Anyone? Anyone? Jailed for smuggling plague bacteria into the U.S.? If anyone should be grounded it's this guy. Ah nevermind, coto knows what they are up to. Keep your eyes and ears open. This may be one of several "dress rehearsals" for the big one.~jg
Fri, Sep 3, 2010
NBC Miami
A world-renowned Texas scientist specializing in infectious diseases who was once charged with smuggling dangerous samples of plague bacteria into the U.S. was questioned by authorities after a suspicious item found in his luggage caused a massive evacuation at Miami International Airport Thursday night.
Dr. Thomas C. Butler, 70, was questioned by agents with the FBI and Miami-Dade police Friday after a suspicious item was found in his checked luggage by a MIA baggage screener Thursday night, sources told NBC Miami.
The suspicious item scare caused police to evacuate four of six airport terminals and the airport's hotel for nearly seven hours as a bomb squad removed the item for further testing.
The airport was fully reopened around 4 a.m., and initial tests on the item have come back negative.
Shortly before noon Friday, it was learned that Butler was released from questioning and won't be charged in the incident. Authorities escorted him back to one of the terminals at MIA where he's expected to board a plane to Puerto Rico, which was his destination Thursday night.
Butler was not identified by authorities at an early-morning press conference, where FBI Special Agent Michael Leverock said the man being questioned was not under arrest and was being "voluntarily interviewed."
"He's being very cooperative," said Leverock.
Leverock said the item was still being tested at a lab to determine what, if any, danger it posed.
"We don't even know if a crime occurred here," he said.
Sources told NBC Miami that Butler had been coming from Saudi Arabia when the suspicious item was spotted in his luggage as it went through customs.
Butler had been on the faculty at Texas Tech since the late 80s until his arrest in 2003 on charges of smuggling and improperly transporting the plague samples, as well as theft, embezzlement and fraud. Butler told police that 30 vials containing the samples had been stolen from his lab.
He was eventually found guilty of exporting the vials of plague and stealing research money. He was acquitted of illegally exporting the plague samples.
Butler spent nearly two years behind bars and lost his Texas Tech job, despite the protests of several in the scientific community who denounced his prosecution. His controversial story was even featured in a "60 Minutes" piece titled "The Case Against Dr. Butler."
He's currently listed as a faculty member at Alfaisal University in Saudi Arabia.
Jersey, why indeed?
ReplyDeletewhen joe citizen with a minor dismeneanor can be barred?
when citizens with minor offenses aka any conviction like an unpaid fine..from an International country( a friend of mine is Aus for eg) can be banned from getting a visa. despite being a decades past teenage incident..
yet truly dangerous and proven criminals are ok?
especially someone with the ability to truly harm, like this chap.
yeah america, way to go...to hell.
JG did you see my update right on the hOtspots? This little ditty caught my attention and once again I couldn't help but try to follow up on the story of Joe Moshe [X]
ReplyDeletehttp://www.eurasiareview.com/201008177106/is-joseph-moshe-mr-x.html
Try to link to information - site parked (of course)
Thanks to CIAlis-GoDaddy-Google Face.
http://www.josephmoshe.org/
As I said last year I am not going to stop on this case.
This is GENESIS 6 and our future Folks!!
I think something BIG is in the works...I think it is coming soon...
ReplyDeleteI'm looking at November 8 through 11...
????what???? I don't know.
\\ll//
ReplyDeleteGee, her old site is parked too.
Go here
http://www.theflucase.com/
Right Oz. If you're an underwear bomber or convicted plague bacteria smuggler, welcome aboard !! However, if you're a mom trying to board with a sippy cup of breast milk for your baby you're a terrorist !!
ReplyDeletePD, I do remember your Joe Moshe postings. Looks like the trail on him is quite cold. Now we have this dr to add to the germy mix.
ReplyDeleteAs for Burgermeister, I've heard people call her disinfo. Now there's this at the website you linked to:
http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3725%3Ajane-burgermeister-fights-supporters&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=64&lang=en
Wtf is going on? I swear I get more paranoidally confused by the day. Perhaps that is Jane's specific problem as well. OR maybe she IS disinfo as many people have said who is now hyping AJ who many also call a disinfo agent. Perhaps now they are teaming up to divide the anti vax movement? I honestly don't feel that from Jones but I am ever vigilant.
SEE??! Who do you trust, who do you believe?
If they AREN'T offed than does that mean they are on the dark side? OR if they ARE offed could that mean that they were part of the darkside until the darkside no longer needed their services?
One can go quite insane trying to decipher the dark from the light in this very sick world. In that case, you can only go with your gut feelings which in the end, without any other evidence to go on, we all do.
Why those specific dates Will? Midterm elections?
ReplyDeleteHe was just funnin with the plague. A pox in a box is better than an isotope in your dope,or a nano-bot in your shot !
ReplyDeletelol korny
ReplyDeleteyeah, this plague terrorist goes free. How freakin interesting.
ReplyDeleteyou know some heavy hitting bad dudes pulled strings and yanked him right outa custody.
amazing
I think Jane's the real deal, but that's just a gut feeling.