In those horrifying days after the September 11th terrorist attacks, strange letters began appearing randomly at the homes of people, offices, and a television station. The letters contained a deadly biological agent known as "anthrax". Five people died, several more got sick, and a nationwide panic began.
We had just been attacked by Muslim fundamentalist terrorists the week before and many people thought that this was part two of the attack so, the FBI launched a massive investigation. Weeks passed and then, nothing... the newspapers and the media at large stopped covering the story.
This case was the basis of a sly and covert suggestion that "Iraqi agents" had been involved. I believe in my soul that people were thinking about this case when President George W. Bush made his case before the U.N. that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and he was a danger to all that was holy and had to be stopped before he launched even more attacks, like the mysterious Anthrax letters.
Last week, this troubling case came to light again when Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, a U.S. government research scientist committed suicide when he learned that the FBI was about to arrest him on five counts of first degree murder. It seems as though Ivins, who oversaw the highly specific type of germ, anthrax, in a U.S. Army laboratory was no "Iraqi agent"... just a "mad scientist" and American citizen bent on taking over the world. Where is Superman or Will Smith when you need them?
Using new genome technology to identify the type of Ames strain anthrax used in the attacks, the FBI began to focus on Bruce Ivins as a suspect more than a year ago. This had to do with very specific characteristics in the DNA found in the saliva on the letters, plus the knowledge of that very strain of anthrax in Bruce Ivins' labs. These were the cultures for which he was responsible.
The new technology that was used to track him down wasn't available in 2001 but, became available around 2005. The hunt was on but, the mystery man has taken his life and in so doing, has taken his secrets to the grave with him.
Did he act alone? Who put him up to it? Was it Iraqi spies? Was it some rogue elements in the Bush administration? Hmmmm... I'll leave it to the conspiracy theorists to answer those questions... or agents Mulder and Scully (X-Files). Take your pick!
6 comments:
You know what I always wonder? Well of course you don't.
Well I wonder how come when the terrorist don't look Middle Eastern the media coverage is so low.
Once they found McVea we never really heard a lot there were no profiling of white men with crew cuts etc. I saw this story in the news but it was as widely covered as Christina Applegate's breast cancer or Morgan Freeman's car accident.
-OG
he should be under the prison
As much attention as the media gave to the anthrax scare, one would think more attention would be given to the apprehension of the culprit.
You've got a point there ZK.
At any rate, he took the cowards way out..We may never know the entire story. I'm not a conspiracy
nut either, but I keep thinking that there is a whole lot more to this and that this story doesn't end here.
It's a dayumm shame that it takes them this long to find our very own US inbred criminals. I guess it's true what they say, want to hide something, hide it right under our own noses.
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