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?
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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.