I can confirm from a source close to the case, local hospitals in the Seattle area will be on "Code Delta" (which stands for code disaster) during the World Seattle Summit which occurs just after the Thanksgiving holidays.

To a terrorist, everything is perfect. High ranking dignitaries from around the world, the busiest time of the year for airports and travel, a perfect set up for people from countries around the would to bring home a virus released in Seattle.

Officials have stepped up their training for epidemiologist, nurses, doctors, volunteers, emergency personal, i.e. police, fire, red cross, and other assorted government agency's. It was quoted from an source close to the case "It could be either a anthrax type disaster which would be immediate and at the scene, or even worse, a virus that is release (in deadly silence) in which people from all over the world have gathered in one place (Seattle) exposed and then take the virus home with them".

I think there is no coincidence related to the "Urgent" funding presented by president Bill Clinton for "Bio-Terroism" and the immediate funding for a Level 4 biotech engineering plant near New York.

This is an extreme fluid story with many turns. Stay tuned for more breaking news on this issue. For now, please visit the CDC web site for information on biological agents.
CDC Web Site: http://www.cdc.gov/health/diseases.htm
 

Protesters From Around World To Flock To Seattle Trade Summit...10/13/99
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles and John Vidal

It is the worst nightmare of US conservatives. Hundreds of protest groups, tens of thousands of political activists from all over the world, plus Fidel Castro and the Mexican Zapatista revolutionaries, will gather in Seattle next month for the biggest protest against global capitalism ever held.

The demonstrations during the summit meeting of the World Trade Organisation from November 30 to December 3 are being labelled "the apocalypse", and the federal authorities are nervously considering how to defuse the tension at an event the world will be watching.

"It will be a historic confrontation between corporate rule and civil society," said Mike Dolan, field director of Global Trade Watch.

Every day new groups, ranging from mainstream US trade union federationssuch as the AFL-CIO to the People of Colour Against Aids Network and radical Christian organisations, register their intention to join the activities at the edge of the stage where the world's most powerful decision-makers will meet. Preliminary demonstrations offering a taste of what will happen next month have been taking place this week in Seattle.

About 5,000 delegates from 150 countries will attend the official event. President Bill Clinton will represent the US and Bill Gates of Microsoft and Phil Condit of Boeing are heading the host city's delegation. They will be discussing - although many of the decisions will already have been made - the further liberalisation of trade, the cutting of tariffs and subsidies, the introduction of GM foods, and the patenting of nature, to open the global market to greater investment.

People with grievances ranging from the sweatshop workers of Mexico to the small farmers of India see it as their last chance this century to register their dismay at the globalisation of the economy, which they claim has already had a disastrous impact on the economies of weaker countries.

The WTO believes it has been singled out unfairly. "In the absence of global conflict between 'isms', some people have chosen to focus their fury on globalism," said Michael Moore, the organisation's head.

British environmental activists, who are considered some of the most experienced in the world, have been helping to train some of the American groups.

In the past few weeks representatives from Reclaim the Streets, which was involved in organising the street parties and "Stop the City" protests in London that ended in riots, have been holding workshops about non-violent direct action and mass demonstrations.