The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy

The anthrax letter attacks occurred from September through November of 2001, killing

five and wounding many. The attacks were widely held to be the work of Muslims and

were used to support the invasion of Afghanistan and, later, the invasion of Iraq. They

were used explicitly and repeatedly to justify the passing of the Patriot Act. They were

also meant to support withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, a withdrawal

eagerly sought by the neoconservatives associated with the Project for a New American

Century who wished to pursue their global agenda without obstruction from small states

with WMD.

In the early days of the attacks there were several perpetrator hypotheses in play. One that

gained prominence was the Double Perpetrator hypothesis according to which Iraq had

supplied the sophisticated anthrax spores while al-Qaeda had supplied the foot soldiers

responsible for preparing and sending the letters. This hypothesis was eagerly reported by

the mainstream media. It came to grief quickly when scientists discovered that the

anthrax spores had a domestic source and appeared to come from the heart of the US

military and intelligence communities.

The FBI rapidly began a search for "the anthrax killer," promoting the idea that there was

a lone wolf perpetrator within the military community--a renegade, an unbalanced person

whose behavior revealed nothing of significance about structures and institutions of the

deep state. In 2008 the Bureau named Dr. Bruce Ivins of the United States Army Medical

Research Institute of Infectious Diseases as the "anthrax killer." Ivins had conveniently

died a week before being named and could not fight back in court. Ivins remains the

FBI's choice to this day: the case was closed in 2010. This book support with a great deal

of evidence the following four assertions:

(a) the anthrax letter attacks were carried out by a group of perpetrators, not by a “lone

wolf;”

(b) the group that perpetrated this crime was composed, in whole or in part, of deep

insiders 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 redefinition

through which the Cold War was replaced by a new global conflict framework, the

Global War on Terror.