[VadeRetro]

Hope this is the big break!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

AUTHORITIES CONVERGING ON SUSPECTED ANTHRAX HOUSE NEAR D.C.
			Posted by Recovering_Democrat On Jun 25 4:24 PM with 37 comments Local TV Just breaking: 50 Miles North of D.C., same type of spores found in Daschle letter are apparently at this house. No other details. DC FREEPers, can you shed light??rd

[Digger]

I guess we should not complain but what took so frick'in long.

[Eagle Eye]

And it took how many months to do this?

[Thane_Banquo]

Is the suspect a member of the religion of peace?

[lavaroise]

All hail scientists and researchers of our ivory towers. They want nothing but the good of the people, just as long as they are on top of the food chain in their consumption, welfare and production schemes.

[Gore_ War_ Vet]

Ft. Detrick was always the probable source for the weapons grade anthrax, just not the most talked about one.

Does anyone remember our stolen nuclear secrets

[Havisham]

Unfortunately, it's gotten to the point where if the FBI says they've got their perp, it means evidence tampering or, in that wonderful police expression, a frame. We can only hope the good guys have won the day at the FBI.

[Aliska]

This might not pan out, but I posted that this was a possibility (one of our own fed employees from one of our own labs). Should be in the archives.

[Palladin]

Thanks for the news. I've always thought it was a homegrown nutcase. Hope he gets the death penalty. He killed many innocent people.

[Newbomb Turk]

bump for later

[Dog Gone]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI searched the home of a researcher near Fort Detrick, Md., who may have had access to anthrax while doing work for the Army base, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.

The researcher agreed to the search in hopes of removing himself from any possible suspicion, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. It was unclear whether the researcher was a federal worker at Fort Detrick or a worker under contract with the Army base.

``This was a consensual search for which the only qualification was potential access to anthrax,'' the law enforcement official said. The official said the search was not unusual in the FBI's hunt for a suspect for last year's anthrax letter attacks.

Fort Detrick, which also is home to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, has anthrax samples. The FBI is conducting voluntary lie detector tests at the base.

At the conclusion of the search, no arrests were made.

The search underscored the FBI's attempt to find a suspect in the deadly anthrax letter attacks last fall. Five people died in the attacks, and at least 13 others contracted and recovered from either the skin or respiratory form of the disease.

The investigation into who sent several anthrax-laced letters last year has produced few leads and some investigators acknowledge the trail is growing cold. The government has begun a strategy of focusing on possible sources of anthrax and casting a wide net, rather than identifying suspects from the few clues gained from the letters.

Lie detector tests and interviews are also being conducted at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, where researchers have been developing a powdered form of anthrax for use in testing biological defense systems, military officials have said.

The Army said recently that small quantities of anthrax have routinely been produced at Dugway, and then shipped to the Army's biodefense center at Fort Detrick.

Since the attacks, security at Fort Detrick has come under fire.

One former researcher at the infectious-disease center there has said nothing would have prevented workers from removing deadly germs from the labs.

[Aliska]

Now I just heard on the radio that a former roommate of Atta was arrested in Maryland(?). Think they said he was Jordanian. Was only half listening and I don't know if this is the same arrest/raid referred to in the original post.

Details will trickle out

[Hipixs]

FBI investigators stands beside a rental truck being used to transport evidence Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at the Frederick, Md., apartment of a researcher who may have had access to anthrax while doing work for Fort Detrick. Investigators blocked the entrance to Detrick Plaza Apartments next to the main gate into the military post while they removed materilas in black garbage bags. (AP Photo/Timothy Jacobsen)

[Dialup Llama]

This raid is totally bogus. The resident of the house volunteered for the raid to clear himself. I think this is the dude fingered by Dr. Barbara "Anthrax" Rosenberg. You can thank the Clinton crowd in the FBI for keeping their hope for a lone, white, angry, Christian bio-terrorist in play. Did I forget male?

[marshmallow]

Yet another false alarm. Whoever coined the term "raid" for this operation should be deducted a month's salary.

I've seen no indication that today's "raid" is part of the end game.