Someone Tried To Frame Dr. Assaad For A "Bioterror Attack" That Had NOT Happened Yet....

[kpete]

It appears someone was trying to frame Dr. Assaad for an attack that hadn’t yet happened as far as the public knew.

Laura Rozen’s article:
http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2002/01/26/assaad/index.html

Jan. 26, 2002 | On Oct. 2, Ayaad Assaad, a U.S. government scientist and former biowarfare researcher, received a call from an FBI agent asking him to come in for a talk. It was well before anthrax panic gripped the nation — in fact, it was the same day that photo editor Robert Stevens, 63, was admitted to a Florida hospital. It wasn’t until the next day that Stevens was diagnosed with inhalation anthrax, and another two days later, on Oct. 5, when he would become the first of five eventual fatalities caused by the apparent bioterrorist attack.

The day after hearing from the FBI, Assaad met with special agents J. Gregory Lelyegian and Mark Buie in the FBI’s Washington field office, along with Assaad’s attorney, Rosemary McDermott. They showed Assaad a detailed, unsigned, computer-typed letter with a startling accusation: that the 53-year-old Assaad, an Environmental Protection Agency scientist who filed an age discrimination suit against the U.S. Army for dismissing him from a biowarfare lab, might be a bioterrorist.

Timelines:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/08/06/anthrax-timeline-two/

[zeemike]

1. All these smoking guns and silence from the media n/t

[Kaleko]

2. Ha, the plot thickens. I hope this won't go away until

the whole ball of wax is unraveled.

Keeping the anthrax stories kicked,

yours truly.

[elehhhhna]

3. 5th rec & off ya go. Please, DU: REC THIS THREAD!

[RedLetterRev]

4. Kick!

Finally, the "A" word is getting some attention again. I worked in Boca across the industrial park from the Enquirer building. There was chain link and black SUV's around it for the longest time and nothing said about it. I used to cut through that driveway to get to the taco shop until the first anthrax attack but HELL NO after that.

Always did wonder what was up with that and why the Enquirer of all the rags in the world. The mind boggles.

[Trillo]

5. Thanks for posting.

I haven't anything to add, except, kick!, and hope truthful answers are found.

[Leopolds Ghost]

6. Things that make you go Hmmm.

[sofa king]

7. If you like that, you'll love this.

That first fellow to be diagnosed with inhalation anthrax, Stevens? He was best known for publishing this photograph:



Look familiar?