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To: schrodingers_cat who wrote (133916)	10/31/2001 1:59:10 AM
From: Doug Soon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Cat, I agree with your points and the mystery continues. Without question, there are some bright guys involved in this. The question is whether they are home grown or foreign. There is no way that a bunch of unsophisticates, at home or abroad, could pull this off. But the targets chosen are curious as well, which suggests a domestic action. The National Enquirer, certain broadcast organizations but not others. Why not CNN? Liberal politicians but not conservatives. Doesn't bin Laden think that all Americans are homogenous and lack differentiation. Would bin Laden deliberately try to deflect the blame to somebody else? We are in Afghanistan attacking the Taliban and Al Quaeda without differentiation. Now, I am hearing there are moderate Talibans and militant Talibans. But we don't care, we are trying to get them all aren't we? Are there moderate Al Quaeda members as well. How do we tell? The more I think about this, the stranger it sounds.

To: schrodingers_cat who wrote (133916)	10/31/2001 3:34:19 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

"Investigators suspect that a single person, perhaps a deranged U.S. resident with a biochemistry background, may be behind the attacks. Officials have ruled out the presence of the additive bentonite, which could make the spores spread more easily through the air. The absence of bentonite suggests Iraq was not the source of the bacteria, said Greg Poland, a professor at Mayo Clinic who advised the U.S. military on biological threats. Iraq used aluminum, a key ingredient in bentonite, to make anthrax more lethal, he said."