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From:"Jim Yarker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Block Address | Add to Address B= ookTo:[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 Selou= s 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 w= arfare defence laboratory in America. Mr Hatfill is understood to have been a student at the University of Zimbabw= es Medical School from 1978 to 1984. He later worked for two years at Fort Detrick in the virology division of th= e US Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, where the anthrax is sus= pected to have been smuggled from. He stopped working at the laboratory in S= eptember 1999. Reports say the FBI search on Mr Hatfills apartment at the end of last mont= h followed suspicion that someone secretly grew the deadly anthrax that was = mailed to politicians and media organisations in that country in October las= t year. It is believed that Mr Hatfill is among a small pool of people who have acce= ss to detailed knowledge of how to grow and "weaponise" the highly lethal an= d concentrated dry powder spores of anthrax. CBS News reported that the former Rhodesian agent was among 20 to 30 scienti= sts who were under FBI investigation but added that law enforcement official= s had said Mr Hatfill was not a suspect and no evidence linked him to the an= thrax-laced letters. According to the American Prospect Web feature, Mr Hatfill was required to t= ake a polygraph test to qualify his clearance. "Hatfill allegedly told the military official that he failed the polygraph o= n questions concerning his activities in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The people co= nducting the polygraph were amateurs, Hatfill allegedly complained to his i= nterlocutor. They couldnt 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 consequentl= y undertaken some actions that caused concern when he was given his polygrap= h test," reads part of the TAP Web feature. Although the FBI has said Mr Hatfill is not a suspect, it has come under hea= vy criticism from the American media that is saying if Mr Hatfill was an Ara= b national, "he could have been imprisoned a long time ago". The media is also questioning why the FBI is taking its time in the investig= ations 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 a= nthrax to discourage blacks from co-operating with the liberation fighters a= t 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 per= sonnel whose files were destroyed soon after independence. The agents also s= aid the former Rhodesian agent came back into the country in 1994 as a docto= r. 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 inde= pendence". Even TAP Web feature reported that Mr Hatfills "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 masters degrees, studying for a doctorate degree and prac= tising 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 coul= d 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 communa= l 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, som= e suspected anthrax-laced letters were allegedly sent to some Government off= icials and the media. A suspected anthrax attack was detected at Causeway Post Office in January t= his year after two mail sorting workers had fallen ill. The attack forced the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare to temporarily cl= ose the post office. Anthrax-laced mail has also been detected at The Chronicle newspaper in Bula= wayo while one such letter, addressed to the Minister of State for Informati= on and Publicity, Professor Jonathan Moyo, was intercepted at the post offic= e. It is suspected that the anthrax-laced letters had been sent by former Rhode= sians 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 Se= lous Scouts during the Smith regime. These officials include the partys leg= islator for Bulawayo South, Mr David Coltart, and his Chimanimani colleague,= Mr Roy Bennett. Scores of mail containing anthrax spores were detected at various post offic= es and media houses in the US after the September 11 terrorist attacks on th= e World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? New! SBC Yahoo! 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COLOR: black;= FONT-FAMILY: 'TimesNewRomanMT Cond'">Political Editor Munyaradzi Huni </SPA= N></FONT></B></SPAN><FONT color=3Dblack><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black"><BR></S= PAN></FONT><SPAN class=3Dthestory1><FONT face=3D"TimesNewRomanMT Cond" color= =3Dblack size=3D2><SPAN style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMIL= Y: 'TimesNewRomanMT Cond'">A FORMER agent in the Rhodesian army, who also se= rved in the notorious Selous Scouts when the then Rhodesia was hit by an ant= hrax outbreak between 1978 and 1980, Mr Steven J. Hatfill, is being investig= ated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegedly smuggling an= thrax out of a biological warfare defence laboratory in America. </SPAN></FO= NT></SPAN><FONT face=3D"TimesNewRomanMT Cond" color=3Dblack size=3D2><SPAN s= tyle=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'TimesNewRomanMT Cond'= "><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Mr Hatfill is understood to have been a st= udent at the University of Zimbabwes Medical School from 1978 to 1984. </SP= AN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>He later worked for two years at Fort Det= rick in the virology division of the US Army Medical Institute of Infectious= Diseases, where the anthrax is suspected to have been smuggled from. He sto= pped working at the laboratory in September 1999. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class= =3Dthestory1>Reports say the FBI search on Mr Hatfills apartment at the end= of last month followed suspicion that someone secretly grew the deadly anth= rax that was mailed to politicians and media organisations in that country i= n October last year. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>It is believed t= hat Mr Hatfill is among a small pool of people who have access to detailed k= nowledge of how to grow and "weaponise" the highly lethal and concentrated d= ry 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 sa= id Mr Hatfill was not a suspect and no evidence linked him to the anthrax-la= ced letters. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>According to the America= n Prospect Web feature, Mr Hatfill was required to take a polygraph test to = qualify his clearance. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>"Hatfill alleg= edly told the military official that he failed the polygraph on questions co= ncerning his activities in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The people conducting the p= olygraph were amateurs, Hatfill allegedly complained to his interlocutor. T= hey couldnt understand what Cold Warriors like himself had to do in Rhodesi= a. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>"The military official recalls Hat= fill as saying that his father-in-law had been killed by rebels (freedom fig= hters) in Rhodesia, and he had consequently undertaken some actions that cau= sed 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 M= r Hatfill is not a suspect, it has come under heavy criticism from the Ameri= can 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 investigati= ons considering that Mr Hatfill was in the Rhodesia army when the biggest ev= er recorded anthrax outbreak in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) sickened about 10 000 bl= acks 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 hei= ght of the liberation struggle. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Secur= ity agents in the country confirmed to The Sunday Mail that Mr Hatfill serve= d in the Rhodesian army and was among those highly placed sensitive personne= l whose files were destroyed soon after independence. The agents also said t= he former Rhodesian agent came back into the country in 1994 as a doctor. Ma= ny 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 retur= ned into the country in 1994 to "see the effects of the anthrax that they us= ed on blacks before independence". </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Ev= en TAP Web feature reported that Mr Hatfills "longer biography is riddled w= ith 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 cl= ass=3Dthestory1>He obtained three masters 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 Ha= tfill "partly because he lived, while in Zimbabwe, near a Greendale elementa= ry school. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>"Greendale School" in Fran= klin Park, NJ, was printed in large block letters as the false return addres= s 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=3Dt= hestory1>Since independence, there have been no anthrax outbreaks in white c= ommercial farms while there has been a recurrence of anthrax outbreaks in th= e communal lands, raising suspicion that the Smith regime only used anthrax = in those areas where the war was fought. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthesto= ry1>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 af= ter two mail sorting workers had fallen ill. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dth= estory1>The attack forced the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare to tempor= arily close the post office. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Anthrax-= laced mail has also been detected at The Chronicle newspaper in Bulawayo whi= le one such letter, addressed to the Minister of State for Information and P= ublicity, Professor Jonathan Moyo, was intercepted at the post office. </SPA= N><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>It is suspected that the anthrax-laced let= ters had been sent by former Rhodesians sympathetic to the MDC and opposed t= o the land reform exercise. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Some of t= he top officials in the MDC served in the Rhodesian army and the Selous Scou= ts during the Smith regime. These officials include the partys legislator f= or Bulawayo South, Mr David Coltart, and his Chimanimani colleague, Mr Roy B= ennett. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN class=3Dthestory1>Scores of mail containing ant= hrax 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; m= so-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/e= vt=640/*http://sbc.yahoo.com"; target=3D"_blank">SBC Yahoo! Dial</a> - 1st Mo= nth Free & unlimited access --0-484327760-1026008062=3D:50832--
