The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved

The investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks ended as far as the public knew on July 29, 2008, with the death of Bruce Ivins, a senior biodefense researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Md.

The cause of death was an overdose of the painkiller Tylenol. No autopsy was performed, and there was no suicide note.

May 16, 2007 - More Evidence of Saddam-al Qaeda Ties
"An al Qaeda document newly released by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) of the United States Military Academy provides an extraordinary new connection to a previously reported order by Saddam Hussein to support al Qaeda attacks upon US forces in Somalia. It corresponds with other documents that show Saddam Hussein was using Islamic terrorists as proxies to attack US interests..."

November 09, 2007 - Startling implications of a Jihadi letter
"New light is being shed on the 2001 anthrax attacks in a fascinating open letter to Ayman al Zawahiri of al Qaeda, written by a jihadi living in London..."

"the letter contains a startling admission. Uthman tells us of a conversation he had with al Qaeda leaders before the 9/11 attacks in which he urged them not to use WMD..."

"Uthman says he tried to talk Mohammad Atef and Usama bin Laden out of using WMD in a terrorist attack to convince the U.S. not to retaliate in Afghanistan because it would ultimately spread to Iraq."

"Why would Uthman expect this? I can think of one salient reason."

"Because he knew that al Qaeda was planning an Anthrax attack with weaponized anthrax provide by Saddam Hussein."

The opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal is the misinformed opinion of Edward Jay Epstein who does not work for the Journal.

Epstein is wrong in almost everything he wrote. Check my site for point by point details.

The anthrax case HAS been solved, it just hasn't been officially closed.

I expect the case to be officially closed any day now, maybe this week, maybe next. At that time, all the details of the case against Dr. Ivins should be made public. And I wouldn't be surprised if those details didn't include a confession of some kind by Dr. Ivins.

Ed at www.anthraxinvestigation.com

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