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		<title>By: gandhi</title>
		<link>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/10/yeah-what-about-that-anthrax-terrorist/comment-page-2/#comment-86136</link>
		<dc:creator>gandhi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Thatnks for the info on Cipro, bystander, but I wouldn’t want to get to side-tracked on that issue. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That pretzel incident sure was weird, but like you say 90 days is a stretch. Here’s a photo of Bush &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/mar/26/gender.uk?commentpage=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;looking fine a month earlier in December 2001&lt;/a&gt;. Whether on nor Cheney took Cipro, the “Camel Club” stuff is screaming for more attention.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thatnks for the info on Cipro, bystander, but I wouldn’t want to get to side-tracked on that issue. </p>
<p>That pretzel incident sure was weird, but like you say 90 days is a stretch. Here’s a photo of Bush <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/mar/26/gender.uk?commentpage=1" rel="nofollow">looking fine a month earlier in December 2001</a>. Whether on nor Cheney took Cipro, the “Camel Club” stuff is screaming for more attention.</p>
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		<title>By: borepstein</title>
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		<dc:creator>borepstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks, an extremely interesting report!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Where was that exchange shown? Do you have a link?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, an extremely interesting report!</p>
<p>Where was that exchange shown? Do you have a link?</p>
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		<title>By: InnocentBystander</title>
		<link>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/10/yeah-what-about-that-anthrax-terrorist/comment-page-2/#comment-86120</link>
		<dc:creator>InnocentBystander</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Just to add to your point.  Cipro, being a high powered anti-biotic, is not recommended as a preventative therapy for possible anthrax infection.  It’s usually administered after exposure.  Also, symptoms of anthrax infection can take more than 60 days to appear.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/tc/anthrax-symptoms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-.....x-symptoms&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Symptoms of anthrax infection-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cutaneous anthrax&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cutaneous anthrax usually occurs when spores from the bacteria enter a cut or scrape on the skin. Cutaneous anthrax infection has the following characteristics:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;    * Skin infection begins as a small, raised bump that might itch-similar to an insect or spider bite.&lt;br /&gt;
    * Within 1 to 2 days, the bump develops into a fluid-filled blister about 1cm to 3cm in diameter. Within 7 to 10 days, the blister usually has a black center of dying tissue (eschar) surrounded by redness and swelling. The blister is usually painless.&lt;br /&gt;
    * Additional blisters may develop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here’s a pic of Bush after the famous pretzel incident - &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1758848.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1758848.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;sure seems to follow the description.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The timing really is a stretch, almost 90 days from when they starting taking the drugs, but I’d be interested in seeing pictures of Bush a week or so earlier…could there have been some cosmetic touch-up to mask this up?  Was he in the general public view during early January?  I never really bought the ‘chocking on the pretzel’ thing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, I’m not accusing GW of being the perp; for all I know he thought the baggie contained some Columbia flake.  Or, more likely, maybe he got dosed to keep him on the same page with the Master Plan.  He sure didn’t look like a guy in control on 9/11 with that bizarre extended classroom photo-op, reading My Pet Goat…..a real ‘deer in the headlights’ moment for the Decider Guy. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IIRC, the reporter that died in FL. was also the guy who published those unflattering pictures of the Bush twins, falling down in the bar.  Would the perps have selected him as a target to make the connection to Bush?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just to add to your point.  Cipro, being a high powered anti-biotic, is not recommended as a preventative therapy for possible anthrax infection.  It’s usually administered after exposure.  Also, symptoms of anthrax infection can take more than 60 days to appear.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/tc/anthrax-symptoms" rel="nofollow">http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-&#8230;..x-symptoms</a>  </p>
<p>Symptoms of anthrax infection-</p>
<p>Cutaneous anthrax</p>
<p>Cutaneous anthrax usually occurs when spores from the bacteria enter a cut or scrape on the skin. Cutaneous anthrax infection has the following characteristics:</p>
<p>    * Skin infection begins as a small, raised bump that might itch-similar to an insect or spider bite.<br />
    * Within 1 to 2 days, the bump develops into a fluid-filled blister about 1cm to 3cm in diameter. Within 7 to 10 days, the blister usually has a black center of dying tissue (eschar) surrounded by redness and swelling. The blister is usually painless.<br />
    * Additional blisters may develop.</p>
<p>Here’s a pic of Bush after the famous pretzel incident &#8211; <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1758848.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1758848.stm</a></p>
<p>sure seems to follow the description.</p>
<p>The timing really is a stretch, almost 90 days from when they starting taking the drugs, but I’d be interested in seeing pictures of Bush a week or so earlier…could there have been some cosmetic touch-up to mask this up?  Was he in the general public view during early January?  I never really bought the ‘chocking on the pretzel’ thing.</p>
<p>Now, I’m not accusing GW of being the perp; for all I know he thought the baggie contained some Columbia flake.  Or, more likely, maybe he got dosed to keep him on the same page with the Master Plan.  He sure didn’t look like a guy in control on 9/11 with that bizarre extended classroom photo-op, reading My Pet Goat…..a real ‘deer in the headlights’ moment for the Decider Guy. </p>
<p>IIRC, the reporter that died in FL. was also the guy who published those unflattering pictures of the Bush twins, falling down in the bar.  Would the perps have selected him as a target to make the connection to Bush?</p>
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		<title>By: skeptonomist</title>
		<link>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/10/yeah-what-about-that-anthrax-terrorist/comment-page-2/#comment-85932</link>
		<dc:creator>skeptonomist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Bin Laden is still free as well.  The Bush administration and its DOJ have priorities which they rate much higher than justice.  They may be protecting a right-wing perpetrator of the anthrax attacks, but maybe they just don’t care.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bin Laden is still free as well.  The Bush administration and its DOJ have priorities which they rate much higher than justice.  They may be protecting a right-wing perpetrator of the anthrax attacks, but maybe they just don’t care.</p>
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		<title>By: OleHippieChick</title>
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		<dc:creator>OleHippieChick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;It was Rudy Julie-Annie’s (relatively) recently founded cleanup firm that did the “work.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And to the quote in EW’s #16: “The experiment was kept secret for 20 years. “&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, this flies in the face of those conspiracy “debunkers” who cry, “nothing can be kept secret for THAT long.” Yes, it can, and, yes, they do.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was Rudy Julie-Annie’s (relatively) recently founded cleanup firm that did the “work.”</p>
<p>And to the quote in EW’s #16: “The experiment was kept secret for 20 years. “</p>
<p>Well, this flies in the face of those conspiracy “debunkers” who cry, “nothing can be kept secret for THAT long.” Yes, it can, and, yes, they do.</p>
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		<title>By: BP07</title>
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		<dc:creator>BP07</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Leahy: [Slowly, with a little shake of the head]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I don’t think it’s somebody insane. I’d accept everything else you said. But I don’t think it’s somebody insane. &lt;strong&gt;And I think there are people within our government — certainly from the source of it — who know where it came from.&lt;/strong&gt; [Taps the table to let that settle in] And these people may not have had anything to do with it, but they certainly know where it came from.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vermontdailybriefing.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.vermontdailybriefing.com&lt;/a&gt;  Leahy interview Sept 2007 commenting on unresolved anthrax terrorist letter case&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leahy: [Slowly, with a little shake of the head]</p>
<blockquote><p>I don’t think it’s somebody insane. I’d accept everything else you said. But I don’t think it’s somebody insane. <strong>And I think there are people within our government — certainly from the source of it — who know where it came from.</strong> [Taps the table to let that settle in] And these people may not have had anything to do with it, but they certainly know where it came from.</p></blockquote>
<p>From  <a href="http://www.vermontdailybriefing.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.vermontdailybriefing.com</a>  Leahy interview Sept 2007 commenting on unresolved anthrax terrorist letter case</p>
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		<title>By: gandhi</title>
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		<dc:creator>gandhi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The anthrax letters were addressed to two Democratic Senators, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont. Why those two in particular? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the time Daschle was the Senate Majority leader and Leahy was head of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both were identified in the media as holding up the proposed Patriot Act because of concerns that some parts of it would violate civil liberties.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conclusion? Whoever did this was trying to push through the Patriot Act!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now if somebody thought it was a good idea to have a “New Pearl Harbour” like 9-11, mightn’t they think that getting the Patriot Act though in the aftermath was also critically important?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The anthrax letters were addressed to two Democratic Senators, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont. Why those two in particular? </p>
<p>At the time Daschle was the Senate Majority leader and Leahy was head of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both were identified in the media as holding up the proposed Patriot Act because of concerns that some parts of it would violate civil liberties.</p>
<p>Conclusion? Whoever did this was trying to push through the Patriot Act!</p>
<p>Now if somebody thought it was a good idea to have a “New Pearl Harbour” like 9-11, mightn’t they think that getting the Patriot Act though in the aftermath was also critically important?</p>
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		<title>By: gandhi</title>
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		<dc:creator>gandhi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Now it’s time for everybody else to WAKE UP!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now it’s time for everybody else to WAKE UP!!!</p>
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		<title>By: gandhi</title>
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		<dc:creator>gandhi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;WOW! I just saw a headline story on CNN: they had photos of the blowup camel fitted with sexual devices and they interviewed the Arab-American who was repeatedly abused and then framed by his colleagues. How could such bizarre behaviour ever occur in a top secret biological weapons lab, they asked. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They had a team of reporters tracking down Dr Zack, but when they cornered him in a supermarket carpark he refused to talk. He said he wanted his lawyers present.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then they cut to a segment with FBI Director Robert Mueller, asking him why he allowed top government officials access to the day-to-day running of an FBI investigation, even when such information was being regularly leaked to reporters? Mueller’s eyes were darting left and right while he fumbled for answers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then they went knocking on the door of Ms Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, who came out screaming yelling abuse at them. They asked her about her past connections with some Zionist groups, and she slammed the door.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Finally, the anchor asked why other US media organisations had failed to pursue these lines of inquiry for so long.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And then…?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then I woke up. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Back in BushWorld, where such things never, ever, ever happen.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WOW! I just saw a headline story on CNN: they had photos of the blowup camel fitted with sexual devices and they interviewed the Arab-American who was repeatedly abused and then framed by his colleagues. How could such bizarre behaviour ever occur in a top secret biological weapons lab, they asked. </p>
<p>They had a team of reporters tracking down Dr Zack, but when they cornered him in a supermarket carpark he refused to talk. He said he wanted his lawyers present.</p>
<p>Then they cut to a segment with FBI Director Robert Mueller, asking him why he allowed top government officials access to the day-to-day running of an FBI investigation, even when such information was being regularly leaked to reporters? Mueller’s eyes were darting left and right while he fumbled for answers.</p>
<p>Then they went knocking on the door of Ms Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, who came out screaming yelling abuse at them. They asked her about her past connections with some Zionist groups, and she slammed the door.</p>
<p>Finally, the anchor asked why other US media organisations had failed to pursue these lines of inquiry for so long.</p>
<p>And then…?</p>
<p>Then I woke up. </p>
<p>Back in BushWorld, where such things never, ever, ever happen.</p>
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		<title>By: yonodeler</title>
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		<dc:creator>yonodeler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;It’s bizarre—perhaps even intended to appear bizarre—and significant that the person or persons who prepared and sent the anthrax-laced letters had to have known that the strain of anthrax would be traced back to a very limited field of suspects. That’s all been thought through many times by investigators inside and outside law enforcement, I’m sure, but it’s mind-boggling to contemplate.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s bizarre—perhaps even intended to appear bizarre—and significant that the person or persons who prepared and sent the anthrax-laced letters had to have known that the strain of anthrax would be traced back to a very limited field of suspects. That’s all been thought through many times by investigators inside and outside law enforcement, I’m sure, but it’s mind-boggling to contemplate.</p>
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