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Anthrax Attacks

Five years ago today the Anthrax Attacks via post mark mail began where humans received letters with Anthrax that eventually killed them. To date, no arrests have been made and two specific suspects were identified mostly because the strain of Anthrax that was used in the Attacks was used in Government labs. The question here is what was the reason behind it? Was it really an Islamist terrorist attack or just another human playing a sick joke?

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I am not one to judge...intentionally, so I have no right to make that call. If it was an Islamic terrorist attack, then we are in deep trouble. If indeed it was someone playing a dirty joke on us, then we must learn to pay better attention to what we allow around us and in us.

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Personally, I think it was just another one of those psychotic types- like the unibomber. Except, this depraved mind was intelligent enough to get away with it and most likely will never get caught.

Edited: SivanIlius on 19th Sep, 2006 - 6:50pm

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Huge US payout over anthrax case

The US justice department agrees a multimillion-dollar settlement with a man named in the 2001 anthrax attack probe.
Ref. https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/a...cas/7478722.stm

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Anthrax case takes strange twist

WASHINGTON - Anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and severely rattled the post-9/11 nation may have been part of an Army scientist's warped plan to test his cure for the deadly toxin, officials said yesterday. The brilliant but troubled scientist committed suicide this week, knowing that prosecutors were closing in.
Ref. https://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20...1n2anthrax.html

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Anthrax may be tough, but it gets sick, too

Anthrax may be the baddest bacteria on the block, but anthrax gets sick, too. Just like you, bacteria get the bug, viruses called bacteriophages. Bacteriophages are just small viruses, tiny and elegant packages of genes that inject themselves into the machinery of cells, using them to churn out more viruses. Ref. Source 3

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Pentagon No. 2 to lead investigation into handling of anthrax

The Pentagon plans to launch a high-level investigation into the mishandling of deadly anthrax samples following revelations Friday that additional infectious samples were inadvertently sent to a lab in Australia seven years ago, according to a senior Defense Department official. The probe will be headed up by the Pentagon's No. 2 official, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work, according to the official. Ref. USAToday

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Pentagon: Four anthrax shipments contained live spores

At least four batches of anthrax samples shipped from a military lab to labs in 12 states and three countries contained live spores, a top Pentagon official said Wednesday. The Pentagon will finish by the end of June its study of why an Army lab mistakenly sent potentially deadly anthrax samples to the labs, said Frank Kendall, the military's top acquisition chief. Ref. USAToday