Anthrax Evidence Released
The government on Wednesday released some of the evidence collected against biological weapons researcher Bruce E. Ivins, who died of suicide July 29. Anonymous sources peppered media reports earlier in the week, saying that much of the case relied on circumstantial evidence. So far, those reports appear to have been correct.The government on Wednesday released some of the evidence collected against biological weapons researcher Bruce E. Ivins, who died of suicide July 29. Anonymous sources peppered media reports earlier in the week, saying that much of the case relied on circumstantial evidence. So far, those reports appear to have been correct.
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In an e-mail on Sept. 26, 2001, Ivins wrote: “Osama Bin Laden has just decreed death to all Jews and all Americans” — language that federal agents pointed out was similar to the text found in the anthrax letters that warns: “DEATH TO AMERICA,” “DEATH TO ISRAEL.”
One of the stranger communiques cited by the investigators is a poem Ivins wrote to a friend in December 2001:
“I’m a little dream-self, short and stout. I’m the other half of bruce — when he lets me out. When I get all steamed up, I don’t pout. I push Bruce aside, them I’m free to run about!
Hickory dickory Doc — Doc Bruce ran up the clock. But something then happened in very strange rhythm. His other self went and exchanged placed with him. So now, please guess who Is conversing with you. Hickory dickory Doc!
Bruce and this other guy, sitting by some trees, Exchanging personalities. It’s like having two in one. Actually it’s rather fun!”
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The man accused of carrying out the anthrax attacks that killed five people and made 17 others sick, the late Dr. Bruce Ivins, on the basis of his psychological profile should not have been allowed to have access to the toxic spores, according to a new report.
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The apparent suicide of 62-year-old scientist Bruce E. Ivins on Tuesday shook up his co-workers at the military biodefense labs in Maryland where he'd worked for nearly two decades. But the significance of his death extended beyond personal tragedy when it emerged that Ivins was about to be prosecuted by the Justice Department for alleged involvement in the anthrax attacks of 2001.
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