The anthrax letter attacks occurred from September through November of 2001, killingfive and wounding many. The attacks were widely held to be the work of Muslims andwere used to support the invasion of Afghanistan and, later, the invasion of Iraq. Theywere used explicitly and repeatedly to justify the passing of the Patriot Act. They werealso meant to support withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, a withdrawaleagerly sought by the neoconservatives associated with the Project for a New AmericanCentury who wished to pursue their global agenda without obstruction from small stateswith WMD.In the early days of the attacks there were several perpetrator hypotheses in play. One thatgained prominence was the Double Perpetrator hypothesis according to which Iraq hadsupplied the sophisticated anthrax spores while al-Qaeda had supplied the foot soldiersresponsible for preparing and sending the letters. This hypothesis was eagerly reported bythe mainstream media. It came to grief quickly when scientists discovered that theanthrax spores had a domestic source and appeared to come from the heart of the USmilitary and intelligence communities.
The FBI rapidly began a search for "the anthrax killer," promoting the idea that there wasa lone wolf perpetrator within the military community--a renegade, an unbalanced personwhose behavior revealed nothing of significance about structures and institutions of thedeep state. In 2008 the Bureau named Dr. Bruce Ivins of the United States Army MedicalResearch Institute of Infectious Diseases as the "anthrax killer.
" Ivins had convenientlydied a week before being named and could not fight back in court. Ivins remains theFBI's choice to this day: the case was closed in 2010. This book support with a great dealof evidence the following four assertions:(a) the anthrax letter attacks were carried out by a group of perpetrators, not by a "lonewolf;"(b) the group that perpetrated this crime was composed, in whole or in part, of deepinsiders within the U.S. state apparatus;(c) these insiders were connected to the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks;(d) the anthrax attacks were meant to play an important role in the strategy of redefinitionthrough which the Cold War was replaced by a new global conflict framework, theGlobal War on Terror.
The anthrax letter attacks occurred from September through November of 2001, killingfive and wounding many. The attacks were widely held to be the work of Muslims andwere used to support the invasion of Afghanistan and, later, the invasion of Iraq. Theywere used explicitly and repeatedly to justify the passing of the Patriot Act. They werealso meant to support withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, a withdrawaleagerly sought by the neoconservatives associated with the Project for a New AmericanCentury who wished to pursue their global agenda without obstruction from small stateswith WMD.In the early days of the attacks there were several perpetrator hypotheses in play. One thatgained prominence was the Double Perpetrator hypothesis according to which Iraq hadsupplied the sophisticated anthrax spores while al-Qaeda had supplied the foot soldiersresponsible for preparing and sending the letters. This hypothesis was eagerly reported bythe mainstream media. It came to grief quickly when scientists discovered that theanthrax spores had a domestic source and appeared to come from the heart of the USmilitary and intelligence communities.
The FBI rapidly began a search for "the anthrax killer," promoting the idea that there wasa lone wolf perpetrator within the military community--a renegade, an unbalanced personwhose behavior revealed nothing of significance about structures and institutions of thedeep state. In 2008 the Bureau named Dr. Bruce Ivins of the United States Army MedicalResearch Institute of Infectious Diseases as the "anthrax killer.
" Ivins had convenientlydied a week before being named and could not fight back in court. Ivins remains theFBI's choice to this day: the case was closed in 2010. This book support with a great dealof evidence the following four assertions:(a) the anthrax letter attacks were carried out by a group of perpetrators, not by a "lonewolf;"(b) the group that perpetrated this crime was composed, in whole or in part, of deepinsiders within the U.S. state apparatus;(c) these insiders were connected to the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks;(d) the anthrax attacks were meant to play an important role in the strategy of redefinitionthrough which the Cold War was replaced by a new global conflict framework, theGlobal War on Terror.