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Showing posts with label Bruce Ivins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bruce Ivins. Show all posts

1.07.2009

'Let me sleep,' anthrax suspect wrote before suicide


"... The anthrax letters killed five people and sickened more than a dozen just after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The letters, filled with bacterial spores, were sent to Senate Democratic leaders and news organizations. Those who died were two Washington postal workers..."  
Source: www.cnn.com




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8.05.2008

Anthrax suspect’s colleague blames FBI for suicide

He calls motives ascribed to Bruce Ivins in mailings that killed 5 ‘ridiculous’


"... a friend and former colleague of the microbiologist says federal investigators were going after the wrong person and that it was their pressure on Ivins that led to his demise at his own hands...."  
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com




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8.03.2008

Anthrax case raises worries about biodefense effort

Experts say that federal oversight of booming industry is severely lacking


"... the revelation that FBI investigators believe the anthrax attacks were carried out by Ivins, an Army biodefense scientist who committed suicide last week after he learned he was about to be indicted for murder, has re-ignited a debate: Has the unprecedented boom in biodefense research made the country less secure by multiplying the places and people with access to dangerous germs?

"We are putting America at more risk..."  
Source: www.chron.com




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