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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on October 09, 2001, 07:45:00 AM
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http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/31567.htm (http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/31567.htm)
Scared yet? Its only the beginning. This intern they're looking for was apparently a muslim intern from Sudan (middle eastern person) though they also speculate on Atta's flying lessons less than a mile from this company, American Media.
Cowboy up!
[ 10-09-2001: Message edited by: Ripsnort ]
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"..and the FBI probed frightening reports of an odd e-mail from a departing intern about "a little present" that he left behind."
ABC news interviewed the intern and some of his co-workers yesterday. The "little present" was a bagel breakfast that he bought for everyone on his last day. The FBI is no longer questioning the intern.
ABC also had their medical correspondent on this morning and he was asked if people should stop buying supermarket tabloids because of the recent events and his response was:
"There are plenty of reasons not to buy these magazines, but the fear of catching anthrax should not be one of them." :D
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The FBI is also investigating a strangely worded letter
received by the company that contained a "soapy, powdery
substance" in the shape of a Star of David, Newsweek has
reported. The letter was handled by two of the people who
contracted anthrax, the magazine said.
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Originally posted by Mickey1992:
"..and the FBI probed frightening reports of an odd e-mail from a departing intern about "a little present" that he left behind."
ABC news interviewed the intern and some of his co-workers yesterday. The "little present" was a bagel breakfast that he bought for everyone on his last day. The FBI is no longer questioning the intern.
Funny, NBC this morning, I thought, said the intern had not yet been found.
They also identified this particular strain of anthrax a being, "Not natural." Meaning that it was labatory produced. :O
Propaganda digestion time? ;\
Viper
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I just realized something, having lived in Ft.Lauderdale briefly, I know that one of the largest Jewish communities outside of NY is in Boca Raton, the area that "American Media" building is centralized in.
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I bet that the anthrax in Florida is linked to Sadam. That will give us the so called legal means to attack Iraq. LOL as if we even need a "legal" way to attack and illegal government.
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I never knew that one company was home to all of the nation's tabloids. Under different circumstances I would have some disparaging comments about that.
If they really do determine that this was caused by a letter that was delivered in the US Mail to the company then that truly would be scary.
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That NYPost site sure is slow, I can barely pull the page up. Anyways, they are saying a third case found? CNNhere (http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/10/09/gen.anthrax/index.html) is reporting a negative test on a guy in Virginia....why isn't the NYPost giving more information on the "third" case?
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Originally posted by Fury:
That NYPost site sure is slow, I can barely pull the page up. Anyways, they are saying a third case found? CNNhere (http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/10/09/gen.anthrax/index.html) is reporting a negative test on a guy in Virginia....why isn't the NYPost giving more information on the "third" case?
Unrelated (the Virginia case) to this story.
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Yes, the website was fast this morning, now its rather slow, here's the story within the link:
October 9, 2001 -- An anthrax
scare gripped the nation yesterday
as a third employee of a
supermarket tabloid was said to be
exposed - and the FBI probed
frightening reports of an odd e-mail
from a departing intern about "a
little present" that he left behind.
The FBI announced it had taken
over the investigation as a possible
criminal - or terrorist - attack.
Three employees of American
Media, which publishes The
National Enquirer and other supermarket tabloids out of
Boca Raton, Fla., told The Post that the FBI wants to
question a summer intern who left the company recently
after sending out an e-mail to employees saying thank you
and "I left you all a little present."
A top executive at the company said the intern was
believed to be from Sudan and was on an exchange
program at a local college.
At the time, no one thought anything of the intern's e-mail,
but in the wake of the anthrax scare, employees are now
concerned, they said.
The FBI is also investigating a strangely worded letter
received by the company that contained a "soapy, powdery
substance" in the shape of a Star of David, Newsweek has
reported. The letter was handled by two of the people who
contracted anthrax, the magazine said.
All employees and people who were in the building in the
last 60 days were told to take antibiotics for the next two
months to fight off infection.
They were also asked for all their computer passwords so
investigators could probe their hard drives.
One employee, 63-year-old photo editor Bob Stevens,
died last week of inhalation anthrax, while a second,
identified by sources as mailroom worker Ernesto Blanco,
was found to have a small amount of anthrax in his nose.
David donut, the president of American Media, told The
Post that a woman librarian at the office building already
being treated for pneumonia tested positive for anthrax
exposure, in addition to the other two cases.
Florida health officials said late yesterday that only two
people had come into contact with the bacteria.
Health experts say it is extremely unlikely that such a
transmission - two men working in separate areas in an
office building - could be accidental.
"You have to really, really reach to come up with a
scenario where this is unintentional," said Professor Thomas
Johnson, the director of the Division of Respiratory
Therapy at Long Island University.
The building where the staffers worked - which houses The
Globe, The Sun, The Star, The National Enquirer, and
Weekly World News - was ordered sealed yesterday.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said the Boca Raton case
"could become a clear criminal investigation" as the feds dig
deeper.
Officials cautioned they have no evidence to suggest a
criminal or terrorist act - but they aren't taking any chances.
"We don't have enough information to know whether this
could be related to terrorism or not," Ashcroft said.
Officials did not consider foul play in Stevens' death until a
test swab on the nostrils of another employee, presumably
Blanco, turned up the anthrax bacteria.
Officials said the mailroom worker has not contracted any
symptoms of the disease - a very important and
encouraging sign.
Hundreds of frightened workers lined up at a Palm Beach
County health facility to get tested for the bacteria and
receive antibiotics.
Part of their fear stems from news accounts that terror
ringleader Mohamed Atta took flying lessons about a mile
from Stevens' Lantana, Fla., home. Atta and some of the
other hijackers also lived in Florida cities not far from
American Media.
"To tell you the truth, I'm terrified," said Globe reporter
Felicia Levine.
"We're in an area surrounded by the terrorists, and this is a
coincidence? The name of our company is American
Media. I'm scared."
Health officials tried to reassure the company and the
community, saying there was no public health threat.
"The risk is low," said Dr. John Agwunobi, Florida
secretary of health.
donut said all the publications had shifted to temporary
locations in a rush to put out their next editions, which went
to press yesterday.
Employees were also asked to fill out questionnaires
explaining how often they came into contact with the photo
or mailroom areas, and if they've noticed anything unusual
around the building since Sept. 11.
Meanwhile, in New York, Mayor Giuliani said there's no
reason to fear an outbreak - but that area hospitals are on
the lookout for possible symptoms.
"Given the events of the last four weeks, we now monitor
that even more carefully," he said.
Also contributing to this story were Malcolm Balfour in
Florida, Brian Blomquist in Washington, Braden Keil
and David Seifman in New York. It was written by
Devlin Barrett. [/b]
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Originally posted by Ripsnort:
I just realized something, having lived in Ft.Lauderdale briefly, I know that one of the largest Jewish communities outside of NY is in Boca Raton, the area that "American Media" building is centralized in.
Yep...I lived in Fort Lauderdale for 5 years.
I visited the "American Media" building at Christmas time 3 of those years.
They used to have the worlds largest Christmas tree hauled in on trains.
There is a huge Jewish community in that area.
Kinda gives you the feeling that they were/are thumbing their nose at their Jewish opponents.
This points back to another conversation I had not long after the WTC attacks.
Why Germany? Why are there so many connections between the known terrorists and Germany?
Is there still an anti-Jewish community in Germany? One that may make an "Islammic Extremist" feel at home?
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Unfortunately my mother and grandmother still live in Pompano Beach (Boca is actually closer to them than Pompano) and needless to say, they're freaked out.
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Originally posted by Sky Viper:
Yep...I lived in Fort Lauderdale for 5 years.
I visited the "American Media" building at Christmas time 3 of those years.
They used to have the worlds largest Christmas tree hauled in on trains.
There is a huge Jewish community in that area.
Kinda gives you the feeling that they were/are thumbing their nose at their Jewish opponents.
This points back to another conversation I had not long after the WTC attacks.
Why Germany? Why are there so many connections between the known terrorists and Germany?
Is there still an anti-Jewish community in Germany? One that may make an "Islammic Extremist" feel at home?
Anti semitism lives all over the world, german hasn't invented it per se.
Problem over there is a staggering immigration, mostly from turkey but other asian countires as well.
This lead to deterioration of quality of life, accusations of job stealing, polarization of society and overall raise to nationalistic feelings.
Also, small muslim portion of immigration there is quite militant.
My sistem in law studies in Hamburg, she is afraid to walk the streets after dark due to open hostilities between races....
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Originally posted by Ripsnort:
[QB]I know that one of the largest Jewish communities outside of NY is in Boca Raton.QB]
i thought the largest jewish community outside of new york was at cnn center in ga.
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Ruh roh.
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No further reports of this so it was either snuffed out by the FBI (think panic) or was a case of hype.
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Re-confirmed on this mornings news, the original report was correct in the first place, 3rd person (women) confirmed to have anthrax.
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Scary stuff: http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/10/lkl.00.html (http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/10/lkl.00.html)