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Asked by reporters after his testimony whether he believed that there was any chance that Dr. Ivins, who committed suicide in 2008, had carried out the attacks, the microbiologist, Henry S. Heine, replied, “Absolutely not.” At the Army’s biodefense laboratory in Maryland, where Dr. Ivins and Dr. Heine worked, he said, “among the senior scientists, no one believes it.”
Dr. Heine told the 16-member panel, which is reviewing the F.B.I.’s scientific work on the investigation, that producing the quantity of spores in the letters would have taken at least a year of intensive work using the equipment at the army lab. Such an effort would not have escaped colleagues’ notice, he added later, and lab technicians who worked closely with Dr. Ivins have told him they saw no such work.
He told the panel that biological containment measures where Dr. Ivins worked were inadequate to prevent the spores from floating out of the laboratory into animal cages and offices. “You’d have had dead animals or dead people,” he said…
Originally posted by Reign02
its already been proven that it wasn't....... It was thought (through intel) that the terrorist's would and could obtain this bacteria to try and use it against us. So we were conducting expierements with it and it was PROVEN that one of the scientists was the one mailing it out.
Originally posted by spiritualzombie
reply to post by Cassius666
The story goes as FBI were about to make an arrest, the guy killed himself. So the whole anthrax scare was caused by a U.S. government scientist who commits suicide before an arrest can be made.
edit on 11-1-2011 by spiritualzombie because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Reign02
Originally posted by spiritualzombie
reply to post by Cassius666
The story goes as FBI were about to make an arrest, the guy killed himself. So the whole anthrax scare was caused by a U.S. government scientist who commits suicide before an arrest can be made.
edit on 11-1-2011 by spiritualzombie because: (no reason given)
BINGO!