# Anthrax in New York not related to 9/11

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 12, 2001, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-new-york-not-related-to-9-11/87091 "2001-10-12T17:18:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-new-york-not-related-to-9-11/87091/21 "2001-10-15T22:18:47Z")

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Strange story of the week from my colleague who is full of strange stories:

The **rumor of the week** is that the terrorists went after Sun Media because they ran a tabloid article saying that the reason Bin Laden _really_ hates the U.S. is that once upon a time an American woman belittled him over his tiny penis size. I don’t know if any of this is true and haven’t checked Snopes on this, just found it funny in a dark kind of way.

And **Zebra** quit channeling my father, he’s not even dead yet!

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-new-york-not-related-to-9-11/87091/22 "2001-10-17T21:42:48Z")

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I’ve posted this elsewhere before finding this thread.  
It seems more credible to me that the anthrax scare is related to [Larry W. Harris](http://www3.cnn.com/US/9802/19/fbi.arrest.pm/), a [Christian Identity](http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr_ident.htm) white supremacist who was charged with **mail fraud** after procuring _bubonic plague_ bacilli by mail?

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> In 1995, he was arrested after purchasing three vials of bubonic plague by mail from a Maryland laboratory.
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> That was not in and of itself a crime, but Harris was convicted on two counts of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud for misrepresenting the purpose of the purchase, a federal offense.

He later was found to have cultivated anthrax, and had talked about releasing plague in NYC and blaming it on Iraq.

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> According to an affidavit filed with his arrest warrant, Harris told a group last summer of a 1995 plan to “place a ‘globe’ of bubonic plague toxins in a New York City subway station, where it would be broken by a passing subway train, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths.”
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> He told the group, according to the affidavit, that “the Iraqis would be blamed for that event.”
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> However, Siller said that there is as of yet no indication as to “what the target might have been or even if there was a target at this point.”
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> In New York, Mayor Rudy Giuliani called a news conference to discount any connection between the arrests in Nevada and a plan to attack New York.

(The article is from 1998.)

These people have been known to cultivate anthrax, and there have already been indications that they intended to attack New York and blame it on the muslim world. Ideologically, these people want a global armageddon, and the current situation would seem very attractive to them.

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