Posted on 08/01/2008 2:51:27 PM PDT by Shermy
FREDERICK, Md. - Bruce E. Ivins was a juggler, a gardener, a church musician, a Red Cross volunteer
All that is required is that a sample leave the facility, and somehow get to the bad guys. Anthrax is pretty easy to smuggle, so espionage is a real possibility. The initial sample did not need to go to Al Queda, maybe to the Germans, to some “peace” group to Saddam to them.
We don't know what we don't know.
Absolute coincidence, I'm sure.
I'm pretty sure the deceased were bio-weapons scientists.
It's probably been sent down the memory hole by now.
WRT this pitiful case, I might be moved to blog about it. Clearly it's bullshit and the man's lawyer is right on target when he states, as quoted by the NY Post this morning, that his client was harassed to death.
The feds are posthumosely prosecuting this poor guy by innuendo and it's sickening.
You can stop fearing the gestapo. We live amongst our own version today.
Speaking of dark side, have they IDed the murderer on the Candian bus who sliced and diced his ‘seatmate’?
If my social worker wrote like that I question her sanity too.
Hatfill was falsely accused.
He just recently won a lawsuit to clear his name.
It all started with Barbara Hatch Rosenberg. She has a personal vendetta to closed down all bio-labs in the United States.
She fingered Hatfill to the FBI.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6152515/
Some people like Hatfill are mentally strong to hold up extreme pressure like that.
Ivins’ couldn’t handle the pressure cooker?
Where’s our FR Slueths on this.
Zack and Pook
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2048166/posts
EdLake
http://www.freerepublic.com/~edlake/
I don't know about the others, but I had 150 emails in my inbox on Friday morning, and probably another hundred since then. Plus, I had to read dozens of news articles and write comments for my site.
That's kept me VERY busy.
My "take" on the Ivins situation is: Let's wait and see. None of what I've read makes much sense without some kind of EVIDENCE showing WHY they suspected Ivins. His nutty behavior and mistakes AFTER the attacks mean nothing.
Agree! No sense starting more rumors.
The Ames strain was distributed to many countries who in turn may have shared it with others in the interest of science; so the strain of virus isn’t that important. It is the way the spores were weaponized that is unique and only a few countries had the ability to do this (US, Russia, Iraq), so then we have to take into account the timeframe of the attacks and the attempt by the highjackers to rent/research cropdusters and the ability of Ivins to have opportunity to manufacture this weaponized version undetected in a Ft. Detrick lab while his co-workers came and went. Not saying it couldn’t happen but the timeframe of the 9/11 attacks, the letters’ written contents, and the report of a red-handed terrorist trying to get treatment at a pharmacy for what appeared to be cutaneous anthrax symptoms is just too great a coincidence to be quickly swept aside. This is what the FBI is attempting to do. Alot of scientists are quirky and combined with constant “inquiry” and tails from the FBI could push anyone over the edge- just ask Hatfill and Richard Jewell.
I had almost forgotten about the recent strange deaths of bioweapons scientists recently. Can someone make a list with details?
I was never ever frightened
By the murderer on our block
He nurtured orchids and raised hamsters
The neighborhood is still in shock
La, la, la, la, la...
There's a link to a very comprehensive "dead scientists" list in this piece.
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