FBI agents who interrogating captured al-Qaeda terrorists have learned there was a plan to highjack a 5th jet on September 11, that was supposed to be crashed into the White House. “Many, many people are saying many interesting things,” says an FBI official. However, one FBI official says, “You have contradictory information coming from people you think would know, so you start to think that somebody’s shading it.”
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The mystery of the 2001 anthrax attacks on government offices and the media has pretty much been forgotten, despite the fact that most of the evidence points to an inside job by a U.S. bioweapons scientist. Now Marilyn Thompson writes in the Washington Post that new evidence has been discovered in a pond in Frederick, Md.
One way to identify the anthrax poisoner would be to test his blood, because working with the substance causes spores to get into the body. Also, the question comes up about how he could have put anthrax into envelopes without becoming ill or killing himself. Now we know the answer: he filled the envelopes under water.
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The U.S. Treasury Dept. is searching for the $1 billion stolen by Saddam Hussein just before the war, and believes it’s hidden in Syria, Lebanon?or France. The U.S. military found $600 million in Saddam’s palaces and $200 million in an armored car. Iraqi employees of the Baghdad Central Bank say that members of Saddam’s family removed the cash in wheelbarrows. It was then put into tractor-trailers that left Baghdad in the direction of Syria.
Some of Saddam’s assets were transferred to Syria and Lebanon in 2002 and early 2003, according to a Treasury Dept. report. Treasury Dept. general counsel David Aufhauser says, “It also pretty well confirms that there’s an awful lot of U.S. dollars there, which is the product of illicit commerce.”
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Cats and dogs are being farmed for fur in Europe and Asia. It’s thought that hundreds of thousands of cat and dog skins are traded in Europe each year, often mislabeled and sold as the furs of exotic or mythical animals. The BBC discovered a video of a Belgian furrier with a blanket he says is made from cats farmed in Belgium. Stray cats and dogs are also rounded up and skinned. So far, only Italy has banned this kind of farming.
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