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Middle East Times
By
Sherwood Ross
Middle East Times
Published December 11, 2006
The terrorists who
perpetrated the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress likely were US
government scientists at the army's Ft. Detrick, MD., bioterrorism lab
having access to "moonsuits" that enabled them to safely process and
manufacture super-weapons-grade anthrax, an eminent authority on the
subject says.
Although only a "handful" of scientists had the ability to
perpetrate the crime, the culprit among them may never be identified as
the FBI ordered the destruction of the anthrax culture collection at
Ames, IA., from which the Ft. Detrick lab got its pathogens, the
authority said.
This action makes it impossible "to pin-point precisely where, when,
and from whom these bio-agents had originated," said Dr. Francis A.
Boyle of the University of Illinois at Champaign.
Boyle, who drafted the US Biological Weapons Convention of 1989
enacted by Congress, said destruction of the Ames anthrax "appears to be
a cover-up orchestrated by the FBI."
If impartial scientists could have performed genetic reconstruction
of the anthrax found in letters mailed to Senators Daschle (D-S.D.) and
Patrick Leahy, (D -Vt.), "the trail of genetic evidence would have led
directly back to a secret but officially-sponsored US government
biowarfare program that was illegal and criminal" in violation of
biological weapons conventions and US laws, Boyle said.
"I believe the FBI knows exactly who was behind these terrorist
anthrax attacks upon the United States Congress in the Fall of 2001, and
that the culprits were US government-related scientists involved in a
criminal US government biowarfare program," Boyle said.
The anthrax attacks killed five people, including two postal
workers, injured 17 others, and shut down the operations of the US
Congress.
Boyle, a leading American authority on international law, said after
the attacks he contacted senior FBI official Marion "Spike" Bowman, who
handles counter-terrorism issues, and provided him with the names of the
scientists working with anthrax. Boyle told Bowman the Ft. Detrick
scientists were not to be trusted.
In addition to then destroying the anthrax, the FBI "retained every
independent life-scientist it could locate as part of its fictitious
investigation, and then swore them all to secrecy so that they cannot
publicly comment on the investigation or give their expert opinion,"
Boyle said.
Boyle pointed out that Bowman is the same FBI agent "who played a
pivotal role in suppressing evidence which in turn prevented the
issuance of a search warrant for the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, the
alleged 20th Al Qaeda hijacker on 11 September 2001, which might
otherwise have led to foreknowledge and therefore prevention of those
terrorist attacks in the first place."
A self-confessed Al Qaeda operative, Moussaoui was detained on
immigration three weeks before 9/11 when a Minnesota flight school
reported he was acting suspiciously.
Boyle asked if Bowman received an FBI award in December 2002, for
"exceptional performance" because of his capacity "to forestall
investigations, because of where they may lead?" He went on to inquire,
"Could the real culprits behind the terrorist attacks on 11 September
2001, and the immediately following terrorist anthrax attacks upon
Congress ultimately prove to be the same people?"
Because of its "bogus investigation," Boyle said, "the greatest
political crime in the history of the United States of America since its
founding on 4 July, 1776 - the anthrax attacks on Congress, which served
not only to deliver a terrorist threat on its members, but actually to
close it down for a period - may remain officially unresolved forever."
"Could it truly be coincidental," he continued, "that two of the
primary intended victims of the terrorist anthrax attacks - Senators
Daschle and Leahy - were holding up the speedy passage of the
pre-planned USA Patriot Act ... an act which provided the federal
government with unprecedented powers in relation to US citizens and
institutions?"
Leahy is incoming Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and may
have a personal interest in holding hearings to learn who tried to kill
him. He recently said President George W. Bush should be "terrified"
that he will be the new Chair.
Boyle's views are contained in his book Biowarfare and Terrorism,
published by Clarity Press, Inc., of Atlanta, GA. His previously
published titles include, Foundations of World Order, The Criminality
of Nuclear Deterrence, and Destroying World Order. Dr. Boyle
holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude and a Ph.D. in political science,
both from Harvard.
In a forward to the book, Dr. Jonathan King, Professor of Molecular
Biology at M.I.T. and a founder of the Council for Responsible Genetics,
said the government's "growing bioterror programs [described by
Professor Boyle] represent a significant emerging danger to our own
population."
A harsh critic of Pentagon biowarfare activities, Boyle pointed out
in inflation-adjusted dollars the US spends more on them today than it
did on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb in World War II.
He has accused the Bush administration of diverting the bio-tech
industry "towards biowarfare purposes" and of making corrupting payoffs
to Academia to turn university scientists to the pursuit of biowarfare
work.
Sherwood Ross is an American journalist who writes on
military and political topics. Reach him at sherwoodr1@yahoo.com
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