The
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and fixed by the destruction of the root causes.
The
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and fixed by the destruction of the root causes.
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About 'weapons grade Anthrax" will the FBI back off (again) with its misinformation (they said someone with a few thousand dollars and a bit of biology could produce the attack) and the Army (just garden variety) as well gave bad information - maybe they are just wrong not stupid or trying to lie to the public.
I don't think they're manufacturing this in caves," Dr. Alibek said of the terror anthrax. "It's coming from another source."
It is unknown publicly exactly how makers of anthrax weapons achieve high spore concentrations, but the black art is said to involve precise drying, sifting, milling and removal of impurities.
"The quality of the spores is very good," said a federal
science adviser who shared the Patrick report with The New York Times
The high quality, the adviser said, lends credence to the idea that someone with links to military laboratories or their contractors might be behind the attacks. "It's frightening to think that one of our own scientists could have done something like this," he said. "But it's definitely possible."
He said the anthrax sent to the Senate contained as many as one trillion spores per gram, a figure confirmed by an administration official.
A gram is just one-twenty-eighth of an ounce. Yet in comprising up to one trillion spores, a gram of anthrax powder has vast potential to kill. If a lethal dose is estimated conservatively at 10,000 microscopic spores, then a gram in theory could cause about 100 million deaths.
The letter sent to Tom Daschle, the Senate Democratic leader, is said to have held two grams of anthrax — enough, in other words, to make about 200 million lethal doses, assuming it could be distributed to victims with perfect efficiency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/national/03POWD.htmlMr. Patrick, in his risk assessment, sketched out both what the American military achieved and what a terrorist might do. His 28- page report, dated February 1999, was written for a federal contractor advising the government on how to handle the growing number of anthrax hoaxes and what to expect if real anthrax were to be sent through the mail.
Pakistan said today that it had detained two retired nuclear scientists after the recent discovery in offices they had used in Afghanistan of documents describing ways to use anthrax as a weapon and other suspicious material.
The diagrams of the balloons seem to show a possible method for slowly dispersing some type of biological or chemical agent from the air. Words scribbled in the diagram appear to say "cyanide."
One diagram found in the Kabul offices show four balloons flying together in tandem with a box around them. The box appears to show how the agent would be dispersed across a wide area.
The house, like others in the Afghan capital apparently used by Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, Al Qaeda, seems to have been hastily abandoned when the Taliban fled Kabul two weeks ago. It is not clear who may have been in the house since then,
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By 1937, the ambitious Ishii had established a vast germ warfare complex in Pingfan, a small village outside the Manchurian city of Harbin. The complex, innocuously dubbed Unit 731, was composed of over 150 buildings and nearly 3,500 researchers and employees.
Ishii's scientists concentrated their studies on anthrax, as well as typhus, plague, cholera, botulism, smallpox, tularemia and encephalitis.
In addition to anthrax-filled artillery shells, Unit 731 experimented extensively with hot-air balloons filled with the deadly disease.
Declassified documents from Fort Detrick, a military research facility in Frederick, Md., (the installation's name was changed from Camp Detrick after the war) partially portray a frightening scenario that might have been had World War II gone on much longer.
Beginning in late 1944, areobiologists at Camp Detrick were placed on high alert after several reports were received from western states that large balloons, some up to 150 feet around, had been sighted silently floating over populated areas.
After the Allied victory over Japan, U.S. Army and intelligence agents also moved swiftly to capture Japan's Unit 731 anthrax-bomb technology and other research. The initial job fell to Col. Murray Sanders, a Camp Detrick (its name during the war) bacteriologist. Earlier, Sanders had been part of Camp Detrick's investigation team into the Japanese balloon incidents. Sanders had sounded the first alarm about the mysterious balloons flying over the U.S. possibly being armed with anthrax.
Decades later, in an interview, Sanders said, "Anthrax is a tough bug. It's sturdy. It's cheap to produce, and [the Japanese had] used it in China." In a 1985 interview with the Miami Herald,
A declassified Department of Army report dated Feb. 24, 1977, contains a lengthy list of locations where "biological field testing of anti-personnel biological simulates involving the public domain" were held. Included on the list are San Francisco, Panama City, Florida, Washington, D.C., Hawaii and New York City. In 1953 and 1954, Fort Detrick scientists working with the CIA conducted secret tests with anthrax simulates in New York City's subway system.
Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad, the article told of a secret CIA project, code-named Clear Vision, that since 1996 built and tested several model anthrax bombs that were replicated on "a Soviet-designed germ bomb that agency officials feared was being sold on the international market."
The CIA project grew out of concerns that Russian scientists "had implanted genes from Bacillus cereus, an organism that causes food poisoning, into the anthrax microbe."
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I thought so - the number of people affected (30 or so) suggested a "weapons grade" or high grade or professional and sophisticated state sponsored attack - different from Florida and New York - as Sen. Daschle and Li
eberman said at the time. Then some officers from the military (Fort Detrick in Frederick or Ft. Mead) said it was just plain old garden variety anthrax - Was this an intentional misinformation or are they just incompetent ? I don't believe it is just a question of technical terms.Why is this so important - because if it is then it is more likely it is retaliation for US foreign policy (Oil, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Palestine) - We go on acting as if we can do anything we want in the world without consequences. We are tied at the hip to Israel, we maintain the government in Egypt, we have troops in the Gulf, we bomb and embargo Iraq, we make people mad and there are serious consequences on lives, stability, economics, and politics at home. We cannot carry on a war in Afghanistan when we cannot control domestic terrorism.
The public will just not support it. In 1965 all the experts, Sect. of State, Defense Sect., National Security people, (Except George Ball) were certain we would win in Vietnam - talked about what government we wanted for their country. The same group (different actors) seems certain again - they were wrong then and are wrong now - the domestic and foreign damage done by mistakes then will be repeated in spades now. Both errors is due to hubris (false pride) - false assumptions, not understanding or even caring about the enemy, a amost religious belief in superior technology to defeat a primative people, underestimating the determination of the other side, dishonesty, lies, and the loss of public support.
Nonetheless, the conclusion that the spores were produced with military quality differs considerably from public comments made recently by officials close to the investigation, who have said the spores were not "weaponized" and were "garden variety." Those descriptions may be technically true, depending on how one defines those terms, several experts said. But they obscure the basic and more important truth that the spores were treated with a sophisticated process, meaning the original source was almost certainly a state-sponsored laboratory.
That particle size, 1 1/2 to 3 microns in diameter, said Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), is extremely small -- a first requirement for making "weapons grade" anthrax spores for warfare or terrorism.
But more than that is needed to get anthrax spores to drift easily in the air and spread widely without settling quickly to the ground. That is because tiny particles tend to have electrostatic charges -- the static electricity that can cause hair to extend skyward when it is rubbed against a balloon. Those charges make the tiniest particles clump together into heavier ones, which then settle to the ground.
One of the primary goals of bioweapons engineers since the 1960s was to figure out how to treat those tiny particles in ways that would neutralize the problematic charges. Properly processed, the tiny particles will remain separated from one another and fly up and outward with virtually no effort. An imperceptible wisp of a breeze can send them across a room.
In the United States, that problem was solved by Bill Patrick, who developed the process at Fort Detrick as part of the U.S. biological weapons program that ended in 1969. The process is protected by at least five secret patents held by Patrick. It involved freeze drying and chemical processing and was achieved without having to grow vast quantities of spores or mill them to terribly small dimensions, Patrick and other experts said.
The anthrax spores that contaminated the air in Senate Majority Leader THING1 A. Daschle's office had been treated with a chemical additive so sophisticated that only three nations are thought to have been capable of making it, sources said yesterday.
The United States, the former Soviet Union and Iraq are the only three nations known to have developed the kind of additives that enable anthrax spores to remain suspended in the air, making them more easily inhaled and therefore more deadly, experts said yesterday. Each nation used a different technique, suggesting that ongoing microscopic and chemical analyses may reveal more about the spores' provenance than did their genetic analysis, which is largely complete but reportedly has done little to narrow the field.
Nation
household accounts:
$3,000
each household for a (useless?) war vs. $15.00 for smallpox to save our lives,
way of life, and security, does this make sense to you?
The
bioterrorism activity of the federal government is going to include 1.5
billion for 300 million smallpox vacations. (.0065 % or 1.5 of the 2,000
billion budgets) That sounds like a lot of money but it is crumbs from the
real feast at the federal trough. It almost doubles the current federal
expenditure on bioterrorism, which is only a small part of the 30 billion
on homeland defense, disaster preparing, and law enforcement with more by
states and local government.
The
1.5 billion / 300 million people = $5.00 each that could save our lives. Now
that doesn’t sound like a lot. We have a 10,000 billion national economy or
10 trillion. Two thirds is spent by households and one third by business. The
federal government controls a one fifth and total government is about 1/3 but
federal money is paid to households in social security or health benefits so
this is call a transfer payment – someone pays taxes someone else gets
benefits.
If
we take the whole country as a household (100 million of them) the budget
would be something like this:
Each
total trillion (10 % = each trillion)
10,000 1 paid in interest – person debt is very big and the functional limit on spending
10,000 1 paid for housing and utilities
10,000 1 paid for transportation and travel
10,000
1 for everything else, consumer
goods, services,
10,000
600 billion for heath care plus
600 billion public = 1.2 trillion
16,000
1 income taxes, payroll plus a lot of other taxes
Households
– 6.6 trillion (includes government transfers, salaries, and benefits)
Business
3.3 trillion
10
- trillion Total
This
compares to $15.00 for bioterrorism –
$3,000
for the military (300 billion) – $3,000 for public education –
What
is wrong with this picture?
The
fundamental purpose of government to protect us from fear, chaos, and let us
live our lives in a civil society gets little or nothing. Defense is focused
on the unreal threat of foreign invasion by big armies and protecting our
interests overseas, mainly oil. The benefits of enterprise and initiative
have given us an unprecedented material existence but that wealth depends on
security.
Why? Elections are expensive because mass advertising has replaced party loyalties, clubs, and personal contacts. Politics follows money – banking, construction and real estate, oil and cars, airlines, and other business interests keeping their profits safe and protection from regulation and redistribution of resources from those that have (the few) to those that don’t (the many) so the many have to be discouraged from voting (by negative campaigns) or fooled most of the time.
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What needs to be done?
Let
me be as clear as possible about what needs to be done now, at once, today
-(by executive order under emergency powers with congressional
approval to follow) to protect the American population from a
“Hiroshima” size catastrophe. This
has to be the first priority.
If 9/11 was
not enough to get our attention – 6,000 dead, a trillion dollars in damage
– (including the economic, travel, employment, extra costs etc) then what
will? If we can’t do what
needs to be done now at least we should have the plans in place ready to go
the next time.
Open
discussion on a cease-fire – under the cover of the need for crisis
assistance.
A real
National Security Department: with a national and international supreme
commander (The Secretary of State – Powell)
Combine all
national and international capacities to counter terrorism – International
center with spies, electronic, observer systems, remote sensors, hit teams,
made up of people who know what they are doing. The police (FBI) and
intelligence community (CIA) and DOD special units must be put under unified
command including EU and others with a clear focus on prevention. A meeting
of principles should happen today – it is a grand alliance such as the
NATO Supreme Command structure of military warfare with a supreme commander
- who can draft whatever resources needed, make battlefield commissions, and
apply military discipline. Their job is to reduce the power of terrorist
organizations.
Make
Homeland defense (Gov. Ridge or the Sect. of Homeland Defense) one temporary
super agency with wide emergency powers to include FEMA, Coast Guard, border
security, INS, DOD, HHS and the other 40 agencies reporting directly with
flexible budgets to move resources quickly. The three functions – target
protection including populations from bioterrorism and facilities from
attack, money controls, and control of people’s travels (national ID
cards) as well as response, should be separate from the law enforcement or
intelligence function – the first makes risk assessment the other makes
plans to defend and respond. If we need the FBI, DOD, National Guard, and
other agencies the part that is target protection is broken off from their
prevention functions. Their job is to make it difficult to attack
and respond when they do,
"Confusion
reigns at the lowest and the highest) levels," said Mohammad
Akhter, executive director of the American Public Health Association, who
watched with growing unease last week as a single anthrax-tainted letter
pushed the Washington area's emergency response system to the limit. He
added, "This is the one thing that causes us to shake in our
boots."
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The Terrorist Attack on America: Background
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/home/terrorism.asp
Foreign Affairs is making available previously published articles that contribute to an understanding of the tragic attacks on New York and Washington. Several of the essays analyze the nature of contemporary terrorism and the capabilities of the United States to combat it. Other essays provide the Middle Eastern and radical Islamic contexts for so much recent terrorism, including, apparently, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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To
start from the beginning:
If you sat down with people who know something about the subject and maybe more important know what they don’t know, the true sign of experts, and organized a public organization to attack, defend and respond to terrorism – you would come up with a very different system than we now have. Now we are looking around and use the tools we have rather than restructuring or reinvention systems. This often does not work and can make things worse rather than better.
There would be a very small central command with decentralized cells working creatively with the local communities and the community of nations on specific tasks, clear goals, and tools to match those goals. The cells or teams would be flexible and be moved to meet new threats or opportunities. This is creative management as defined over the last 50 years – decentralized, matrix, task focused, with most decision making on the line not up the chain of command. The staff structure serves the operations not the other way around – it is truly bottom up with little in the way of middle management – the pentagon for example as 17 levels between operations and the top – clearly not fast, smart, small, creative, and has more tail than teeth – more bureaucracy and support than bite.
In education there is about 50/50between administration and teaching; in defense 75/25 between supports and fighting – anti-terrorist is 75/25 with the big number inside the beltway and the small number actual operations, the big number on often on support. In modern lean and mean organizations is gets down to 10/90 or even better. The management does not even try to run operations – operators run operations – central command provides budgets, troops, and maintains communications with a set of measurable goals and performance standards negotiated with the field.
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Learning from the enemy:
Mr Rumsfeld and his civilian advisers believe the US military does not
have the flexibility to combat an enemy like Bin Laden. They point to a computerized
war game in 1997 in which the army took on a terrorist organization similar
to al-Qaida, and lost. The generals, the analysts concluded, spent too much
time looking for things to bomb, and not enough time looking for innovative
methods of eliminating the enemy.
Al-Qaida is a network of independent suppliers with “just in time” inventory supporting dozens of small independent “franchised” cells of terrorist activist each with a local commander who can operate behind enemy lines, lay dormant until needed, come up with innovative strategies and defeat large organized bureaucracy. If caught there is no link back to the base. Anyone with an idea can make a proposal including what he would need to carry out the mission. They can also defeat or weaken other similar networks. We should use these same tools against them.
Domestic and foreign operators could be given support as “privateers” with various schemes to catch, disrupt, and organize assassins, use of native tribes, foreign intelligence operators, all at arms length with absolute “deniability”. The mob, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, the border states around Afghanistan, and Russia, Saudi Arabian, and other countries have individuals and groups that could put together plans “out of the box” which could surprise the enemy and do real damage at low costs. Fifty or a hundred independent contractors working in dozens of countries could infiltrate, blowback, and discover the supply of money, documents, and plans of the enemy. The methods include kidnapping, double agents, and a whole range of dirty tricks used by Jordan in defeating “Black September” and Israel dealing with Abal Natal and Egypt with it’s domestic terrorist.
Week of bombing leaves US further from peace, but no nearer to victory
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,574207,00.html
At one end of the US war machine are people like Donald Rumsfeld, the ultimate defense intellectual who views the war on terrorism as an intriguing puzzle requiring new ways of thinking. At the other are the long-serving men in uniform such as General Tommy Franks, the former artillery officer leading the campaign.
We need
a global "special operations" commander in the field that reports
directly to the NSC
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There is no analogy:
Maybe Spain in 1936 when the WAR really started but was not widely recognized until 1939 – or the importance of Airpower and mechanized warfare – the French had the concrete bunkers and trenches to protect themselves from World War I – The British forces were badly equipped, led and armed – The Russians believed they had a deal – and Poland was not really going to be protected. Halifax and Joe Kennedy believed Britain could not hold out. Everything was prepared for a disaster.
In Vietnam we went it without understanding the characteristics of what we were getting into. The French misled us, the British were ignored when Macmillan warned Kennedy, and the best and brightest put their faith in counter insurrectionary green berets, special forces, search and destroy and air power and talked about draining the swamp, the hearts and minds, and bombing them back to the stone age. After a decade of ugly conflict we surrender and fled in disgrace but learned some lessons but some of the wrong lessons. The first lesson is to know what you are doing in a geopolitical sense and understanding the enemy not the quick application of overwhelming force. We had a simplistic view of “communist” and no respect for the other side.
Now we have done it again – we just don’t get it. We don’t understand the geo-political situation in the region or the nature of the enemy. We are using the tools of the last war – overwhelming air power used in the Gulf and the Balkans – and maybe the special operations from the Vietnam and Cambodian highlands – we have no understanding of the strengths of asymmetrical warfare, the underground organizations, the Afghan fighters or homeland defense. Big institutions do not change easily or quickly. The Russians are deeply involved and maybe misleading us as the French did in Vietnam because they have their own agenda.
The outcome could be anarchy in Afghanistan spreading to Pakistan, disruptions in the Gulf, and terror at home. There is no clear agreement on war aims only a truce during the bombing but as soon as ground operations become questionable and winter sets it – then what? If there is a Hiroshima size attack on US – all hell will break lose, then what?
An international intelligence center to run the silent and covert warfare capacity required to fight this dirty war takes planning and smart, flexible thinking and wise, tough, and great leadership.
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