[lbo-talk] dead anthrax suspect's brother: "he can go to hell"

[W. Kiernan]

Meanwhile here's the way the Army spins a multiple assassination attempt 
by a U.S. Army employee, using a proscribed U.S. Army biological weapon, 
against two Democratic congressmen.  A quote from the L.A. Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-anthrax2-2008aug02,0,402689,full.story

One former senior official with Ivins' employer, the U.S. Army Medical 
Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, whom the FBI questioned at 
length about Ivins, said he believed his former colleague wanted more 
attention -- and resources -- shifted to biological defense.

"It had to have been a motive," said the former official, who suspects 
that Ivins was the culprit. "I don't think he ever intended to kill 
anybody. He just wanted to prove 'Look, this is possible.' He probably 
had no clue that it would aerosolize through those envelopes and kill 
those postal workers."

See, Ivins just wanted to make a fast buck, he didn't intend to kill 
anyone; he obviously could not have expected anybody at the destination 
address to ever open these letters that were all chock-full of 
weaponized anthrax spores.  Say what?

yrs WDK