IP: Wanna make biological weapons and take out cities? $10. (fwd)

[Eugene Leitl]

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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:37:50 -0500
From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
Reply-To: farber at cis.upenn.edu
To: ip-sub-1 at 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 at terabites.com
>Subject: Wanna make biological weapons and take out cities?  $10.
>To: dallasdemocrats at egroups.com, dave at farber.net
>X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.17
>
>Here's a disturbing story from today's New York Times:
>
> > 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).
>
>[quote]
>
>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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