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[5] September 18–October 12, 2001 2001 anthrax attacks: Bacillus anthracis: 5 17 United States: Letters laced with infectious anthrax were concurrently delivered to news media offices and the U.S Congress, alongside an ambiguously related case in Chile. The letters killed 5. Bruce Edwards Ivins [6] 2003 2003 ricin letters: Ricin: 0 0 United ...
The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), [1] occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and to ...
[49] [50] She was charged with ″mailing a threatening letter to President Barack Obama″. [51] [52] On June 6, she confessed that she had mailed the three letters, knowing they contained ricin, but claimed her husband made her do it. [52] On December 10, she pleaded guilty to sending the letters. The plea limits her potential sentence to 18 ...
The letter was postmarked on October 17 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. [5] Though addressed to the White House, the threatening language contained in the letter was again directed at the U.S. Department of Transportation and written by someone calling themselves "Fallen Angel", as with the previous letter. [5] The text of the letter stated:
Letter writers decry a racist attack in Portsmouth and offer opinions on the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator 1 March 8, 1782 Massacre 96 2 Gnadenhutten, Ohio (then part of the Indian reserve / Ohio Country) : Gnadenhutten massacre – Pennsylvania militia round up and execute 96 unarmed pacifist Christian Delaware (Lenape) Indians, including 69 women and children, as revenge for raids against settlers (carried out by other Indians) as well as in ...
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Bruce Edwards Ivins (/ ˈ aɪ v ɪ n z /; April 22, 1946 – July 29, 2008) [1] was an American microbiologist, vaccinologist, [1] senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the person suspected by the FBI of the 2001 anthrax attacks. [2]