The US government is the real bioterror threat
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
08/08/08
Assuming the federal government has, after almost seven years, finally identified the perpetrator of the anthrax attacks in 2001 — admittedly a generous assumption given that for most of those years, it pursued, hounded, embarrassed, and ruined the career of the wrong man — larger dangers remain. As is normally the case with issues surrounding terrorism, the average citizen will probably be shocked to learn that their government is often a bigger threat than the terrorists. Remember the CIA’s creation of the 9/11 threat by supporting the most radical Islamist groups fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan during the 1980s and then the U.S. government’s provocation of terrorist attacks from those same militants by its non-Islamic military presence in Islamic Persian Gulf countries in the 1990s, which had continued unnecessarily subsequent to the first Gulf War. Similarly, in the case of bioterrorism, the threat from the government is greater than from foreign groups such as al Qaeda...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2288
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bioterror
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=anthrax
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
by Ivan Eland
08/08/08
Assuming the federal government has, after almost seven years, finally identified the perpetrator of the anthrax attacks in 2001 — admittedly a generous assumption given that for most of those years, it pursued, hounded, embarrassed, and ruined the career of the wrong man — larger dangers remain. As is normally the case with issues surrounding terrorism, the average citizen will probably be shocked to learn that their government is often a bigger threat than the terrorists. Remember the CIA’s creation of the 9/11 threat by supporting the most radical Islamist groups fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan during the 1980s and then the U.S. government’s provocation of terrorist attacks from those same militants by its non-Islamic military presence in Islamic Persian Gulf countries in the 1990s, which had continued unnecessarily subsequent to the first Gulf War. Similarly, in the case of bioterrorism, the threat from the government is greater than from foreign groups such as al Qaeda...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2288
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bioterror
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=anthrax
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
rudkla - 11. Aug, 08:56
