by Daniel Hopsicker
January 7--Venice, Florida.
Despite Attorney General
Ashcroft's statements that the anthrax mailings had a domestic source,
most Americans are still making an association between the bio-terror scare
and Osama Bin Laden’s Arab terrorists.
This is understandable. Americans
yearn to see at least one of the heinous crimes committed against the American
people last fall solved, and its perpetrators punished.
But there’s always been
something a little hinky—suspicious—about the anthrax terror that followed
hard on the heels of the Sept 11 disaster.
Just as people began asking
questions about how Mohamed Atta and his terrorist cadre could have infiltrated
so easily into our country... the anthrax hit.
And immediately America's
obedient media turned its full attention to the bio-terror threat. And
although some (relatively) brave FBI agents complained loudly when they
were pulled off the investigation into Atta and his terrorist buddies and
transferred to the anthrax case, it was all to no avail.
Case Closed?
Anyone who was still waiting
for Colin Powell’s promised "white paper" on the terrorists was wasting
their time.
"Case closed," said Atty.
Gen. Ashcroft.
The results of this sudden
change of focus are today everywhere around us. There is still no coherent
chronology of the WTC disaster. And—surprise surprise—there are still
no suspects in custody in the murder of five poor souls unlucky enough
to have gotten dusted with deadly white powder.
Perhaps the bio-terrorists
have slipped out of the country, and are now riding around on motorbikes
through the Afghan countryside with Mullah Omar.
Follow the dancing ball
Could the anthrax scare have
been intended as a diversion? Could bio-terror have been unleashed on the
American people to divert their attention from seeking a coherent explanation
for the holes, discrepancies, and unanswered questions that the FBI shows
absolutely no interest in clearing up?
Then came the recent news
that either our CIA—or our military—is the original source of the anthrax
used in the letters to Senators Daschle & Leahy...
And that’s when we remembered
Russell Welch, an investigator for the Arkansas State Police who had been
trying to blow the whistle a dozen years ago on the massive cocaine smuggling
scandal unfolding in front of him in Mena, Arkansas.
What does an obscure state
cop in an obscure state have to do with today’s bio-terror?
Russell Welch was exposed
to weaponized anthrax over a decade ago when he opened a letter which
released electrostatically charged floating spores in his face.
"I got so sick that my wife
had to help me to the car," Welch told us several years ago, when we interviewed
him for our two-hour documentary (banned from TV) about the Mena Scandal
called "The Secret Heartbeat of America."
"Luckily we had a doctor
in town, a Vietnam vet, who when he saw me immediately called the Center
for Disease Control in Atlanta."
Prompt diagnosis saved Welch’s
life, if not his health. As Welch can tell you, anthrax is extremely nasty
stuff...
"The next day a doctor came
into my room and asked me how much danger was involved with my job," Welch
relates. "I told her danger was pretty much inherent with the job, because
I was a cop that generally handled major cases, and asked why she wanted
to know."
The doctor told Welch, "I
think you’ve been poisoned with anthrax. Somebody did this to you."
Later his doctor's office
was burglarized, and test results and correspondence with Center for Disease
Control officials in Atlanta were stolen.
No one has fingered Al Qaeda
for the burglary of Russell Welch’s doctor’s office. So clearly, some
other organization must have been involved.
If it worked once...
Anthrax was used to silence
Welch, and stop him from investigating the CIA cocaine smuggling operation
associated with Barry Seal at the infamous Mena Arkansas airport.
Bio-terror was employed on
an Arkansas State law enforcement officer to stop his investigation into
a CIA aviation scandal.
Russell Welch was targeted,
either to make him an asset... or to make him dead.
No one we know of has been
asking why two Democratic senators, and the major media, were targeted
with anthrax. No one has wondered aloud why, say, Republican Senator Shelby
from Alabama was spared, and Senator Daschle wasn't...
Could someone be sending
a similar message to the one sent Russell Welch a dozen years ago to two
influential Democratic Senators today?
Are these two episodes related?
Could someone be engineering
this bio-terror crisis to silence anyone from questioning the "official
version of events?"
Steering the American public’s
focus away from potentially damaging revelations about Mohamed Atta and
his cadre’s possibly explosive past links to people inside our own government?
Maybe somebody should ask.
Over to you, Senator.
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