Posted on 08/01/2008 4:33:29 AM PDT by libstripper
A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who for the last 18 years worked at the government's elite biodefense research laboratories at Ft. Detrick, Md., had been informed of his impending prosecution, said people familiar with Ivins, his suspicious death and the FBI investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
What about the story, that a 9/11 terrorist had an anthrax skin infection. I always thought it was them. Why would this guy send letters to the tabloid down there in Florida?
The govt. seems willing to do anything to prevent the world believing that somebody poisoned the US senate office building and it was two years before we were able to react. Part of it amounts to covering for Slick.
The LA Times link didn’t work for me. The story is also posted at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/01/MNOR123FFK.DTL
Seems like a convenient and neat way to wrap it all up.
In such an important case why would you give the suspect advance warning of his arrest?
’ “I was questioned by the feds, and I sung like a canary” about Bruce Ivins’ personality and tendencies, Thomas Ivins said.
“He had in his mind that he was omnipotent.” ‘
Interesting. Sibling rivalry?
I seem to remember a report that a guy working in a bio lab was a Muslim who had actually been questioned in the WTC 93 bombing.
Anyone else remember hearing that?
The NWO suicided him.
Its the same way they nabbed the unibomber.
Gives more thought to the theory it was an inside job. Govt way of putting fear in the American people. While I don’t believe it, it sure ringing louder.
So you can point to “stress” as the reason for his suicide after you murder him.
Speaking of that, whatever happened to the FRposter The Great Satan?
Property records list the New York homes as the addresses of Dr. Kenneth Berry, 48, a specialist on bioterrorism, who once advocated the distribution of anthrax vaccine in major cities. It was not known why the agents searched the homes, and attempts to reach Berry by telephone and e-mail were unsuccessful yesterday. ... Federal agents investigating the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001 searched homes yesterday belonging to the founder of an organization... More than three dozen agents, some in protective suits, combed through two homes in this upstate New York village at the same time a similar search occurred in New Jersey....Excerpted - click for full article ^------------FBI searches three houses in anthrax investigation Boston Globe ^ | August 6, 2004 | Ben Dobbin Source: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/08/06/fbi_searches_three_houses_in_anthrax_investigation/
Marco?
Polo!
.......Marco...?
Yes...
He was the Paintball Cell’s Ali A Timimi.
Timimi is unique because of the incredibly long prison sentence he received in comparison to other terrorist subjects and the press’s incredible disinterest in it.
Ali Al-Timimi, an Islamic scholar whose home was also searched - "12 Washington-area Muslims investigated for alleged terrorist ties," By Karen Branch-Brioso, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Thu, Jun. 12, 2003
Most early reporting made no mention of al-Timimi as a scientist, just as an Islamic scholar.
A FR poster by the name of Zac and Pook brought up al-Timimi as a Ft Detrich character, I think he cited an NPR story.
Another article said al Timimi had attended the microbio program at George Mason U.
His case is intertwined in the terror charity case of the Benevolence International Foundation.
Ali Timimi allegedly had Sheikh al-Hawali's letters hand-delivered to every member of congress on the "first anniversary of the anthrax letters," whatever date that's supposed to mean- the date they were sent, the date that one was first received in FL, in congress, in the press or what exact date I don't know. That's from something Zac and Pook posted so I don't know the source, been too busy to find out. The letters were said to be a warning against invading Iraq. Perhaps that was what Bush meant when he was talking about blackmail.
I will always have a suspicion the anthrax was a gift from Saddam.
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