I saw on the news that someone opening mail for the CIA has exhibited symptoms of anthrax and is being tested. Mail-sorting locations for the White House, The Supreme Court, and the CIA are now being tested. CDC and Coast Guard authorities are still cleaning the first Anthrax outbreak location at American Media, Inc. here in Boca Raton.
Bin Laden has officially denied personal involvement, but in a veiled way, saying he is pleased that "others have made a blow against the Crusaders" or somesuch, which could be an evasive way of saying other terrorists cels of his own organization are responsible for 9/11/01, and following the Anthrax outbreak.
Meanwhile, there are still sites you can look at that argue the U.S. is jumping to conclusions, and that there is no real evidence that Bin Laden or al-Qaida are responsible for the airline bombings on 9/11/01.
(Some examples of those sites:
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/10/WTC_Ostrovsky.html
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/10/WTC_ReasonWhy2.html
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/09/WTC_Odigo.html
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/10/08/17401.html
)
Myself, I'm convinced there is plenty of evidence that Bin Laden and al-Qaida are the right target (based on abundant evidence Taliban has hosted Bin Laden and his al-Qaida organization while they committed any number of terrorist attacks on U.S. embassies and military forces in Tanzania, Kenya, Yemen, Saidi Arabia, Somalia and elsewhere. Not to mention Bin Laden boasting to an Arab newspaper of a major operation against the U.S. in about 3 weeks, three weeks prior to 9/11/01, and no doubt the U.S. government has much evidence they are not yet ready to share with the public.)
I think Bin Laden is backing away from responsibility now for the actions he orchestrated on 9/11/01, because he never expected the level of international resolve to put an end to his organization. So rather than take a courageous political stand "for Islam", taking responsibility for his orchestration of events on 9/11/01, he now backs away, in a cowardly fashion.
I used to think capturing these terrorists for public trial and imprisonment was the best way to handle al-Qaida. But now I advocate exterminating them like roaches, before they spread their twisted ideology. Radical terrorist fundamentalism is spreading rapidly throughout the middle east. A report I saw on Frontline on PBS last night, interviewing the terrorist who was captured attempting to bomb the Los Angeles Airport on December 31, 1999, and alleges he no longer supports Bin Laden's terrorism (but is clearly plea-bargaining to reduce his sentence) The captured terrorist described how he entered Canada on a false VISA, and was recruited by Bin Laden's organization to train in Afghanistan as an al-Qaida terrorist. A french-Canadian terrorism expert described Arab immigration to Canada as a "fundamentalist-Muslim aircraft carrier, from which to launch an attack on the United States". These fanatics have to be stopped.
You don't weigh the rights of a cancer, you kill it. That's what needs to be done.
[ 10-28-2001: Message edited by: Dave the Wonder Boy ]
