Expert Warns Coded Pictures Indicate Al Qaeda Planning Major Biological Attack
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- http://ebird.dtic.mil/Oct2001/s20011018expertwarns.htm DefenseWatch (SFTT.org) October 17, 2001 Expert Warns Al Qaeda Planning Major Biological Attack By Ed Offley It is becoming clearer by the day that a month after the Sept. 11 aircraft hijackings, a biological warfare attack is being launched against the United States by as-yet unknown terrorists. The discovery of anthrax in letters mailed to the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, NBC and ABC, following an initial exposure at American Media International in Florida, betrays a cunning and carefully organized intent-- particularly with the discovery that the anthrax mailed to Daschles office has been found to be "weapons grade" material that could indeed kill hundreds if not thousands of people if released in a significant airborne plume. Is this new phase terrorism merely a crude and ineffective ploy, or the harbinger of even more serious danger to the nation? Nuclear physicist Robert Koontz, who has researched and tracked the al Qaeda terrorist network for several years, is warning that he has discovered evidence on the Internet that Osama bin Laden may be planning a much larger biological warfare campaign-- using more than one form of germ agent-- and is using "coded" illustrations to signal and direct additional sleeper agents purportedly already armed with biological weapons. Dr. Koontz has posted the coded paintings and other evidence at the following website: http://www.bringmenews.com/Messages/National_Security/Alerts/Alert_003.htm Dr. Koontz revealed this disturbing information in an interview with DefenseWatch, on Tuesday after what he described as a frustrating inability to persuade federal officials to take the information seriously. The interview transcript is reproduced in full below. Interview with Dr. Robert Koontz DefenseWatch: How did you first become aware of the art? Let me begin by saying that I was following cyber-tracks of Ahmed Alghamdi, one of the lesser known terrorists aboard flight No. 175 that crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. In doing this detective work, I came across Alghamdis name posted on a fan club that was started by a Bahraini pilot. So, I found the name Ahmed Alghamdi, I found an e-mail address for Alghamdi, and I found the names and web sites of numerous other people, many of whom had names of Middle Eastern origin. But that in itself was not surprising given that the web site is a fan club for a Middle Eastern singer. Nevertheless, my initial (intuitive) reaction was that I might have come across an al Qaeda communications node, and I now know that to be at least partly true. Having decided that I might have come across an al Qaeda communications node, I began looking at the web sites of all those who had posted their URLs on the fan club web site. After carefully looking at a few of the posted web sites, I noted that a man by the name of Muzaffar Wandawi identified himself as an Iraqi living in Amsterdam. The fact that he stated that he is an Iraqi drew my immediate attention, for it is well known that there is possible Iraqi involvement in the terrorist attack of Sept. 11. But that was not taken to be anything more than circumstantial. DefenseWatch: Please describe how you became suspicious that the images themselves might be the messages/instructions. When examining this mans art, I found it to be disturbing, but I did not at first think that it was suspicious--until I came upon the picture labeled "Downfall." In that picture, Wandawi clearly showed two towers burning, and there appeared to be a picture of the smoking Pentagon just to the right of that image. Then there was a man riding on what appeared to be an Arabian horse, and the man appeared to be dressed like a pilot, without his jacket on. The haircut of the rider of the horse was also in the manner of a pilot. The painting was dated 1988, which seemed to be rather early. But I have since concluded that the painting might have been done in 1998. In all events, I grew very suspicious of what I saw, for it is essentially impossible for someone to create such a constellation of images of a terrorist event in the future-- without having intimate knowledge of the attack plans. Then I set about filtering the data and came across an image of the White House that was buried under some mild clouding. Next, with the filtering, I could see that the burning tower actually represented a large building that was burning in almost exactly the way that the buildings burned at the World Trade Center. At this time I was convinced that the artist was an Iraqi intelligence agent or an agent of al Qaeda. Later, I discovered more images that were clearly targeting information of a specific nature. I have not published those yet; an expert in this type of cryptography is working on the problem at this very time. DefenseWatch: One of the illustrations shows Osama bin Laden next to a cartoon character from Sesame Street. What significance does that image have? The Sesame Street character that has appeared in a huge poster with Osama bin Laden is significant in that it is yellow and has a mask-like quality. And one can be certain that it was not placed on that huge poster by accident, as some people have stupidly suggested. It is a signal. Since it is my assertion that the al Qaeda group is using yellow as a symbol in association with biological weapons, which it has done elsewhere, I conclude that the yellow Sesame Street character in the poster represents a signal that relates to biological weapons. And, as one can clearly see, we are under a biological attack at this very moment. But it is my opinion that the biological attack that is happening now is "baby stuff." DefenseWatch: What federal authorities or agencies have you attempted to contact to warn of the potential threat from the art? Please describe the reaction or lack of reaction to date. Do other private experts share your assessment or is there disagreement? I have attempted to communicate to the FBI on two occasions, sending e-mail to four of their offices. There has been no reply, even though I am warning that al Qaeda is planning an apocalyptic germ warfare attack. I am waiting to hear from other experts. DefenseWatch: How widespread is public awareness of this? I have principally limited this information to Col. David Hackworth and certain other trusted individuals. But I am beginning to release information to members of the news media, by virtue of the fact that I feel that the FBI is not going to take this seriously. It took them seven days to understand that we are under an anthrax attack. And about 8,000 FBI computers are more than eight years old. Not every FBI office can even surf the Web. They are in the Dark Ages. Regarding the certainty of the information, I can say with 100 percent certainty that Muzaffar Wandawi had prior knowledge of the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, and I can say with 100 percent certainty that he is intimately involved with other planned acts of terrorism against the United States. These include a planned attack on one of the most vital communications centers that America has; an attack on the Main Building of the National Security Agency [at Fort Meade, Md.]--inside of which is situated a communications center that handles everything from presidential orders relating to use of nuclear weapons to some CIA and State Department traffic. It appears that perhaps 12 private planes would attack the NSA main building when a certain signal is given. I know what that signal is, and I know what conditions of defense alert we will be in when the signal is given. Let me conclude by saying that the evidence I have posted at my web site indicates that al Qaeda in association with Iraqi intelligence plans a biological attack that they hope will kill millions. I assume that this will occur with the use of exotic diseases, such as Ebola, but also smallpox and everything one could possibly find in a Russian bacteriological warfare laboratory. The information that I have indicates that the Russian mafia has sold these kind of bacteriological materials to bin Laden. So, just as there was a group of 19 hijackers on Sept. 11, I assert that there is a group of maybe 20 germ warfare agents who will release the aforementioned types of diseases in the very near future, hoping to create epidemics that will kill millions. That is what the encrypted images at Wandawis web site suggest to me. I urge that people go to the web page where I have placed this evidence and examine the materials for themselves. The URL is: http://www.bringmenews.com/Messages/National_Security/Alerts/Alert_003.htm People would also be well advised to visit my national security message board that now has about 350 important postings. You can get to the message board through the following URL: http://www.BringMeNews.com/ Robert Koontz is an experimental nuclear physicist who earned his Ph.D. in 1980 at the University of Maryland. His specialties are experimental nuclear physics and high-energy physics, but he is also an expert in certain areas of electronics, computer systems, software development and matters relating to electronic intelligence gathering. 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Fascinating website. This may sound disturbing, but I must say, this terrorist was a pretty good painter if these really are his paintings. Mr. Koontz made some good points about the biological attack, but his thesis is predicated on the idea of yellow meaning sickness, and I'm not sure if it all ties together. For instance, one of the paintings clearly shows an Arabian horse struggling uphill into a field of yellow. Yellow in this case looks like peace or salvation. He also didn't pick up the image of a horse running up the rock being a reference to how Mohamed went to heaven, so there may be some other interpretations of these images. I hope none of these plots will come to pass.
May be a hoax. Most former NSAers don't advertise the fact. And the "Bert-and-bin-Laden" image as a seekret coded message? Hardly. -Declan On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:08:15PM -0000, Dr. Evil wrote:
Fascinating website. This may sound disturbing, but I must say, this terrorist was a pretty good painter if these really are his paintings. Mr. Koontz made some good points about the biological attack, but his thesis is predicated on the idea of yellow meaning sickness, and I'm not sure if it all ties together. For instance, one of the paintings clearly shows an Arabian horse struggling uphill into a field of yellow. Yellow in this case looks like peace or salvation. He also didn't pick up the image of a horse running up the rock being a reference to how Mohamed went to heaven, so there may be some other interpretations of these images.
I hope none of these plots will come to pass.
"Dr. Evil" wrote:
Fascinating website. This may sound disturbing, but I must say, this terrorist was a pretty good painter if these really are his paintings.
Agreed. I would be really, really impressed if Koontz had said all this *before* the event. Afterwards? I hope he never publishes his theories on the words of Bob Dylan.
Mr. Koontz made some good points about the biological attack, but his thesis is predicated on the idea of yellow meaning sickness, and I'm not sure if it all ties together. For instance, one of the paintings clearly shows an Arabian horse struggling uphill into a field of yellow. Yellow in this case looks like peace or salvation. He also didn't pick up the image of a horse running up the rock being a reference to how Mohamed went to heaven, so there may be some other interpretations of these images.
Some hundreds of interpretations I guess. The world is full of art historians and critics and cultural studies folk who can generate them for as long as you like. We have a whole department of Art Historians here at this very university. I bet they could find terrorist messages in just about any painting you cared to mention, if you bought them enough drinks. Ken Brown
Sometime around 12:40 PM 10/18/2001 -0700, auto301094@hushmail.com opined thusly:
http://ebird.dtic.mil/Oct2001/s20011018expertwarns.htm
DefenseWatch (SFTT.org) October 17, 2001
Expert Warns Al Qaeda Planning Major Biological Attack
Kook. http://www.doctorkoontz.com/philosophy/essays/other_essays/other_essay002.ht... Reminds me a little of Ray Kurzweil; looks like there are interesting thoughts bouncing around there, but then you run in to him trying to flirt with a speech synthesizer on stage. (I'm not kidding; I can't find a link now, but it happened at the TED conference last year. A similarly embarrassing thing fills half of _The Age of Spiritual Machines_.) -j
Maybe the CIA will now open an Art Historical and Symbolical Branch to examine the works of artists for evidence of dangerous thoughts. GK Chesterton got it right back in 1908: "The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective. The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists. The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed. We have to trace the origin of those dreadful thoughts that drive men on at last to intellectual fanaticism and intellectual crime. We were only just in time to prevent the assassination at Hartlepool, and that was entirely due to the fact that our Mr. Wilks (a smart young fellow) thoroughly understood a triolet." (From The Man who was Thursday, chapter 4, copied from Christian Classics Ethereal Library at http://biblestudy.churches.net/CCEL/C/CHESTERT/THURSDAY/THURSDAY.TXT) The website at http://huizen.dds.nl/~wandm/paint2.html claims that the drawings were made between 1983 and 1989. There are signatures and dates visible on the pictures. Even the Koontz article claims that they have existed at least since 1998. If this is true they can hardly have been a signal to the hijackers to go into action. At the most, evidence of the artist's state of mind. Ken Brown
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ken Brown wrote:
The website at http://huizen.dds.nl/~wandm/paint2.html claims that the drawings were made between 1983 and 1989. There are signatures and dates visible on the pictures. Even the Koontz article claims that they have existed at least since 1998. If this is true they can hardly have been a signal to the hijackers to go into action. At the most, evidence of the artist's state of mind.
Muzaffar Wandawi's home page is at http://people.a2000.nl/mwandawi/ and his email address is wandm@dds.nl. Hmm. I might hire him as a web designer some day. Anyone else think he's got a good shot at a libel suit against "Dr. Robert W. Koontz" for his "Conclusion #1"? "1) Muzaffar Wandawi was involved in the attacks on the World Trade centers, and it appears he uses his drawings and paintings to encode orders to terrorists, including al Qaeda." http://www.bringmenews.com/Messages/National_Security/Alerts/Alert_003.htm -MW-
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DefenseWatch (SFTT.org) October 17, 2001
Expert Warns Al Qaeda Planning Major Biological Attack
By Ed Offley
It is becoming clearer by the day that a month after the Sept. 11 aircraft hijackings, a biological warfare attack is being launched against the United States by as-yet unknown terrorists. The discovery of anthrax in letters mailed to the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, NBC and ABC, following an initial exposure at American Media International in Florida, betrays a cunning and carefully organized intent-- particularly with the discovery that the anthrax mailed to Daschles office has been found to be "weapons grade" material that could indeed kill hundreds if not thousands of people if released in a significant airborne plume.
Is this new phase terrorism merely a crude and ineffective ploy, or the harbinger of even more serious danger to the nation? Nuclear physicist Robert Koontz, who has researched and tracked the al Qaeda terrorist network for several years, is warning that he has discovered evidence on the Internet
Osama bin Laden may be planning a much larger biological warfare campaign-- using more than one form of germ agent-- and is using "coded" illustrations to signal and direct additional sleeper agents purportedly already armed with biological weapons.
Dr. Koontz has posted the coded paintings and other evidence at the following website:
http://www.bringmenews.com/Messages/National_Security/Alerts/Alert_003.htm
Dr. Koontz revealed this disturbing information in an interview with DefenseWatch, on Tuesday after what he described as a frustrating inability to persuade federal officials to take the information seriously. The interview transcript is reproduced in full below.
Interview with Dr. Robert Koontz
DefenseWatch: How did you first become aware of the art?
Let me begin by saying that I was following cyber-tracks of Ahmed Alghamdi, one of the lesser known terrorists aboard flight No. 175 that crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
In doing this detective work, I came across Alghamdis name posted on a fan club that was started by a Bahraini pilot. So, I found the name Ahmed Alghamdi, I found an e-mail address for Alghamdi, and I found the names and web sites of numerous other people, many of whom had names of Middle Eastern origin. But that in itself was not surprising given that the web site is a fan club for a Middle Eastern singer.
Nevertheless, my initial (intuitive) reaction was that I might have come across an al Qaeda communications node, and I now know that to be at least partly
Having decided that I might have come across an al Qaeda communications node, I began looking at the web sites of all those who had posted their URLs on
fan club web site. After carefully looking at a few of the posted web sites, I noted that a man by the name of Muzaffar Wandawi identified himself as an Iraqi living in Amsterdam. The fact that he stated that he is an Iraqi drew my immediate attention, for it is well known that there is possible Iraqi involvement in the terrorist attack of Sept. 11. But that was not taken to be anything more than circumstantial.
DefenseWatch: Please describe how you became suspicious that the images themselves might be the messages/instructions.
When examining this mans art, I found it to be disturbing, but I did not at first think that it was suspicious--until I came upon the picture labeled "Downfall." In that picture, Wandawi clearly showed two towers burning, and there appeared to be a picture of the smoking Pentagon just to the right of that image. Then there was a man riding on what appeared to be an Arabian horse, and the man appeared to be dressed like a pilot, without his jacket on. The haircut of the rider of the horse was also in the manner of a pilot. The painting was dated 1988, which seemed to be rather early. But I have since concluded that the painting might have been done in 1998.
In all events, I grew very suspicious of what I saw, for it is essentially impossible for someone to create such a constellation of images of a terrorist event in the future-- without having intimate knowledge of the attack
that was buried under some mild clouding. Next, with the filtering, I could see that the burning tower actually represented a large building that was burning in almost exactly the way that the buildings burned at the World Trade Center. At this time I was convinced that the artist was an Iraqi intelligence agent or an agent of al Qaeda.
Later, I discovered more images that were clearly targeting information of a specific nature. I have not published those yet; an expert in this type of cryptography is working on the problem at this very time.
DefenseWatch: One of the illustrations shows Osama bin Laden next to a cartoon character from Sesame Street. What significance does that image have?
The Sesame Street character that has appeared in a huge poster with Osama bin Laden is significant in that it is yellow and has a mask-like quality. And one can be certain that it was not placed on that huge poster by accident, as some people have stupidly suggested. It is a signal.
Since it is my assertion that the al Qaeda group is using yellow as a symbol in association with biological weapons, which it has done elsewhere, I conclude that the yellow Sesame Street character in the poster represents a signal
relates to biological weapons. And, as one can clearly see, we are under a biological attack at this very moment. But it is my opinion that the biological attack that is happening now is "baby stuff."
DefenseWatch: What federal authorities or agencies have you attempted to contact to warn of the potential threat from the art? Please describe the reaction or lack of reaction to date. Do other private experts share your assessment or is there disagreement?
I have attempted to communicate to the FBI on two occasions, sending e-mail to four of their offices. There has been no reply, even though I am warning
al Qaeda is planning an apocalyptic germ warfare attack.
I am waiting to hear from other experts.
DefenseWatch: How widespread is public awareness of this?
I have principally limited this information to Col. David Hackworth and certain other trusted individuals. But I am beginning to release information to members of the news media, by virtue of the fact that I feel that the FBI is not going to take this seriously. It took them seven days to understand that we are under an anthrax attack. And about 8,000 FBI computers are more than eight years
I disagree on a few of his interpretations.. I actually see 3 smoking towers when he claims only two and that they represent the WTC towers.. He then also claims one of the images represents the pentagon but I don't see anything there that does.. However I do see bldgs that represent other government facilties. The man on the horse does not really resemble a pilot at all to me nor do I believe that the painter meant it to be.. I do believe the painting depicts america and the smoke stacks representing either industry or just maybe even our image as the great polluter. These items, among others in his article, gives me great doubt that the entire piece has any real merit at all.. Jon Beets Get the latest scoop on CoS http://www.lisatrust.net http://www.xenutv.com http://www.xenu.net http://www.holysmoke.org Or try these mirrors http://lisatrust.pacer.com http://xenutv.pacer.com http://holysmoke.pacer.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <auto301094@hushmail.com> To: <cypherpunks@lne.com> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:40 PM Subject: Expert Warns Coded Pictures Indicate Al Qaeda Planning Major Biological Attack that true. the plans. Then I set about filtering the data and came across an image of the White House that that old. Not every FBI office can even surf the Web. They are in the Dark Ages.
Regarding the certainty of the information, I can say with 100 percent certainty that Muzaffar Wandawi had prior knowledge of the terrorist
Sept. 11, and I can say with 100 percent certainty that he is intimately involved with other planned acts of terrorism against the United States. These include a planned attack on one of the most vital communications centers
America has; an attack on the Main Building of the National Security Agency [at Fort Meade, Md.]--inside of which is situated a communications center that handles everything from presidential orders relating to use of nuclear weapons to some CIA and State Department traffic. It appears that perhaps 12
planes would attack the NSA main building when a certain signal is given. I know what that signal is, and I know what conditions of defense alert we will be in when the signal is given.
Let me conclude by saying that the evidence I have posted at my web site indicates that al Qaeda in association with Iraqi intelligence plans a biological attack that they hope will kill millions. I assume that this will occur with the use of exotic diseases, such as Ebola, but also smallpox and everything one could possibly find in a Russian bacteriological warfare laboratory. The information that I have indicates that the Russian mafia has sold these kind of bacteriological materials to bin Laden.
So, just as there was a group of 19 hijackers on Sept. 11, I assert that
attack on that private there is a group of maybe 20 germ warfare agents who will release the aforementioned types of diseases in the very near future, hoping to create epidemics that will kill millions. That is what the encrypted images at Wandawis web site suggest to me.
I urge that people go to the web page where I have placed this evidence
examine the materials for themselves. The URL is:
http://www.bringmenews.com/Messages/National_Security/Alerts/Alert_003.htm
People would also be well advised to visit my national security message board that now has about 350 important postings. You can get to the message board through the following URL: http://www.BringMeNews.com/
Robert Koontz is an experimental nuclear physicist who earned his Ph.D. in 1980 at the University of Maryland. His specialties are experimental nuclear physics and high-energy physics, but he is also an expert in certain areas of electronics, computer systems, software development and matters relating to electronic intelligence gathering. Koontz has been a Staff Scientist at
and the
Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, a Professor of Physics at the University of South Dakota, and formerly was an instructor at the National Security Agency.He lives in Pennsylvania.
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