FBI to Disclose Further Information in Anthrax Case

By Raoul Railey
21:12, August 5th 2008
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The FBI is preparing to disclose evidence in the 2001 anthrax attacks case. The main suspect is former Army scientist Bruce Irvins, to whom the FBI has tracked the anthrax that has been sent through mail back in 2001, following the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Bruce Irvins's suicide, which the suspect committed last week, has determined some people to suspect that the FBI has found a scape goat in the scientist as they don't really know who the person responsible for the incident really is. These people say that a lot of information will remain unknown because further questioning of the suspect was made impossible by his suicide.

The 2001 anthrax attacks have made the Federal Bureau of Investigation develop a new field of research that was dubbed microbial forensics. Scientists have developed ways of tracking back the source of a biological terrorist attack based on analyzing the water used to grow the microbial cultures, ways of turning them into a biological weapons or finding the weapon's genetic signature.

Based on these analysis, the FBI has announced that the same anthrax that was mailed to the targets of the attack has been found in Irvins's laboratory.

The scientist had access to the bacteria while working on developing a vaccine against it for which he even received an award. One of the main reasons that make people doubt that he was responsible for the attacks is that he apparently had no reason to launch them.

While the FBI has announced that it has narrowed down the suspect list to Mr. Irvins, people are left wondering if this case will take the same turn as the assassination of J.F.K., and will provide new material for conspiracy theories.



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