Expert: Anthrax Suspect I.D.'d

The Times (New Jersey Online) ^ | February 19th, 2002 | Joseph Dee

[wimpycat]

PRINCETON BOROUGH -- An advocate for the control of biological weapons who has been gathering information about last autumn's anthrax attacks said yesterday the Federal Bureau of Investigation has a strong hunch about who mailed the deadly letters.

But the FBI might be "dragging its feet" in pressing charges because the suspect is a former government scientist familiar with "secret activities that the government would not like to see disclosed," said Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Chemical and Biological Weapons Program.

[wimpycat]

And she covers her trail by saying that he will probably quietly dissappear and never be revealed. How convenient for her.

Yep, there's a little grassy knoll and tin-foil in her interpretation of the pieces of information she is receiving.

[wimpycat]

Mebbee, but the NYT tells us that Dr. Paul Keim has been able to identify which lab stocked the anthrax strain used in the atacks and has informed the Fibees which one it was.

Why don't we tie the two theories together and say that the mad scientist was in cahoots with the terrorists somehow?

[fivecatsandadog]

Noting that anthrax mail stopped, I suspect the mailer had limited supply. That's about all I can guess.

Or they're busy mixing up a new batch.

[Gumption]

Why don't we tie the two theories together and say that the mad scientist was in cahoots with the terrorists somehow?

You mean, like some kind of conspiracy?

[Southack]

Wasn't it the Rosenberg family that got the death penalty for giving our nuclear secrets to the Soviets?

Naw, this woman has no motive for an agenda... < /SARCASM >

[bvw]

I don't understand why the media has not followed up on this story?

It doesn't track well in PC territory.

[archy]

Actually, Cheney and his staff were put on Cipro on September 11

It certainly doesn't appear to have done him much good:

[AuntB]

Just bumping for a future read! Hi there, precious man!

[Ada Coddington]

I think someone has been there and done that.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who Framed Dr. Assaad?
Patricia Doyle | 2/3/02 | Laura Rozen

Posted on 2/9/02 5:46 AM Pacific by rubbertramp

Who framed Dr. Assaad? Patricia Doyle ® 02/03/2002, 10:35:23 Post Reply Forum
Who would want to frame Dr. Ayaad Assaad? The real culprit who masterminded the anthrax attacks. Who was at Ft. Detrick the same time as Assaad? 1987 - 1997? Why can't the FBI put two and two together? Maybe they don't want to. A certain kingpin of biotech, who happened to be at Ft. Detrick during the same time as Assaad, is also reported to have a "working" relationship with the CIA. Patricia

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/01/26/assaad/index_np.html Fort Detrick's anthrax mystery Who tried to frame Dr. Ayaad Assaad, a former biowarfare researcher at the Army lab? Was it the same person responsible for last fall's anthrax mail terrorism?

By Laura Rozen

Jan. 26, 2002 | THURMONT, Md. -- On Oct. 2, Ayaad Assaad, a U.S. government scientist and former biowarfare researcher, received a call from an FBI agent asking him to come in for a talk. It was well before anthrax panic gripped the nation -- in fact, it was the same day that photo editor Robert Stevens, 63, was admitted to a Florida hospital. It wasn't until the next day that Stevens was diagnosed with inhalation anthrax, and another two days later, on Oct. 5, when he would become the first of five eventual fatalities caused by the apparent bioterrorist attack.

The day after hearing from the FBI, Assaad met with special agents J. Gregory Lelyegian and Mark Buie in the FBI's Washington field office, along with Assaad's attorney, Rosemary McDermott. They showed Assaad a detailed, unsigned, computer-typed letter with a startling accusation: that the 53-year-old Assaad, an Environmental Protection Agency scientist who filed an age discrimination suit against the U.S. Army for dismissing him from a biowarfare lab, might be a bioterrorist.

"Dr. Assaad is a potential biological terrorist," the letter stated, according to Assaad and McDermott. The letter was received by the FBI in Quantico, Va., but Assaad did not learn from the FBI where it had been mailed from. "I have worked with Dr. Assaad," the letter continued, "and I heard him say that he has a vendetta against the U.S. government and that if anything happens to him, he told his sons to carry on."

According to Assaad, "The letter-writer clearly knew my entire background, my training in both chemical and biological agents, my security clearance, what floor where I work now, that I have two sons, what train I take to work, and where I live.

"The letter warned the FBI to stop me," he said.

[Ada Coddington]

If we see a scientist, in the DC area or Ft.Dietrich area commit Arkancide in the coming days, we'll know who it was.

I suppose its possible they already got him, but so far none of the fatally dead microbiologists seem to have had any connection to government anthrax laboratories.

[Ada Coddington]

If we see a scientist, in the DC area or Ft.Dietrich area commit Arkancide in the coming days, we'll know who it was.

I suppose its possible they already got him, but so far none of the fatally dead microbiologists seem to have had any connection to government anthrax laboratories.

[xm177e2]

If they were really worried about keeping everything quiet, they'd just kill him. It would be easy, too, they could just expose him forcibly to large amounts of Anthrax spores, and then say it must have been an accident in the lab while he was preparing another batch of letters...

[flamefront]

Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Ph.D.

Research Professor of Environmental Science, State University of New York

Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, was a founder of the FAS Chemical and Biological Weapons Program in 1989 and is its current Director. She chairs the FAS Working Group on Biological Weapons Verification, a group of volunteer experts who have monitored and contributed over 40 working papers and reports on technical issues to the negotiations now in progress to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention with a legally-binding Protocol. The Working Group, one of the few NGO’s anywhere that specializes in biological weapons issues, also provides technical information to the US and other governments, works with the World Health Organization on BW-related issues, and works with US bio-industry on Protocol issues relevant to industry. In 1998, Dr. Rosenberg served on an advisory panel to the President, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Health on biological weapons issues. In 1993, she served as an advisor to the OTA study of Weapons of Mass Destruction in 1993. She is an officer of ProMED-mail, a spin-off of the FAS Working Group that was launched in 1994 at FAS as a prototype and later became an independent entity. Trained in molecular biology, Dr. Rosenberg was for many years a cancer researcher at Memorial-Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and was Assoc. Professor of Biochemistry at Cornell Medical College.

 

Haven't we learned recently about how much to believe from agenda-based scientists who, for one example, planted lynx hair?

[Whilom]

My little grey cells tell me that this is a red -- and I do mean red -- herring.

[Free the USA]

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[itsahoot]

"We know that the FBI is looking at this person, and it's likely
that he participated in the past in secret activities that the
government would not like to see disclosed,"

I suspect that he would just dissapear then.

[arthurus]

An agency for Korean models.