responsibility for Recent Anthrax Incidents, Stephen P. Dresch, Ph.D.]

 

 

April, 2000, the CIA assumed all oversight at the CDC, and other health science agencies, concerning HIV/AIDS and potentially other infectious diseases considered national security risks.(51) Following 9-11, this CIA oversight of the government's top infectious disease research laboratories clearly included anthrax and smallpox.

 

May 2000 R. James Woolsey (CIA Director 1993-95) participated in a bioterrorism exercise at Andrews Air Force Basethe Johns In May 2000 the Hopkins Center, in collaboration with the ANSER Institute for Homeland Defense, (CSIS) the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Oklahoma Memorial Institute for the Study of Terrorism held a bioterrorism exercise at Andrews Air Force Base.Former Senator Sam Nunn played the President.David Gergen played the National Security Advisor. Governor Frank Keating played himself, Frank Wisner was Secretary of State, ex-CIA director James Woolsey (ironically) played CIA Director, John White played Defense Secretary, and Dr. Margaret Hamburg was HHS Secretary. The Attorney General was played by George Terwilliger, William Sessions was FBI Director, and Jerome Hauer played FEMA Director. http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/pages/library/fema.html . The Sudanese government collected a "vast intelligence database on Osama bin Laden and more than 200 leading members of his al-Qaeda terrorist network... [The US was] offered thick files, with photographs and detailed biographies of many of his principal cadres, and vital information about al-Qaeda's financial interests in many parts of the globe." In April 1996, the US again rejects Sudan's offer of the files. An American involved in the secret negotiations later says that the offer was blocked by another arm of the federal government: "I've never seen a brick wall like that before. Somebody let this slip up... We could have dismantled his operations and put a cage on top. It was not a matter of arresting bin Laden but of access to information... and that's what could have prevented September 11. I knew it would come back to haunt us." Sudan again offers the US the files in May 2000, and again is turned down. In 1996 Sudan also offers their files to British intelligence, and are also rebuffed. Sudan makes a standing offer to the British to take the information at any time, but the offer is not taken up until after 9/11. [http://cooperativereseach.org/completetimeline/

 

May 23, 2000. Ken Alibek is President of Hadron Advanced Biosystems, a subsidiary of Alexandria, Va.-based Hadron, Inc. Hadron describes itself as a company specializing in the development of technical solutions for the intelligence community. As chief scientist at Hadron, Alibek gave extensive testimony to the House Armed Services Committee about biological weapons on Oct. 20, 1999, and again on May 23, 2000. Hadron conducted medical biodefense research for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, and the NIH. Hadron said it was working in the field of non-specific immunity.

DNA sequencing work by several of these microbiologists is aimed at developing drugs that will fight pathogens based on the pathogen's genetic profile. Also at developing drugs that will work in cooperation with a person's genetic makeup. Theoretically, a drug could be developed for one specific person. A drug could be developed to effectively treat a much broader class of people sharing a genetic marker. The entire process can also be turned around to develop a pathogen that will affect a broad class of people sharing a genetic marker. A broad class of people sharing a genetic marker could be a group such as a race, or people with brown eyes.

 

June 2000 One week, after Dick Cheney resigned from Halliburton Root + Brown, the subsidiary signed a contract with the Pentagon about constructions in various countries. The contract was later upgraded into "a 408-unit detention camp at the Radio Range area of U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Halliburton is Texas construction and engineering company, customer of the Pentagon and UNOCAL,who was working on a pipeline in Afghanistan. (supported by covert operations that fueled the crisis before 9/11)" http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2002/c02262002_ct088-02.html

 

June 26 , 27, 2000 Thomas Inglesby, Hopkins Institute organize his first Anthrax-Scenario Test-games Inglesby became important for the Pentagon and Fort Detrick, when he wrote his first popular scenario in July 1999: "Anthrax: A Possible Case History" >From this text: "..Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offices in five U.S. cities have received warnings of an imminent bioterrorist attack. Each threat indicated that a "shower of anthrax would rain on U.S. cities," unless certain demands were met immediately..." http://www.bt.cdc.gov/documents/Atlanta/BTScenario.pdf thtp://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no4/inglesby.htm

 

July 2000, Germany's Bayer AG negotiated an unprecedented sole endorsement by the FDA of the antibiotic Cipro for anthrax, despite the drug's high risk, high price, and largely untested status.(7) Shortly thereafter, USA Today reported a study of conflicting interests on the FDA advisory committees endorsing drug policies. Author Dennis Cauchon wrote that between January 1, 1998 and June 30, 2000, during 92% of the 159 meetings, "at least one member had a financial conflict of interest. At 55% of meetings, half or more of the FDA advisers had conflicts of intrest. Conflicts were most frequent at the 57 meetings when broader issues were discussed: 92% of members had conflicts. At the 102 meetings dealing with the fate of a specific drug, 33% of the experts had a financial conflict."(20) Given this background, it is most reasonable to speculate that the FDA's unprecedented sole antibiotic endorsement of Bayer's largely untested and outrageously expensive Cipro for anthrax likewise reflected special and grossly conflicting of financial interest. http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html

A photograph of the specific building in which the Ames strain of hyper-weaponized powdered anthrax was tested appears courtesy of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from one of their educational slide presentations. This photo further establishes, as detailed in BMI's operations description, the direct association between the Dugway Proving Grounds "Life Sciences Facilities" and BMI's "Aerosol Engineering & Biological Sciences Facilities." (38,39) (Photograph reprinted from http://www.nrel.gov/surviving_disaster/fema2000/Cbiac/sld016.htm)

July 12-13, 2000 While public media were assuring the credulous public of a "soft landing" for the U.S. economy, the New York Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) held a second conference at its headquarters on the East Side of Manhattan, entitled "The Next Financial Crisis: Warning Signs, Damage Control and Impact". It includes a testgame regarding a possible terrorist attack.

"...a scenario of a global financial meltdown, run as a war-game simulation. The four teams covered

monetary-financial, which dealt with the functions of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors;

economic and trade, which dealt with the functions of the U.S. Treasury Department;

regulatory matters;

national security" (former CIA director James Woolsey played the role of Secretary of Defense).

 

November 10, 2000 Further delays in the FDA certification of the country’s sole anthrax vaccine producer, BioPort Corporation, are announced. A routine FDA inspection during 10–26 October found 18 flaws in the Michigan-based facility, more than half of them connected to filling and packaging. Other problems reported involved sterility, monitoring of manufacturing facilities and documentation. In response, BioPort is now seeking an external contractor to bottle and pack the vaccine, while facilities are renovated. It could take more than a year for BioPort to renovate its packaging facilities and win FDA approval. The FDA also found BioPort failed to properly track or investigate serious adverse reaction to the anthrax vaccine. A servicewoman died in June after adverse reactions to the anthrax vaccine. Inoculations from three particular batches resulted in complaints, none of which had been investigated by BioPort. According to an FDA spokeswoman, the inspection report is not considered conclusive and will be followed by a more in-depth and fully-documented inspection. {THE CBW CONVENTIONS BULLETIN News, Background and Comment on Chemical and Biological Weapons Issues ISSUE NO. 51 MARCH 2001}

 

November 2000, Bruce Hoffman, director of the Rand Institute office in Washington DC, indicated that the next US President would have to face up to the growing threat is Islamic terrorism. Hoffman: "The next administration must turn its immediate attention to knitting together the full range of US counterterrorist capabilities into a cohesive plan." [Los Angeles Times, November 12, 2000]

after DOE funding ends."

 

November 14, 2000 The US Department of Defense announces plans to build a vaccine production facility to act as a second source for the supply of anthrax vaccine in view of the problems experienced with the current commercial supplier, BioPort [see 10 Nov]. The DoD had solicited expressions of interest back in June [see 30 Jun] and now reveals that it has received responses from a number of companies. Announcing the Department’s decision, Anna Johnson-Winegar says that BioPort’s problems in achieving FDA certification for its facility was "certainly a contributing factor" but she adds that the Department has "had an issue with vaccines for a number of years. It’s a good business decision for us." Before it can go ahead, the $500 million project must get Congressional approval, although many in Congress have been arguing for just such a government-owned contractor-operated facility to be established [see 12 Jul]. A new facility could take up to six years to design, build and open for production. One private contractor which did express interest in operating a government owned facility was Battelle Memorial Institute, which is already a subcontractor for BioPort. {THE CBW CONVENTIONS BULLETIN News, Background and Comment on Chemical and Biological Weapons Issues ISSUE NO. 51 MARCH 2001}

 

November 30, 2000" The US Defense Department announces that it is reducing further [see 10 Jul] its Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP). Under the changes, only personnel serving in areas around Iraq for more than 30 days will receive the vaccine, announces Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon. By discontinuing the vaccination of personnel serving in South Korea, the DoD estimates that it can save around 12,500 doses per month, which should make the remaining 60,000 doses stretch over the next year. Bacon adds that the Defense Department hopes that the sole producer of the anthrax vaccine in the US, BioPort Corporation [see 10 Nov], will have received FDA approval and be producing more vaccine by the third or fourth quarter of 2001. The Department is also working to find an alternate supplier of the vaccine [see 14 Nov]. {THE CBW CONVENTIONS BULLETIN News, Background and Comment on Chemical and Biological Weapons Issues ISSUE NO. 51 MARCH 2001}

13 December, 2000: The US General Accounting Office publishes a report, State Department: Serious Problems in the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program, detailing serious problems in the State Department’s voluntary programme to vaccinate its overseas staff against anthrax. {THE CBW CONVENTIONS BULLETIN News, Background and Comment on Chemical and Biological Weapons Issues ISSUE NO. 51 MARCH 2001}

10 January US Defense Secretary William Cohen releases the third edition of Proliferation: Threat and Response [see 25

Nov 97]. It provides updated information about countries CBWCB 51 Page 42 March 2001

 

Jan. 2001 the magazine Nature published information that two scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's animal diseases facility in Geelong, Australia. Microbiologist Set Van Nguyen had worked there 15 years.Using genetic manipulation and DNA sequencing, they had created an incredibly virulent form of mousepox, a cousin of smallpox. The researchers were extremely concerned that if similar manipulation could be done to smallpox, a terrifying weapon could be unleashed.

 

January 21, 2001: George Bush Jr. is inaugurated as the 43rd US President, replacing Clinton. The only major figure to permanently remain in office is CIA Director Tenet, appointed in 1997 and reputedly a long time friend of Bush Sr. FBI Director Louis Freeh stays on until June 2001

 

March 27, 2001 Thomas Picking, Deputy Director FBI, supports a hearing on "Combating Terrorism: In Search of a National Strategy", which covers mainly two questions:

1. What is the current national strategy to combat terrorism?

2. Who in the United States government is in charge of coordinating all federal agency efforts to counter terrorism?

On the same panel also Robert S. Mueller, Paul Wolfowitz (Deputy Secretary of Defense), John Magaw (FEMA) and John E. McLaughlin (Deputy Director CIA). In another panel is Bruce Hoffman (RAND), Frank Cilluffo (CSIS) and others. http://www.house.gov/reform/ns/web_resources/news_release_march_27.htm

 

April 27, 2001 The Holy Cross Health and Adventist Healthcare forms a joint venture to support Biotech companies that want to get a product to market have to cross paths with the Food and Drug Administration http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2001/04/30/newscolumn5.html

 

May 2001:intercepts from Afghanistan warn that al-Qaeda could attack an American target late June or on the July 4 holiday. However, The White House's Counterterrorism Security Group does not meet to discuss this prospect. This group also fails to meet after intelligence analysts overhear conversations from an al-Qaeda cell in Milan suggesting that bin Laden's agents might be plotting to kill Bush at the European summit in Genoa, Italy, in late July. In fact, under Bush, the group only meets twice before 9/11 (June 3 and September 4). Under Clinton, the group met two or three times a week between 1998 and 2000. The White House later "aggressively defend[s] the level of attention, given only scattered hints of al-Qaeda activity." [cooperativeresearch.org]

 

May 8, 2001, Bush announced a new Office of National Preparedness for Terrorism at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. At the same time, he proposed to cut FEMA's budget by $200 million. Bush said that day that Cheney would direct a government-wide review on managing the consequences of a domestic attack. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wpdyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A8734-2002Jan19

 

June 2001 Dr. Christos Tsonas, Holy Cross, 4701 North Federal Highway in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida had to confirm to the FBI, that he probably examined in this month a member of the 911 "hijackers", Ahmed Alhaznawi. Tsonas is member of the American Board of Emergency Medicine. The survey list of Holy Cross' participants at the financial services is the Pentagon Federal Credit Union. http://www.hra-nca.org/about.asp Parts of that story, without mentioning any names had been already leaked in October/November 2001. It was refreshed in on March 23rd, 2002 in the NY Times. http://www.nypost.com/apstories/V0416.htm Dr. Thomas Inglesby helps the FBI in their investigation and comes to the conclusion, that Alhaznawi has anthrax, while the FBI later didn't.

 

June 9, 2001 Robert Wright, an FBI agent who spent ten years investigating terrorist funding, writes a memo that slams the FBI. He states, "There is virtually no effort on the part of the FBI's International Terrorism Unit to neutralize known and suspected international terrorists living in the United States." He claims "FBI was merely gathering intelligence so they would know who to arrest when a terrorist attack occurred," rather than actually trying to stop the attacks. Wright claims the FBI shut down his 1998 criminal probe into alleged terrorist-training camps in Chicago and Kansas City. He says his superiors repeatedly blocked his attempts to shut off money flows to al-Qaeda, Hamas and other terrorist groups. Yet his story is largely ignored by the media because the FBI will not allow Wright to provide details. He is now suing the FBI so he can tell his story. [copperativeresearch.org]

 

June 22-23, 2001, the same crew (see May 2000 re: the Johns Hopkins Center, in collaboration with the ANSER Institute for Homeland Defense, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Oklahoma Memorial Institute for the Study of Terrorism organised their last big scenario before Sep11th. They called it DARK WINTER. It was about a possible Smallpox attack. Jerome Hauer participated as well, this time "playing" the director of the FBI. The whole list is still mirrored at: http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/participants.html http://www.mipt.org/darkwinter06222001.htmlhttp://www.homelanddefense.org/darkwinter/index.cfm Among the other participants once again: James Woolsey, ex-CIA director Hon. Sam Nunn George Terwilliger etc. Observing, among many others, Thomas Inglesby, at that time Senior Fellow Johns Hopkins Institute On July 14th, 2001 the testimony on DARK WINTER was released: http://www.csis.org/press/ma_2001_0723.htm

 

July 2001 CSIS host a discussion on U.S. sanctions policy and suggest to relax the trade embargo on Cuba. http://www.csis.org/press/ma_2001_0710.htm Among its board members: Harold Brown (member of the boards of directors of Cummins Engine Company, Philip Morris, Mattel, and Evergreen Holdings, Inc. He is a trustee of the California Institute of Technology, RAND, and the Trilateral Commission (North America). James R. Schlesinger (associated with the RAND Corporation as a senior staff member (1963-67), and Director of Strategic Studies, (1967-1969). He left the Bureau of the Budget in August 1971 when President Nixon selected him to become chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. He held that post until February 1973 when he was named director of the CIA. Both Schlesinger and Brown are also on the board of Daily Telegraph UK, owned by Hollinger Inc, which owns 400 newspapers worldwide is Richard Perles company (who is the top advisor of the Pentagon) Other members of the board of CSIS: James Woolsey, ex CIA director and Perle/Wolfowitz friend Henry A. Kissinger , Mr. "Everywhere" Zbigniew Brzezinski , "Conspirator Specialist" William S. Cohen, codirector at Empower America, U.S. senator (1979-1997) Senior Advisor is Anthony Zinni

 

July 4-14, 2001: Osama bin Laden meets with an unnamed CIA agent while being treated for kidney problems in Dubai. CNN will corroborate the renal-failure story on Jan 21, 2002. ("Report: bin Laden Treated at U.S. Hospital", http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/10/31/114942.shtml )

 

July 10, 2001: Phoenix, Arizona FBI agent Ken Williams sends a memo to FBI headquarters and several other FBI offices, warning about suspicious activities of 10 Middle Eastern men taking flight training lessons in Arizona. The memo specifically suggests that bin Laden's followers might be trying to infiltrate the civil-aviation system as pilots, security guards or other personnel, and recommends a national program to track suspicious flight-school students. The memo is ignored and no action is taken, not even surveillance of the 10 suspected students. One of the students mentioned periodically roomed and trained with hijacker Hani Hanjour for several years in Arizona. In May 2002, Vice President Cheney states that the memo should never be released to the media or public. [copperativeresearch.org]

Mid-July 2001 (B): John O'Neill, FBI counter-terrorism expert, privately discusses White House obstruction in his bin Laden investigation. O'Neill says:"The main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it." He adds:"All the answers, everything needed to dismantle Osama bin Laden's organization, can be found in Saudi Arabia." O'Neill also believes the White House is obstructing his investigation of bin Laden because they are still keeping the idea of a pipeline deal with the Taliban open. [CNN, 1/8/02, CNN, 1/9/02, Irish Times, 11/19/01, Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth, released 11/11/01 (the link is an excerpt containing Chapter 1)]

 

July 26, 2001: CBS News reports that Attorney General Ashcroft has stopped flying commercial airlines due to a threat assessment, but "neither the FBI nor the Justice Department ... would identify [to CBS] what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it." The San Francisco Chronicle later concludes, "The FBI obviously knew something was in the wind ... The FBI did advise Ashcroft to stay off commercial aircraft. The rest of us just had to take our chances." CBS's Dan Rather later says of this warning: "Why wasn't it shared with the public at large?" [cooperativeresearch.org]

 

Late July 2001: David Schippers, noted conservative Chicago lawyer and the House Judiciary Committee's chief investigator in the Clinton impeachment trial, later claims that FBI agents in Chicago and Minnesota contact him around this time and tell him that a terrorist attack is going to occur in lower Manhattan. According to Schippers, the agents had been developing extensive information on the planned attack for many months. However, the FBI soon pulls them off the terrorist investigation and threatens them with prosecution under the National Security Act if they go public with the information. As a result, they contact Schippers hoping he can persuade the government to take action. Schippers tries to pass the information on to high government officials but apparently his efforts are ignored. Partly in conjunction with Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm, Schippers is now representing at least ten FBI agents in a suit against the US government in an attempt to have their testimony subpoenaed, which would enable them to legally tell what they know without going to jail. [cooperativeresearch.org]

 

August 2001 Hamza Alghamdi ("WTC-south tower") rents an unit 1504 at the Delray Racquet Club, 755 Dotterel Rd.(confirmed on 10/13, rented by Gloria Irish, wife of Editor Michael Irish of the Sun). Bob Stevens later becomes the first anthrax victim. His paper Sun Sentinel was in the same building as National Equirer, who had been attacked in 2000 by an upset President Bush because of their negative articles about his daughter. This disturbing connection to the Sun Sentinel is later ignored by the main media http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/florida/digdocs/065965.htm

 

Between July 10th and early August (when the FBIHQ and (John) O'Neill received the Kenneth Williams Phoenix-Memo), John Pickard takes over the job of NY-FBI director Louis Feesh. Pickard was involved in the TWA flight 800 investigation and the embassy bombings in Africa. In 1979 he worked undercover on the money laundering case code named "ABSCAM".http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/pickard103101.htm

 

August 6th, 2001 Richard Perle (Head of the Defense Policy Board) said: "...We're concerned about Saddam Hussein, we're concerned about the North Koreans, about some future Iranian government that may have the weapon they're now trying so hard to acquire - we're in a unique position as the sole super power.." http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/roguestate/interviews/perle.htm

Richard Perle is currently Head of the Defense Policy Board, Department of Defense which advises the Pentagon. Perle is also Director of Hollinger Inc, Hollinger Digital also owns Onset Technology which cooperates with spy messenger software of Comverse and Odigo. Hollinger Inc. owns more than 400 newspapers worldwide and controls almost 50% of the Canadian press. They are the third largest newspaper chain in the Western world, after Gannett and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Chairman and CEO of Hollinger is Conrad Black who controls about 78% of Hollinger through a private holding company. Hollinger also owns the Sydney Morning Herald, the Chicago Sun Times and the Daily Telegraph. On the board of Daily Telegraph is Henry Kissinger, ex-CIA-Director James Woolsey, Newt Gingrich, former Admiral David Jeremiah, Dan Quayle, former US-ministers James Schlesinger and Harold Brown. On 26th of October Daily Telegraph tried to promote the Iraq-October-anthrax theory: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F10%2F26%2Fwirq26.xml

 

August 6th, 2001 President Bush receives a 11.5 page report including a warning about an "attack with planes". A shorter memo goes to Dick Cheney, Andrew Card, Condoleeza Rice, Sen. Richard Shelby, Sen. Bob Graham, GOP Rep. Porter Goss, Rep. Nancy Pelosi. President Bush receives classified intelligence briefings at his Crawford, Texas ranch indicating that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The memo read to him is titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US", and the entire 11 page memo focuses on the possibility of terrorist attacks inside the US. The contents have never been made public. The existence of this memo is kept secret until May 2002. Vice President Cheney later calls the memo just a "rehash" containing nothing new or interesting. But he says Congress and the public should not see it, "because it contains the most sensitive sources and methods. It's the family jewels." [MSNBC] [cooperativeresearch.org]

 

August 19th, 2001 John O'Neill's briefcase with important documents get stolen on a Miami conference and is recovered later. (noted: John O’Neill had been involved in the creation of a expose book titled "the forbidden truth" published after his death]

 

Week of August 20th "...three weeks before the attack of September 11 security at the World Trade Center was abruptly heightened..." Source: counterpunch.com This was also confirmed by financial analyst Ben Fountain "...over the past few weeks we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual..." http://people.aol.com/people/special/0,11859,174592-5,00.html

 

August 22, 2001: Counter-terrorism expert John O'Neill, "committed tracker of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network of terrorists," quits the FBI because of the recent power play against him led by Tom Pickard, interim director of the FBI, and because of repeated obstruction of his investigations into al-Qaeda. O’Neill never hears the CIA warning about hijackers Alhazmi and Almihdhar sent out just one day later nor Ken Williams' flight school memo, nor of Walid Arkeh's warning, nor about the arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui, nor is he at a June meeting when the CIA revealed some of what it knew about Alhazmi and Almihdhar. [The next day he begins a new job as head of security at the WTC. He dies in the 9/11 attack, one day after moving into his office inside the WTC.]

 

August 22nd, 2001 After Colleen Rowley's memo was ignored by the FBIHQ including Dale Watson (Ex-CIA),she tries to get in touch on her own with the NSLU. She answers in an e-mail message, from an attorney at the National Security Law Unit (NSLU). "...Of course, with (ever important!) 20-20 hindsight, I now wish I had taken more time and care to compose my response..."

When asked by NSLU for my "assessment of (our) chances of getting a criminal warrant to search Moussaoui's computer", I answered, "Although I think there's a decent chance of being able to get a judge to sign a criminal search warrant, our USAO seems to have an even higher standard much of the time, so rather than risk it, I advised that they should try the other route..."

"...I believe that Minneapolis agents actually brought this point to FBIHQ's attention on August 22, 2001, but HQ personnel apparently ignored the directive..." Colleen Rowley's memo was also ignored by John O'Neill, head of the FBI's counterterrorism branch.

 

August 23, 2001 The CIA sent out an urgent cable, labeled IMMEDIATE, to the State Department, Customs, INS and FBI, telling them to put the two men on the terrorism watch list..."

 

August 28, 2001 After "a series of emails between Minneapolis and FBI HQ" concerning Colleen Rowley's mission to examine the case of Massaoui, she finally gave up.

 

September 2, 2001: Intelligence received from Iraq indicates that an accident occurred during a chemical weapons exercise, killing at least 20 Iraqi soldiers. Approximately 200 more soldiers, suffering from severe respiratory problems, were admitted to hospitals. The Telegraph Group Limited reports that "Iraqi scientists are working around that clock to rebuild the Iraqi leader’s chemical capability." The paper claims that "in the past three months, eight military factories have begun working at almost full strength." The most significant, located near the Syrian border, is said to be manufacturing chemical weapons. Iraq last used chemical weapons against its Kurdish population in March 1988. [The Telegraph Group Limited, September 2, 2001]

 

Early September 2001: NY Times Investigation reveals Battelle to make genetically altered anthrax. In the first few days of September 2001 - immediately prior to the attacks of the 11th, the New York Times carried a major investigation which at any other time would have been a story of huge significance...It revealed three secret bio-defence projects at a time when the American people believed none was taking place. One - run by a contractor - Battelle - was to create genetically altered anthrax. The question now is - are there more such projects? The private contractor companies linked to the military and jokingly referred to as "beltway bandits" because they're sprinkled around the Washington beltway ring-road, is where individuals with the right mix of skills might be working. Some of these contractors are now known to have been involved in classified bio-defence projects. One of these secret projects, carried out in the Nevada desert, was part of a series of three

 

BBC reported that Battelle Memorial Institute (a favorite Pentagon and CIA contractor and for whom Alibek served as biological warfare program manager in 1998) conducted a secret biological warfare test in the Nevada desert using genetically-modified anthrax early last September, right before the terrorist attacks. The BBC reported that Patrick's paper on sending anthrax through the mail was also part of the classified contractor work on the deadly bacterial agent.

 

September 4. 2001: Details have emerged regarding a number of biological weapons research programs initiated by the United States. Under "Project Bachus," Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) officials constructed a BW production facility using only materials readily available on the commercial market and produced "simulated" BW agents in 1999 and 2000. Officials claim the project helped the Department of Defense (DoD) and intelligence community learn more about the signatures that such a facility would emit. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) initiated a second project, "Clear Vision," in 1997. This project replicated portions of a bomblet developed by the former Soviet Union to disseminate BW in order to measure its potential effectiveness in dispersing the agents. Additional research into BW programs has been undertaken as part of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) "Jefferson Project." This program is intended to develop a small amount of a more potent strain of anthrax, although no work has begun on the project to date. DoD officials claim that this program was initiated to test vaccines against the agent, in light of claims by Russian scientists in 1997 that such a strain of anthrax was under development. Despite the fact that the BWC permits experiments on small microbes for defensive purposes, U.S. officials have expressed concern that both "Clear Vision" and the "Jefferson Project" may appear to foreign governments as violations of "the spirit if not the letter of the BWC." [The New York Times, September 4 and 5, 2001; Jane’s Defense Weekly, September 12, 2001]

 

September 6, 2001 MSNBC The story refers to an article that was to be published the following day in the weekly magazine Science, reporting the 1918 flu virus had recently been RNA sequenced. Researchers had traced down and obtained virus samples from archived lung tissue of WWI soldiers, and from an Inuit woman who had been buried in the Alaskan permafrost.

 

September 7, 2001 Jeb Bush refreshed and prepared Martial Law for florida.

 

September 10, 2001: Iran denied an allegation from a recent CIA report entitled "Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions," that the country is attempting to produce weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Iran’s reply stated that it has signed conventions prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons, that it voluntarily does not produce such weapons, and that it has cooperated with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The U.S. has repeatedly accused Iran of WMD acquisition since the hostage crises in 1980. [Xinhua News Agency, September 10, 2001; CIA report located at: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/bian/bian_sep_2001.htm]

 

 

September 10, 2001 Pentagon on high alert: A group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of "security concerns...."http://www.msnbc.com/news/629606.asp?0sp=w13b2#BODY

 

September 10, 2001 Jerry Hauer (FBI), who organized the job for John O'Neill at the Twin Towers started to work for National Health Institute (Thommy Thompson) as a National Security advisor. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/living/health/3020501.hym It is not known, how long he has worked there before, but this is a confirmed day. http://www.lauriegarrett.com/wtc_day12.html He also worked at the SAIC's Center for Counterterrorism Technology and Analysis in 1999. http://www.saic.com/news/nov99/news11-30a-99.html

Jerry Hauer also helped with the construction of the OEM center known as "the bunker" on an upper floor of 7 World Trade Center. http://www.politicsny.com/reports/february02/2-14-02-sheirer.shtml The CIA later confirmed, that they had an office there. Building 7 collapsed for unknown reasons on September 11th. Officially it started to burn because of an explosion of an illegal gas tank inside the building. This gas tank was confirmed weeks after Sep11th.

In 1983, Hauer joined IBM where he was responsible for the company's Hazardous Materials Response and Crisis Management and Fire Safety programs. Hauer produced a series of hazardous materials training videos that earned him the International Film and TC Critics of New York Bronze award in 1986.

Hauer is co-authoring the rewrite of the World Health Organizations' monograph on chemical and biological weapons..."

Hauer also got a master's degree with a focus on emergency medical services at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, a huge platform for one of the global players around 911.

Hauer was also a member of the John Hopkins Working Group on Civilian Bio Defense http://iml.dartmouth.edu/ists/hauer.html

Paul Wolfowitz worked there under his later-friend Mike Bloomberg.

Dr. Charles Inglesby of Hopkins helped the FBI in a possible anthrax case of one of the "hijackers".

 

September 10, 2001 John O' Neill celebrated his new job at the Twin Towers together with Jerry Hauer and Robert Tucker, a friend and security-company executive at the China Club, a night spot in midtown. http://www.nymag.com/page.cfm?page_id=5513&position=1 Other sources claim, he started on August 23rd, the day when the CIA sent their "cable".

 

September 10, 2001 High Alert at Wright/Patterson and many other US Bases. Later they claim, it was a regular alert. FEMA appears in NYC (CNN), The Defense Language Institute in Monterey was put on alert, but this was later downplayed in the main media. On May26th, 2002, a letter by Lt. Col. Steve Butler (DLI, Monterey) is released in the Herald Tribune, where he accuses President Bush, that he let the attack happen on purpose: "Of course Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama" The full letter is at http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=7735 Butler gets fired. The story appears on BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_2025000/2025939.stm>

The Echelon spy network was being used to collect information about the terrorist threats The SAMS (The Army's School of Advanced Military Studies) officers say: 'Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target US forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.'" ("US troops would enforce peace under Army study," Washington Times, Sept.. 10, 2001, pg. A1, 9.) Just 24 hours after this story appeared, the Pentagon was hit and the Arabs were being blamed..." http://www.google.com/search?q=Wildcard.+Ruthless+and+cunning++SAMS+washington+post&btnG=Google+Search

SF Mayor Willie Brown was warned not to use a plane the next morning and Salman Rushdie was not allowed to use planes during the first weeks of September.

The Pentagon was on high alert, as Newsweek has learned. http://www.msnbc.com/news/629606.asp?0sp=w13b2#BODY

September 11, 2001 (G): The 9/11 attack: four planes are hijacked, two crash into the WTC, one into the Pentagon, and one crashes into the Pennsylvania countryside. At least 3,000 people are killed. A more detailed timeline focusing on the hours of this attack appears on a separate page. John O'Neill, WTC security chief, and former deputy director of the FBI, where he headed investigation of the al-Qaeda network, was killed in those buildings on that day. O'Neill claimed in the book "Forbidden Truth", that Dale Watson sabotaged him and leaked information about him to the New York Times. Therefore he was discouraged but many people also speculated that O'Neill was silenced or bribed with this new job in the Towers. If this is true, they silenced him forever, because O' Neill died in the Towers and President Bush never took notice.

 

Hours after the attacks, five Israelis are arrested--neighbors alerted police after seeing them film the burning WTC from the roof of a building, then shouting in what was interpreted as cries of joy and mockery. One man was found with $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock, another had two passports on him, and a box cutter was found in the van they were driving when arrested. Investigators say that "There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted... It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen." One of these Israelis later says, "Our purpose was to document the event." ABC News later reports that the FBI determined at least two are Mossad agents, and that all were on a Mossad surveillance mission. The FBI holds them on immigration violations and interrogates them for weeks. They are released on November 20, 2001 as part of a deal with the Israeli government. The owner of the moving van company they all worked for flees to Israel on September 13 and is still wanted by US authorities. The FBI later claims that none of them had any advanced knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.

Why was the distribution of Cipro to White House staff on Sept. 11 classified for such a long time (AP)? http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/bush_cipro.htm

 

School Video shows Bush lied - Video showing President Bush sitting in Booker Elementary School and not reacting for 20 minutes after he heard about the 2nd crash on the Twin Towers. This video was produced on September 11th at Booker Elementary. In the meantime it is mirrored worldwide.We would like to show this video and compare it with a 5-week-old photo
from the White House website, which shows members of his staff pointing to a TV screen while watching the attacks on the Towers.This was impossible, because President Bush was at the school, as this video proves. We also have statements by President Bush made later where he stated that he watched the first crash live on TV, which was impossible.In these two transcripts he also states he thought the first crash was caused by a "bad pilot". President Bush claims he had no prior knowledge or received any warnings about an attack involved with planes. This was later debunked as a lie by CBS on May 15th, 2002. After 30 minutes in a school, he started to react to the attack on America. Months later he still claimed that the first plane crash must have been an accident by a "lousy pilot". President Bush and Vice Presidnet Cheney try to stop an investigation of 911 and later denied this again. Tom Daschle can prove that this was a lie.

 

Jerry Hauer identifies the dead body of John O'Neill in the rubble of the Twin Towers. He said, that his "remains were nothing the family ought to view" That means, neither O'Neills girlfriend Valerie James, his father John P. O'Neill or his wife or childrens John, Jr., and his younger sister, Carol had been allowed to identify the body. http://www.lauriegarrett.com/wtc_day12.html

 

September 11th, 2001 President Bush claims, he saw the first plane crash live on TV. He also claimed, he had no prior knowledge or received any warnings about an attack involved with planes. This was later debunked as a lie by CBS on May 15th, 2002. After 30 minutes in a school, he started to react to the attack on America. Months later he still claimed that the first plane crash must have been an accident by a "lousy pilot". President Bush and Vice Presidnet Cheney try to stop an investigation of 911 and later denied this again. Tom Daschle can prove that this was a lie.

 

September 11th, 2001 As AP reported in October, the White House including staff took Cipro on the evening of that day.

The CFR said in an interview, that now George Bush has the chance to finish what his father didn't. They mention also a new world order. On the first version of all passenger lists none of the 19 hijackers appeared. 6-8 original identities later confirm, that there are still alive, but the FBI never changed the list.

"..Air Force spokesman Col. Ken McClellan says, a man named Mohamed Atta -- which the FBI has identified as one of the five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 on the same day -- had once attended the International Officer's Schoolat Maxwell/Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala..." He later denied his own report! But Witnesses from the Base remember Mohammad Atta from his moustache. http://www.pressconnects.com/archive/attack/stories/091701N1.html The story later is twisted into a second Mohammad Atta.

Paul Wolfowitz confirms about Flight 93: "in fact we were already tracking in on that plane that crashed in Pennsylvania" http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec01/wolfowitz-9-14.html

On May 23rd, 2002, the Guardian UK confirmed the possible shootdown without any source of evidence:

"..U.S. fighters were flying to intercept it, and possibly shoot it down, when it crashed.." http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1754798,00.html

 

September 11th, 2001 Jerry Hauer identifies the dead body of John O'Neill in the rubble of the Twin Towers. He said, that his "remains were nothing the family ought to view" That means, neither O'Neills girlfriend Valerie James, his father John P. O'Neill or his wife or childrens John, Jr., and his younger sister, Carol had been allowed to identify the body. http://www.lauriegarrett.com/wtc_day12.html

 

September 12, 2001: The passport of hijacker Satam Al Suqami is found a few blocks from the WTC. The Guardian says, "the idea that [this] passport had escaped from that inferno unsinged [tests] the credulity of the staunchest supporter of the FBI's crackdown on terrorism." (Note the passport did not belong to Atta, as is sometimes claimed.)

Sept. 13, 2001 - China is admitted to the World Trade Organization quickly, after years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source: The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2001]

September 14, 2001 Sun Sentinel claims, that "..twelve of 19 people the FBI believes hijacked four jetliners in Tuesday's deadly terrorist attacks stayed in Florida.." http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-914flaties.story

 

Week of Sept 11, 2001: The former head of the ISI was discovered to have organized a wire transfer of $100,000 to the enigmatic alleged 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta in Summer of 2001, and yet also wound up visiting Washington D.C. for high-level meetings with US officials the week of 9/11. (The CIA close has close connections with the ISI in Pakistan which was a main supporter of the Taliban before 9/11. The CIA, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Tri Lateral Commision channel major funding to the Ford Foundation which in turn channels funding to the so called "left media". Why would the Ford foundation support alternative media if it actually looked deeply into the long-running control over US foreign policy exerted by the private and secretive Council on Foreign Relations. It is more likly that the Ford Foundation would favor those that would support the CFR, the Trilateral Commission and ultra rich and powerful multinational corporations. Foundations invested heavily in Big Oil would not fund the kind of alternative journalists and researchers that are not asking challenging questions about the formative role of oil politics in 9/11 and the so-called "War on Terrorism", or anyone pursuing urgent investigations into the stunning array of evidence pointing to Bush administration complicity in the 9/11 attacks?)

September 16, 2001 Bin Laden denied again that he was involved in the Sep11th attack. He faxed a statement to Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2001-09/17/article17.shtml

 

September 16-23, 2001: Reports appear in many newspapers suggesting that some of the people the US says were 9/11 hijackers are actually still alive. The London Times reports, "Five of the hijackers were using stolen identities, and investigators are studying the possibility that the entire suicide squad consisted of impostors." People with the same names and other biographical information of the hijackers speak to the press and governments in the Middle East and claim they were nowhere near the US on 9/11. In some cases, their passports and/or photos appear to have been stolen and used by the hijackers. In a secret report to banks, the US even suggests that one hijacker, Khalid Almidhar, is still alive. However, in November 2001, FBI Director Mueller states, "We at this point definitely know the 19 hijackers who were responsible,'' and says that they were sticking with the names and photos released in late September. The Salem Alhazmi still alive in Saudi Arabia says the FBI photo of hijacker Salem Alhazmi is of him, and other details of the hijackers appear to refer to obviously stolen information

 

September 16, 2001 Barry Mawn, FBI, classified a recovered passpord in the rubble of Vesey Street, by one of the hijackers. The name of the owner, which he didn't disclose, was later revealed by ABC as Satam M. A. Al Suqami.

Mawn was one of the few FBI agents, who also convinced John O' Neill to start a job at the Twin Towers:

"...It would be a powerful position," Mawn says. "That person would have direct contact with the FBI and turn around and influence top Cabinet people, and possibly even the president..." http://www.indybay.org/2001/11/109645.php

Mawn was involved in a controversial Boston investigation years ago http://www.laborers.org/HartfordCourant_12-23-99.html, in the EgyptAir investigation http://www.yowusa.com/authors/srussell/4Q99/flight990_1/EgyptAir_Flight_990_1.ht mL in the UNAbomber case in 1993. He was appointed as an Assistant Director of the FBI on March 30, 2000 by former New York-FBI director Louis J. Freeh

Anonymous letter of accusation: contained a long, typed letter with good command of English language, displaying considerable knowledge of Dr. Assaad, his work at USAMRIID and his personal life and accusing Assaad of planning terrorism. The letter was shown by the FBI to Assaad and his lawyer. The FBI subsequently exhonorated Assaad. The letter, sent to the Marine base at Quantico, VA., asserts that the accuser formerly worked with Assaad. It was sent before any cases of anthrax were discovered.

 

September 18, 2001 First Anthrax Hoax in Milwaukee, but without major coverage. A scientist told Milwaukee police that he was building an anthrax delivery system in his basement. The man's employment history was verified with a former employer, the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. He was fired twice - in 1996 and 1999. The main media start to speculate about a possible biological threat soon.

 

Sept. 18 2001 Trenton hoax anthrax letters mailed to NBC and NY Post (and probably to National Enquirer).

 

Sept. 20, 2001 St. Petersburg—hoax letter mailed to NBC and possibly to NY Post** [& Natl. Enq.?] Hoax letter to NBC: letter contained talcum and was mailed from St. P on 20 Sept., two days after the anthrax letter was mailed to NBC from Trenton. Both letters contained threats to Israel.

 

Sep19-25, 2001 NBC received & opened anthrax letter (brown granular sandy); not recognized as dangerous.

 

September 20, 2001 Four days after the WTC attack Top Pentagon Advisor Richard Perle tries to blame the attack on Iraq. In a meeting with the Wolfowitz Cabal they discussed a strategy and finally sent a letter to Bush with 41 signatures to continue their strategy. http://24.104.35.12/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/040pvmoi.asp "The only way to eliminate Saddam Hussein's governance is by organizing a coup d'etat against him..." (http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1998/10/981019-in.htm , 1998)

 

September 21, 2001 Jerry Hauer (now Ex-FBI), National Health Institute assumes on a audtiorium on the Rockefeller campus , that 911 and possible bio attacks are connected with Iraq. http://www.lauriegarrett.com/wtc_day12.html

 

September 25, 2001 An envelope at NBC was tested negative. (The same envelope who later tested positive in October). This information didn't become public. Barry Mawn, FBI doesn't allow to investigate the NBC-Anthrax

http://www.policetalk.com/anthrax-fbi.html 25 Sept. NBC received & opened hoax letter. late Sept. place?------------Mailed letter to Quantico Marine Base accusing Dr. Asaad, former USAMRIID scientist, as terrorist.

 

September 26, 2001 Bob Stevens, photo editor for the Sun Sentinel, travels to North Carolina

 

September 28, 2001 Bin Laden in an interview with Ummat: "...I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States.." He confirmed this statement in 3 other magazines including to AFP: http://www.khilafah.com/1421/category.php?DocumentID=2392&TagID=2 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1916646549dcccccbm

 

September 28, 2001 Thomas Inglesby of Hopkins Institute wants to have a BioDefense Budget: "..the Pentagon spent $264 billion to deter regional conflicts, $28 billion to protect against a "peer" nuclear attack and $3 billion on all other biological, chemical, cyber and nuclear assaults. Of that, he said, $250 million went to public health systems. "It would be a mistake not to change the funding patterns of the past". http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37610-2001Sep27.html Inglesby, still only "professor and researcher", participated in a panel called "Covering Terrorism: What Every Editor Should Know." http://www.apme.com/2001conf/bioterrorism.shtml

 

October 1st, 2001 Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Public health consumer advocate and author of "Death in the Air" first hand delivered a memo to his regional F.B.I. office on October 1, 2001, almost two weeks before the first anthrax letter was sent from Trenton, New Jersey to the American media building in Boca Raton, Florida. His action was prompted by reading, the Final Report-the Oklahoma City bombing grand jury investigation commissioned study by then State Representative Charles Key

 

October 1st, 2001 Jerry Hauer (now ex-FBI), National Health Institute warns to prepare of "consequences of a bio-terrorist attack." in an interview with Sarah Wallace, Eyewitness News http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_investigators_100101bioterror.html

 

October 1st, 2001 Dr. Thomas Inglesby, John Hopkins Institute, gets the position of Deputy Director. Tara O'Toole, M.D., M.P.H. is named Director of the Hopkins Center D.A. Henderson turns into Director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Public Health Preparedness, named by Secretary Tommy G. Thompson.

http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/pages/news/quarter.html

 

Early October 2001

BIOPORT has problems to distribute CIPRO vaccines. BAYER from germany finally promise to send their vaccines and increased their stocks.

Thomas Inglesby, M.D. assumed the position of Deputy Director at Hopkins. Former Center Director. D.A. Henderson turned into Director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Public Health Preparedness, named by Secretary Tommy G. Thompson.

Tara O'Toole, M.D., M.P.H. was named Director of the Hopkins Center. Toole was nominated by President Clinton to be assistant secretary of Energy for Environment Safety and Health and served in this position until 1997 http://www.jhsph.edu/bioterrorism/Bnr_11_02.htm She often works with Inglesby together.

 

October 2001

The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Tommy Thompson, and other Bush cabinet members have been meeting secretly (that is, illegally) with officials of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) to develop plans for their Emergency Preparedness Task Force http://www.tetrahedron.org/news/NR011112.html

 

October 2001

The Iraqi National Congress, the exiled group that opposes Saddam Hussein, said it recently held meetings in London with Mr James Woolsey, former CIA director. Administration sources have said his trip was funded and approved by Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defence secretary. But Woolsey made no comment about the exact nature of his brief. He told The Telegraph: "I was in London and that's it." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F10%2F26%2Fwirq26.xml

 

October 1, 2001Dr. Horowitz, hand delivered a memo to his regional F.B.I. office on October 1, 2001, almost two weeks before the first anthrax letter was sent from Trenton, New Jersey to the American media building in Boca Raton, Florida. His action was prompted by reading, The Final Report—the Oklahoma City bombing grand jury investigation commissioned study by then State Representative Charles Key. It stated that German-based neo-Nazi’s were known to have "masterminded" both airline hijackings and U.S. military installation bombings by the PLO. This matched what the F.B.I. reported, and what Dr. Horowitz knew about the German-based Bayer Corporation. The news reinforced his concerns about the Nazi-German connection to what was obviously a "CIPRO sales scam" linked to the anthrax mailings.(4)

 

 

October 2, 2001 - two days before the first anthrax case was reported in Boca Raton, Florida and a week and a half before the first anthrax was sent through the mail to NBC News in New York - Advanced Biosystems received an $800,000 grant from NIH to focus on very specific defenses against anthrax: Remember that Hauer joined the NIH on September 10, 2001 as an adviser on national security. Told the White House to take Cipro, (anti-anthrax) om Sept 11, didn’t warn the American nation and remained Managing Director at Kroll Associates - the official security and bodyguard company for all American presidents since World War II Hauer also got John O’Neil (ex FBI) his new job at WTC just before sept 11. Coincidence or connection? Hmmmm.
http://www.counterpunch.org/madsenanthrax.html

 

Oct. 4, 2001 a commercial jetliner traveling from Israel to Novosibirsk, Siberia was shot down over the Black Sea by an "errant" Ukrainian surface-to-air missile, killing all on board. The missile was over 100 miles off-course. Despite early news stories reporting it as a charter, the flight, Air Sibir 1812, was a regularly scheduled flight. The plane is believed by many in Israel to have had as many as five passengers who were microbiologists. Both Israel and Novosibirsk are homes for cutting-edge microbiological research. Novosibirsk is known as the scientific capital of Siberia, and home to over 50 research facilities and 13 full universities for a population of only 2.5 million people.

 

October 4, 2001: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D) accuses the Bush administration of reneging on an agreement on the anti-terrorist bill. Leahy is in a key position to block or slow the bill. Some warn that "lawmakers are overlooking constitutional flaws in their rush to meet the administration's timetable." Two days later, Ashcroft complains about "the rather slow pace…over his request for law enforcement powers… Hard feelings remain." [Washington Post, 10/4/01]

 

October 4, 2001: First report of anthrax case (in Florida). Bob Stevens (63), photo editor for the Sun Sentinel, AMI Building, Lantana/Florida, learns from the TV and internet, that he has anthrax. Steve Coz, AME Director: "..We found out that Bob Stevens had anthrax on the Internet at 3:00 on Thursday.." Sun Production Editor learned on CNN, Bob Stevens sitting next to him from another editor: "Bob Stevens is on the news. He has anthrax." http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-ami13oct13.story?coll=sf la-home-headlines (Bob Stevens had traveled to travel to North Carolina on 9/26/01)

The Sun Sentinel was in the same building as National Equirer, (National Enquirer ran negative articles Bushes daughter in 2000) http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/florida/digdocs/065965.htm

Gloria Irish had found an apartment for one of the alleged hijackers and was the wife of the senior editor of the National Enquirer. Her husband, Michael Irish, also used the airfield that served as flight training for some of the hijackers. In intelligence operations, foreign assets are often placed with resident "controllers" whose job it is to supervise the asset as well as provide accommodations as the need arises. Who are Michael and Gloria Irish? Or, perhaps more revealingly, what kind of social circles do they run with? This is certainly an avenue worth exploring -- by reason of its many synchrocities if for nothing else. Again, the seam that shows. [The mystery surrounding the death of John O'Neill The Propaganda Preparation for 9-11, by Chaim Kupferberg.htm]

 

October 5, 2001 Death of first anthrax victim, Fla. After 48 hours in advance, the National Health Department comes to AMI-Building, Boca Raton. Bob Stevens, the photo editor in Florida becomes the first respiratory anthrax fatality since 1976, when he dies at 4 PM at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Fla. No envelope was found until today. American Media Editorial Director Steve Co speculates: "..We know Mohamed Atta was within three miles of the building, We know he was within a mile of Bob Stevens house.." AME is told by FBI not to mention "too much details." Mohammed Atta took some of his flight lessons at the Palm Beach Flight School Lantana, Florida and Jones Aviation at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport,Vero Beach.

 

October 5, 2001 Bob Stevens, the photo editor in Florida becomes the first respiratory anthrax fatality since 1976, when he dies at 4 PM at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Fla. No envelope was found until today. American Media Editorial Director Steve Co speculates: "..We know Mohamed Atta was within three miles of the building, We know he was within a mile of Bob Stevens house.." AME is told by FBI not to mention "too much details." Mohammed Atta took some of his flight lessons at the Palm Beach Flight School Lantana, Florida and Jones Aviation at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport,Vero Beach.

 

Oct. 5, 2001: St. Petersburg—hoax letters mailed to J. Miller at NY Times and H. Troxler at St. Petersburg Times.

 

October 5, 2001 Thomas Inglesby, John Hopkins Institute is interviewed in the article: "Exploring Whether Humans Have an Anti-Anthrax Gene". http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsbio022399575oct05. story?coll=ny-health-h eadlines

 

October 5, 2001 a meeting was convened of the Center for Law and the Public Health (CLPH). This group is run jointly by Georgetown University Law School and Johns Hopkins Medical School, and was founded under the auspices of the Center for Disease Control (CDC). CLPH was formed one month prior to the 2000 Presidential election. The purpose of the 10/5/01 meeting was to draft legislation to respond to the then current bioterrorism threat.

October 7, 2001: Military operations with aerial bombardment began in Afghanistan

 

Air raids by the United States and its coalition partner, Great Britain, begin against Taliban and al-Qaeda targets in Afghanistan, after the Taliban refuse to hand over alleged terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden and his associates. The raids are intended to "…disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime," according to U.S. President George Bush. (Reuters) The US administration has now seized upon the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington to press ahead with its long-held designs on Central Asia. Without providing any evidence, Bush immediately held bin Laden responsible for the devastation in the US and issued a series of ultimatums to the Taliban regime: hand over bin Laden, shut down Al Qaeda installations and give the US access to all "terrorist training camps". When the Taliban rejected his open-ended demands, Bush gave his generals the signal to unleash thousands of bombs and cruise missiles on Afghanistan, with the openly avowed aim of bringing down the regime.[The Taliban, the US and the resources in Central Asia] Bin Laden had been living in Sudan since 1991. The Sudanese government collected a "vast intelligence database on Osama bin Laden and more than 200 leading members of his al-Qaeda terrorist network... [The US was] offered thick files, with photographs and detailed biographies of many of his principal cadres, and vital information about al-Qaeda's financial interests in many parts of the globe." In April 1996, the US again rejects Sudan's offer of the files. An American involved in the secret negotiations later says that the offer was blocked by another arm of the federal government: "I've never seen a brick wall like that before. Somebody let this slip up... We could have dismantled his operations and put a cage on top. It was not a matter of arresting bin Laden but of access to information... and that's what could have prevented September 11. I knew it would come back to haunt us." Sudan again offers the US the files in May 2000, and again is turned down. In 1996 Sudan also offers their files to British intelligence, and are also rebuffed. Sudan makes a standing offer to the British to take the information at any time, but the offer is not taken up until after 9/11. The US begins bombing Afghanistan. Note that shortly after 9/11 former Pakistani Foreign Secretary Niaz Naik claimed that in July 2001 he was told by senior US officials that a military action to overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan would "take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest." [cooperativeresearch.org]

 

October 7, 2001 saw reports that British scientists were planning to exhume the bodies of 10 London victims of the 1918 type-A flu epidemic known as the Spanish Flu. An October 7 report In The Independent, UK said that victims of the Spanish Flu had been victims of "the world's most deadly virus." British scientists, according to the story, hope to uncover the genetic makeup of the virus, making it easier to combat.

 

October 7, 2001: National attention was focusing on the (Sentinel Sun, Boca Raton) American Media, Inc initial anthrax cases in Florida on October 7

 

October 8, 2001 Second Anthrax Case confirmed in the nasal passage of a co-worker of Bob Stevens. It's Ernesto Blanco, a 73-year-old Cuban American in the mailroom of American Media office building in Boca Raton. After 4 days ignoring a connection to Mohammad Atta, the Media writes that, Bob Stevens lived 1 mile from Palm Beach County Park Airport, where Atta took flight lessons at a simulator. Since today no one wonders about that coincidence. Finally the FBI announces at 4:30 PM that the anthrax Incidents is a result of terrorism or criminal action, Attorney General John Ashcroft said .

 

October 9, 2001: Senator Feingold (D) blocks an attempt to rush the USA Patriot Act to a vote with little debate and no opportunity for amendments. Feingold criticizes the bill as a threat to liberty. [AP, 10/10/01] One day earlier, in the story "Cracks in Bipartisanship Start to Show," the Washington Post reports, "Congress has lost some of the shock-induced unity with which it first responded to the [9/11] attacks." [Washington Post, 10/8/01] Also on October 9, identical anthrax letters are postmarked in Trenton, New Jersey, with lethal doses to Senators Daschle and Leahy. Inside both letters are the words: "Death to America, Death to Israel, Allah is Great. [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 12/01]

 

October 9, 2001: Real anthrax letters to Senators Daschle and Leahy were being mailed in Trenton NJ on October 9

Also an Atlanta anthrax package shipped to Kenya on October 9, 2001.(52) The sender was not implicated. Apparently, an agent with access to this private mail, along with Battelle's classified military grade anthrax preparation and program, somehow inoculated the parcel. Again, Atlanta is home to the CIA-officiated CDC. U.S. anthrax letter mailed to Kenya. New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Anthrax-Overseas.html

 

Oct 8 –9 , 2001: The Ames, Iowa strain of anthrax, determined to be the one mailed from Trenton to Florida and Washington's capitol, had been suspiciously selected for destruction.(49,50) Iowa State officials suddenly confessed that they were ordered by CDC and FBI officials to destroy all of the remaining Ames, Iowa anthrax strain on or about October 8-9.

 

October 10, 2001 TN Senator Dr Bill Frist, (appears on TV) hyping biofear

 

Dr. Frist's family business, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), America's largest cartel of hospitals, paid the largest criminal fine in US history after caught stealing $1-Billion from the US gov't in racketeering and organized crime via Medicare fraud sending several of his executives to prison. Who knows how many more billions it got away with stealing? Frist's business was also sued by stockholders for insider trading (included below), sued by gov't for predatory antitrust monopolies, bankrupting competing hospitals and price gouging of hospital patients and insuarance policy holders (included below), prosecuted by the IRS for tax fraud (included below), and sued by families of murder victims for deadly medical malpractice committed for profit (included below). Currentling in England, a medical doctor stands trial as England's most prolific serial killer, prosecuted with over 400 homicides of his hospital patients—has Dr. Frist killed more in the name of profiteering?

However, medical experts, both MDs and research scientists, explain that anthrax is useless as a bioweapon of mass destruction. Most cases of anthrax are not lethal, unlike the Pentagon's helpers allege. Unlike farm animals that eat their food with their faces in the dirt, humans are not exposed to enough spores to get sick. Bioweapons that fail to deliver the required 10,000 spores to each intended victim will simply fails to cause disease. Only huge factories with hundreds of millions of dollars to play with can produce the lethal forms of anthrax. Only USA and Russia are rich enough to waste money on anthrax production, and USA has 300 universities playing around with it for benifit of tax welfare from the Pentagon. If an anthrax "mist" were ever sprayed over a city, anyone indoors is safe, and anyone outdoors is safe unless directly under an anthrax cloud (and without a $1 dust mask). It would appear the hype is an intention to manipulate stock prices at BioPort Corp, Lansing, Michigan, and to salvage the Pentagon's limp sales of anthrax vaccine, which itself is more dangerous—and more deadly—than anthrax. Pentagon's anthrax vaccine is linked to Gulf War Syndrome, the disabling disease affecting 200,000 veterans and their families. The aluminum content of the vaccine is perhaps the deadly ingredient for humans, since aluminum is linked to such dreaded diseases as Alzheimers and Parkinsons.

 

October 10-11, 2001: The FBI allows the original batch of the Ames strain of anthrax to be destroyed, making tracing the anthrax type more difficult.[New York Times, 11/9/01, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 12/01] Orders to destroy that particular strain were issued by FBI and CDC officials. This strongly suggests a conspiracy at the highest levels of the federal government. Incriminating is the fact that this one strain, of more than 1,000 anthrax strains available, had been used in various labs for decades. Allegedly by mistake, these two agencies-the FBI and CDC-simultaneously urged/approved the strain's destruction. http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html

 

October 11, 2001 Rumours about Small Pox at VICE Magazine, New York. Evacuation and tests. No media involved.

 

October 11, 2001 President Bush puts Malaysia on the list of countries, who harbors terror organizations He also decides to send an anti-terror-team to Philippines. http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/10/11/phil.ustroops/index.html

 

October 12, 2001 2nd "Malaysia"-story on that day: Microsoft office in Reno, Nevada gets an envelope from from Malaysia All Employees tested negative.

 

October 12 2001: Sun Sentinel still wonders, why the FBI sees no link between Mohammad Atta and the anthrax attack. American Media Editorial Director Steve Co speculates: "..We know Mohamed Atta was within three miles of the building, we know he was within a mile of Bob Stevens house.." AME told by FBI not to mention "too much details." A few 911-skeptics speculate, that the "masterplan" was already changed in these weeks. The connection 911 terrorists-anthrax" was sabotaged by the OSI, CIA + Co.

 

October 13, 2001: American Media Editorial Director Steve Coz said he thinks the anthrax found at the Boca Raton building was placed there as part of a bioterrorist attack. It arrived on Bob Stevens' desk," Coz said Friday on ABC's Good Morning America http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-ami13oct13.

story?coll=sf la-home-headlines

 

October 14, 2001 Story in Sunday Times gives a new bizarre twist: Now it looks like, "..the wife of Bob Stevens's boss rented an apartment to Atta while he was doing his flight training in preparation for the attacks. The FBI is also investigating reports that Atta visited a local pharmacy and asked for medicine for a skin complaint..." http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stiusausa02038.html

 

October 15, 2001: Senator Daschle's office opens the letter mailed October 9, containing a lethal dose of anthrax. Senator Leahy's similar letter is misrouted to Virginia on October 12, and isn't discovered until November 17. [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 12/8/01] The BBC says "Bush has pointed the finger at Osama bin Laden" for the anthrax attacks. Bush states, "There may be some possible link. We have no hard data yet, but it's clear that Mr. Bin Laden is an evil man." [BBC, 10/16/01]

 

October 16, 2001 Over the last couple of months BIOPORT has failed countless US inspections and are NOT permitted to produce any vaccine for civilian use.Today as reported by CNN they have asked the US gov't for permission to start mass producing for the public. But the Health Control FDA didn't renew their license twice in the last three years. Government tried to give new contract for DynCorp , but failed because under big media pressure of the Anthrax attacks. BAYER got the ok for the distribution. Some 911 sceptics wonder if they had been sabotaged on purpose to avoid investigative reports about them

 

October 16-17, 2001: 28 congressional staffers test positive for anthrax. The Senate office buildings are shut down, followed by the House of Representatives. [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 12/8/01]

 

October 17, 2001 story in USA Today reported that the US government wanted to order 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine.

 

October 18, 2001: Canada overrides Bayer's patent for Cipro and orders a million tablets of a generic version from another company. The US says it is not considering a similar move. Patent lawyers and politicians state that adjusting Bayer's patent to allow other companies to produce Cipro is perfectly legal and necessary. [New York Times, 10/19/01] The New York Times notes that the White House seems "so avidly to be siding with the rights of drug companies to make profits rather than with consumers worried about their access to the antibiotic Cipro," and points out huge recent contributions by Bayer to Republicans. [New York Times, 10/21/01]

 

October 24, 2001 New Scientist writes, that the anthrax bacteria is likely to be US military strain http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991473

 

October 24, 2001: The House of Representatives passes the final version of the USA Patriot Act and other previously unpopular Bush projects: Alaska oil drilling, $25 billion in tax cuts for corporations, taps into Social Security funds and cuts in education. [CNN, 10/25/01] Republican Congressman Ron Paul states: "It's my understanding the bill wasn't printed before the vote - at least I couldn't get it. They played all kinds of games, kept the House in session all night, and it was a very complicated bill. Maybe a handful of staffers actually read it, but the bill definitely was not available to members before the vote." It is later found that only two copies of the bill were made available in the hours before its passage, and most House members admit they voted for the Act without actually reading it first. [Insight, 11/9/01] Two days later, the Senate passes the final version of the USA Patriot Act. Anthrax targets Senators Daschle and Leahy now support the bill. Bush signs it into law the same day. [Fox News, 10/26/01] Were the anthrax attacks a deliberate plot to help pass the USA Patriot Act, and whip up public support?

 

October 25, 2001 Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Tommy Thompson also asked Congress for another $500 million to produce enough of Acambis's smallpox vaccine "so every American will be assured there is a dose with his or her name on it if it is needed" Many argue, that the vaccines are reported with various side effects, including a sudden death.

 

October 26, 2001. Bin laden cutting Carlyle Ties. Associated Press

 

October 26, 2001 http://www.cjr.org/owners/disney.asp Confirmation that Bentonite isn't the indicator for the Anthrax Spores, but Seneca, as used in the States. Iraq was falsly accused by ABC News and their "four well-placed and separate sources" to be the only country to use Bentonite and writes wrong, that the spores had been indicated with bentonite.

http://www.cjr.org/owners/disney.asp Bentonite, Hydrated (Intestinal) is a natural clay that comes from volcanic ash. It is often used as a thickener in facial masks as it absorbs excess oil and dirt from the skin.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/WTC_Investigation.html

 

October 26, 2001 Daily Telegraph,who is owned by Top Pentagon advisor Richard Perle (Hollinger Inc.) starts with a series of articles about a possible connection of Mohammed Atta and an iraqi diplomacy. The paper quotes also his best friend, James Woolsey (ex-CIA director): "I doubt very seriously if this was simply a social relationship or that they liked to drink Czech beer together." This story was picked up by other british papers and reached the States within a few days. The story was finally debunked as false in late November 2001, but often reappared again in 2002. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2 F2001%2F10%2F26%2Fwirq26 .xml

On the 26th of October The Daily Telegraph tried to promote the Iraq-October-anthrax theory: Hollinger Inc owns the Daily Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Chicago Sun Times and. On the board of Daily Telegraph is Henry Kissinger, ex-CIA-Director James Woolsey, Newt Gingrich, former Admiral David Jeremiah, Dan Quayle, former US-ministers James Schlesinger and Harold Brown. The Director of Hollinger Inc. is Richard Perle. Perle is also Head of the Defense Policy Board, Department of Defense which advises the Pentagon. Hollinger Digital also owns Onset Technology which cooperates with spy messenger software of Comverse and Odigo. Hollinger Inc. owns more than 400 newspapers worldwide and controls almost 50% of the Canadian press. They are the third largest newspaper chain in the Western world, after Gannett and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Chairman and CEO of Hollinger is Conrad Black who controls about 78% of Hollinger through a private holding company.

 

CFR Monday, October 29, 2001
"Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War"
Speaker: William Broad
Science Writer, The New York Times
Speaker: Stephen Engelberg
Investigations Editor, The New York Times
Speaker: Judith Miller
Senior Writer, The New York Times
Presider: Charlie Rose
Executive Producer and Host, Charlie Rose Show
Related Project(s): America's Response to Terrorism

October 31, 2001 During the same period, almost all british and US-papers ignored another article, first released as a radio report about a meeting of Bin laden and CIA agent Larry Stevens in June 2001, by Richard Labevierre (Radio France International, "Terror Dollars" (2000, about illegal Al-Quaida accounts), which was picked up on same day by ananova, yahoo singapore, GROUND ZERO Forum NYC, Le Figaro, DER SPIEGEL and DrudgeReport.

Late October 2001

Johnson + Johnson now wants to give away their product Levaquin, an anti anthrax sirup, for free. They got ignored.

Other companies like Pfizer start to work on their drug Vibramycin.

GlaxoSmithKline und Aventis promised to offer other drugs for other bio weapon diseases or symptoms.

End October 2001 The FBI claims, they have visited Dr. Tsonas (Holy Cross) to ask him something about some hijackers.

October 31, 2001: The Bush White House drafted an unprecedented executive order sealing presidential records including those of prior administrations. October 31, 2001, the French daily "Le Figaro" reported that Osama bin Laden had met with a high-level CIA official in July 2000. At that time, bin Laden was already being sought for trial for his involvement in two U.S. embassy bombings and the U.S.S. Cole attack. The meeting was held in bin Laden's private suite in a Dubai hospital. Though he was eligible for elimination, according to President Bill Clinton's intelligence findings, on July 14th he was let go and left Dubai on his private jet. [Washington Post]

November 1, 2001: Bush signs Executive Order 13233 restricting public access to papers of former presidents.

November 2001 Thomas Picking retires from the FBI

November 2001: Jerome Hauer was still ignoring the investigations by Barbara Rosenberg, who had a list of possible anthrax suspects, scientists who would have been able to gain access to the original Ames strain from USAMRIID, Fort Detrick. http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport.htm Suspects were Battelle and the Battelle Memorial Institute administrators, who supplied the Dugway anthrax proving facility in Utah, where the only virtually identical Ames strain of silica-impregnated hyper-weaponized anthrax was found: http://www.stlimc.org/print.php3?article_id=1295 Jerome Hauer started an initiative known as "De-Mystifying the Biological Weapons Debate," and as a member of this group he claimed at the time that the main suspects for the anthrax attacks included "Osama Bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network and sympathizers to US right wing extremists" http://www.basicint.org/BWreport.htm

November 6, 2001 Jerome Hauer participated in the "Independent Task Force on America's Response to Terrorism" at the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations). Participants there included James J. Zogby (President of the Arab American Institute and Central Asian Enterprise Fund), Newton L. Gingrich (Chief Executive Officer, The Gingrich Group), Harold Brown (former secretary of defense and counselor at CSIS: the Center for Strategic and International Studies), Henry A. Kissinger (Senior Fellow in National Security and European Affairs), Richard C. Holbrooke (Counselor, CFR and Vice Chairman of Perseus, LLC) and Philip A. Odeen (Executive Vice President, Washington Operations of TRW, Inc. and CEO of Reynolds + Reynolds, Dayton).

Their agenda, eight weeks after the attack of Sept. 11, was strange indeed:
http://www.cfr.org/Public/publications/PubDiplom_TF.html

"....Release a White Paper explaining our goals and rationale for the war in Afghanistan, and outlining the evidence that the al-Qa'eda network was responsible for the 9/11 attacks....

...Disseminate stories of particular victims to convey the range of people killed in the 9/11 attacks-stress range of religions, races, income levels, etc...

...counteract myth that Mossad was behind the attacks by showing Jews killed, etc...

...Routinely monitor the regional press in real time to enable prompt responses..."

November 2001 Between October and November the media pushes various reports about new control systems, surveillance camera systems, Opinion Mining, Wireless Biometry, Nanosatellites, Face Recognition, Chat- and Boardsniffer, Brain Scans, the National ID, The Pentagon Smart ID, the VeriChip or other Tracking Tools. Other special magazines reveal news about Skin color spectrum monitor programs or Nanobarcodes.

November 9th, 2001 Officially on this day a video of Bin Laden is produced in Jahlalabad. On the same day the Northern Alliance have their first success, storming Mazar-el-Sharif. Many journalists wrote, that this attack was provoked by the CIA and lead to the first big loss of the Taliban. Donald Rumsfeld claims, "someone" found this video two weeks later in Kandahar.

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2001/t12132001_t1213sd.html At that time, none of the Northern Alliance or the US Troops had been arrived in Kandahar or Jahlalabad.

November 9, 2001, The Guardian reported that U.S. health secretary Tommy Thompson asked Congress for $500 million for enough smallpox vaccine "so every American will be assured there is a dose with his or her name on it if it is needed."(54

November 10, 2001 "Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth", written by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie is released. It includes an interview with former FBI John O'Neill and many oil pipeline maps of Afghanistan.

November 11, 2001 "..The New York Times (November 11, 2001) reported that F.B.I. agents were denied access to "some pharmaceutical companies in New Jersey http://www.tetrahedron.org/news/NR011112.html the New York Times." These ill-defined companies demanded "agents to present a subpoena before they would grant access to their files."(12) Dr. Horowitz found this additionally suspicious, if not seriously incriminating, especially since smallpox vaccine maker Aventis, his primary suspect, had two plants within forty-five minutes drive from T