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Anthraxattacks

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  1. January 2002: FBI Begins Subpoenas of Anthrax Labs After Substantial Delays
  2. February-April 2002: Writing Analyst Encourages FBI to Investigate Hatfill for Anthrax Attacks
  3. February-June 2002: Professor’s Theories Help Drive FBI’s Interest in Anthrax Attacks Suspect Hatfill
  4. April-August 2000: Future Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Said to Have Mental Problems
  5. April 2002: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Submits Second Anthrax Sample to FBI Investigators
  6. June 2002: Scientists Determine Anthrax Used in Attacks Is Two Years Old or Less
  7. July 2002-Late 2003: FBI Openly and Constantly Monitors Anthrax Attacks Suspect Hatfill
  8. August 2006: FBI Scientist Claims Anthrax Used in 2001 Attacks Was Not Weaponized
  9. September-December 2001: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins’s Mental Problems Resurface
  10. Late 2000 and August 2001: Hoax Letters Possibly Related to Anthrax Attacks Sent to Fox News Commentators
  11. Mid-October 2001: Some Bush Administration Officials Excited about Using Anthrax Attacks to Push for War against Iraq
  12. October 2001-2008: US Spending on Bioweapons Research Soars after Anthrax Attacks
  13. December 2001: FBI Questions USAMRIID Scientists about Anthax Attacks
  14. December 2007: FBI Tells Ivins He Could Be Suspect in Anthrax Attacks Case
  15. 1980: Future Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Begins Working at USAMRIID
  16. 1991-1992: Possible Link between Racist Harassment at USAMRIID and Later Anthrax Attacks
  17. 1997: Future Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Develops Anthrax Said to Be Used in Attacks, but as Many as 300 People Have Access to It
  18. 1998: Future Anthrax Attacks Suspect Hatfill Writes Unpublished Novel Envisioning False Flag Biological Attack on US
  19. 2000-2001: USAMRIID Scientists Have Trouble with Anthrax Vaccine; FBI Will Later Call This the Motive for Anthrax Attacks, Suspect Ivins
  20. 2000-2002: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Hatfill Builds Mobile Biological Weapons Factory for US Military
  21. Autumn 2002: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Hatfill Helps Train US Special Forces while FBI Investigates Him
  22. Early 1992: Anthax at USAMRIID Goes Missing; Possible Link to Potential Patsy for Anthrax Attacks
  23. Early-Late 2002: Scientists Map Anthrax Genome to Help Anthrax Attacks Investigation, but Make No Breakthroughs
  24. December 2001-May 2002: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Cleans Up Anthrax Traces near His Desk, Delays Report on It
  25. April 2002: FBI Supposedly Suspects Ivins for Anthrax Attacks, but Allows Him to Continue Helping Anthrax Investigation
  26. Early 2003-2005: Scientists Gradually Able to Identify Unique Signiature to Anthrax Used in 2001 Attacks
  27. Early 2004: Conflict with Anthrax Samples Leads FBI Investigators to Bruce Ivins
  28. Early 2004: Early Scientific Results Suggest Anthrax Used in Attacks Came from USAMRIID
  29. Early 2007: Investigators Match Anthrax Sample from Suspect Ivins with Anthrax Used in 2001 Attacks
  30. Late October 2002: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Drinks Himself to Death
  31. Late 1999-2000: US Military Secretly Makes Weaponized Anthrax in Possible Violation of International Treaty
  32. Late 2001: Security Records Point Suspicion at Scientist Bruce Ivins
  33. Late 2001: FBI Anthrax Investigation Begins Focusing on about 50 to 100 US Scientists as Suspects, Including Steven Hatfill
  34. Mid-October 2001: Future Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Helps Handle Anthrax Letters for FBI Investigation
  35. December 2001-Early August 2002: FBI Takes Seven Months to Test which Mailbox Was Used to Mail Anthrax Letters
  36. Late 2002: Head of FBI’s Anthrax Attacks Investigation Changes, but Focus on Suspect Hatfill Remains
  37. Late 2005-2006: Investigators Determine about 100 Scientists Used Anthrax Matching that in 2001 Attacks, Including Bruce Ivins
  38. Autumn 2006: FBI Anthrax Investigation Finally Stops Suspecting Only Hatfill
  39. Late 2006: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Suspects FBI Is Targeting Him, Says He Is Being Set Up
  40. Late Autumn 2007: FBI Pressures Family Members of Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins; Ivins Begins Drinking Heavily
  41. Mid-August-October 2001: Future Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Works Extra Hours in Laboratory at Nights and on Weekends
  42. Mid-September-October 2001: Neoconservatives Attempt to Link Iraqi Government to 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks
  43. Mid-November 2001: Harmless Second Anthrax Letter Sent to Sen. Daschle, Increasing Attention on Suspect Hatfill
  44. Spring 1998 and After: US Army Secretly Produces Powdered Anthrax Similar to Anthrax Used in 2001 Attacks
  45. Summer 2002: FBI Allegedly Harrasses Anthrax Attacks Suspect Hatfill’s Girlfriend
  46. Winter 2001: Future Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Passes at Least One Polygraph Test, Continues to Work with FBI
  47. March-April 2002: Some Report Possible 9/11 Hijacker Link to Anthrax Attacks, Despite Thin Evidence
  48. 1997-September 1999: Steven Hatfill’s Two Year USAMRID Contract Ends, Ending His Contact with Suspected Anthrax Strain
  49. February 1999: Classified CIA Report Discusses Responses to an Anthrax Attack through the Mail
  50. Early March 2002: Bioweapons Expert Finally Interviewed by the FBI, Invited to Join Anthrax Investigation despite Close Ties to Main Suspect