>
> 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."
And Tom Brokaw and Judith Miller - does this work for them?
Doug