- There's an article (1) in Salon on the presence of tularemia
at the site of the demonstrations in Washington on September 24. Some people
did indeed get sick, and the presence of tularemia cannot be explained
by natural causes. Then it concludes that it must have been an attack by
terrorists.
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- Yeah, that makes sense. Osama is in his lair in the wilds
of Pakistan planning his next move, which could be an attack against anyone
in the United States, and he decides to attack . . . an anti-Bush rally!
Of course, there is no mention in the article of the semi-secret Pentagon
anti-WMD terror exercise (2) that was conducted in Washington in the previous
week (although it does vaguely mention the possibility that "somebody
was testing U.S. biological weapons defenses").
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- I guess it all depends on what you mean by 'terrorist'.
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- (1)
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- Biological Alarm In Washington Did Terrorists Attack
Washington With A Deadly Pathogen?
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- By Mark Benjamin Salon.com
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- On Sept. 24, 2005, tens of thousands of protesters marched
past the White House and flooded the National Mall near 17th Street and
Constitution Avenue. They had arrived from all over the country for a day
of speeches and concerts to protest the war in Iraq. It may have been the
biggest antiwar rally since Vietnam. A light rain fell early in the day
and most of the afternoon was cool and overcast.
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- Unknown to the crowd, biological-weapons sensors, scattered
for miles across Washington by the Department of Homeland Security, were
quietly doing their work. The machines are designed to detect killer pathogens.
Sometime between 10 a.m. on Sept. 24 and 10 a.m. on Sept. 25, six of those
machines sucked in trace amounts of deadly bacteria called Francisella
tularensis. The government fears it is one of six biological weapons most
likely to be used against the United States.
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- http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/10/18/tularemia/index_np.html
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- (2)
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- Peace March Coincidences
10-5-5
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- There was a big peace demonstration in Washington on
September 24, accompanied by the usual coincidences:
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- 1. A few days before the demonstration, the Pentagon
conducted a highly classified 'demonstration' in the Washington metropolitan
area called Granite Shadow. William M. Arkin writes (found via Cannonfire
"It's impossible NOT to presume conspiracy"):
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- "A spokesman at the Joint Force Headquarters-National
Capital Region (JFHQ-NCR) confirmed the existence of Granite Shadow to
me yesterday, but all he would say is that Granite Shadow is the unclassified
name for a classified plan.
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- That classified plan, I believe, after extensive research
and after making a couple of assumptions, is CONPLAN 0400, formally titled
Counter-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Concept Plan (CONPLAN)
0400 is a long-standing contingency plan of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff (CJCS) that serves as the umbrella for military efforts to counter
the spread of weapons of mass destruction. It has extensively been updated
and revised since 9/11.
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- The CJCS plan lays out national policy and priorities
for dealing with WMD threats in peacetime and crisis - from far away offensive
strikes and special operations against foreign WMD infrastructure and capabilities,
to missile defenses and 'consequence management' at home if offensive efforts
fail"
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- and:
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- "Granite Shadow is the twin to Power Geyser, a program
I first revealed to The New York Times in January. The JFHQ spokesman confirms
that Granite Shadow and Power Geyser are two different unclassified names
for two different classified plans.
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- In the case of Power Geyser, the classified plan is CJCS
CONPLAN 0300, whose entire title is classified. According the military
documents, the unclassified title is 'Counter-Terrorism Special Operations
Support to Civil Agencies in the event of a domestic incident.' It is another
Top Secret/SPECAT plan directing the same special mission units to provide
weapons of mass destruction recovery and 'render safe' in either a terrorist
incident or in the case of a stolen (or lost) nuclear weapon. Render safe
refers to the ability of explosive ordnance disposal experts to isolate
and disarm any type of biological, chemical, nuclear or radiological weapon.
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- The obvious question is why there is a need for two plans.
My guess is that Power Geyser and CONPLAN 0300 refers to operations in
support of a civil agency 'lead' (most likely the Attorney General for
a WMD attack) while Granite Shadow and CONPLAN 0400 lays out contingencies
where the military is in the lead. I'll wait to be corrected by someone
in the know.
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- Both plans seem to live behind a veil of extraordinary
secrecy because military forces operating under them have already been
given a series of 'special authorities' by the President and the secretary
of defense. These special authorities include, presumably, military roles
in civilian law enforcement and abrogation of State's powers in a declared
or perceived emergency."
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- It would be just like these guys to plan their little
martial law practice in such a way as to provide a bonus as they play with
isolating and disarming their planted biological weapons (the eventual
plan is for the Pentagon to be both cause and cure of disease outbreaks,
so the public will be begging for martial law). Which leads to . . .
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- 2. Detectable concentrations of tularemia bacteria, a
known biological weapon, were found at exactly the place where the march
was held at the time of the march. Bob Fitrakis writes (or here):
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- "Coincidence theorists. You gotta love 'em and their
great faith in believing in the statistically improbable occurrence of
events, rather than an alternative hypothesis: that friends of Bush (FOBs)
planted the tularemia bacteria, just as they most likely sent anthrax to
Democratic senators and the media."
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- and:
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- "Unless federal officials are willing to think the
unthinkable, but obvious, and have the tularemia samples independently
tested, we'll never know whether a deliberate attack occurred against peaceful
U.S. citizens exercising their First Amendment rights, or some freakish
and bizarre coincidence occurred."
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- 3. Amtrak suspended southbound rail service out of New
York on the morning of September 24, allegedly because a beam fell onto
electrical wires in New Jersey. This affected "the travel plans of
at least hundreds and possibly more than 1,000 protesters, organizers said."
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- 4. Trains in Northern Virginia, bringing protestors from
the South, were delayed as they were sharing a single track to allow for
repair work on a switch, work that had been planned for several weeks.
Bob Fitrakis again (or here):
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- "The paper duly noted that the repair had been planned
'for several weeks.' They failed to report that the rally had been planned
for several months."
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- The unsolved anthrax attacks, with their timing and direction
at prominent Democrat leaders, eased the passage of the Patriot Act, which
until the attacks was not guaranteed to become law. The FBI pronounces
itself 'stymied' in investigating the matter, although a quick read of
the internet provides lots of convincing evidence of the identity of the
perpetrator (the timing and content and target of the anonymous warning
letter, sent at a time after the anthrax was mailed but before its existence
became known to the public, coupled with the fact the anthrax had to have
originated in Fort Detrick, is damning).
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- The tularemia clearly wasn't intended to hurt anybody.
It was the release of information about the tularemia which was intended
to be a shot across the bow of any future protests. It is not difficult
to believe, especially given the transparent cover-up being conducted by
the FBI, that the next time it will be anthrax.
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- http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/10/peace-march-coincidences.html
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