My name is D'Anne Burley, I am the host of The D'Anne Burley Show on TRUTHRADIO.COM and Backdoor Stuff New on GETV Channel 17 in Glen Ellyn Illinois. Who has programs on WVON 1450 Am in Chicago, Illinois, and produced many programs with Peace and Justice Radio which was a American Friends Broadcast on various radio stations telling stories of human rights violations that had impacted on our world.
But here is what you may not know of why I have many Whistle blowers on my program and why I am attempting to get the public aware of the hidden facts of Sept 11th 2001....
One prior to Sept 11th 2001, I was the Director of Operations for a Gold coast Mortgage Company, which I was in the process of taking over,,,,, from this business I became involved with a Arab Businesses with a man, Steven “Suhail” Al-Masri, with whom was a loan officer within this business prior to my coming on board, and who had numerous businesses, a Newspaper, Chamber of Commerce (Not listed with the Commerce Department here in Illinois), was the CFO of Al-Salaam Mosque Foundation which the press changed the name of in the press I felt because of the ties this man had to many prominent persons including the Governor of Illinois then George Ryan, whose Secretary would call continuously to his office to invite him personally to forms and parties, then there was a Judge and a attorney who was involved in Defense all seemingly ties to links of rings of alleged terror which no one would look into why?.....
The fact was that no government agent would look into him and if you reported him, you became the target of counter-terrorist plots and assaults to your finance and credibility.....
Those involved targeted by children, my home and my health because they were connected to ownerships and or control large dollars going into Hospital, Townships, Policing agencies all I had alleged were under lock and key not to allow any information out on Money laundering, via the Mortgage Industry and banks...........
There was a lot more going on as well, the then Governor was under investigation about the “Drivers License for Hire Scam” which was only bought to light because a area Ministers family was killed by someone who had bought a license and was operating a truck. The Minister loss all his children and his wife and was burned over 40 % or more on his body from the crash.
If it was not for this I allege no one would have seen that this scandal began further back than the Ryan Governor era, it was allow illegal aliens coming into Illinois to get licensed but while I was involved Al-Masri, I saw that they were also using International Drivers Licenses to get other forms of ID’s to use to launch businesses and move into neighbors to set up operations....
All this information I reported as a good citizen and all which looked at and tossed why?
I had alleged later after 9/11 after obtaining copies of international drivers licenses, criminal reports and other documents that Steven and others were involved in a cell, which seem to be a major one because it seemed to link back to “A MAN NAME ATTA” the Terrorist suspect who was killed and pin pointed as a major Terrorist Cell operative, but there was no interest ....
When I spoke to the F.B.I. with a witness present who heard all I was told that Steven was one of the most prominent citizens within the Arab community and that his name meant The Egyptian....
It was at this point I knew that there was something wrong within the Chicago bureau of the F.B.I. but were could you go then where?
The Police, F.B.I, Attorney General Office, Senators, Township Officials, Churches and everyone else here in Illinois looked into nothing and acted as if I was crazy even with evidence in hand.....
And I also had a 52 Million Dollar lawsuit filed against some of these people because $50 Million Dollars came into a business I formed with Al-Masri whereas I was the Vice President and he was the CEO refusing to place his name on the Corporation because as he explained he was told not to do by someone known as the Accountant.... The $50 Million Dollars was on an allege wire transfer coming right from the Saudi Royal House, and this lawsuit was in the Chicago Tribune and also a online newspaper which with worldwide coverage Islamic Q which disappeared in a puff of smoke off the net....
The Law suit was the talk of Islam in the Middle east as well because a Arab concept business sued another one in a American Court system which seemed to be against Islamic law, and because of the impact this case was being evaluated by the Sahar’ia Board the board were the Saudi Royal Family sits as the top religious advisor. My Business was Royal Financial Group Inc., and I sued Baytana Funding a copycat company whose owner came into my business and took our trade secrets and then contacted the Saudi’s who at the time were to invest the money into our business The Riba for No Interest in Purchasing Homes. I was the one who was to make the concept work in the US, it was tried before in NYC and once in Illinois but no one could figure how to make it work because of Tax and Usury laws. But I did....
Because of the hotbed before the middle eastern council which was dealing with an America Lawsuit and at that time I had no idea that the plot indeed was more than the issue of suing but may have included too much news in the press that may cause someone to see something that was not to be seem, a more sinister plot a plot which would later lead up to 9/11....
But no one here cared not the press, not those in government....
I even wrote to the Rev. Minister Louis Farrakhan, to seek a equal meeting ground, but he was out of town in London, he knew my father Dan Burley, who was the managing editor of the Black Nations Founder the Honorable Elijah Mohammad and a very close friend.....writing and placing the nation on the map with the Black and White Press from 1947. But without anyone at my side I went into the Mosque Foundation of Bridgeview and spoke directly to the Sheik Farris, who was there while Sheik Jamal was in the Middle East before council....
Sheik Farris, sat on the Shar’ia Panel before the Saudi Royal House, I spoke to him about Steven who was a member (this was what he told me) and also to talk about the man I sued Abe Karim the then current owner of Baytana funding which stole the No Riba Concept... But it became another interesting fact that it seemed that these very important Arab Businessmen was not known within this Mosque.... why? Who were they and this caused another major concern again all this happened prior to Sept 11th 2001...
They called me to inform me that neither man belonged to their Mosque and for some reason I believed them, it was like there were agents but not of this Mosque and maybe involved more within our own government because they again were the ones who refused to investigate this....
I was told that Karim was hated blacks as many who were involved with them.. And it later came out from one of my many whistle blowers that was a undercover agent with the KKK that the standard US hate groups were getting money from Bin Laden to run acts of terror within the US.
Whoever Steven was, he knew I was in the media before, and had many ties here in the government and friends who if I could get them involved may look into this operation so I was run out the business with the intent to remove me from seeing a plot unfold, but like John O’Neill, who was a F.B.I. Agent of over 30 years in the agency who was FIRED because of investigating what was alleged was a major cell moving drugs and laundering money out of the Veterinarian Clinic’s it was reported he alleged out of Boston Airport which was tied again to Bin Laden whose family was located within this area.... He followed this crime ring even after being Fired up until his died in the WTC on 9/11.... He was hired by the security company to head-up this security, hired just two days before he died receiving a salary of $300k a year much more than what he would had gotten if he was a FBI agent. The question is was he killed in the building or was he murdered and placed in the building? But the dots connect to Bin Laden’s family involved in money drugs and laundering lots of money which was being used to finance cells in America which were within hate groups and other terrorist organization to launch the takeover of the US and it’s government. The other interesting fact was why did our President allow Bin Laden’s brother to be moved to safety into the hands of the Saudi Royal Family though he claimed that it was intelligence Agencies who told him that Bin Laden was involved in the Terrorist Strike Against America...Why? And why is it that America can not see the connection of treason...
Bridgeview Mosque Foundation/ Hamas member Mohamed Saleh arrested with Howard U prof Abdelhaleem Ashqar on terrorism charges
August 21, 2004
The article Read:
After years of being under law enforcement scrutiny more proof of the obvious emerges revealing the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation's direct ties to Hamas . The BMF spokesman is Rafiq Jaber, the head of the Islamic Association of Palestine, which is the American wing of Hamas....
Please Note that Rafiq Jaber, has been on my programs many times to speak about the issue of Palestine.........
The article continues....
Which begs the question of how such a hub of terrorist activity in the Hamas stronghold of Bridgeview Illinois, is still conducting 'business as usual' and why Muhammed Hamid Khalil Salah is the only BMF associate who was arrested this week. . Imam Jamil Said of The Bridgeview Mosque Foundation is a known Hamas leader. The BMF president Oussama Jamal, , is a darling of the Chicago interfaith circuit, who apparently have no problems with his and Jamal's declarations at a post 9/11 community memorial service where he stated that he did not think Muslims were behind the 9/11 attacks, and that terrorism was a direct result of US support of Israel. Jamal used the event to bash Israel and cry to the media about how Muslims are suffering in the US.
As for Osama bin Laden, the general consensus in Chicago's Arab and Muslim community seems to be that it would have taken more than the resources available to the "Nomad of Afghanistan" to carry out operations of the sophistication and magnitude of the Sept. 11 terror. "How certain are we that it was Arabs who were behind it?" asked Jammal.
Suggesting that Americans look at the causes, he argued that despair and fear are at the roots of terrorism. His remedy: "Go after what makes people hopeless."
Do Americans have the patience for that? Jammal sounded doubtful. "We, as Arabs, are no strangers to suffering," he noted. "Americans are saying now that they are willing to give up some luxuries to get through the next phase. But how long will they hold out?"
My Story......
I also did a lot of Activism in the Chicago area, and worked to expose fraud against the public, I would investigate fraud and sought to get evidence on corruption so that the their would be accountability within government and other agencies which included corporations....
They also knew I was friends of Sherman Skolnick and others in the media, over the years I had closed down businesses by exposing them to the public underground but in this case there was nothing I could do and it seemed that the Courts were involved as well.....
Other government agencies refused to look into this and or were all told to “Stand Down” and because I reported this harm came to me and my family... and even poisoning...
Another parallel to this was James Bath and his business relationship with a Mr. White, who was a Real Estate Agent, and by whom Bath was using his business to laundry money it was alleged in many articles and also within the story that was within the movie Fahrenheit 9/11, in f act a attempt to contact Mr. Moore which was impossible even though I had interviewed him back while on Peace and Justice Radio, all those in the media and those who sought to investigate the truth were not interested in the fact that there was a dormant Terrorist Cell right in good old Illinois which had a flight school attached connected to many here, many who had power. The media did nothing and all was as if I was in a dream, a never ending nightmare whereas the public was without a clue to the fact that Terrorist were alive and well living within their communities .... why?
The Hot Bed was Palos Hills, Illinois, Bridgeview with a flight school operating in a Chicago Suburb...
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And why was it a hands off in Al-Masri’s case, a case that if you report him you became the target for crimes against YOU to discredit the reporter, but protect the criminal why?....
I loss job, someone deposited $4k of counterfeit money orders into my bank account which ordinated out of Citibank, which had a known problem of receiving counterfeit transactions, I also located a secondary federal Reserve which seemed to have a float of money orders and checks with the same numbers and same routing information (duplicate transactions and maybe washed) whereby these funding transactions were going through and being allowed and paid while the real transaction would go in at the same time within the normal government based reserved again no one was interested in this and it seemed that this was again a hands off operation all and all there was cover up on cover up the same way the cover happened within the Savings and Loan Scandal in which Neil Bush was alleged involved and coverup with gulf war and the so call war of drugs which went no where, it was just a measure to get the public off the real stories....
The government agencies never investigated nor had interest in any of this unless in could be proven that it was me who they could connect to some crime so that they could get off the hook for criminal activities which were going investigated the crimes were more vest and more of a nightmare than anyone would believe... Then they have intercepted by telephone calls which is a common occurrence with whistle blowers a game within the intelligence community...
I was being discredited, denied to government investigation and protection, denied reward and anything and everything else... It was I that became the VICTIM. For speaking out!
The other trick of the trade is make sure that the those who speak out have no money, my child support was Stop with no reason, and because I was a former Court Clerk I had people I could contact and if they refused to help I would report on the air because I am in the media, the one thing they did not want is to awaken the people of the THEFT AGAINST AMERICA....
About Steven Suhail Al-Masri - Mortgage Loan Officer, CFO of Al-Salaam Mosque Foundation, Editor and Owner of Al-Salaam Newspaper Written in English and Arabic which was Nation and International circulation, Owner of America Financial Group Inc, owner of a used Car business, Grocery Store which was near White Sox Park before being shut down for missing lottery money, was a board member of SKM a real firm investigated and forced out of California and Florida for property scams, who later sued him.... Owner of the Jordanian Chamber of Commerce, Owner of the Jordanian Flight School, and other businesses within a very small two office location within the suburb of Palos Hills Illinois. Which had no staff when I arrived to develop the No RIba Program.... In fact he was getting calls as if he was a member of the Jordanian Embassy. On the wall of the business was a picture of the King and Queen of Jordan and on the other wall was a picture of a 747 cockpit he said was used in training..
Steven was arrested under Operation Mountain Express II, which was available online and which is now missing information on the internet to further coverup more and more information on the fact that there was a major movement of Meth a date rape drug into the US which was being used as a measure to rape children and teen-ager to turn them into prostitutes and as a means to late move them into white slavery for businessmen and those in other European Nations....... if you attempt to click on the DEA site and those about Steven and other facts on the net it seems that those in the government have removed them to further coverup these crimes the crimes against are nations.......
The rapes and all the missing children I got information on this sometime ago from someone out of Texas who was involved in looking into a major child kidnaping scandal which also got no press... again more to harm America and to robe us blind....
The thing that John O’NEILL was looking into, the man who knew too much and was killed in the WTC buildings......
Our first meeting .....
Elite Funding International Ltd, Chicago Illinois now closed mortgage company...
In the Summer of 2000, I was involved in cleaning up a Gold Coast Chicago Illinois located Mortgage Ltd., “Elite Funding International”, which was seeking someone to come in to create a revenue for a then failing business, upon entering as their Director of Operations I notice that there were many issues, many - and I began to clean this business of many of it’s woes.... with plans to take-over the business from it’s owner who was at that time talking of retiring so that we, me and my friend and partner for 6 years could open up our Secured Homes of America Inc., speciality program from, it was a major concern on mine of the housing trends in America and I felt that if people were given a second chance at homeowner because we were going into a time of very high rates of foreclosures.....
On my first day in the business I met with all the Loan Officers, but the one who stood out the most was a loan officer who was listed as the businesses V.P.(but whereby the owner and this man claimed it was just something to make his business look good only) This man was Steven (Suhail) Al Masri, a man, who was very well dressed, intelligent, and a man who had a newspaper "Al Salaam News" which was syndicate throughout the US and the Middle east.
He knew the then Governor of Illinois George Ryan, and was involved with Judges and had ties to many within the Islamic Community via his businesses he owned, and his ownership of the newspaper which was written in both English and Arabic.
Steven was also the CFO of The Al Salaam Mosque Foundation, which many of the papers have covered up and renamed as Mosque Foundation, in a measure which seems to protect those involved.....
Steven came to me one day within the office and asked me to help him develop a Business Plan for a product called No Riba, this is a term used by Moslems whereby there is no implied interest and purchasing goods and services therefore Steven was attempted to make this concept work in the US for Moslems.
At the time I felt it would work well with all Americans - But the game and plot was to get two individuals without knowledge of a major fraud to become involved in a business which they were intending to use to move money and who knows what else through....
It was not to do the Program, the concept was to create a dummy shell business to move money through, and use American’s to uncover-up a spy business and intent.....
My Story turned to ashes when I came into Steven’s Office, after leaving Elite Funding International,...
I had ended up in Steven’s South Suburban Office and this was where the nightmare began,
From getting death threats over the phone about the newspaper from the Middle East and those within the area, to answering the phone for over 26 lines of business within this tiny office, where he had no help prior to me coming into the business,
The most interesting fact which I had reporting thousands of times was the fact he had and was operating a flight school which I felt was tied to the Sept 11th schools. In all the authorities had no interest none...
The Al-Salaam Mosque was in the press a lot then because it was involved in a heated fight with Palos Hills Illinois residence who did not want it within their town, there were a number of lawsuits filed, one was a Civil Right claim against the City for racism by the Moslem community whereby the Government Officials made a offer of $200k for it not to be built within the town, but there was more to this issue... .The President of the Foundation Ghassan Bullut, who along with Steven Al-Masri ended up arrested after Sept 11th 2001 .... years later whereby Steven was arrested for Operation Mountain Express II which the DEA netted over 52 mega tons of meth which is to make Ecstasy the “DATE RAPE DRUG”, which millions in cash and other drug making equipment.
Ghassan Bullut, who I was tracking because of what I found during my time with being a partner with AL-MAsri in a business whereby I was the Vice President of Royal Financial Group Inc.,
And he had a Jordanian Chamber of Commerce, and a Illinois based flight school was the F.B.I. and other agencies refused to admit existed in the Chicago land area.
The Flight school was not out of Chicago Lake Front Airport as the Mayor was alleging but instead out of a suburban based location, - No One was Interested in it not even after 9/11 why?
The other fact was there was a sum of money which was earmarked for our Corporation which I was force to flee from because of individuals who wanted me out because I was seeing to much and looking into too much as well. But my name remained on the Corporation.....
After leaving for less than one month 52 Million dollars was to be transferred from the Saudi Royal family business to get this business the seed money it needed. Because I was the one who developed the secret to make it work within the US they did not know how to get the money out of the program “No Riba” so I was called back to help but I did nothing to help them remaining how I was being used, but coming back just to watch and get more information.
Read this story by Sherman Skolnick....
Sherman H. Skolnick Email: skolnick@ameritech.net
"REPORTEDLY LINKED TO 'TERRORISTS', CHICAGO JUDGE THREATENS TV REPORTER",by Sherman H. Skolnick 11/8/01
Is a long-time court-reformer/TV reporter supposed to know about EVERY judge he comes across? I have been a court-reformer since 1958 and part of a weekly non-commercial TV program since 1991. Since 1995, I have been the moderator/producer of the program called "Broadsides", a public access Cable TV show. I cannot be expected to know every judge. After all, in the Chicago-area, for example, there are hundreds of judges.
I came to court on October 29, 2001, in litigation involving an associate of mine, Joseph Andreuccetti who assists with the production of our show in Chicago. I was there as his paralegal, to take notes, and also as an alternative media reporter.
Maybe I should have been immediately suspicious when the Judge, Samuel Betar III [(312) 603-4371], threatened me, apparently to jail me, if I didn't stop taking notes. He shouted and hollared at me, demanding I go to the rear of the courtroom. I was alarmed when the judge threatened to also jail Joe and he had a heart attack.
What was going on here? Understand something. I am a paraplegic in a wheelchair and Joe and his wife Noemi often drive me where I have to go and assist me at my residence. I tried in court to wheel over to where Joe took ill, and the Judge hollared at me and threatened me again. I told the Judge to stop falsely threatening to jail Joe, since I depend on him. The Judge would not permit me to go over to see what happened to Joe.
Paramedics along with about six armed guards arrived and took Joe away on a stretcher. I was not allowed to accompany him or to find out rightaway what was going on.
My subsequent investigations uncovered plenty about Judge Samuel Betar III. Later was filed a Motion to try to force the removal of Judge Betar from the case, to stop him from falsely threatening to jail me and Joe. Filed in support of that motion are my signed statements of what I uncovered. From the court record are verbatim what is stated, numbered as they are there
1. I understand this this instrument under [citing Illinois law], has the same force and effect as if it were an Affidavit sworn to before a notary public.
2. I am a traditional Jew, of the Jewish race and religion. My associates Joseph Andreuccetti and Noemi Andreuccetti are perceived by their opponents and enemies as being partly Jewish.
3. Judge Samuel Betar III is closely aligned, including financial, with Suhail "Steven" Al-Masri who is the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the Al-Salam Newspaper, which has been circulated in the Chicago area and elsewhere."
4. Said Newspaper was operated at 8150 W. 111th Street, Suite 11, Palos Hills, Illinois, which was the offices of "Steven".
5. Said newspaper has published what those of the Jewish race and religion perceive as vicious anti-Jewish and anti-Israel propaganda, calculated to slander and defame those of the Jewish race and religion.
6. "Steven" has been the purported owner of an airplane pilots training school which has likewise been headquartered at 8150 W. 111th Street, Suite 11, Palos Hills, Illinois. Law enforcement personnel have been surveilling "Steven" because, they contend, his school has been used by purported "terrorists" who apparently had and have been planning to seize U.S. commercial airplanes for the purpose of sabotage and violence to be inflicted on U.S. persons and properties."
7. Part of law enforcement and other government surveillance of "Steven" has also included Judge Samuel Betar III, who is financially and otherwise closely aligned with "Steven" according to such government personnel.
8. According to covert surveillance, "Steven" received numerous calls from topmost officials in the Springfield office of Ilinois Governor George H. Ryan. Because of the close relationship of "Steven" with Judge Samuel Betar III and they, in turn, with Governor Ryan, law enforcement personnel contend they are precluded from taking any action against either "Steven" or Judge Betar, or both, jointly. Further, "Steven" has been photographed with Illinois Governor George H. Ryan."
9. "Steven" has been the owner of Royal Financial Group, Inc., headquartered at 8150 W. 111th Street, Suite 11, Palos Hills, Illinois. Law enforcement personnel contend that said business is, in part, an apparent front for clandestine dealings with a Foundation in Bridgeview, Illinois[a Chicago suburb], identified by the U.S. Attorney General and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as being a purported "terrorist" linked organization and enterprise, funneling funds in the U.S. and to the Mid-East and elsewhere for purported "terrorist" activities directed against U.S. citizens and properties."
[Clarification Although "Steven" claims to have been the owner of Royal Financial Group, Inc., the apparent clandestine dealings were reportedly done through other of his companies with other different names, as a front.]
10. As part of activities to promote their front enterprises, as aforementioned, "Steven" and Judge Samuel Betar III have two slide photographs posted on his and/or their, website, http//www.noribahomes.com. Said photographs appear to have been taken inside the judicial offices of Judge Samuel Betar III for the purpose of promoting their joint businesses and financial activities. Copies of said photographs, reproduced from said website, are attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit One." [The said website-reproduced photographs are in the court record attached to my signed statement and show "Steven" and Judge Betar.]
11. Law enforcement personnel assert they are precluded from taking action against Judge Samuel Betar III and Suhail "Steven" Al-Masri, despite law enforcement contentions that "Steven" and Judge Betar appear to be Chicago-area links to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network.
12. According to those who know him well, "Steven" went low-profile, if not totally disappearing, prior to the purported "terrorist" violence on September 11, 2001, directed against lower Manhattan and the Pentagon. Law enforcement personnel contend they would want to interview him as to his activities including with Judge Betar and the airplane pilots training school, as aforementioned. "Steven's" apparent dropping out of sight tends to support law enforcement contentions that "Steven" with his aforementioned activities has something to conceal, along with Judge Betar."
13. Both Judge Samuel Betar III and "Steven" have been in a position to note that Sherman H. Skolnick has a popular website where he often comments on activities in the U.S. for and on behalf of Osama bin Laden, the bin Laden group, and similar persons and groups linked to them. Skolnick's website is http//www.skolnicksreport.com."
This is the beginning and I will be adding more here but it’s you the public that needs to do something about this because I have done all I can as have all the others......
We are being killed off, without means of support and nothing... No one is aiding me, but god who has granted me the ability to do the things I am doing now and it takes all of us to commit to our Country and the People within America where are you on this.....
Peace!
D’Anne Burley
The D’Anne Burley Show Truthradio.com
Drug Trafficking within Animal Hopsitals the movement of Date Rape Drugs snd worse
Ketamine, a sedative used primarily to tranquilize cats during surgery, has made veterinary offices nationwide popular with burglars and armed robbers, police say.
That's forcing veterinarians such as Turkal to play an expensive game of keep-away from the thieves who sell the hallucinogen on the streets as Special K, Cat Valium and K-Hole.
Buyers, police say, are often school-age kids and young adults looking for a cheap high, often at nightclubs or middle-of-the-night parties called raves. As with the more notorious club drug gamma hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, Ketamine is used as a date rape drug. It is poured into the drinks of unsuspecting victims, who are rendered unconscious or paralyzed.
"I have a daughter now," said Turkal. "I don't want this happening to her or anyone."
Turkal has sunk $50,000 into his pharmacy security system, $90,000 total on the clinic.
The pharmacy is the only room in the clinic with floor-to-ceiling cinder block walls. A security camera and motion detectors look down from corners of the room.
Only Turkal has the access code that opens the pharmacy door and the keys that unlock the double-lock safe containing the Ketamine and other controlled substances.
The staff has also been trained to spot suspicious people. Often thieves posing as pet owners visit the clinics to get a lay of the office and break in later, police and veterinarians say.
"This is something that has become much more prevalent in the last year or two. I would imagine vets are being much more cautious now because the word is out on this stuff," said Dr. Peter Prescott, executive director of the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association.
Prescott and others say they suspect some veterinarians are selling the drug. Some states have fined or revoked the licenses of veterinarians for trafficking Ketamine, which is used to a lesser extent on dogs, horses and humans.
Trafficking, thefts increase
Last summer, the Drug Enforcement Administration responded to the climb in illegal distribution of Ketamine by classifying it as a controlled substance, which means veterinarians must keep track of the drug and be able to provide an accounting to the DEA.
"There were break-ins all over the place: Auburn Hills, Troy, Birmingham, some in Sterling Heights and Warren," Oakland County Sheriff's Sgt. Joe Duke said.
Three Rochester Hills veterinarians had Ketamine thefts two summers ago. A little more than a year ago, five St. Clair Shores clinics were broken into within several weeks of each other. Only Ketamine was taken.
Turkal says a cocaine-addicted man crawled in through the kennel door of the clinic about a month ago in the middle of the day.
"I was going into surgery, and the girls started screaming," Turkal said of his office staff. "He had a silver thing in his hand. I thought it was a gun. So I pulled the coat over this guy's head so he couldn't get to his arms. He was a 38-year-old man, high on crack. He had a crack pipe and steel wool."
The man was arrested. Detroit veterinarian Ivan Gadjev hasn't had the same satisfaction.
There still are no suspects in the armed robbery of his clinic April 7. He was shot in the chest, arm and abdomen. He nearly died.
"He didn't get a chance to get my money or my Ketamine. I shot at him," said Gadjev, 62.
Gadjev is recovering at his Farmington Hills home. One bullet is still in his side, and he doesn't know if he'll perform surgery again because of wounds to his right hand and arm. He may close the Northland Veterinary Hospital, which he bought in 1974.
"Usually they're after the money. They're after the sedatives and the narcotics and that Ketamine in the last couple of years," Gadjev said.
Ketamine is a nationwide menace.
Emergency-room visits
Cases of abuse and overdose are turning up in emergency rooms in greater numbers since 1994, according to the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
In 1994, there were 19 cases of Ketamine use reported in emergency rooms nationwide. The number jumped to 149 the next year and in 1996 dropped to 81. In 1997, however, the number of cases rebounded to a record-setting 318. In 1998, the last year for which figures are available, emergency room visits that involved Ketamine use dropped to 209.
The drugs GHB and Ecstasy far outnumbered Ketamine with 1,282 and 1,142 cases, respectively, reported in emergency rooms in 1998.
All three drugs can kill by stopping the heart or causing a coma.
In March, police in Lake County, Ill., broke up a Ketamine theft ring believed to be responsible for a rash of burglaries throughout the Midwest.
Two 19-year-olds and a 16-year-old were charged with four counts of burglary. The 16-year-old claimed to be making $2,000 a week selling the drug.
Closer to home, two teens were suspects in the Jan. 31 break-in and theft of Ketamine from a Smith's Creek veterinary clinic in St. Clair County.
Less than a month later, the teens, Brian Baer, 17, of Port Huron and Thomas Eppley, 19, of Ft. Gratiot, put a hunting rifle to their heads and killed themselves after a high-speed chase in Texas.
Ketamine is a newcomer to the illicit drug scene, Michigan State Police Sgt. Jerry King said.
A typical 10-milliliter vial of Ketamine, a clear liquid, is enough to drug about 30 people, depending on their body weights. Ketamine is usually injected, but it can also be mixed with tobacco or marijuana and smoked, King said. It is also poured into drinks.
"When I first got to this job about spring 1999 is when I got involved with Ketamine. It was just starting to impact Michigan in a bigger way," said King, who works in drug use prevention. "It's not as well-known as some of the other club drugs, but when it starts to hit home is when you start having deaths in your state."
Veterinarian Turkal said he's phasing out Ketamine. But for some veterinarians the alternative drug is too expensive.
'We've thought of putting out a sign that says "We don't have Ketamine, so go somewhere else,' " Turkal said.
Veterinarians defend against bioterrorism
By Bonnie Coblentz
MISSISSIPPI STATE -- Mississippi veterinarians could find themselves on the front line of defense if the country were ever attacked by bioterrorists.
The Centers for Disease Control consider bioterrorism a significant public health threat facing the United States. In a program brief released online in January, the CDC said "the nation's public health infrastructure currently is not adequate to detect and respond to a bioterrorist event." To better prepare, it has developed a Bioterrorism Program to promote the development of local, state and federal resources to address potential bioterrorism events.
Dr. Jim Watson, state veterinarian with the Mississippi Board of Animal Health, said this general trend in state and federal government to be more prepared for possible bioterrorist activities pre-dates the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
"We're more dependent on imports and international trade than ever before," Watson said. "As we depend more on imports, our risk is higher that an animal disease, whether intentional or accidental, would have a big economic impact on our country."
Watson cited the February outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom and the devastating effects that incident had on their national economy.
"We feel very strongly that a private veterinarian would be the first line of defense and the first one to see a new disease," Watson said of the introduction of a similar disease to the United States. "By knowing what's going on in the animal population, it may help alert us to what's going on in the human population."
Watson said although no new efforts have begun since the terrorist attacks, the state is developing an animal disaster response plan that will be part of the emergency management response to any disaster. Veterinarians are also being encouraged to be more vigilant in noting unusual groups of events, such as animal deaths, and in reporting these to the state.
"The diagnostic laboratory, veterinary school and practitioners are all equally important cogs in the wheel recognizing a problem early and relaying on that information," Watson said.
Dr. Roger Easley, professor of pathobiology and population medicine at Mississippi State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, said veterinarians are ideally equipped to help prevent bioterrorist activity. Easley is also a lieutenant colonel in the Tennessee Air National Guard where he serves as a public health officer in a medical squadron.
"Veterinarians are involved in the food chain, communicable disease prevention and the education of animal owners," Easley said. "We need to be on the lookout for foreign animal diseases that terrorists might try to introduce to our livestock."
Easley agreed that highly contagious, foreign animal diseases could have a devastating impact on the nation's economy. Diseases that do not transmit to humans include foot-and-mouth disease, hog cholera and Rhinderpest. Other disease can affect both humans and animals.
Anthrax is a naturally occurring disease in animals that is typically not very contagious. Humans can contract it from a cut that contacts infected soil, and animals can get it from eating infected grass. However, anthrax can be a highly dangerous weapon when it is specifically prepared as particles that can float in the air.
"If anthrax were sprayed in an area, veterinarians would be in the forefront of identifying it as we would see the dead animals and recognize the signs of anthrax," Easley said.
No specific call to action concerning bioterrorism has been made to Mississippi veterinarians, but Easley said it is the profession's job to be vigilant.
"Raise your antennae and be sensitive to what might be considered a terrorist event such as the appearance of an unusual disease or high animal mortality rates," Easley said. "We need to think more of passing this information on as soon as we come across something that is unusual."