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Anthrax suspect dies in apparent suicide
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David Willman
Los Angeles Times
August 1, 2008
A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
Bruce Ivins, 62, who for the past 18 years worked at the government’s elite biodefense research laboratories at Fort Detrick, Md., had been informed of his impending prosecution, said people familiar with Ivins, his death and with the FBI investigation.
Ivins, whose name had not been disclosed publicly as a suspect in the case, had played a central role in research to improve anthrax vaccines by preparing anthrax formulations used in experiments on animals.
Regarded as a skilled microbiologist, Ivins also had helped the FBI analyze the powdery material recovered from one of the anthrax-tainted envelopes sent to a U.S. senator’s office in Washington, D.C.
Ivins died Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital after having ingested a massive dose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine, said a friend and colleague who declined to be identified out of concern, he said, that he would be harassed by the FBI.
The death – without any mention of suicide – was announced to Ivins’ colleagues at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in an e-mail.
“People here are pretty shook up about it,” said Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman
for USAMRIID, who said she was not at liberty to discuss details surrounding the death.
The anthrax mailings killed five people, crippled national mail service, shut down a Senate office building and spread fear of terrorism in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The extraordinary turn of events came after the government’s payment in June of a settlement valued at $5.82 million to a former government scientist, Steven Hatfill, who was long targeted as the FBI’s chief suspect despite a lack of any evidence that he had ever possessed anthrax.
Soon after the government’s settlement with Hatfill was announced June 27, Ivins began showing signs of serious strain. One of his longtime colleagues told the Times that Ivins, who was being treated for depression, indicated to a therapist that he was considering suicide.
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August 1st, 2008 at 9:12 am
This is convenient. When will the revolution begin?
August 1st, 2008 at 10:07 am
ah so they have their patsy eliminated , investigation over problem solved , another fine job by dick n bush
August 1st, 2008 at 11:09 am
No doubt they assassinated him.
How do you tie this scientist with Muslim terrorist?
His mailings directly coincided with the 911 event.
More evendence that the Bush administration was behind 911 along with the Mossad.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:18 am
Death To The N. W.O.
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____Remember:____
1776 ANSWERS 1984.
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RESISTANCE IS FRUITFUL !
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August 1st, 2008 at 11:38 am
I’m sure doctor Zack is sleeping better now that he’s off the hook. You can’t make this stuff up… .
August 1st, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Where are the tyranny-deniers crying “conspiracy theory” now?….Another inside job and bizarre events surrounding it…this should be 24/7 news investigation and coverage…But the sheeple are drugged with stories of aquatic life and the new diet study….What more needs to be said..The people with their heads on straight had it right all along…Now lets see what else is spot on…..NWO – your tyranny is crumbling.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Patsy->Govt afraid the Patsy would talk in court->Suicided->Swept under the rug. I bet he was going to drop a bombshell in court in response to his arrest. Like naming names of who ordered him to work on this anthrax mailing black project.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Congress is so god damped corrupted they will go on vacation, enjjoying a month in the sun like nothing to do but enjoy the summer.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:47 pm
another microbiologist commits “suicide”. ya right. NWO, at least come up with a new way to off your patsies. the suicide thing is really played. DEATH TO NWO! pRAY FOR PEACE, PREPARE FOR WAR!!!!!!
August 1st, 2008 at 1:11 pm
My guess, a small drug company called BioPort that produced an anthrax vaccine had lobbyists pushing legisaltion pending before the US gov. to buy a stockpile of the vaccine before the attack. After the attacks the bill passed. So, Ivins gave the anthrax to the drug co. BioPort (ceo is El Hibri from Lebanon, but born in Germany) who then mailed it. simple. (becuase politician recieved money from Bioport, no real investigation can proceed.)
August 1st, 2008 at 1:29 pm
How can you people be so stupid. He did not want to go to jail for what HE did so he killed himself. He did it. No one else, just him.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
How convenient that the FBI wont have to prove it’s case against him…case closed. Another successful suicide.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Salon has an amazing piece of journalism that covers the entire Anthrax debacle quite nicely. Published today.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/g.....1/anthrax/
August 1st, 2008 at 2:52 pm
After seven years of destroying evidence and intimidating witnesses, the FBI has finally caught the individual responsible for the 2001 Anthrax attacks.
Yes, I am being sarcastic.
Bruce Ivins may or may not have been involved in the anthrax attacks.
What we do know for sure is that these attacks terrorized Congress and gave Bush/Cheney a reason to stop the FBI investigation of the 9/11 attacks.
That’s right…Look it up.
The FBI STOPPED its 9/11 investigation just weeks after 9/11 and “focused” all of its resources on finding the source of the anthrax attacks.
Seven years later, their heroic efforts have finally born some fruit.
A lone gunman. Dead by his own hand. And the noble G-Men were hot on his sinister trail.
Cased closed.
Great work guys. You’ve made America safe again.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
if he had lived the government would have had to pay him the 5.8 million settlement he won. not anymore they don’t. i guess its true you cant sue the government and get away with it. how many suicides has that been now?
August 1st, 2008 at 5:03 pm
sorry i had the wrong guy matched with the wrong info. however, the part i said about suicide still stands.
August 1st, 2008 at 5:20 pm
funny how the anthrax attacks coincided with the patriot act’s passage, how even the people who were targeted by anthrax were the ones who wanted to READ the law before signing it.
funny how the anthrax came from our own labs.
and then its really funny that the guy who we figured did it, who could’ve shed some light on this situation “commits suicide.
funny all that huh.
must all be coincidence.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Maxwell Smart Not many could compare to your stupidity. Overdosed on Tylenol 3? Maxwell fool!
August 1st, 2008 at 9:51 pm
When bill was pres. the top ten bio scientists were either found dead, had commited suicide, or were never found at all. HMMMMM…..
August 1st, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Well as we have learned never trustm what the media and government tell us. Always question everything. I am sure the truth will eventually prevail in this matter too, just as it is unfolding in 9/11 reports.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Suicide? Imagine that.
August 2nd, 2008 at 2:32 am
I seem to have missed the corporate medias announcement that the Anthrax attacks were in fact an inside job. When did that happen?
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:34 am
Suicide, how convenient.It is amazing how many “suspects” – “commit suicide.”
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
To #1 post NOT SOON ENOUGH! Neighbors new the FBI(Fucking Bumbling Idiots) were watching him for over a year. I wonder which agency whacked him? Too bad he couldn’t have taken out the DC . Impeachment-ya right more money down the rat hole. Bullets much more effective.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
If anyone wants to know the truth about the New World Order please call me at (202) 497-1182.
CPowers
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Another Murder/Suicide of some sort, Huh!. Up here in Canada the media is almost as stool-brained as their American counterparts. They report the incident but never provide any details or critical analysis of those strange murder/suicides. Did not a Murder/Suicide happen in Britain just a few years ago? The victim in the British Murder/Suicide was a high level civil servant who had provided evidence that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq … Tony Blair was still in office when this Murder/Suicide occurred.
ATTENTION: There was a weird and whacky murder on a Greyhound bus in Western Canada on Thursday, July 31. The assailant stabbed to death a young man and then beheaded and dissembowled him right on the bus. The media claims no motive and the ’suspect’ at this time is being charged with only second degree murder. Could this have been some kind of a super hi-tech set-up murder too? Want to know more. Check the Edmonton Journal, CBC, or CTV websites.
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
This just gets better and better. He worked for the military for 18 years or 35 years depending on which report you read. He had homicidal tendencies since graduate school so how did he pass the psychological exam to enter such a restricted field? He had a anthrax spill in the lab but kept it a secret from wall to wall camera’s while he scrubbed the area clean with bleach. This therapist slash social worker had a restraining order against him and was do to testify but luckily didn’t have to because he overdosed on Tylenol. He sent these letters to the enemies of the neocons just for shits and giggles. He Pretended to be middle eastern: just another bonus for the neocon war mongers. His brother Tom is more than willing to bad mouth him because they haven’t spoken in years and his dad is a big wig in the pharmacy bizz. This guy should have had a target painted on him from day one but instead the FBI chased another guy who they had nothing on. Anyone, Anyone who believes this crap please seek help!
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Suicide? Again?
Give me a break!!!
He probably went around saying, “if I turn up dead and they say I killed myself, don’t believe them,” too.
It never ends. How many people need to be “suicided” before people wise up? Of course, I bet this isn’t even being mention in the Lame Stream Media.
FreeinTX
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:57 pm
surveillance does nothing to address what many say are the root of terrorism-dispossession, poverty, lack of opportunity, and political repression. despite claims that it is spreading democracy around the world, the us foreign policy gives more support than ever to repressive regimes. and us foreign aid is declining while military expenditures are skyrocketing. the doctrine of preemptive war advocated by the neoconservative forces in the us, moreover, threatens to unleash an era of unimaginable violence and disorder. today we do indeed, stand at a crossroads. a crossroads between instinct and understanding. now, more than ever, we as citizens must determine which path our governments take. our future and future generations depends on it. i pray its not too late.
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:57 pm
surveillance does nothing to address what many say are the root of terrorism-dispossession, poverty, lack of opportunity, and political repression. despite claims that it is spreading democracy around the world, the us foreign policy gives more support than ever to repressive regimes. and us foreign aid is declining while military expenditures are skyrocketing. the doctrine of preemptive war advocated by the neoconservative forces in the us, moreover, threatens to unleash an era of unimaginable violence and disorder. today we do indeed, stand at a crossroads. a crossroads between instinct and understanding. now, more than ever, we as citizens must determine which path our governments take. our future and future generations depends on it. i pray its not too late.
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I wonder why they even bother with the suicide stories anymore ? The general public is so stupid , they could Just say he jumped off a bridge , broke his back and foot . So , we had to tase him 19 or 50 times.
Then to keep him from jumping in front of a car , we had to shoot him. What? Missouri ? used that one
already? Uh, he tripped and broke his neck on that rope, Yeah …..
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm
This story is suspiciously buried down low on the page. Why is that?
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:42 pm
David PK That is so right on the money. His therapist was so scared of him he was going to kill everyone but I guess he was the only one home. Isn’t it easy to talk about how dangerous dead people were.
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:54 pm
If Bruce only knew the full extent of this character assassination he could have saved those deadly Tylenol pills.
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:22 am
Of course he committed suicide.
Like Deborah Jean Palfrey.
Like Paul Hill.
Aw, heck, maybe J.F.K. committed suicide too…
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 am
Oops, I had Paul Hill mixed up with someone else. Hill was OPENLY killed by the state. I was thinking of a pro-life activist (whose name I can’t remember now) who was found hanging in his cell dead of a “suicide”.
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Here is a good story
Government trying to “bury” anthrax story
August 1, 2008
The government is trying to bury the 2001 anthrax attack scandal (the anthrax came from a U.S. military base) by claiming that one of the key suspects – Bruce E. Ivins – was a “lone nut” who committed suicide. The government claims that the anthrax letters were an innocent mistake which was “part of an Army scientist’s warped plan to test his cure for the deadly toxin”. Case closed.
There are just a couple of loose ends:
Ivans “was actually part of a team that helped the government investigate the anthrax attacks after Sept. 11″
“The attacks were not entirely unexpected”, according to a journalist, who was urged soon after 9/11 to take cipro by a high-level government official (confirmation that government employees started taking Cipro before the Anthrax attacks here). As Michael Fury put it, “So even if Ivins was involved, how would “a high government official” know that a rogue bioweapons scientist was going to “go postal” with anthrax if that “high government official” was not himself involved?” (and see this comment by Atrios)
Why did the anthrax letters attempt to link 9/11 and the anthrax attack and pretend to be from radical Muslims and be anti-America and anti-Israel, if they really came from a disgruntled American?
Why did the U.S. government – including, apparently, the people responsible for sending the anthrax letters – falsely claim (and read this) that the materials in the anthrax prove that it was manufactured in Iraq? Would a disgruntled “lone nut” be motivated to concoct a false justification for invading Iraq?
“The FBI has completely shut Congress out of its now five-year investigation into anthrax attacks on Capitol Hill and around the nation”. In other words, Congress — which legally has every right to know what really happened, and which was the main victim of the attack — is being kept in the dark. Why is that?
An entirely different guy was actually caught on tape entering the storage area where the anthrax used in the letters was stored, without proper authorization and after being fired from his job over a racially motivated attack on an Egyptian co-worker. But instead of investigating him, or Ivins, the FBI spent years wasting time and falsely accusing an innocent guy
The lawyer who had been representing Ivins in connection with the anthrax investigation categorically maintains Ivins’ innocence
But its only crackpots who think that these loose ends point towards anything sinister, right? Well, the bioweapons expert who actually drafted the current bioweapons law (the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989), says he is convinced that the anthrax attacks that killed five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal elements of the U.S. government. The motive: to foment a police state by killing off and intimidating opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the later Military Commissions Act.
Is he right?
Maybe, but he clearly forgot one motive: to justify war against Iraq.
Note: Even if Ivins was the killer, and even if he did act alone, it was still a false flag attack. Why?
Because Ivins was solidly in the Judeo-Christian, not Muslim, camp, and yet the anthrax letters were made to frame Muslims for the attack. For example, Ivins wrote:
“By blood and faith, Jews are God’s chosen”
Some commentators instead claim that Ivins is Catholic.
But one thing is clear: he isn’t a Muslim.
http://georgewashington2.blogs.....irely.html
Thanks also to atheo
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
R.I.P. poor sole. They have to have a culprit.
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! ~LD
its almost to late….
August 4th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
enoch7 says:
“Maxwell Smart Not many could compare to your stupidity. Overdosed on Tylenol 3? Maxwell fool!”
You do! Many people kill themselves with Tylenol. You should try it, but watch out for the guys in the black helicopters.