Posted on 07/31/2008 10:29:15 PM PDT by hole_n_one
One of the nation’s top biodefense researchers has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailing assaults of 2001 that killed five, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who for the past 18 years worked at the government’s elite biodefense research laboratories at Fort Detrick, Md., had been informed of the impending prosecution, people familiar with Ivins, his suspicious death and with the FBI investigation said.
Ivins’ name had not been disclosed publicly as a suspect in the case that disrupted mail service and Senate business three weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Maryland scientist had for years played a pivotal role in research to improve anthrax vaccines, preparing anthrax formulations used in experiments on animals.
Regarded as a skilled microbiologist, Ivins also had helped the FBI analyze the powdery material recovered from one of the anthrax-tainted envelopes sent to a U.S. senator’s office in Washington, D.C.
Ivins died Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital after having ingested a massive dose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine, said a friend and colleague who declined to be identified out of concern, he said, that he would be harassed by the FBI.
The death -- without any mention of suicide -- was announced to Ivins’ colleagues at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, or USAMRIID, through a staffwide e-mail.
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Also many of the people on the list are not even close to being “bio-scientists” or “biochemists.”
bttt
I agree, this is bs.
FORT DETRICK was not responsible for the anthrax attacks.
SADDAM was :
Comparatively, the FBI’s domestically originated-SSP hypothesis turned out to be futile. Slowly and steadily, it is perishing.59 Particularly, that the view that the old U.S. Army anthrax stockpile was not silica-based, while the fineness of various aerosols of anthrax spores - including Ames - applied by the U.S. Army for experimental infection studies after the U.S. biological weapons arsenal had been eliminated - even if including spray-dried spore powders containing silica - did not at all equal the quality of the SSP. Yet theoretically, some U.S. federal institutions, after fully recognizing the anthrax technology melting pot formed in Iraq (or Russia), might possibly have covertly accomplished the imitation of such a melting pot in the U.S. during the 1990s, and hence could perhaps be in support of the FBI hypothesis. Thus far, this possibility seems to be less likely, however. As the Christian Science Monitor put it: “A recent decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is an ironic reminder that one of the greatest whodunits in recent history remains a threat to the safety of Americans,”60 while Steven Hatfill, the man labeled by the FBI a “person of interest” in the anthrax investigation, has been allowed to go forward with his defamation suit.
http://newsdetails.blogspot.com/2007/05/technical-intelligence-in-retrospect.html
I would rather have J. Edgar Hoover in an evening gown running the FBI than this present gang.
Four distinct elements are involved - though possibly taking place unconnectedly with each other, in reality - in the course leading to the anthrax letter attack: the AS supplier; the basic powder technology supplier; the origination of the subsequent powdery bacillus modeling; and the SSP producer. The first three might be completely innocent, according to the following clustering. Namely, the AS supplier (to either Basson, el-Hibri, or another “legitimate” intermediary) was a U.S./British laboratory; the basic powder technology supplier was Denmark’s Niro; the origination of the powdery bacillus modeling was USSR/Russia, which preferred BT rather than BG, because the former is a much better simulant for BA spore powder; and the SSP producer - the fourth and cardinal element - was plausibly Iraq, thanks to having obtained and employed the first three elements together, thereby forming a superb integral in Iraq. Alternatively, Soviet or formerly Soviet institutions could constitute the first three elements altogether (or two of them), and al-Qaeda itself could be the intermediary (and the perpetrator, but not the SSP producer). Notably, and in spite of continuing claims that no solid connections - including the contexts of CBW at-large, as well as the 2001 Twin Towers attack - existed between al-Qaeda and Iraq, the opposite has increasingly and firmly been emerging since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.52
http://newsdetails.blogspot.com/2007/05/technical-intelligence-in-retrospect.html
Well, I’m sure the FBI will be having a press conference at some point that you can attempt to feebly mock.
THE SSP PRODUCER - THE FOURTH AND CARDINAL ELEMENT - WAS PLAUSIBLY IRAQ, THANKS TO HAVING OBTAINED AND EMPLOYED THE FIRST THREE ELEMENTS TOGETHER
Journal of Intelligence, “Anthrax letters study”, March 2007
http://newsdetails.blogspot.com/2007/05/technical-intelligence-in-retrospect.html
Bruce Ivins, huh, geez that does’nt sound like ‘Stephen Hatfield.’
Too bad that idiot shaman did’nt have ‘Inquisitorial power’ to detain and torture Hatfield to death for a crime he did’nt commit.
If more people trusted the government with greater power, he might be dead.
The investigation on anthrax letters is PURE crap.
From : Laurie Mylroie Sent : Sat, 07 26 2007 18:54:48 To : drzz Subject : Re: Thank you for your fight for truth
Thank you very much for your extremely kind note. You can be sure that Iraq was behind 9/11—and the anthrax letters that followed. The FBI has yet to explains, six years later, who was responsible for the anthrax letters!
Thanks for sending the videos. Unfortunately, I’m traveling now and don’t have a very fast internet connection, but thanks again for your note.
Laurie Mylroie
Wow! Scientists d.i.e?
Scary stuff that seems to go past the normal patterns of random occurances.
Reminds me of the lists of those knowing the Clintoons, who died before Bull Clintoon became president
You shouldn’t perpetuate the lie that Hoover was a cross-dresser. That was made up after his death. I’m not a Hoover defender, but I hate commie “big lies” that become accepted even by supposed conservatives.
Sorry, I don’t believe Hoover was a cross-dresser. I was just using it as an example of what I would be willing to accept, in comparison to what we’ve got now. Apologies to Mr. Hoover and his memory.
Hopefully this was really the guy that did it.
And if true, it is good that he is dead now.
Because a guy that has access to and doesn’t care about releasing weapons grade anthrax is just about the most dangerous person on the planet. A significant anthrax attack could kill thousands upon thousands of people and leave entire cities as ghost towns for decades.
no. the tragic waste was the people he killed (IF he did it!). his is no big loss if he was guilty.
A lot of them seem to have had their heads bashed in (aka blunt force)
Who attempts to feebly mock something?
Continue to be astonished; news channels have zero interest in this, they’re solely obsessed with that missing girl.
I’m merely predicting what the reaction will be on FR to the FBI press conference, whenever it happens, laying out their evidence.
I predict it will be feebly mocked.
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