Instead of pointing the finger at Saddam, the FBI lab found that the anthrax spores originated from one of three US Army labs; Fort Detrick; a lab at the University of Scranton; or Battelle’s West Jefferson facility, owned by an El-Hibri business partner.59 The FBI closed its investigation after its leading suspect, a vaccinologist, Dr. Bruce Ivins, who ran the US Army lab at Fort Detrick, allegedly took his own life. A multitude of critics of the shoddy and haphazard FBI investigation complained that Ivins was the victim of a ham-handed FBI frame. According to the FBI’s former lead
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