Anyone who has followed the “Anthrax” attacks closely, and looked beyond what the mainstream media had to report, know that, like the September 11th attacks, there are many “inconsistencies” with the official story. Bruce Ivins was stalked by The F.B.I., smeared by the press, and then committed suicide (or perhaps even “suicided” like Dr. Kelly).
And most of the evidence when looked at closely, makes it seem certain that Bruce Ivins was surely scapegoated. The Seattle Times has new article out looking at the case. For those looking for more information both The New Scientist and Glen Greenwald at Salon.com had informative pieces on the subject, but to get a good idea who the “real anthrax killer” may be look here….
“Things were turning up missing at AMRIID, and Lt. Col. Michael Langford was baffled. He suspected that someone was tampering with records, perhaps in order to conduct unauthorized research. He told a lab technician to “make a list of everything that was missing,” and “it turned out that there was quite a bit of stuff that was unaccounted for,” 27 sets of specimens, including anthrax, hanta virus, simian AIDS virus “and two that were labeled ‘unknown’ – an Army euphemism for classified research whose subject was secret,” as this chilling Hartford Courant story by Jack Dolan and Dave Altimari puts it. One set of specimens has since been found: the rest are still missing….
An investigation was launched that exposed the shockingly lax security measures at the lab, and raised the possibility that some specimens may never have been entered in lab records. Also uncovered was a tape from a surveillance camera showing the entry of an unauthorized person into the lab, at 8:40, on January 23, 1992, let in by Dr. Marian Rippy, lab pathologist. The night visitor was Lt. Col. Philip Zack, a former employee who had left as a result of a dispute with the lab over his alleged harassment of Dr. Assaad. The Courant reports:
“Zack left Fort Detrick in December 1991, after a controversy over allegations of unprofessional behavior by Zack, Rippy, [lab technician Charles] Brown and others who worked in the pathology division. They had formed a clique that was accused of harassing the Egyptian-born Assaad, who later sued the Army, claiming discrimination.”
According to Assaad, in the week before Easter 1991, he found a poem in his mailbox, described in another Courant story:
“The poem, which became a court exhibit, has 235 lines, many of them lewd, mocking Assaad. The poem also refers to another creation of the scientists who wrote it — a rubber camel outfitted with sexually explicit appendages. The poem reads: ‘In (Assaad’s) honor we created this beast; it represents life lower than yeast.’ The camel, it notes, each week will be given ‘to who did the least.’ The poem also doubles as an ode to each of the participants who adorned the camel, who number at least six and referred to themselves as ‘the camel club.’ Two — Dr. Philip Zack and Dr. Marian Rippy — voluntarily left Fort Detrick soon after Assaad brought the poem to the attention of supervisors.”
Read the rest of the article by the wonderful Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com
