RESEARCHER QUIZZED AGAIN IN ANTHRAX PROBE
From Kevin Bohn and Kelli Arena
CNN Washington Bureau
Monday, May 17, 2004 Posted: 7:32 PM EDT (2332 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- FBI agents investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks have re-interviewed a researcher formerly with the Army bioweapons laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland, his lawyer and government sources said Monday.
The attorney for Ayaad Assaad, who now works at the Environmental Protection Agency, said FBI agents assured her that her client is not a suspect.
Assaad was questioned last week, mostly about a letter sent to police in Quantico, Virginia, days before the anthrax mailings.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/17/anthrax.probe/index.html
The attorney for Ayaad Assaad, who now works at the Environmental Protection Agency, said FBI agents assured her that her client is not a suspect.......
Assaad was first interviewed in October 2001 about the letter mentioning him.
He has said he had no role in the anthrax mailings and last week produced for the agents his 2001 EPA timesheets to prove where he was when the letters were mailed, McDermott said.
The letters were postmarked Hamilton Township, New Jersey, and were postmarked September 18 and October 9, 2001.
Assaad has alleged that some of his former colleagues at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease at Fort Detrick may harbor negative feelings for him.
He claims he was discriminated against because of his age and because he is Egyptian. Assaad is in his mid-50s. He was fired from USAMRIID in 1997 and has filed a lawsuit against the government.
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I wonder if Assaad is an American citizen. What are the chances that if I worked for a government agency and was in the process of sueing them that I would have a job at the EPA!?!?! These foreigners (PC/off) really know how to use our system against us. They are protected by our overly PC government, and are "always" the victims, nothing is their fault and because of their nationality and age they are being discriminated!! Hogwash...maybe he co-workers didn't get along with him because he is and has been up to no good, and people had a bad feeling about his motives!!
Hopefully since 2001 there has been someone monitoring this man's every phone call, bank transaction etc.