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Anthrax scientist, chief suspect in anthrax mailings, commits suicide as FBI closes in
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by PEP | August 1, 2008 at 02:54 am
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This is such a strange, puzzling story. The anthrax mailings set up a state of even greater fear after 9-11. Now a top biodefense researcher, long suspected, commits suicide.
A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a published report.
The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who worked for the past 18 years at the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Md., had been told about the impending prosecution, the Los Angeles Times reported for Friday editions. The laboratory has been at the center of the FBI's investigation of the anthrax attacks, which killed five people
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at 08:50 on August 1st, 2008
PEP, I like this story. It's good stuff.
No comment!
at 08:54 on August 1st, 2008
PEP, I like this story. It's strange news!
Ok, this is disturbing...
at 10:24 on August 1st, 2008
Hi ya'll, thanks for the read and flags.
Yes, this is a too too weird story, from the start of the anthrax mailings until now.
And, I learned that the prosecutors had intended to ask for the death penalty in this case. Zichi, that might have been a motivator for suicide--whether guilty or innocent. But maybe it wasn't suicide.
Without a trial, no one will ever really know unless the government releases the evidence it was planning to introduce in court. Most unsettling, the whole mess.