-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:37:50 -0500 From: David Farber Reply-To: farber@cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: Wanna make biological weapons and take out cities? $10.

Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:58:28 -0600 From: gep2@terabites.com Subject: Wanna make biological weapons and take out cities? $10. To: dallasdemocrats@egroups.com, dave@farber.net X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.17

Here's a disturbing story from today's New York Times:

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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/21/national/21BOOK.html?todaysheadlines

I sure hope that the government is investigating and following each and every person who buys a copy of this book... I wonder if there's a way to force Tobiason to foot the bill for that security?

In any case, jerks like this clearly aren't helping to keep our nation secure... if anything, crap like this will make our government MORE repressive (not less).

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November 21, 2001

THE HOW-TO BOOK In Utah, a Government Hater Sells a Germ-Warfare Book

By PAUL ZIELBAUER with WILLIAM J. BROAD

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 19 — At the "Crossroads of the West" gun show here last weekend, weapons dealers sold semi- automatic rifles and custom-made pistols, and ammunition wholesalers unloaded bullets by the case. But perhaps the most fearsome weapon for sale in the cavernous, crowded exposition center was a book.

Next to the Indian handicraft booth, Timothy W. Tobiason was selling printed and CD copies of his book, "Scientific Principles of Improvised Warfare and Home Defense Volume 6-1: Advanced Biological Weapons Design and Manufacture," a germ-warfare cookbook that bioterrorism experts say is accurate enough to be dangerous.

Mr. Tobiason, an agricultural-chemicals entrepreneur from Nebraska with a bitter hatred for the government, said he sold about 2,000 copies of his self-published book a year as he moved from gun show to gun show across America. The book, which includes directions for making "mail delivered" anthrax, suggests that the knowledge necessary to start an anthrax attack like the one that has terrorized the East Coast is readily accessible.

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