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Published online 6 August 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1011
Updated online: 6 August 2008

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Technological advances behind the anthrax investigation

Machines can quickly compare strains and pinpoint origin.

Rex Dalton

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is expected to soon disclose what evidence led them to suspect Bruce Ivins, a microbiologist at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, of the 2001 postal anthrax attacks. But an emerging technology, available only in the past couple of years, is thought to have played a part.

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  • the case isn't closed at all and part of a whitewash hangout to cover up also the ties to the 9/11 tv fakery evidence and the real role of wtc7 in connection with the pre 9/11 terror drill "DARK WINTER" incl. an own mockup tv show. see also http://www.911review.org/Sept11Wiki/Sept11Topics.shtml/ Anthrax Anthrax-911-Gate Anthrax-Hoax Anthrax-Suspects Anthrax-Timeline

    • 07 Aug, 2008
    • Posted by: Nico Haupt aka ewing2001