On September 18, 2001, just days after the September 11 terrorist attack, anonymous letters laced with bacterial spores of Bacillus anthracis aka Anthrax, were mailed to media companies and congressional offices. The “anthrax letters killed five people and sickened 17”. This type of bioterrorism attack was simulated just months before in June 2001, and game-played using letters – it was called Dark Winter.
The crime was investigated by the FBI et al for 7 years and on February 19, 2010 concluded that Dr. Bruce E. Ivins who worked at the at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), worked alone and sent the letters. In July 2008, Ivins was reported to have committed suicide. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Following this threat, the Clinton administration’s military were mandated to receive anthrax vaccines, to “protect troops against the use of anthrax as a biological weapon”, a practice which just months before in June 2001 the Department of Defense had halted! [5]
In 2003 Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered the 6-shot non-FDA approved, mandated anthrax vaccines to stop. Many soldiers were injured by the vaccines, 85% of troops had reported some adverse reaction to the vaccine, this vaccination practice could explain the 1990’s Gulf War syndrome which had an alleged unknown cause! [10] The CDC started recommending the shots in 1991, the vaccine was only FDA approved in 2005, some military refused to take it. [6, 7, 8, 9]