"I know what Bruce went through, because I went through it too," he said.

[EFerrari]

Early anthrax suspect doubts guilt of Ivins
September 7, 2008 - 9:55am

Ayaad Assaad was in Australia visiting relatives the day before his former colleague and friend, Bruce Ivins, died from an apparent suicide in Frederick in July.

Ivins, a Fort Detrick anthrax specialist, had become the sole focus of a seven-year FBI investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five and injured 17. The FBI has since released evidence it claims proves Ivins' guilt, but has admitted much of it is circumstantial.

Assaad, who worked in a U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease lab at Fort Detrick from 1989 to 1997 developing a vaccine for ricin, said in an interview Saturday he does not believe Ivins was guilty.

"He's a great man. He's honorable, sincere, honest and most important, he didn't kill five people and he didn't kill himself," Assaad said.

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=25&pid=0&sid=1473656&page=1

[coffeenap]

1. Thanks for putting this back before our eyes.... k & r, my friend.

[EFerrari]

3. Thank you, coffeenap

:hi:

[EFerrari]

2. Kick

[Festivito]

4. "and he didn't kill himself," she says. /nt

[EFerrari]

5. One of the most disgusting aspects of this case is FBI hounded Ivins

for a year or more, stalked him and his family and now they turn around and say he was unstable as if they had nothing to do with it.

Whoever has been directing this "investigation" is a criminal.