BuzzFlash has been quoted frequently saying that basically conspiracy theories exist because not all the facts are known about a given situation. The odds are that some conspiracy theories are right (one of them about the assassination of JFK certainly is -- Arlen Specter's single bullet theory aside -- but we'll probably never know conclusively which one. That's the challenge of conspiracy theories; the papers revealing the truth, the phone conversations, and even the perpetrators are usually long gone by the time you try to ferret out the truth.

As for the anthrax attacks associated with the time of 9/11, BuzzFlash believes that this is one conspiracy theory that verges on certainty: these murderous bio-warfare deaths resulted from a domestic terrorist, most likely one who worked at Fort Detrick -- and most likely not Bruce Ivins, who the government took years to indict, before he conveniently committed suicide. In fact, although we are not conspiratorialists by nature, our intuition tells us that the Cheney/Bush government had a role in the anthrax attacks in order to intimidate the Democratic Senate leadership into supporting the Patriot Act, which they succeeded at doing. After all, this was military grade anthrax that was used, not your garden variety -- and it was developed at Fort Detrick, where the military is in charge.

But that's just our take.

So it's worth revisiting the anthrax attacks -- now nearly forgotten by the corporate mainstream media -- and take a look at anthrax in relation to the whole international bio-germ warfare capability, and especially in the U.S.

Our government has us scared to death about a terrorist nuke in a suitcase on the NYC subway, but it's anthrax from Fort Detrick, a U.S. military research facility in Maryland that has us the most worried -- or the uncountable deadly arsenal of bio-germ warfare agents that could annihilate a city in no time at all. And you literally wouldn't see it coming.

That is why it is all the more important to read this book.

From the publisher:

"An in-depth look into the new biological arms race, Dead Silence conveys the inside story of the U.S. anthrax attacks and their connection to the existence of a frightening global germ warfare underworld. Coen and Nadler’s investigations take them across four continents and inside classified labs, revealing a web of secrecy, corporate greed, and global manipulation."

What is revealed in Dead Silence . . .


The 2001 anthrax attacks—despite the FBI’s claim that the case is closed—remain fundamentally unsolved to this day.


Experts are split on evidence linking Bruce Ivins to the attack powders and say he lacked the skill set and equipment necessary to produce the anthrax sent to Senators Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle. Because Ivins killed himself before being formally charged, the evidence against him will never be tested in court.


Citing “national security” grounds, the FBI has refused to tell Congress which U.S. laboratories are capable of making weaponized anthrax, which Senator Leahy has publicly criticized.


Wouter Basson, a.k.a. Dr. Death, headed the apartheid-era germ war program in South Africa, which provided germ weapons to assassination squads. He received key assistance from U.S. and U.K. bio-defense establishments. Anthrax stocks from that program may be for sale on the black market today.



Suspicious sudden deaths: Bruce Ivins, David Kelly, Vladimir Pasechnik—all anthrax specialists who may have known too much.


Dead Silence is the first to link the deaths of these key germ-war experts, dating back to the 1953 demise of scientist Frank Olson, who was working with the CIA and fell from the 13th floor of a New York hotel, and was almost certainly murdered.



Since the anthrax attacks, “biodefense” has become big business. What used to be the work of a handful of top-secret government labs is now a cash cow—with private enterprise reaping big contracts in “anti-terror” programs worth more than $50 billion.


This money has flowed to politically connected corporations and foundations associated with the highest levels of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations.


Emergent Biosolutions has government contracts worth nearly a billion dollars for the anthrax vaccine—mandatory for U.S. soldiers deployed overseas. In recent years, the company has hired as lobbyists top aides to former Vice President Dick Cheney. Many soldiers say the vaccine is making them sick and is linked to Gulf War Syndrome diseases.


Southwest Foundation for Bio-Medical Research (SFBR) runs the world’s only privately held Bio-Safety 4 laboratory where the most dangerous pathogens in the world are handled. Until recently, the president of the foundation was John Kerr, a close personal friend of former President George W. Bush. SFBR refuses to say what research they are conducting for the U.S. government.


Human Genome Sciences Corporation recently received a $1.8 billion contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help the government stockpile anti-anthrax antibodies. One of its directors is Richard Danzig, former Secretary of the Navy (under Bill Clinton) and a national security advisor to President Obama. He is rumored to be next in line as Secretary of Defense.

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