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From:"Jim Yarker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Block Address | Add to Address BookTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:FBI probes ex-Rhodie on anthraxDate:Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:43:22 -0400 [input] [input] [input] [input] [input] The Sunday Mail (Harare), 7/7/02 FBI probes ex-Rhodie Political Editor Munyaradzi Huni A FORMER agent in the Rhodesian army, who also served in the notorious Selous Scouts when the then Rhodesia was hit by an anthrax outbreak between 1978 and 1980, Mr Steven J. Hatfill, is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegedly smuggling anthrax out of a biological warfare defence laboratory in America. Mr Hatfill is understood to have been a student at the University of Zimbabwe s Medical School from 1978 to 1984. He later worked for two years at Fort Detrick in the virology division of the US Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, where the anthrax is suspected to have been smuggled from. He stopped working at the laboratory in September 1999. Reports say the FBI search on Mr Hatfill s apartment at the end of last month followed suspicion that someone secretly grew the deadly anthrax that was mailed to politicians and media organisations in that country in October last year. It is believed that Mr Hatfill is among a small pool of people who have access to detailed knowledge of how to grow and "weaponise" the highly lethal and concentrated dry powder spores of anthrax. CBS News reported that the former Rhodesian agent was among 20 to 30 scientists who were under FBI investigation but added that law enforcement officials had said Mr Hatfill was not a suspect and no evidence linked him to the anthrax-laced letters. According to the American Prospect Web feature, Mr Hatfill was required to take a polygraph test to qualify his clearance. "Hatfill allegedly told the military official that he failed the polygraph on questions concerning his activities in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The people conducting the polygraph were amateurs , Hatfill allegedly complained to his interlocutor. They couldn t understand what Cold Warriors like himself had to do in Rhodesia. "The military official recalls Hatfill as saying that his father-in-law had been killed by rebels (freedom fighters) in Rhodesia, and he had consequently undertaken some actions that caused concern when he was given his polygraph test," reads part of the TAP Web feature. Although the FBI has said Mr Hatfill is not a suspect, it has come under heavy criticism from the American media that is saying if Mr Hatfill was an Arab national, "he could have been imprisoned a long time ago". The media is also questioning why the FBI is taking its time in the investigations considering that Mr Hatfill was in the Rhodesia army when the biggest ever recorded anthrax outbreak in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) sickened about 10 000 blacks and killed 182 others. There is evidence in the country that shows that the Ian Smith regime used anthrax to discourage blacks from co-operating with the liberation fighters at the height of the liberation struggle. Security agents in the country confirmed to The Sunday Mail that Mr Hatfill served in the Rhodesian army and was among those highly placed sensitive personnel whose files were destroyed soon after independence. The agents also said the former Rhodesian agent came back into the country in 1994 as a doctor. Many Rhodesians who committed serious crimes before independence ran away soon after 1980 and came back into the country as professionals. The security agents said Mr Hatfill could have returned into the country in 1994 to "see the effects of the anthrax that they used on blacks before independence". Even TAP Web feature reported that Mr Hatfill s "longer biography is riddled with gaps where classified projects presumably belong". >From Zimbabwe, Mr Hatfill moved to South Africa "where he completed various military and medical assignments". He obtained three master s degrees, studying for a doctorate degree and practising in a South African clinic. ABC News recently reported that the FBI was interested in Mr Hatfill "partly because he lived, while in Zimbabwe, near a Greendale elementary school. "Greendale School" in Franklin Park, NJ, was printed in large block letters as the false return address on the anthrax-laden envelopes sent to Sens, Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy last fall". There have been reports that the American government uses wars elsewhere as trial grounds for their weapons and it is a possibility that Mr Hatfill could have been sent to the then Rhodesia to test the effects of anthrax. Since independence, there have been no anthrax outbreaks in white commercial farms while there has been a recurrence of anthrax outbreaks in the communal lands, raising suspicion that the Smith regime only used anthrax in those areas where the war was fought. During the presidential election campaigns for the March 2002 elections, some suspected anthrax-laced letters were allegedly sent to some Government officials and the media. A suspected anthrax attack was detected at Causeway Post Office in January this year after two mail sorting workers had fallen ill. The attack forced the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare to temporarily close the post office. Anthrax-laced mail has also been detected at The Chronicle newspaper in Bulawayo while one such letter, addressed to the Minister of State for Information and Publicity, Professor Jonathan Moyo, was intercepted at the post office. It is suspected that the anthrax-laced letters had been sent by former Rhodesians sympathetic to the MDC and opposed to the land reform exercise. Some of the top officials in the MDC served in the Rhodesian army and the Selous Scouts during the Smith regime. These officials include the party s legislator for Bulawayo South, Mr David Coltart, and his Chimanimani colleague, Mr Roy Bennett. Scores of mail containing anthrax spores were detected at various post offices and media houses in the US after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? New! SBC Yahoo! 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COLOR: blac= k; FONT-FAMILY: 'TimesNewRomanMT Cond'">Political Editor Munyaradzi Huni </SPAN></FONT></B></SPAN><FONT color=3Dblack><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black"><BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN class=3Dthestory1><FONT face=3D"TimesNewRomanMT Cond" color=3Dblack size=3D2><SPAN style=3D"FONT-S= IZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'TimesNewRomanMT Cond'">A FORMER agent in the Rhodesian army, who also served in the notorious Selous Scouts when the then Rhodesia was hit by an anthrax outbreak between 1978 and 1980, Mr Steven J. Hatfill, is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegedly smuggling anthrax out of a biological warfare defence laboratory in America. </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT face=3D"TimesNewRomanMT Cond" color=3Dblack size=3D2><SPAN style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'TimesNewRomanMT Cond'"><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Mr Hatfill is understood to have been a student at the University of Zimbabwe s Medical School from 1978 to 1984. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>He later worked for two years at Fort Detrick in the virology division of the US Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, where the anthrax is suspected to have been smuggled from. He stopped working at the laboratory in September 1999. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Reports say the FBI search on Mr Hatfill s apartment at the end of last month followed suspicion that someone secretly grew the deadly anthrax that was mailed to politicians and media organisations in that country in October last year. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>It is believed that Mr Hatfill is among a small pool of people who have access to detailed knowledge of how to grow and "weaponise" the highly lethal and concentrated dry powder spores of anthrax. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>CBS News reported that the former Rhodesian agent was among 20 to 30 scientists who were under FBI investigation but added that law enforcement officials had said Mr Hatfill was not a suspect and no evidence linked him to the anthrax-laced letters. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>According to the American Prospect Web feature, Mr Hatfill was required to take a polygraph test to qualify his clearance. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>"Hatfill allegedly told the military official that he failed the polygraph on questions concerning his activities in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The people conducting the polygraph were amateurs , Hatfill allegedly complained to his interlocutor. They couldn t understand what Cold Warriors like himself had to do in Rhodesia. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>"The military official recalls Hatfill as saying that his father-in-law had been killed by rebels (freedom fighters) in Rhodesia, and he had consequently undertaken some actions that caused concern when he was given his polygraph test," reads part of the TAP Web feature. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Although the FBI has said Mr Hatfill is not a suspect, it has come under heavy criticism from the American media that is saying if Mr Hatfill was an Arab national, "he could have been imprisoned a long time ago". </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>The media is also questioning why the FBI is taking its time in the investigations considering that Mr Hatfill was in the Rhodesia army when the biggest ever recorded anthrax outbreak in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) sickened about 10 000 blacks and killed 182 others. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>There is evidence in the country that shows that the Ian Smith regime used anthrax to discourage blacks from co-operating with the liberation fighters at the height of the liberation struggle. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Security agents in the country confirmed to The Sunday Mail that Mr Hatfill served in the Rhodesian army and was among those highly placed sensitive personnel whose files were destroyed soon after independence. The agents also said the former Rhodesian agent came back into the country in 1994 as a doctor. Many Rhodesians who committed serious crimes before independence ran away soon after 1980 and came back into the country as professionals. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>The security agents said Mr Hatfill could have returned into the country in 1994 to "see the effects of the anthrax that they used on blacks before independence". </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Even TAP Web feature reported that Mr Hatfill s "longer biography is riddled with gaps where classified projects presumably belong". </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>From Zimbabwe, Mr Hatfill moved to South Africa "where he completed various military and medical assignments". </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>He obtained three master s degrees, studying for a doctorate degree and practising in a South African clinic. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>ABC News recently reported that the FBI was interested in Mr Hatfill "partly because he lived, while in Zimbabwe, near a Greendale elementary school. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>"Greendale School" in Franklin Park, NJ, was printed in large block letters as the false return address on the anthrax-laden envelopes sent to Sens, Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy last fall". </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>There have been reports that the American government uses wars elsewhere as trial grounds for their weapons and it is a possibility that Mr Hatfill could have been sent to the then Rhodesia to test the effects of anthrax. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Since independence, there have been no anthrax outbreaks in white commercial farms while there has been a recurrence of anthrax outbreaks in the communal lands, raising suspicion that the Smith regime only used anthrax in those areas where the war was fought. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>During the presidential election campaigns for the March 2002 elections, some suspected anthrax-laced letters were allegedly sent to some Government officials and the media. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>A suspected anthrax attack was detected at Causeway Post Office in January this year after two mail sorting workers had fallen ill. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>The attack forced the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare to temporarily close the post office. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Anthrax-laced mail has also been detected at The Chronicle newspaper in Bulawayo while one such letter, addressed to the Minister of State for Information and Publicity, Professor Jonathan Moyo, was intercepted at the post office. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>It is suspected that the anthrax-laced letters had been sent by former Rhodesians sympathetic to the MDC and opposed to the land reform exercise. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Some of the top officials in the MDC served in the Rhodesian army and the Selous Scouts during the Smith regime. These officials include the party s legislator for Bulawayo South, Mr David Coltart, and his Chimanimani colleague, Mr Roy Bennett. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Scores of mail containing anthrax spores were detected at various post offices and media houses in the US after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><SPAN class=3DEmailStyle15><FONT face=3DArial color=3Dblack size=3D2><SPAN style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV><p><br><hr size=3D1><b>Do You Yahoo!?</b><br> New! <a href=3D"http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://rd.yahoo.com/sbcyahoo/consumer/evtd0 /*http://sbc.yahoo.com"; target=3D"_blank">SBC Yahoo! Dial</a> - 1st Month Free & unlimited access --0-484327760-1026008062=3D:50832--
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