The New York Press
October 10-17
Alexander Cockburn
WILD JUSTICE
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Terror at Home
I may be confounded by some atrocity in the next 24 hours but all this
talk about the 100 percent likelihood of another terror attack on
American soil seems overblown, though no doubt explicable as a way of
maintaining citizen vigilance and hastening the terror package through
Congress. It's true there's been another case of anthrax in Boca
Raton. Ken McCarthy, our CounterPunch man in Tallahassee, writes the
following thought-provoking note:
"FACTS: 1. The man who died of Anthrax last week was a photo editor at
The Sun, a tabloid. 2. A fellow employee there has been recently
diagnosed with Anthrax as well. 3. Inhaled Anthrax, the type these men
have contracted, is exceedingly rare (only 18 cases in the US in the
last 100 years) 4. Anthrax spores have been found in their workplace.
The building which houses The Sun, The Globe and The National Enquirer
has been closed as a result. 5. American Media Inc., the owner of The
Sun etc., has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency. 5.
Boca Raton, the home of The Sun, is also the location of a plant owned
by Product Ingredient Technologies, a company with links to the Bush
Sr. White House that manufactured chemical warfare agents that were
exported to Iraq with US government approval in the late 1980s."
Ken cites as his source Bringing the War Home by William Thomas. Under
that same program, 19 containers of anthrax bacteria were supplied to
Iraq in 1988 by the American Type Culture Collection company, located
near Fort Detrick, MD, the site of the U.S. Army's high-security germ
warfare division.
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__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com