Despite Attorney General Ashcroft's statements that the anthrax
mailings had a domestic source, most Americans are still making an
association between the bio-terror scare and Osama Bin Laden s Arab
terrorists.

This is understandable. Americans yearn to see at least one of the
heinous crimes committed against the American people last fall solved, and
its perpetrators punished.

But there s always been something a little hinky suspicious about
the anthrax terror that followed hard on the heels of the Sept 11 disaster.

Just as people began asking questions about how Mohamed Atta and his
terrorist cadre could have infiltrated so easily into our country... the
anthrax hit.

And immediately America's obedient media turned its full attention
to the bio-terror threat. And although some (relatively) brave FBI agents
complained loudly when they were pulled off the investigation into Atta and
his terrorist buddies and transferred to the anthrax case, it was all to no
avail.

Case Closed?

Anyone who was still waiting for Colin Powell s promised "white
paper" on the terrorists was wasting their time.

"Case closed," said Atty. Gen. Ashcroft.

The results of this sudden change of focus are today everywhere
around us. There is still no coherent chronology of the WTC disaster. And
surprise surprise there are still no suspects in custody in the murder of
five poor souls unlucky enough to have gotten dusted with deadly white
powder.

Perhaps the bio-terrorists have slipped out of the country, and are
now riding around on motorbikes through the Afghan countryside with Mullah
Omar.

Follow the dancing ball

Could the anthrax scare have been intended as a diversion? Could
bio-terror have been unleashed on the American people to divert their
attention from seeking a coherent explanation for the holes, discrepancies,
and unanswered questions that the FBI shows absolutely no interest in
clearing up?

Then came the recent news that either our CIA or our military is the
original source of the anthrax used in the letters to Senators Daschle &
Leahy...

And that s when we remembered Russell Welch, an investigator for the
Arkansas State Police who had been trying to blow the whistle a dozen years
ago on the massive cocaine smuggling scandal unfolding in front of him in
Mena, Arkansas.

What does an obscure state cop in an obscure state have to do with
today s bio-terror?

Russell Welch was exposed to weaponized anthrax over a decade ago
when he opened a letter which released electrostatically charged floating
spores in his face.

"I got so sick that my wife had to help me to the car," Welch told
us several years ago, when we interviewed him for our two-hour documentary
(banned from TV) about the Mena Scandal called "The Secret Heartbeat of
America."

"Luckily we had a doctor in town, a Vietnam vet, who when he saw me
immediately called the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta."

Prompt diagnosis saved Welch s life, if not his health. As Welch can
tell you, anthrax is extremely nasty stuff...

"The next day a doctor came into my room and asked me how much
danger was involved with my job," Welch relates. "I told her danger was
pretty much inherent with the job, because I was a cop that generally
handled major cases, and asked why she wanted to know."

The doctor told Welch, "I think you ve been poisoned with anthrax.
Somebody did this to you."

Later his doctor's office was burglarized, and test results and
correspondence with Center for Disease Control officials in Atlanta were
stolen.

No one has fingered Al Qaeda for the burglary of Russell Welch s
doctor s office. So clearly, some other organization must have been
involved.

If it worked once...

Anthrax was used to silence Welch, and stop him from investigating
the CIA cocaine smuggling operation associated with Barry Seal at the
infamous Mena Arkansas airport.

Bio-terror was employed on an Arkansas State law enforcement officer
to stop his investigation into a CIA aviation scandal.

Russell Welch was targeted, either to make him an asset... or to
make him dead.

No one we know of has been asking why two Democratic senators, and
the major media, were targeted with anthrax. No one has wondered aloud why,
say, Republican Senator Shelby from Alabama was spared, and Senator Daschle
wasn't...

Could someone be sending a similar message to the one sent Russell
Welch a dozen years ago to two influential Democratic Senators today?

Are these two episodes related?

Could someone be engineering this bio-terror crisis to silence
anyone from questioning the "official version of events?"

Steering the American public s focus away from potentially damaging
revelations about Mohamed Atta and his cadre s possibly explosive past links
to people inside our own government?