Did five people have to die because US biological weapon
researchers wanted to receive more money for their work?
Greenpeace magazine feels this dreadful assumption may be
likely, based on statements from members of a U.S.
government delegation.
During the UN bioweapons conference taking place at present
in Geneva, the participants of the U.S. delegation said that a
high-ranking U.S. biology weapons expert is behind the
anthrax letters. Independent researchers also share this
suspicion, Greenpeace magazine reported on Wednesday.
According to the magazine, the U.S. government has secret
information about the presumed offender and the lab from
which the deadly anthrax spores came. They suspect that
the assassin wanted to force an increase in the budget for
U.S. weapons research with his deadly anthrax letters.
Barbara Rosenberg, U.S. biologist and adviser to former
president Bill Clinton, as well as Hamburg bioweapons expert
Jan von Aken of the ?Sunshine Project,? explained why the
anthrax letters could not have come from the Middle East.
The spores in the letter to Democratic majority leader
Senator Tom Daschle were mixed with Trocknungsmittel silica,
which is used by the secret biological weapons program in the
U.S. However, other countries, such as Iraq, use Bentonit,
made from clay, [to prevent the anthrax spores from
clumping].
The investigation is focused on a 50-year-old professor of
microbiology at the elite Harvard University in the U.S. who
was deeply involved in the American biological weapons
program. According to media reports, he disappeared on the
16th of November in a mysterious way. However, the police
and the FBI do not have proof that he was involved.
We are doubtful about whether the sender of the death
letters intended killing the recipients. A warning was enclosed
in some of the letters, as well as instructions to immediately
begin antibiotics therapy. Therefore, Rosenberg assumes that
only panic and fear were intended.
