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http://aztlan.net/zack.htm FBI Closes in on Anthrax Terrorist Prime Suspect is a Zionist by Hector Carreon La Voz de Aztlan Los Angeles, Alta California - 2/26/2002 - (ACN) Jewish microbiologist Dr. Philip M. Zack may be behind the deadly anthrax contaminated letters that were mailed to NBC's Tom Brokaw, Senator Tom Daschle and others, according to FBI sources. In a rapidly unravelling investigation by the FBI, it appears that the "Arab-hating-Jew" was behind a vile conspiracy to frame a colleague who was born in Egypt and who worked, along with Dr. Zack, at the U.S. Army's Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Md. La Voz de Aztlan has maintained from the beginning that the anthrax-laced letters seemed contrived and were purposely written to make them appear that they were coming from someone in the Islamic World. New information just released by the FBI confirms our suspicions. On October 9, 2001 we published "Anthrax Terrorists may be Zionists" in which we outlined the reasons for our suspicions and in addition reported on a letter we received with a yellowish powder. On October 24, 2001 we published an editorial "Anthrax Letter Messages Seem Contrived" in which we commented on our theory concerning the origin of the letters. We also published pictures of the three actual letters and envelopes. We have now compared the handwriting on these letters to the one we received and it looks suspiciously the same. We are not handwriting experts and have made the decision to publish the envelope and letter we received so that our readership can see for themselves. Our local police department never came to pick up the envelope and letter and we still have them in a double zip-lock plastic bag. The letter and envelope addressed to La Voz de Aztlan are published at http://www.aztlan.net/letterbiochem.htm The case against Dr. Phillip M. Zack began unravelling when Egyptian-born scientist Dr. Ayaad Assaad, now a U.S. citizen, was called in by the FBI for an interview on October 2, 2001. The FBI had received an unsigned letter falsely accusing Dr. Assaad of being responsible for mailing the anthrax tainted letters. The letter stated, among other things, "Dr. Assaad is a potential biological terrorist," and "I have worked with Dr. Assaad, and I heard him say that he has a vendetta against the U.S. government and that if anything happens to him, he told his sons to carry on." Rosemary A. McDermott, attorney for Dr. Assaad, stated that here is a very close connection between the person who sent that letter and the person who sent the anthrax. Ms. McDermott said "The person who wrote that letter knew intimate details of my client's life and his professional history, and about the Fort Detrick operation. I don't think that is a coincidence." The Fort Detrick biochemical research laboratory has maintained stores of weapons-grade anthrax that is commonly known as the Ames strain of Bacillus anthracis. The anonymous letter falsely accusing Dr. Assaad was sent a little after the September 11 terrorist attacks but before anyone knew about the anthrax-laced letters. On October 5, 2001, about 10 days after the anonymous letter was mailed, Robert Stevens, Photo Editor of The Sun in Florida, became the first of five individuals to die from an anthrax infection. The racist and bigoted attacks on Dr. Ayaad Assaad by Zionist Philip Zack and others started while he worked at the Army's bioweapons lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland during the 1990's. This is when a vicious racist vendetta was launched against the scientist of Arab descent. A group of coworkers led by then Army Lt. Col. Philip Zack began a hateful campaign to harass and get Dr. Assaad fired from his duties. The Zionists apparently wanted to get rid of anyone that could uncover their sinister plans which consisted in stealing "weapons grade anthrax" and other deadly viruses used in biological weapons. The conspirators had the support of the lab's former commander. Among other things, the bigots wrote and passed around a very crude poem denigrating Arab Americans, an obscene rubber camel and constantly poked fun at Dr. Assaad's use of the English language. In 1991 Dr. Assaad discovered the eight-page poem in his mailbox. The poem was lewd and mocked Dr. Assaad. The poem also referred to the rubber camel that was passed around. It was outfitted with all manner of sexually explicit appendages. The poem in part read: ``In Assaad's honor we created this beast; it represents life lower than yeast.'' The bigots noted that the rubber camel will be given each week ``to who did the least.'' It appears that the conspirators created an extremely toxic workplace on purpose in order to take control of the laboratory. The lab became very dysfunctional and hostile to the few "good" scientists that worked there which included Dr. Assaad. Dr. Assaad said ``This person knew in advance what was going to happen and created a suitable, well-fitted scapegoat for this action. You do not need to be a Nobel laureate to put two and two together.'' Dr. Assaad said he reported everything to his supervisor, Col. David R. Franz, but that Colonel Franz ``kicked me out of his office and slammed the door in my face, because he didn't want to talk about it.'' Dr. Assaad was eventually dismissed by Colonel Franz as were two other scientists of Arab descent. The evidence against the racist Zionist bigot Dr. Philip "Mengele" Zack is very strong. Lab specimens of anthrax spores, Ebola virus and other pathogens disappeared from the Army's biological warfare research facility in the early 1990s during the very same period that the conspirators were harassing Dr. Assaad. An 1992 inquiry into the disappearance of the deadly pathogens found evidence that someone was secretly entering the laboratory late at night to conduct unauthorized research involving anthrax. A numerical counter on a piece of lab equipment had been rolled back to hide work done by the mystery researcher. A lab scientist, Dr. Mary Beth Downs, told investigators that she had come to work several times in 1992 to find that someone had been in the lab at odd hours to use the electron microscope to conduct some clandestine research. Dr. Downs reported in a memo that whoever was using the microscope was "either in a big hurry or didn't know what they were doing." Documents from the inquiry show that one unauthorized person who was observed entering the laboratory at night was Lt. Col. Philip Zack who at the time no longer worked at Fort Detrick. A surveillance camera recorded Lt. Col. Zack being let in at 8:40 P.M. on January 23, 1992, by another conspirator by the name Dr. Marian Rippy. Dr. Philip M. Zack has not been arrested. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jul2002/anth-j20.shtml Who is stonewalling the US anthrax investigation? By Patrick Martin 20 July 2002 Use this version to print | Send this link by email | Email the author Two commentaries by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, published July 12 and July 19, raise further questions about the refusal of the FBI and the Bush administration to take any action against the most likely suspect in the anthrax terrorist attacks that killed five people last fall. These columns—and the near-universal silence in the rest of the media—underscore the high-level complicity in the suppression of any serious investigation into the terrorist attacks that targeted two leading Democratic senators. Kristof has previously singled out the suspect, whom he gave the pseudonym “Mr. Z,” and asked why the FBI was so reluctant to arrest him. The multiple details about this individual—training in the Army Green Berets, involvement in counterinsurgency operations in Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa, past employment at the US biological warfare lab at Ft. Detrick, Maryland—indicate that the allegations relate to Dr. Steven Hatfill, a former Army bio-weapons scientist whose home has been searched several times by the FBI, and who has been named in other press accounts of the case. In the July 12 column, Kristof suggests that the attacker had a pattern of activity involving false threats of anthrax aimed at promoting media and government interest in countermeasures to deal with biological terrorism. On April 24, 1997, an anthrax hoax letter was received at the Washington headquarters of the B’nai B’rith. It contained a gelatin-like substance purporting to be wet anthrax. In actuality it was a closely related but non-toxic chemical. According to Kristof, “Mr. Z” wrote a letter to the organizer of a terrorism seminar in Washington, held the same day as the B’nai B’rith attack, complaining that neither he nor any other anthrax expert had been invited. A second anthrax hoax in February 1999 was more ambitious, involving envelopes to the Washington Post, NBC’s Atlanta office, a post office in Columbus, Georgia, near the Ft. Benning army base, and the Old Executive Office Building in Washington. The lettering and language patterns in the Columbus letter—the only one Kristof was able to examine—resembled those in last fall’s attacks. Significantly, the 1999 letters contained a dried powder rather than a wet substance, a shift that corresponded to the work history of “Mr. Z.” According to Kristof, the suspect’s 1999 résumé adds something missing from the 1997 version: “working knowledge of wet and dry BW [biological warfare] agents, large-scale production of bacterial, rickettsial and viral BW pathogens and toxins.” Kristof says that two document consultants hired for the current anthrax investigation have never been shown the older hoax letters for comparison purposes. Furthermore, he suggests that the licked stamps on the 1999 envelopes have not been checked for DNA, which could identify the sender. The writer’s July 19 column cites hundreds of pages of internal Army documents, first discovered by the Hartford Courant, which report widespread security lapses at the Ft. Detrick lab over a 10-year period, with significant quantities of Ebola virus, hantavirus, anthrax and other pathogens missing from inventory, and little checking of what researchers were taking out of the complex. So slipshod were the practices at Ft. Detrick that after a visit last April by Senator Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat, anthrax spores were found in a hallway and an administrative area. Kristof concludes, “Anthrax spores seem to have it in for Democratic senators.” This is an oblique reference to the most significant aspect of the anthrax terrorist attacks: the obvious political motivation, as the deadly bacteria were sent to the Democratic Party leader in the US Senate, Tom Daschle, and to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrat Patrick Leahy. While maintaining a public silence on the anthrax case, the two senators have requested private briefings from the FBI. Newsweek magazine reported in its July 15 issue that FBI officials have been called twice in recent weeks to discuss the investigation behind closed doors at the US Senate. One meeting was with staffers for Leahy, the other with Daschle personally. Newsweek said that both senators raised issues sparked by criticism of the investigation on the part of Barbara Rosenberg of the Federation of American Scientists. Five months before Kristof’s columns, Rosenberg released a lengthy memorandum giving details of the chief suspect, declaring that his name had been given to the FBI within days of the attacks, and charging that the bureau was dragging its feet in the probe for fear of exposing illegal biological weapons research by the US government. In place of a serious investigation, the FBI has mounted an elaborate charade. While only 50 scientists employed or formerly employed at Ft. Detrick are believed to have the necessary combination of skill and access to have carried out the attacks, the FBI has enlisted dozens of field offices and hundreds of investigators, interviewed 5,000 people, issued 1,700 subpoenas, administered hundreds of lie detector tests and created over a hundred separate databases. The inquiry is the second largest currently mounted by the agency, after the equally fruitless investigation into the September 11 suicide hijackings. While the agency sent out letters to 20,000 microbiologists asking for their cooperation in the probe, it did not even open the Leahy anthrax letter for two months, did not collect anthrax strains from government and university labs until five months had passed, and still has not completed elementary forensic tests. This pretended probe is a cover for the high-level protection being accorded the principal terror suspect. Just how high this protection goes is not clear. But a very suggestive fact was uncovered last month in the course of a lawsuit filed by the right-wing Judicial Watch group, seeking documents on the anthrax attacks under the Freedom of Information Act. Judicial Watch charged, and the White House has now confirmed, that the anti-anthrax drug Cipro was distributed to White House staffers on September 11, nearly four weeks before the first anthrax attack was made public. Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch said, in a press statement, “We believe that the White House knew or had reason to know that an anthrax attack was imminent or underway.” White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said that the drug had been distributed “in the early hours of September 11,” before the exact nature of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington had become clear. 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