2001 anthrax attacks
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The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax, occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 attacks. Letters con
Laboratory technician holding an anthrax-laced letter sent to Senator Patrick Leahy
The Tom Brokaw (NBC) note
The second anthrax note
Envelope addressed to Senator Thomas Daschle, postmarked October 9, 2001
Bruce Edwards Ivins
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Bruce Edwards Ivins was an American microbiologist, vaccinologist, senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, and
2001 anthrax attacks
…Ba'athist Iraq. Thereafter, a major focus in the early years of the investigation was bioweapons expert Steven Hatfill, who was eventually exonerated. Bruce Edwards Ivins, a scientist at the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, became a focus around April 4, 2005. On April 11, 2007, Ivins…
Ivins at a USAMRIID awards ceremony, 2003
Ivins at a science fair, from the 1963 yearbook of Lebanon High School in Ohio
Ivins as a high school senior, 1964
FBI photo of Ivins' office at USAMRIID, where the breach allegedly occurred