Monday, January 25, 2010

The Anthrax Attacks Of 2001 Remain Unsolved -- A Commentary

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A Commentary From Edward Epstein, Wall Street Journal:

The FBI disproved its main theory about how the spores were weaponized.

The investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks ended as far as the public knew on July 29, 2008, with the death of Bruce Ivins, a senior biodefense researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Md. The cause of death was an overdose of the painkiller Tylenol. No autopsy was performed, and there was no suicide note.

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My Comment: The key point in this commentary (and one that has the potential to impact each and everyone of us) is the last paragraph ....

.... So, even though the public may be under the impression that the anthrax case had been closed in 2008, the FBI investigation is still open—and, unless it can refute the Livermore findings on the silicon, it is back to square one ....

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