5 years after terror of anthrax, case grows colder

[UpInArms]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4191256.html

WASHINGTON — Five years after anthrax killed five people and introduced America to high-tech bioterrorism, one of the biggest crime mysteries of our times remains unsolved.

FBI agents and U.S. postal inspectors have pursued hundreds of leads and interviewed scores of scientists who work with the deadly anthrax bacteria, but the investigation now appears to be languishing.

"No matter what anybody says, if it is five years out, and we are not even seeing any smoke from the investigation, then I would say definitely that this case is cold right now," said Christopher Hamilton, a former FBI counter-terrorism official who worked on the anthrax investigation and is now a counter-terrorism expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a non-partisan think tank. "This thing is just sitting out there with nothing happening."

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The anthrax investigation began after a Florida photojournalist died on Oct. 5, 2001, from an infection produced by the bacteria. Within days, anthrax-laced letters were uncovered at news outlets in New York City and at the Washington office of Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., then the top Democrat in the Senate. In November, anthrax turned up in a letter sent to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

The letters contained similar handwritten notes. The letter to Leahy read: "You cannot stop us. We have the anthrax. You die now. Are you afraid? Death to America. Death to Israel. Allah is great."

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strange how it was only the "liberal" media and the Democratic senators that were targeted :think:

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[ClintonTyree]

2. There hasn't been an "attack" since either.

I guess whoever did it must have achieved their goal, at least in their mind's eye. What could that goal have been? It appears that is was, FEAR. Mission accomplished! :eyes:

[lapfog_1]

8. The "Patriot Act" was passed when exactly?

Oh yeah... Oct 26,2001...

*mission accomplished"

[converted_democrat]

3. K&R

"strange how it was only the "liberal" media and the Democratic senators that were targeted"

I always found that odd myself.. I guess since they're not pukes, they don't really count..

[globalvillage]

4. CNN advertising they will do an anthrax story on Monday

No details, I heard it advertised yesterday. There's nothing on their website about it.

[Ecumenist]

5. Double post

[Ecumenist]

6. Well, considering that Pinhead the Magnificent

and his slobbering creep crowd would find it especialy difficult to arrest themselves, I'm not surprised that they've been less than dedicated to finding the maniacs behind that serial mass murder. Hell, this bunch doesn't even like to responsibility for the things that they CLEARLY and spectacularly screwed up... Katrina, anyone?

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. A child was coerced to write those letters.

They're searching the wrong leads. They need to find a child who five years ago had learned to write in caps and who went to a right-wing private school where traditional letter-writing is taught. She or he use to either write "G"s in an odd cutsy way, OR, they mistook a "6" for a "G" and corrected it as she/he was copying the a note from the person involved with the anthrax killing.