The anthrax attacks in the United States began on September 18, 2001, 1 exact week after the WTC attacks. Letters that contained anthrax spores were sended by mail to several news media offices and two Democratic US Senators. The attacked killed 5 people and 17 infected. The primary suspect was Bruce Edwards Ivins, who suicide on August 1, 2008 after been told about his prosecution.
The anthrax attacks came in two waves. The first was on September 18, 2001. Letters were sent to NBC, CBS, and ABC News, and The New York Post, all in New York City, and one letter to the National Enquirer at AMI in Boca Raton, Florida. Scientists examining the anthrax from the New York Post letter said it appeared as a coarse brown granular material looking like Purina Dog Show.
The second attack occured 3 weeks after the first. The letters were adressed to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. The material in this letters was more potent than the first ones, consisting on about 1 gram of nearly pure anthrax spores.
The US government has not found any guilties for the attack, although they insisted on blaming Al Qaeda and Iraq, since the attacks coincided with the tragedy on 9/11.
The role of technology in this attack clearly is the tool used to find a responsable person for the attack.
I didn't knew this xD, well I knew about the cards of anthrax but not that clear. I think that these guys from Al Qaeda finished their ideas of how to damage USA, but they will not stop loooking for ways to make American's life impossible..
ResponderEliminarThis is scary, you can't even open your mail safely! It is incredible and this type of things happen to Americans very commonly. They have trouble with other countries for being such a powerful country, and for being kind of ambitious too.
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