Copyr. 2001-2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

I. Vanguards Of Conquest

a. An Investigation Finally Comes Into Focus

b. Dead Certain

c. Charity Is As Charity Does

d. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

e. Infiltration of US and UK Biodefense

f. The Supporters of Blind Sheik Abdel-Rahman

g. EIJ Military Commander's Claims About Ayman's Anthrax Plans

h. Ayman's Concern For PR, Tactics and Religious Sanction

i. Debate Over Despots and Democracy

j. The Canadian Connection and February 2001 PDB About Anthrax

k. Discovery Hall

l. The Investigation Moves Forward

m. Evidence Continues To Accumulate

n. Microbial Forensics Pinpoint A Perp

o. Mohammed Al-Islambouli Finally Surfaces As Story Begins To Break

p. Motive: The Need To See Things Through Your Adversary's Eyes

q. The Documentary Clues That Were Overlooked By The Media

r. Conclusion

II. Means: Al Qaeda's Biochem Program Codenamed Yogurt

a. Codename "Swift Knight": Bin Laden's Plan With Ibn Khattab To Use Charities And Infiltrators In Creating Biological Weapons

b. The March 1999 Public Announcement Of Zawahiri's Quest To Weaponize Anthrax

c. Zawahiri's April/May 1999 Memos To Al Qaeda's Military Commander Atef And Interest In Anthrax And Pesticides

d. Open September 1999 Letter From a London Radical Sheik Calling For Holy Biowar And Bin Laden's Response

e. "I Successfully Achieved The Targets": Assistance of Pakistan Scientist Rauf Ahmad In 1999 And 2000

f. "You Are Dead! Bang": Ayman's Plan To Use Charities And Universities As Cover In Weaponizing Anthrax

g. Al Qaeda's 2001 Threat To Use Mailed Anthrax In Connection With Jailed Vanguards of Conquest No. 2 Leader And Former Bin Laden Farm Manager Mahmoud Mahjoub

h. Al Qaeda's US-Based Biochem Operative Al-Marri

i. Taliban's Interest In The Anthrax Vaccine Laboratory

j. The Empire Strikes Back

k. Hambali, Anthrax Lab Tech Yazid Sufaat, And Ayman's Anthrax Bomb Maker

l. Jabarah and KSM's Plan To Poison A Reservoir In Upstate New York

m. The Mid-February 2003 Capture of Al Qaeda WMD Committee Member Mohammed Abdel-Rahman And Related Secret Capture Of KSM

n. "Operation Imminent Horizon": The Late February 2003 Raid Of Ali Al-Timimi and Other IANA-Affiliated Supporters Of Bin Laden's Sheik al-Hawali

o. The Early March 2003 Arrest Of Bacteriologist Dr. Abdul Qudus Khan

p. Capture of KSM's Assistant Hawsawi And Seizure Of Laptop With Anthrax Spray Drying Docs

q. 2003 Capture Of Hambali And Sufaat's Assistants, And Seizure Of "Extremely Virulent" (But Unweaponized) Anthrax

r. Warlord Hekmatyar's Henchman In Kabul: Gitmo Charges And Anthrax Powder

s. Unconfirmed Claim: 2007 Capture Of Taliban Spokesman With Anthrax Packets Intended For Mailing To Government Officials

t. Access To Ames Strain

u. Made In USA: Cell Culture

In Cipro We Trust

Silica

Isotope Ratios

Curdled Milk

Potential Leads

Mixed Genotype and Inverted Plasmid

III. Motive: Reason Senators Leahy And Daschle And The US Media Were Targeted

a. The Anthrax Letters: "Written In Language You Can Understand"

b. Profile Of An Angry Man: Ayman

c. FBI Director Mueller: Remember 9/11. Remember Oklahoma City.

d. Deterrence Against Invasion of Afghanistan

e. Significance Of Mailing Dates: Camp David Accord And Sadat's Assassination

f. "Leahy Law" And Appropriations To Military And Security Units

g. Zawahiri's View Of The "Lies" Of Secular Media

h. "Release Him": Retaliation For Detention Of Blind Sheikh And Other Detainees

i. "The Far Enemy": Zawahiri's Victory In EIJ Debate Whether to Target US

j. Despots, Democracy, and the Cease-Fire Initiative After The Luxor Massacre

k. The CIA's December 4, 1998 Presidential Daily Brief : The Ghost Of Sadat's Assassin Islambouli Visits United States To Plan the Attacks Using Aircraft And Other Means

IV. Modus Operandi: "Pouring Musk On Barren Lands"

a. Targeted Assassination Of Individuals In Symbolic Positions

b. Hallmark Greetings: Egyptian Islamists' Earlier 1996 Letter Bombs To DC And New York Papers And Symbolic Targets

c. Requirement Under Laws Of Jihad Of Warning Before Using Biochemical Weapons

d. Continuing Practice Of Sending Poisonous Letters As Threats

e. Use Of Code:

KSM And Clouds (As Sahab)

Jennifer Lopez Letter And Atta's Jenny Code

"In The Hearts of Green Birds" (Inside Green Birds)

"Greendale School"

"Franklin Park"

Allusion to Atta and Genomic Sequencing of the Ames Strain

f. Summer 2001 Inquiries About Cropdusters And Helicopters

g. Choice Of Mailbox At 10 Nassau St. In Princeton

h. Al Qaeda's Spymaster On Amerithrax

i. Poisoned Penpal: The Murder Of Chechen Rebel Leader Ibn Khattab

V. Opportunity: Tracking Potential Al Qaeda or Egyptian Islamic Jihad or Islamic Group Supporters

a. WMD and the Hunt for Moles

b. Know Not Just Your Enemy, But Who He Knew

c. The Egyptian Connection: The Path Of Jihad Begins And Ends In Cairo

d. Chasing Islambouli's Ghost: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

e. When Insiders Go Postal: US Postal Employee Ahmed Abdel Sattar

f.  Charity Is As Charity Does: The US-Based Blind Sheik Followers Who Saw No Evil

g. "Steeds of War": BIF And Its Connection to Bin Laden, Atef And Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

h. Manhattan Anthrax Mystery Linked to Jihad Supporting (Former BIF Employee) Doctor

i. 2001 Greenlight Of Biological Attack By US-Based Operatives

j. Hani And Nawaf On "The Straight Path": Connecting The Kuala Lumpur, Falls Church And New Jersey Dots

k. Kandahar Souvenir: Hijacker Ahmed's Blackened Leg Lesion in June 2001

l. Astonishing Aafia

m. Houston, We May Have A Problem

n. Boston Cabbies Who Got Around: Al-Marabh and Elzahabi

o. "Ode to Anthrax": the US-Based Falls Church, VA and Chicago-area Hamas Fundraisers

p. Was Mahmoud Jaballah The Egyptian In The Library Researching Anthrax?

q. Hoax Letters That May Fly As Real Thing

r. North Brunswick, NJ Connection To Al Qaeda's Website

s. Elbaneh : The Man From Buffalo Worth $5 Million Walks Out of Court

t. "Jafar The Pilot"

u. Al Marri And The Alleged IANA Connection To The Local Macomb Mosque

v. The Sympathizer Who Was A HVAC Technician at Lawrence Livermore Lab

w. Was Jdey the Anthrax Mailer?

VI. Sheiks, Bioweaponeers, And DARPA

a. The "Teflon Terrorist" and Risk of Infiltration

b. Hardball Tactics In An Era Of Threats

c. The Education Of Ali Al-Timimi

d. Al-Timimi’s Connection to AQ WMD Comm. Member Mohammed Abdel-Rahman

e. "The Straight Path": Connecting the Dots

f. GMU Center For Biodefense: Discovery Hall

g. Islamic Ruling On The Peace Process

h. The 2006 Arrest Of Former Falls Church "911 Imam" And Fellow Salafist Lecturer Awlaqi

i. Al-Timimi's Attorney: What The US Knew And When

j. Source of Fishy, Shaggy Dog Stories That Derailed Public Understanding Of Investigation Pleads Fifth

k. Microbial Vac: No Place to Hide

l. A Wiretap Balancing Act

VII. Hatfill: Another Jewell in the Rough

a. "Mr. Z": "A Person of Interest"

b. The Greendale School: Where the 4th "R" is Railroading

c. The Investigation Goes to the Dogs

d. Little Man By The Window Stood

e. A Novel Approach To Warning About Bioterrorism

f. Muckraking: Don't Jus' Keep Wishin', Go Fishin

g. Reading the Handwriting on the Wall

h. No Time To Kill

i. The Investigation of the Mock-Up and Mocking of an Investigation

j. The 2002 and 2003 DOJ Media Leak Investigations

k. Hatfill's Media Campaign

l. Hatfill's Day In Court

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography