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Just who exactly were the terrorists here?

In yet another example of the Bush misadministration's craven and deceitful practices, the WH told the FBI to blame the domestic anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda:

In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks, White House officials repeatedly pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove it was a second-wave assault by Al Qaeda.

After the Oct. 5, 2001 death of Sun editor Robert Stevens, Mueller was "beaten up" during [Preznit LawnOrnament]'s morning intelligence [sic] briefings for not producing proof the killer spores were the handiwork of Osama Bin Laden, according to a former aide.

"They really wanted to blame somebody in the Middle East," the retired senior FBI official told the News.
But by then the FBI already knew anthrax spilling out of letters addressed to media outlets and to a U.S. senator was a military strain of the bioweapon. "Very quickly [Fort Detrick, Md., experts] told us this was not something some guy in a cave could come up with," the ex-FBI official said. "They couldn't go from box cutters one week to weapons-grade anthrax the next."

Weapons-grade anthrax from our own weapons labs. Oh, and straight-talkin' maverick McPsycho was one of the ones spreading the lie that al Qaeda was responsible.