Intel Analyst: Matrix suggests September 11th, anthrax
mailings are linked
By Tom Wakefield, 1/15/2002
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An Intel research analyst has developed a matrix that
suggests the terror attacks of September 11th and the anthrax mailings are related. The
matrix contradicts recent statements by the FBI and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge
that suggests the anthrax mailer (Anamailer) is domestic. (The research analyst wishes to
remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of recent events.)
The matrix and analysis, portions of which appear below, suggests that the
anthrax mailings were designed to be a one-two punch, just as the attacks of September
11th. The first attack of 9/11, according to the analyst, was designed to initiate live TV
coverage to increase the psychological impact and scope of subsequent attacks.
Furthermore, according to the analyst, the 9/11 attacks targeted (in order of attack), the
economy - financial transactions/communications (World Trade Center), the U.S. military
(Pentagon), and the U.S. Government (White House? - Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania
before reaching its target). The attacks were designed to simultaneously affect America's
financial, communications, military, and political infrastructure.
Likewise, the anthrax mailings appear to follow a similar
pattern. The first letter was sent to American Media's National Enquirer offices. (Who
better to sensationalize a story than the National Enquirer?) Next, after the press
(including the National Enquirer) initiated coverage, letters were sent through the U.S.
Mail (communications/financial/economic) to other members of the media (communications)
and also to political figures (political). Indeed, the anthrax mailing attacks occurred in
the same sequence as the terror attacks of 9/11: 1) Initiate coverage 2) Attack critical
communications and financial infrastructures (media, mail service and financial impact to
U.S. Postal Service) and attack political infrastructures (U.S. House, Senate).
The analyst has also noted that the terror planners used the
Internet to research targets, flight times, etc. and wonders if the planners used the
Internet to research the U.S. Postal Service and how best to mail a letter to achieve
maximum contamination in the mail system. Though, there doesn't appear to be much
information on the Internet prior to September 11th about U.S. Postal Service internal
distribution systems, there is a fair amount of information now. Stories such as the one
where a reporter tracked a letter through the Postal Service from its mailing in Dallas to
its final destination in Chicago, and other stories (with illustrations) about how
decontamination equipment may be implemented within the postal delivery system,
illustrates the point. In light of this possibility, should the USPS restrict information
about its processing and distribution systems now that it is a target/delivery system of
anthrax?
Though the terror attacks appear to be planned many months,
even years in advance, the analyst also wonders if the airline industry and the U.S.
Postal Service were selected as targets/delivery systems, in part, because of their
worsening financial positions. Both the airline industry and the U.S. Postal Service were
recognized in the months prior to September 2001 as being financially suspect. Did the
terror planners target these two suspect industries to cripple them?
Below, are excerpts from the analysis. The author notes that the "strategic planning method outlined in the analysis contains
references to 'Centers of Gravity', 'Critical Lines of Communication' and 'Critical
Infrastructures'. Those terms and the associated methodology are from Von Clauswitzs'
discussions regarding focusing of the correct amount of force at the right place, time and
element within an enemy's structure to ensure his defeat". |
Strategic Planning Method For Terrorist Attacks on a Capitalist Society
by AnonymousIdentify The Strategic Objective of the attack : Eliminate Western
Capitalistic influence on Islamic culture.
Identify The Operational Objective of the attack: Destabilize the Western
Capitalist Society.
Identify The Tactical Objectives of the attack: Disable Primary and
Secondary Centers of Gravity
Determine Societal Primary and Secondary Centers of Gravity (PCOGs and SCOGS):
What is the primary activity which upholds the existence of the society?
The society exists in its current form because of collective, successful economic
activities. The economy is then a PCOG.
The successful capitalist society operates in a stable/ safe/ secure environment.
Stability, safety and security are so tightly interlaced and impact so many aspects of
social function that they are to be considered as PCOG collectively.
The society establishes governmental systems, enacts laws, and selects leaders that
enable, enforce, sustain and advance economic activities. The Government is therefore also
a PCOG.
The society succeeds because its economic activities are profitable. Profitability is a
subset of economic activity therefore it is an SCOG.
The Public trusts the economic and political structures which enables it to reap both
social and economic benefits from the society. Public trust is then a SCOG.
Determine individual/ personal (1), and collective/ body politic (2) objectives and
expectations within the society.
Primary: (1).Obtain individual wealth and (2). promote/ sustain
economic growth.
Secondary: (1). Provide a safe, comfortable and secure personal/ family
environment and (2). stable, supportive and non-restrictive community setting.
(Local,state,national)
Tertiary: (1). Enjoy personal freedoms and (2).create and maintain an
open society.
Identifying Critical Lines of Communications and Infrastructures or CLOCI.
The society establishes physical, technological, psychological and historical links and
infrastructures to support the economic system. These links or Lines Of Communication and
Infrastructures (LOCI) will be called Critical Lines of Communications and Critical
Infrastructures or CLOCI for brevity sake when they are found to be essential to the
continued success of the economic system.
Identifying CLOC/CIs: CLOCS/CI may be readily identified by determining their level of
importance relative to the identified PCOGs and SCOGs in addition to the degree to which
society relies on them.
CLOCI which are essential to the conduct of business and which are in themselves also
major significant economic activities are:
Means of transportation such as: Airlines, railroads, commercial maritime shipping, and
trucking.
Means of communication such as: Conventional mail/ parcel, electronic mail, landline and
satellite telephone.
Means of information dissemination such as: Radio and television broadcast and cable
systems, newspapers.
Means of energy source production storage and distribution such as: Conventional and
nuclear fired electrical power systems, natural gas and petroleum production, storage, and
distribution facilities.
Critical nodes within the above listed examples offer high value and high payoff
targets which, if successfully attacked, will significantly impact the economy.
Reconnaissance and Target Identification: Internet research yields detailed
information regarding potential targets: physical location, level and types of functional
activity and historical data to support target prioritization and selection analysis. Once
completed the selected targets are subjected to physical reconnaissance.
Achieving multi-layered effects from attacking any CLOCI element is an operational
objective of terrorism.
Timing: Target attack must affect:
CLOC
COG
HUMAN Sensibilities
Airline attack features: Flight Scheduling was researched on the Internet.
The schedules were selected to ensure all flights depart within 30 min of each other.
This required scheduling permitting the four teams to report status within a tight time
window, ensuring that the mission could be scrubbed if all components of the event were
not synchronized.
Desired tactical effects: Assure media coverage, initiate a psychological impact chain.
Timing:
8:45 am American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into the north
tower of the World Trade Center
9:03 a.m.: A second hijacked airliner, United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston,
9:43 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon
10:10 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93, also hijacked, crashes in Somerset County,
Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh. |
- American Airlines Flight #11 - Boeing 767; scheduled
7:45 a.m. departure from Boston, MA, to Los Angeles, CA
- United Airlines Flight #175 - Boeing 767; scheduled
7:58 a.m. departure from Boston to Los Angeles
- United Airlines Flight #93 - Boeing 757; scheduled
8:01 a.m. departure from Newark, NJ, to San Francisco, CA 8:42 a.m.: United Airlines
flight 93
- American Airlines Flight #77 - Boeing 757; scheduled
8:10 a.m. departure from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles
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Air Attack Coordination Table (UAL 93 Parenthetic
entries based on normal departure time. UAL 93 was delayed 31 minutes on the runway at
Newark, vice the normal 12-15 min delay window.) Analysis of flight paths indicate the
terror teams planned and navigated courses that would result in times on target shown
below this chart. |
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Scheduled |
Departed |
Time
of
Flight |
Impact |
Time Delta |
COG/
Priority |
AAL 11,
7:45 am |
Logan
8:00 am |
45 min |
8:45 am WTC
N |
0 |
Economy/
#1 |
UAL 175,
7:58 am |
Logan
8:14 am |
49 min |
9:03 am WTC
S |
18 min |
Economy/
#1 |
AAL 77,
8:10 am |
Dulles
8:22 am |
81 min |
9:43 am Pent. |
58 min |
Military/
#1 |
UAL 93,
8:01 am |
Newark
(8:16)
8:42 am |
(100 min)
84 min |
(9.56 am WH/
Pent.)
10:06 am |
(71 min) |
Military?
#1
(Political) |
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The air attack time on target schedule was to be: WTC1 8:45 - Initiate media
coverage
WTC2 9:00 Cameras on scene
Pent.1 9:45 Initiate media coverage
(Pent.2? 10:00) Cameras on scene
3 Attacks were
carried out within .03% of schedule. |
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Airline Attacks |
Target/ Symbol |
Primary Objectives |
Anthrax Attacks |
Target/ Symbol |
Primary Objectives |
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AAL 11 |
WTC/ Economic Power (COG) |
Impact Air Travel (CLOC)/ / General economy |
Boca Raton |
Enquirer/ Print Media |
Begin/ Ensure Publicity. Begin psychological impact (fear) |
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UAL 175 |
WTC/ Economic
Power (COG) |
Impact Air Travel (CLOC)/ General economy |
New York City
Letter#1 |
NBC/ Electronic Media |
Impact USPS Economics NY,NJ (CLOC))/ Advance Publicity/ fear |
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AAL 77 |
Pentagon/ Military
Power (COG) |
Impact Air Travel Economics(CLOC) / General Military |
New York City
Letter#2 |
CBS/ ABC Electronic Media |
Impact USPS Economics NY, NJ(CLOC)/ Advance Publicity/ fear |
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UAL 93 |
(Pentagon/ Military Power) (COG) |
Impact Air Travel Economics(CLOC) / General Military |
Washington
Letter#3 |
Political |
Impact USPS Economics DC, VA, MD(CLOC)/ Impair Congress/ Advance Publicity/
fear |
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Washington
Letter#4 |
Political |
Impact USPS Economics DC, VA. MD(CLOC)/ Impair Congress/ Advance Publicity/
fear |
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Due to the tactics used to strike the WTC (Strike 1 pause 15
minutes to ensure video coverage, Strike 2 to be viewed live by nation) it is believed
that the same 1-2 tactic was planned for the Pentagon. The anthrax contamination sequence
including focus on CLOC and COGS shows strikingly similar strategic planning signature.
The fact that both the airlines and the USPS were on financially shaky grounds prior to
the attacks is believed to be part of the target selection process. |
End of Analysis
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From the Archives: U.S., British scientists aided Iraq's
biological warfare program |
01/25/1998
The Observer
Page 003
(Copyright 1998)
THE FATHER of
Iraq 's biological warfare programme benefited from a three-day anthrax workshop hosted by
scientists from the Government's chemical and biological research centre at Porton Down,
Wiltshire.
The embarrassing British link to Iraq 's
deadly anthrax research, revealed by United Nations sources, comes only days after Foreign
Secretary Robin Cook's assertion that Saddam Hussein makes enough anthrax every week to
fill two missile warheads.
President Clinton warned last week on
American TV: 'Think how many people can be killed by just a tiny bit of anthrax and think
about how it's not just that Saddam Hussein might put it on a Scud and send it to the city
he wants to destroy. Think about all the terrorists and other bad actors who could parade
through Baghdad and pick up their stores if we don't take action.'
Anthrax toxin is classified as a weapon of
mass destruction capable of killing millions within days. Exposure to minute amounts leads
to an excruciatingly painful death. UN inspections of suspected storage sites have been
suspended because Iraq has blocked access and the chief UN weapons inspector, Richard
Butler, says his talks with the Iraqi authorities were characterised by 'moments of abuse
and denigration' of his staff.
The West's role in providing Iraq with
anthrax know-how began at a key workshop in Winchester in 1988. Among 80 scientists from
around the world were Dr Nasser el-Hindawi and his assistant, Dr Thamer Abdel Rahman,
microbiologists working for Iraq 's secret biological weapons programme. The programme's
aim was to develop weapons to spread anthrax , gas gangrene, botulism toxin, brucellosis,
rabbit foot and tetanus.
Hindawi, who is still active in Iraq , was
the academic supervisor of another British trained Iraqi, Dr Rihab el-Taha, widely known
as Dr Death. Taha, trained at the University of East Anglia, was in charge of the Al Hakam
biological weapons factory blown up in 1996 by UN inspectors.
As a professor at Baghdad University, Hindawi
was commissioned by Iraq 's ruling Baath Party to help develop biological weapons in the
shortest possible time. By the time he arrived in Winchester, he had a shopping list of
what was needed.
UN officials describe the workshop as a
'Who's Who of anthrax research'. They say the three-day meeting was devoted entirely to
anthrax with 'a full exchange of ideas and materials'. Among the British participants was
Harry Smith, now emeritus professor of microbiology at Birmingham University. A world
authority on anthrax , he says: 'To be perfectly frank, I didn't know {the Iraqis} were
there.'
'My God, it's quite astounding that no one
caught on,' said Dr Alastair Hay, reader in chemical pathology at Leeds University, who
has been following Iraq 's chemical and biological programme. 'By 1985, Iran had already
accused Iraq of carrying out chemical warfare and Iraq 's interest in weapons of mass
destruction had already been flagged up. Why bring these people here?'
UN inspectors say the Iraqis launched
their biological warfare programme in mid-1986 at Salman Pak, outside Baghdad. Soon after,
the Iraqis started large-scale production of anthrax for deployment in bombs and Scud
missiles.
Germ culture to grow the anthrax was freely
imported from the US military's centre for chemical and biological research at Fort
Detrick, Maryland, via civilian laboratories operated by ATCC, the American Type Culture
Collection.
American investigators have established that
several shipments of biological material, including 21 batches of anthrax, were licensed
for export from the US to Iraq between 1985 and 1988. They were sent to the Ministry of
Higher Education and the Ministry of Trade in Baghdad.
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