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He roamed the University of Cincinnati campus with a loaded gun. When his rage overflowed, the brainy microbiology major would open fire inside empty buildings, visualizing a wall clock or other object as a person who had done him wrong. By the mid-1970s, Bruce Ivins had earned his doctorate and was a promising researcher at the University of North Carolina. By outward appearances, he was a charming eccentric, odd but disarming. Inside, he still smoldered with resentment, and he saw a new outlet for it. Several years earlier, a Cincinnati student had turned him down for a date. He had...

Murtha-tied Company Wins Sole-Source Vaccine Contract Michael Goldfarb January 4, 2010 Several months ago we warned that Tara O'Toole who recently became Under Secretary for the Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security would reward her friends resulting in millions of dollars in gifts to John Murtha cronies who supported her nomination. And it now appears the Murtha/O'Toole favor factory has begun production. In February 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a request for proposal (RFP) for a second-generation Anthrax vaccine. This RFP was issued to be a re-procurement for a contract that...

<p>November 17, 2003 -- A Yemeni cleric who allegedly boasted of giving Osama bin Laden millions of dollars collected at a Brooklyn mosque could be hauled into federal court as soon as today, after more than 10 months spent fighting extradition from Germany, a law enforcement source said. Sheik Mohammed Al Hasan Al-Moayad and his alleged assistant, Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed, are expected to be arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court immediately upon their arrival in the U.S. on charges they gave material support to al Qaeda and Hamas.</p>

Federal agents are now investigating reports of possibly eight threatening letters with a white substance in at least four Alabama cities this morning, an FBI official confirmed. Angela Tobon, media spokesperson for the Mobile FBI, said the letters were all mailed to federal offices and "are all the same ...white powder with threatening letters," she said.

The public has 20 days to comment on the makeup of an independent committee being assembled to study the science the FBI used in its investigation into the 2001 anthrax mailings. The 14 provisional members of the National Academy of Sciences study committee include medical doctors, chemists, microbiologists and a U.S. District Court judge. The academy will consider public comments on the proposed committee membership before finalizing the roster. The FBI requested the study last year, after critics questioned the validity of the science it used in matching the anthrax used in the 2001 mailings with that in a flask...

A Navy-led analysis of the anthrax attack on Sen. Tom Daschle's office in October 2001 has uncovered evidence that anthrax spores released in the Hart Senate Office Building infected people outside the building. The researchers could not pinpoint where the four exposed people worked or where they encountered the airborne spores. They apparently fought off infection without getting sick, but they turned up in a group of 20 people who were "outside the building and presumed to be unexposed," says the study in the Jan. 15 Journal of Infectious Diseases. The surprise finding supports previous analyses indicating that the spores...

TWO police officers were taken to a hospital today after opening an envelope that contained a suspicious white powder, the New York Police Department said. The two police officers worked in the mail screening facility at police headquarters in downtown Manhattan and opened an envelope that contained an "undetermined white powder," said police department spokesman Paul Browne. They underwent decontamination before being taken to hospital as a precautionary measure in case the powder turned out to be anthrax, Mr Browne said. The powder was not accompanied with a note. On July 14 and August 2, The New York Times said...

Canadian, Coffee Creamer Set off Terror Alert A Canadian living in Seoul recently caused a commotion by sprinkling coffee cream powder along the path to a subway station exit gate to help his friends, who could not read Korean, find their way out of the station. Unfortunately for him, others mistook the white powder as a terrorist substance, and an army unit was rushed to the scene. According to the Army Capital Defense Headquarters, it recently received a report that a "white powder" suspected of being a terrorist substance was sprinkled all over the passenger platform of Namtaeryeong Subway Station....

Employees evacuated from building when mysterious white powder spills from envelope...

There are numerous websites relating to Bio-terrorism-specifically, the anthrax scare: some are left wing,some are anti-semitic,and others just plain silly ! For a good, practical website on this important topic, I suggest: http://www.biohazardnews.net/index.htm This site is in need of volunteers, and, like Free Republic,is privately funded.

A Chicago woman who had an anthrax hoax letter mailed to a Houston woman was sentenced Friday to six months in federal prison. Robin Lynette Butler, 28, pleaded guilty in June to mailing threatening communications. In November, she mailed an envelope with white powder and a note saying "Anthrax kills b----, to a friend in Virginia. Butler asked the unsuspecting friend to forward the letter to a Houston woman dating her ex-boyfriend, said prosecutor Abe Martinez. Butler told the friend the envelope contained money for the Houston woman, who would not accept money from her. Butler apologized in court Friday...

SALT LAKE CITY -- As always, the American Society for Microbiology's annual meeting here this week was part science, part fellowship. But this year, the meeting of 10,000 members of the group was something else: part Agatha Christie. • Today in the Sky: Real-time airport weather, delays, and travel news • Trim your overworked day • Tips for getting better returns on your investments • 10 great places to get high atop a mountain Like a scene from a mystery novel in which the key suspects in a crime are gathered in one place, the scientists' meeting was shadowed by...

<p>A threatening letter containing a white powder has been sent to a Latino group at the University of California, Davis, campus police said Wednesday.</p> <p>At least three Northern California law schools, including the one at UC Davis, also have received threatening letters, possibly from the same source, police said.</p>