June 2001 Bioterror Exercise Foreshadowed 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks
Posted on October 12, 2014 by WashingtonsBlog
Coincidence … Or Something More?
On June 22-23, 2001 – some 3 months before 9/11, and 4
months before the Anthrax attacks – the U.S. military held a senior-level war
game at Andrews Air Force Base called Dark Winter.
The scenario of this bio-terrorism drill was designed to simulate a smallpox
attack in three states. Numerous congressmen, former CIA director James
Woolsey, New York Times reporter Judith Miller (who pushed the Iraq WMD myth,
as well as the false link between Iraq and the Anthrax attacks), and
anti-terror official Jerome Hauer all participated in the exercise.
As a part of this war game, scripted TV news clips were made to help make this drill as realistic as possible.
At the end of one of these clips, the reporter says:
Iraq might have provided the technology behind the attacks to terrorist groups based in Afghanistan.
Why is this interesting?
Because U.S. officials intentionally linked Iraq to Al Qaeda and 9/11 to justify the
Iraq war, even though they knew there
was no such connection. (The claim that Iraq is linked to 9/11 has
since been debunked by the 9/11 Commission, top
government officials, and even – long after they alleged such a link – Bush and Cheney themselves.)
Indeed, Dark Winter participant Woolsey – the former CIA director – swore in court testimony that Saddam Hussein was
connected to 9/11.
Similarly, the government tried to falsely blame the anthrax attacks on Iraq
as a justification for war:
When Congress was originally asked to pass the Patriot Act in late 2001, the anthrax attacks which occurred only weeks earlier were falsely blamed on spooky Arabs as a way to scare Congress members into approving the bill. Specifically:
- The FBI was actually told to blame Anthrax scare on Al Qaeda by White House officials
- High-level government insiders pointed towards Iraq as the source of the anthrax, even though there was absolutely no reason to think that the anthrax had come from Iraq
And see this.
Dark Winter participants Judith Miller – the New York Times reporter who had
long hyped bioterror threats through books and articles – and CIA head Woolsey
were two of the loudest voices blaming the Anthrax attacks on
Iraq.
Woolsey was an outspoken proponent of war against Iraq even before 9/11.
Moreover, the parallels between the Dark Winter exercise and the Anthrax
attacks are numerous. For example, in the Dark Winter exercise:
- Anonymous letters are sent to the media
- Anonymous letters threatened anthrax attacks on the United States
- Iraq and Bin Laden are top suspects
Remember, neoconservatives planned regime change in
Iraq 20 years ago (and the U.S. had already carried
out regime change in Iraq in the early 1960s).
It has been extensively documented that the White House decided to invade Iraq before 9/11:
- Former CIA director George Tenet said that the White House wanted to invade Iraq long before 9/11, and inserted “crap” in its justifications for invading Iraq. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill – who sat on the National Security Council – also says that Bush planned the Iraq war before 9/11. Top British officials say that the U.S. discussed Iraq regime change even before Bush took office. And in 2000, Cheney said a Bush administration might “have to take military action to forcibly remove Saddam from power.” And see this.
- Cheney made Iraqi’s oil fields a national security priority before 9/11. And the Sunday Herald reported: “Five months before September 11, the US advocated using force against Iraq … to secure control of its oil.” (remember that Alan Greenspan, John McCain, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, a high-level National Security Council officer and others all say that the Iraq war was really about oil.)
Here are all 6 of the scripted news clips from Dark Winter:
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