>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/opinion/02KRIS.html > >The NY Times had an interesting [op]editorial blasting the FBI for not >arresting the anthrax suspect, who the author seems to think is the guilty >party. In the course of the story, the author asks: > >Have you examined whether Mr. Z has connections to the biggest anthrax >outbreak among humans ever recorded, the one that sickened more than >10,000 black farmers in Zimbabwe in 1978-80? There is evidence that the >anthrax was released by the white Rhodesian Army fighting against black >guerrillas, and Mr. Z has claimed that he participated in the white army's >much-feared Selous Scouts. > >I don't recall this incident, but it suggests a US connection. Any >comments?
The article was a valiant effort to produce an unconspiracy theory for the anthrax episode--patriotic motivation plus bureaucratic FBI fumbling. Chip Berlet himself could have done no better. Totally, pathetically, unconvincing, of course. Shane Mage "When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly. When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)
