More on Anthrax cases at publishing company in Florida
--begin excerpt...my comments are in brackets-- Monday October 8 2:52 PM ET FBI Probes Anthrax, Terror Link By AMANDA RIDDLE, Associated Press Writer BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - The FBI (news - web sites) is investigating the possibility that anthrax bacteria found in two Florida men is a result of terrorism, Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) said Monday. The bacteria killed one of the men Friday. It has since been detected in the nose of a co-worker and on a computer keyboard in the newspaper office where both men worked, health officials said. The co-worker was in stable condition Monday at an unidentified Miami-Dade County hospital, according to health officials. He had been tested for anthrax because he happened to be in a hospital for an unrelated illness. [Tim Note: CNN says the 73-year-old man had been admitted to the ICU/emergency room with "pneumonia-like" symptoms on Friday/Saturday. He was released when he improved. Those who know about anthrax know that this fits the model of the "anthrax honeymoon," the period of a few days after an initial bad period where the patient seems to be get better. Then it gets much, much worse. In fact, by the time the patient is in the anthrax honeymoon, it's too late. so look for this second patient to be dying soon.] David Pecker, chief executive of the tabloid's publisher, American Media Inc., said the man worked in the mailroom. [Tim Note: The mail room. And spores have been found on a keyboard. Anyone still think the first guy got it out in the wild someplace?] ... Stevens lived about a mile from an air strip where suspected hijacker Mohamed Atta rented planes, said Marian Smith, owner of the flight school, said Monday. Several suspected hijackers also visited and asked questions at a crop-dusting business in Belle Glade, 40 miles from Stevens' home in Lantana. --end excerpt-- A lot of coincidences. Too many. Be interesting if the anthrax spores were mixed in with outgoing copies of The Sun and The National Inquirer! Ignore that fine powder shaking out of the paper as people read their copies at the Waffle House... (Be interesting if it turns out a pressman bagging the newspapers for shipment around the country has ties to the other WTC Jihad warriors. "The FBI has confirmed that Mustafa bin Azolot, a 22-year-old worker in the printing plant, has disappeared from his apartment in Lantana, Fla.") --Tim May
At 12:33 PM 10/8/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
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<snip excerpt...with comments> Is it too much to ask, that you include a url when you post news articles you comment on? I guess that would show you up when you spoof news articles, wouldn't it? Isn't this situation of such a nature that those rules can be set aside, if only temporarily? I know you are fond of saying America needs formatting, but come on already - it's one thing if we do it ourselves, quite another if it is done to us. Reese
On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 12:33 PM, Tim May wrote:
(Be interesting if it turns out a pressman bagging the newspapers for shipment around the country has ties to the other WTC Jihad warriors. "The FBI has confirmed that Mustafa bin Azolot, a 22-year-old worker in the printing plant, has disappeared from his apartment in Lantana, Fla.")
Pretty close to what Newsweek ( http://www.msnbc.com/news/639937.asp ) is now saying: " NEWSWEEK has learned that the FBI is aggressively trying to locate a summer intern from nearby Florida Atlantic University in connection with the investigation. The intern, who sources said came from a Middle Eastern country, had sent an e-mail to all employees that a top American Media official described as peculiar. The email thanked company employees for the help he gave them, but then contained language suggesting that he wasnt saying goodbye." MSNBC is reporting on the air that the anthrax was mailed and may have been mailed to other newspapers as well. (Howard Fineman is being interviewed on the Chris Matthews show.) --Tim May "Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound"
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:06:46PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
MSNBC is reporting on the air that the anthrax was mailed and may have been mailed to other newspapers as well. (Howard Fineman is being interviewed on the Chris Matthews show.)
Time to take extra precautions when opening suspicious packages in the Wired News DC mailroom. Anyone who really wants to reach me will send email, anyway. -Declan
On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 08:22 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:06:46PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
MSNBC is reporting on the air that the anthrax was mailed and may have been mailed to other newspapers as well. (Howard Fineman is being interviewed on the Chris Matthews show.)
Time to take extra precautions when opening suspicious packages in the Wired News DC mailroom.
Sending anthrax through the mail could be an effective terror tactic. Anthrax if mailed to the media will help generate hysteria - frightened people who are largely ignorant about anthrax other than Anthrax + People = Death and who can disseminate news/rumor/fear to a great many people quickly. Even if there are few deaths the economic impact could be pretty big as people panic and refuse to open mail from strangers.
Anyone who really wants to reach me will send email, anyway.
If someone want to target journalists it's not going to be all that hard to determine where journalists live.
At 11:22 PM 10/8/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:06:46PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
MSNBC is reporting on the air that the anthrax was mailed and may have been mailed to other newspapers as well. (Howard Fineman is being interviewed on the Chris Matthews show.)
Time to take extra precautions when opening suspicious packages in the Wired News DC mailroom.
The name "American Media" is a lot more telling in this case than "Wired"
Of course it's probably Fox News that would be targeted first, with the "Indicted Terrorist" or similar label slapped alongside ol'OBL at every possible opportunity. -Declan On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:07:32PM -0700, Xeni Jardin wrote:
MSNBC is reporting on the air that the anthrax was mailed and may have been mailed to other newspapers as well.
...further evidence it's not nice to taunt Happy-Fun Jihad.
--XJ
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David Honig
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Declan McCullagh
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FogStorm
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Reese
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Tim May
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Xeni Jardin