Getting closer to the anthrax killers?

[Sliverofhope]

The Anthrax Mystery by Justin Raimondo

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Days before the anthrax story broke, but after the poisoned missives had been mailed, a very strange letter arrived at military police headquarters in Quantico, Virginia, accusing Dr. Ayaad Assaad, who formerly worked at Ft. Detrick's bio-warfare lab, of planning a terrorist attack. The author of the letter, clearly possessed of a detailed knowledge of Dr. Assaad's career and routine at USAMRIID, claimed to have once worked with the Egyptian-born scientist.

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Shortly after the anthrax letters were opened by the first unlucky recipients, the FBI paid a visit to Dr. Assaad, who was quickly cleared of any connection with the attacks. But his fascinating story – of his harassment by a cabal of viciously anti-Arab scientists at Ft. Detrick, who called themselves the "Camel Club" – provided law enforcement with the first significant clues. Now, three years later – after targeting the unlucky Steven J. Hatfill, publicly branding him as a "person of interest," and making his life a living hell – they are finally following up and seem to be hot on the trail of the anthrax killer(s).

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"Federal agents summoned the EPA scientist to their Washington field office last week and asked whether he wrote an anonymous letter to the FBI days before the first anthrax death, warning that another EPA researcher was a potential bio-terrorist. The scientist told federal investigators Wednesday that he had nothing to do with the anonymous letter, but the document indicated that he might be subjected to a lie-detector test."

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And there's my limit for paragraphs. The rest is at

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/

It was pretty clear to me at the time that the anthrax terrorists were someone trying to look really hard like an islamic fundamentalist. Who clearly probably was a domestic terrorist.

Let us not forget this as well.

[rooboy]

1. As soon as I started to read your post I thought "ZACK"... n/t

[Sgt. Peppers]

2. I think it was a republican "Bush-pal-wana-be"

If you noticed the letters were mailed to Democrats, then to republicans only after they were told to watch out for them.

[libertad]

3. Just like the ricin in Frist's mailroom.

There is something unusual about that situation, too. No envelopes, he discovers the powdery substance, no one is injured, etc.

[mac2]

5. Frist is not going to jail or put out as leader is he?

I saw him on TV soon after the attack talking about it. Frist looked like his NAZI mouth could hardly keep from laughing at the event to distract from his crime. I'm so....clever!!

Frist is like Delay a very dangerous mentally ill man.

[mac2]

4. Yes..it's all planned to make sure the Arab countries are blamed

because the Bush agenda is....well you know!

[RainDog]

6. The Salon article intro

cited in the above link. unfortunately, my Salon subscription has lapsed, so I can't access the article anymore.

-another article which talked about Dr. Assaad, the attempt to smear him, and the FBI's refusal to give information to a man who was able to identify the author of Primary Colors based upon analysis of writing was in the...October or November 03 Vanity Fair, too...which is also not available online.
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Fort Detrick's anthrax mystery
Who tried to frame Dr. Ayaad Assaad, a former biowarfare researcher at the Army lab? Was it the same person responsible for last fall's anthrax mail terrorism?

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By Laura Rozen

Jan. 26, 2002 | THURMONT, Md. -- On Oct. 2, Ayaad Assaad, a U.S. government scientist and former biowarfare researcher, received a call from an FBI agent asking him to come in for a talk. It was well before anthrax panic gripped the nation -- in fact, it was the same day that photo editor Robert Stevens, 63, was admitted to a Florida hospital. It wasn't until the next day that Stevens was diagnosed with inhalation anthrax, and another two days later, on Oct. 5, when he would become the first of five eventual fatalities caused by the apparent bioterrorist attack.

The day after hearing from the FBI, Assaad met with special agents J. Gregory Lelyegian and Mark Buie in the FBI's Washington field office, along with Assaad's attorney, Rosemary McDermott. They showed Assaad a detailed, unsigned, computer-typed letter with a startling accusation: that the 53-year-old Assaad, an Environmental Protection Agency scientist who filed an age discrimination suit against the U.S. Army for dismissing him from a biowarfare lab, might be a bioterrorist.

"Dr. Assaad is a potential biological terrorist," the letter stated, according to Assaad and McDermott. The letter was received by the FBI in Quantico, Va., but Assaad did not learn from the FBI where it had been mailed from. "I have worked with Dr. Assaad," the letter continued, "and I heard him say that he has a vendetta against the U.S. government and that if anything happens to him, he told his sons to carry on."

According to Assaad, "The letter-writer clearly knew my entire background, my training in both chemical and biological agents, my security clearance, what floor where I work now, that I have two sons, what train I take to work, and where I live.

"The letter warned the FBI to stop me," he said.