And everyone is rushing to slam closed the door on that terrible chapter in our history. Now that there is a dead guy that we can accuse without "his day in court", we can forget about why it happened in the first place... and even who really did it!
Chief suspect in US anthrax attacks, Bruce Ivins, found dead
A top government scientist who helped to investigate America's deadly 2001 anthrax attacks has killed himself just as he was about to be charged in the case, in an extraordinary and unexpected twist to the biggest criminal investigation in US history.
Bruce Ivins, 62, who had worked for 18 years at the US Government's biodefence research laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland, died from an overdose of painkillers after being told that the Justice Department was about to charge him over the attacks, which brought fresh terror to the US days after the September 11 atrocity.
The death of Dr Ivins may put an end to one of the most baffling criminal investigations of modern times: the posting of weapons-grade anthrax spores in September and October 2001 that killed five people, sickened 17, closed Capitol Hill and crippled the US Postal Service.
Convinced at the time that it was another al-Qaeda plot, President Bush has since conceded that it was one of the lowest points of his White House tenure.
Who stood to gain from the anthrax scare? Well, it certainly didn't hurt the Bush Administration and the Military Industrial Complex in their rush to a senseless and illegal war, which filled their pockets by the way!
