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Who knew since when from whom that Bruce E. Ivins actually committed suicide…?

There was 9/11. Noone expected it, and those who expected it couldn´t help it. Then there were these 2001 Antrax attacks a week after September the 11th, well prepared and organized. All of an accident – sure. What if not.

Then, after almost 7 years without any substantial progress in this case, a senior biodefense researcher, who worked at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick for 18 years, dies on July 29.

Then the Court of Public Opinion finds out about that from an USAMRIID email.

Then the bright „Los Angeles Times“ duteously reports on August 1, Bruce E. Ivins has committed „apparent suicide“, though a suicide is not even mentioned in the USAMRIID email.

And all over sudden Ivins now happens to be the (former) main suspect in the whole case of anthrax murder.

But „Associated Press“, fellow citizens of the world, wrote:

„Ivins died Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Maryland. The Times, quoting an unidentified colleague, said the scientist had taken a massive dose of a prescription drug.“

Hmmm. At least there were some who got an email.

By the way: did someone mail Dr. Barbara Rosenberg, molecular biologist at the State University of New York and former advisor of President Bill Clinton? Because she might has something to say about this dark eyed stories about the dark side of someone who worked at US military bio-weapon laboratories and nobody knew anything about this dark genius and his dark, very dark, more dark, extremely dark, hyper-dark end after 18 years.

On November 29 Dr.Rosenberg published the paper „A Compilation of Evidence and Comments on the Source of the Mailed Anthrax“. Cite:

The perpetrator is probably an American microbiologist who has access to weaponized anthrax or to the expertise and materials for making it, in a US government or contractor lab. He does not live in or near Trenton, but more probably in the Washington, DC area. Trenton is probably accessible to him (it is a stop on the Amtrak line that runs along the East coast), but if he is smart enough to handle anthrax he is smart enough not to mail it from his home town.

The anthrax in the letters was probably made and weaponized in a US government or contractor lab. It might have been made recently by the perpetrator on his own, or made as part of the US biodefense program; or it may be a remnant of the US biological weapons program before Nixon terminated the program in 1969.

This text has been revised on December 10, 2001.
On December 2, 2001 the „New York Times“ had quoted the original words:

„an American microbiologist who had, or once had, access to weaponized anthrax in a U.S. government lab, or had been taught by a U.S. defense expert how to make it. Perhaps he had a vial or two in his basement as a keepsake.“

So – do not try to make a dark out of us, LA Times, NY Times, and so on.

Answer the question: who knew since when from whom that Bruce E. Ivins actually committed suicide?

And was it a suicide? And has anybody even confirmed the death of this suspect besides the US military, God damn it?