1) -- Federal prosecutors investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks were planning to indict and seek the death penalty against a top Army microbiologist in connection with anthrax mailings that killed five people. The scientist, who was developing a vaccine against the deadly toxin, committed suicide this week.
The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, worked for the past 18 years at the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Md. For more than a decade, he worked to develop an anthrax vaccine that was effective even in cases where different strains of anthrax were mixed, which made vaccines ineffective, according to federal documents reviewed by the AP.
A Long-Running ProbeRick Bowmer, APAn official displays a copy of a tainted envelope at a November 2001 news conference on the anthrax attacks that traumatized the nation after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The lengthy probe had come to focus on Bruce E. Ivins, a military microbiologist who killed himself this week.
The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, worked for the past 18 years at the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Md. For more than a decade, he worked to develop an anthrax vaccine that was effective even in cases where different strains of anthrax were mixed, which made vaccines ineffective, according to federal documents reviewed by the AP.
A Long-Running ProbeRick Bowmer, APAn official displays a copy of a tainted envelope at a November 2001 news conference on the anthrax attacks that traumatized the nation after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The lengthy probe had come to focus on Bruce E. Ivins, a military microbiologist who killed himself this week.
