* GAO: Why are the so-called “Iraq sample” and Battelle discussed under the heading about IVINS’ knowledge of reported proposals to start conducting animal challenges at USAMRIID with dried Ames anthrax powder? What consulting did the DARPA-funded researchers at GMU’s Center for Biodefense who came to share a suite with Ali Al-Timimi do for Battelle in 1999? What work with virulent Ames did SRI in Frederick, MD do for those researchers?
Posted by Lew Weinstein on December 14, 2011
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DXer said
Mr. Epstein writes about an early person of interest, Perry Mikesell:
“Without any direct evidence, other than the attack anthrax itself, the FBI tightened surveillance on American scientists. One such scientist was microbiologist Perry Mikesell, who had access to anthrax in 1999 when he worked at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus. The FBI scrutiny of Mikesell became so intense that, according to family members, he began to drink heavily. Although he died from a heart attack in October 2002, family members said that he drank himself to death.”
DXer said
It’s quite amazing that journalists have not discussed this weaponized sample that went missing.
DXer said
That sample that was brought to Ivins by the scientist consulting with the FBI and was told was from Iraq wasn’t from Iraq, was it? Okay… then where was it from?
DXer said
Will GAO be told about the so-called “Iraq sample”? Was that really dried powder made for biodefense purposes at SRI in Frederick? But classified?
What did the leading Ames researchers who shared a suite with convicted seditionist Ali Al-TImimi (who was coordinating with sheikh Anwar Alwaki), do for Battelle in 1999?
Isn’t Mr. Greenwald’s assumption that Anwar was not an operative in 911 naive?
DXer said
Dr. Ivins was given powder from the dried aerosol project to test. He says he was told it was from Iraq — but it wasn’t. It was from the dried aerosol project, wasn’t it? Who gave it to Ivins. The FBI’s anthrax scientist collecting samples whose lab threw out Dr. Ivins February 2002 sample?