Johns Hopkins Institute

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

In March 2002, the Johns Hopkins Institute released a memo, which came to the conclusion, that in June 2001,
two of the official September 11 hijackers had cutaneous anthrax. This story was picked up in the NY Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/23/national/23ANTH.html 

The Hopkins-memo was based on another story, which was already released in October 2001:
The director of the Holy Cross Hospital/Ft. Lauderdale (Florida), Dr. Christos Tsonas, was interrogated by the FBI in October 2001, but pointed out that he didn't recognise the case as anthrax. He said, he "recognised a dark lesion on the patients leg, but thought "the injury was curious, cleaned it, prescribed an antibiotic for infection and sent the men away". 

Officially the September 11th attack and the anthrax attack had been seperated by both US Gov and FBI. FBI Director John Collingwood in early 2002: 
This was fully investigated and widely vetted among multiple agencies several months ago, he said in a written statement. Exhaustive testing did not support that anthrax was present anywhere the hijackers had been. While we always welcome new information, nothing new has, in fact, developed. 
However it disturbingly looks, that both cases in fact belonged together and had been part of an original blueprint. 
Then in November 2001, because of the cleverness of many american scientists (FAS ->), who realised, that the anthrax attack could have been an idea of government related biopharmacy- and Bioweapon companies with prior knowledge of the September 11th attacks, it appears that this "plan" was changed and blamed on "right wing nuts".
Later this was updated again: The anthrax came indeed from Fort Detrick and at least two Usamriid-related suspects had been interrogated or arrested,
one of them Stephen Hatfill. (->)  1

If the idea is correct, that both Anthrax and September 11th attacks would have been part of one and the same plan and no copy-cat "project", it would explain the bizarre coincidence, why Hamza Alghamdi ("WTC-south tower") rented in August 2001 an unit 1504 at the Delray Racquet Club, 755 Dotterel Rd, which originally was owned by Gloria Irish, the wife of Editor Michael Irish of the Sentinel Sun, where first anthrax victim Bob Stevens worked, too. 2    3

This was confirmed in their paper on October 13th 2001. 
Was it part of the plan to blame the anthrax attack on the "hijackers" and who exactly had prior knowledge of the September 11th attack?

The anthrax-hijacker "connection" by the Johns Hopkins Institute was supported by Dr. Thomas Inglesby, which role looked a little bit too much suspicious and was therefore part of an article named "Top 20 LIHOP Suspects", Dr. Thomas Inglesby (->), which was mirrored or mentioned on at least 150 websites worldwide in 2002, including in the stocktalks at siliconinvestor.com. (LIHOP->)

The CIA ignored the Hopkins memo, it seems, they did that on purpose, as reported in the NY Times: "A senior intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said CIA Director George Tenet had received the Johns Hopkins memo and that government officials were looking into it. No one is dismissive of it, the official said. No one's ruling anything out.

The John Hopkins Institute combines various institutions or projects, i.e Johns Hopkins University (founded in 1876), the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the SAIS-Novartis (->) International Journalism Awards, The Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, Italy, the Hopkins Nanjing University in China or The Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS, Massachusetts Avenue, N.W) .

The Sais was established during World War II by "a group of statesmen who sought new methods of preparing men and women to cope with the international responsibilities that would be thrust upon the United States in the postwar world". SAIS became a division of The Johns Hopkins University
( http://www.jhu.edu/ ) in 1950.
The Johns Hopkins Institute created a "Center for Strategic Education", who compiled an own September 11th-related link-page at: http://www.sais-jhu.edu/cse/September11links.htm