IP: Wanna make biological weapons and take out cities? $10.

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:58:28 -0600
> From: gep2 () terabites com
> Subject: Wanna make biological weapons and take out cities?  $10.
> To: dallasdemocrats () egroups com, dave () farber net
> X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.17
>
> Here's a disturbing story from today's New York Times:
>
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/21/national/21BOOK.html?todaysheadlines
>
> I sure hope that the government is investigating and following each and every
> person who buys a copy of this book... I wonder if there's a way to force
> Tobiason to foot the bill for that security?
>
> In any case, jerks like this clearly aren't helping to keep our nation 
> secure...
> if anything, crap like this will make our government MORE repressive (not 
> less).
>
> [quote]
>
> November 21, 2001
>
> THE HOW-TO BOOK
> In Utah, a Government Hater Sells a Germ-Warfare Book
>
> By PAUL ZIELBAUER with WILLIAM J. BROAD
>
> SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 19 — At the "Crossroads of the West" gun show here last
> weekend, weapons dealers sold semi- automatic rifles and custom-made pistols,
> and ammunition wholesalers unloaded bullets by the case. But perhaps the most
> fearsome weapon for sale in the cavernous, crowded exposition center was a 
> book.
>
> Next to the Indian handicraft booth, Timothy W. Tobiason was selling 
> printed and
> CD copies of his book, "Scientific Principles of Improvised Warfare and Home
> Defense Volume 6-1: Advanced Biological Weapons Design and Manufacture," a
> germ-warfare cookbook that bioterrorism experts say is accurate enough to be
> dangerous.
>
> Mr. Tobiason, an agricultural-chemicals entrepreneur from Nebraska with a 
> bitter
> hatred for the government, said he sold about 2,000 copies of his 
> self-published
> book a year as he moved from gun show to gun show across America. The book,
> which includes directions for making "mail delivered" anthrax, suggests 
> that the
> knowledge necessary to start an anthrax attack like the one that has 
> terrorized
> the East Coast is readily accessible.

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