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Anthrax suspect dies in apparent suicide
Los Angeles Times via Kansascity.com ^ | 8/1/08 | David Willman

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...


TOPICS: Anthrax Scare; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 200807; 20080729; amerithrax; anthrax; anthrax2001; bruceeivins; bruceivins; davidwillman; fbi; fortdetrick; ftdetrich; ivins; laslimes; latimes; maryland; suicide; usamriid; willman
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1 posted on 07/31/2008 10:29:16 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one

Hmmm


2 posted on 07/31/2008 10:32:35 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
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To: hole_n_one
How many biochemist have died since 9/11, there are over 44 world wide.

here is a link.

http://www.businessreform.com/article.php?articleID=10744

3 posted on 07/31/2008 10:35:24 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom)
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To: hole_n_one
Simply put, the Federal Government was totally stumped, but somebody had to pay.
4 posted on 07/31/2008 10:38:14 PM PDT by oyez (Justa' another high minded lowlife.)
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To: guitarplayer1953
Here is another one with photos and BIOS, no pun intended

http://www.stevequayle.com/dead_scientists/UpdatedDeadScientists.html

5 posted on 07/31/2008 10:38:56 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom)
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To: hole_n_one

“just as the Justice Department was to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailing assaults of 2001”

Whoa.


6 posted on 07/31/2008 10:49:25 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: hole_n_one

“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.”

Weird. Maybe mishandling evidence or something? Who Knows.


7 posted on 07/31/2008 10:51:24 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: hole_n_one

Wow. Hydrocodone OD. Not a fun way to go.


8 posted on 07/31/2008 11:52:17 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: B-Chan
This sounds weird, as a biochemist would know that massive amounts of Tylenol lead to a slow and gruesome death as your liver slowly dissolves and your body builds up with toxins and every organ system begins to fail.
9 posted on 07/31/2008 11:57:29 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

Right on the tail of having to pay damages to someone else they were absolutely convinced did it.

So how has this man been on the radar as a suspect all this time but they kept pursuing another man?

Funny how they NOW have another suspect.


10 posted on 07/31/2008 11:59:05 PM PDT by weegee (Hi there.)
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To: hole_n_one

BOOKMARK


11 posted on 08/01/2008 12:01:23 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: LukeL

Maybe he wanted to suffer.

Or maybe he used his skills as a biochemist to chemically leach the Tylenol out of the Vicodin caplets, leaving only the “good stuff”. An OD of pure hydrocodone would put you to sleep (eternally) fairly quickly, I’d wager.

Either way, it’s a tragic waste of human life.


12 posted on 08/01/2008 12:17:21 AM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: hole_n_one

Yeah, I just heard about this on coast-to-coast....


13 posted on 08/01/2008 12:21:10 AM PDT by happygrl
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To: hole_n_one

I wonder if they will present the facts of the case now that he is dead? I can’t help but wonder if they aren’t still stumped but need to pin this on someone.


14 posted on 08/01/2008 2:10:15 AM PDT by Munz (Infiltrate Interrogate Eradicate NEXT!)
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To: oyez

Well the FBI will always find someone.
Mr.Richard Jewell comes to mind.
barbra ann


15 posted on 08/01/2008 2:23:38 AM PDT by barb-tex ( A prudent man (more so for a woman) foreseeth the evil and hideth him self)
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To: oyez

Sounds like another govt scapegoat/harrassment/suicide ala Captain McVey of the USS Indianapolis.


16 posted on 08/01/2008 3:04:11 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: EdLake

ping


17 posted on 08/01/2008 3:24:52 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

Fox and FRiend reported he died of an overdose of pain killers.


18 posted on 08/01/2008 3:28:51 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E. That spells free. freerepublic.com baby)
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To: weegee
Right on the tail of having to pay damages to someone else they were absolutely convinced did it. So how has this man been on the radar as a suspect all this time but they kept pursuing another man? Funny how they NOW have another suspect.

They've been on this guy's tail for awhile. Paying off Hatfill was one of the requirements before arresting Ivins. In other words, admitting that it wasn't Hatfill. That's so that during a trial, Hatfill can't (or couldn't have, since there will be no trial) be used as a "reasonable doubt" excuse.

19 posted on 08/01/2008 3:58:14 AM PDT by GOP_Proud
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To: hole_n_one

There is not the entire article...Drudge has a link up to the LA paper where you can read the article in its entirety.


20 posted on 08/01/2008 4:13:02 AM PDT by elli1
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