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FBI Interrogates EPA Scientist in Anthrax Investigation
The FBI has questioned a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientist about an anonymous letter sent shortly before the 2001 anthrax attacks that accused a fellow scientist of plotting a bioterrorist act, the Washington Times reported today (see GSN, Aug. 11, 2003). According to a document, FBI agents involved in the bureau’s investigation into the anthrax attacks sought information on the letter, which charged that EPA toxicologist Ayaad Assaad was an anti-American “religious fanatic” with the ability to launch a biological attack, the Times reported. The document said an FBI agent told an EPA scientist last week that he had been identified by coworkers as the man who wrote the letter about Assaad. It also indicates that the FBI agent warned the scientist not to discuss the interrogation and that he may be subjected to a lie-detector test, according to the Times. The FBI refused to comment on whether the anonymous letter was linked to the anthrax attacks. “At this point, I’m unable to discuss whether or not there is a nexus between the anthrax mailings of 2001 and this anonymous letter written to the FBI before the first anthrax mailing,” a representative at the FBI’s Washington field office said yesterday (Guy Taylor, Washington Times, Feb. 18).
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