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"Bizarre, disjointed and juvenile"
"Assaad is convinced that anonymous writer is connected to the person who mailed the anthrax letters, and that the
warning was intended set him up as a scapegoat."
It's bad enough that we can't find Iraqi
anthrax hidden in the desert. But it turns
out that we also misplaced anthrax and
Ebola kept in a lab outside Washington
D.C.
Internal Army documents about the U.S.
biodefense program describe missing Ebola
and other pathogens, vicious feuds, lax
security, cover-ups and a "cowboy
culture" beyond anyone's scrutiny.
Moreover, germ warriors in the C.I.A. and
the Defense Department decided
without bothering to consult the White
House to produce anthrax secretly and
tinker with it in ways that arguably put the
U.S. in violation of the Biological Weapons
Convention.
It's time for Congress or an outside
commission to investigate our nation's
biodefense program and establish
oversight.
"Shenanigans have been going on,"
declares one internal Army memo about
the labs at ground zero of the biodefense
world: Usamriid, the acronym for the U.S.
Army Medical Research Institute of
Infectious Diseases, based at Fort Detrick,
Md.
The 400 pages of documents, which I've
obtained and which were described by The
Hartford Courant earlier this year, quote a
newly arrived officer named Michael
Langford as saying that he found "little or
no organization," "little or no
accountability," "a very lax and
unorganized system" and signs of covert
work and cover-ups.
Mr. Langford requested an inventory of
pathogens acquired in 1991. The resulting
memo shows that 62 samples had vanished,
including Ebola, hantavirus, anthrax, S.I.V.
(the monkey version of the virus that
causes AIDS), and several described only
as "unknown."
Usamriid says that it rechecked this year
and was able to account for virtually all of
the missing specimens except one set that
would have been irradiated to render it
harmless. But a decade's delay in
bothering to look for missing Ebola seems
a bit much, and conversations with
scientists who have worked at Usamriid do
not inspire confidence (although, in
fairness, many who talk publicly have
lawsuits pending against the lab).
"When I was laid off, I walked out for
three days in a row with boxes, and no one
looked inside them," recalled Richard
Crosland, who worked at Usamriid from
1986 to 1997. "I was there for 11 years,
and never once did anyone ask, `Where is
the substance you ordered?'
"I could have walked out with it when I
left, and no one would have known. I
didn't, but I could have. 7-Eleven had
better inventory control. And I was
working with botulinum, which is one of the
deadliest substances on earth.
"If you couldn't find a microscope, you
were in real trouble. But if you misplaced
five micrograms of botulinum that could
kill thousands of people, nobody would
notice."
Nicholas D. Kristof: 'Case of the missing
anthrax'
Posted on Friday, July 19 @ 09:55:57 EDT
By Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times
"Shenanigans have been going on,"
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=7426
Nicholas D. Kristof: 'Case of the missing anthrax'
Date: Friday, July 19 @ 09:55:57 EDT
Topic: War & Terrorism
By Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times
It's bad enough that we can't find Iraqi anthrax hidden in the desert. But it turns out that we also misplaced anthrax
and Ebola kept in a lab outside Washington D.C.
Internal Army documents about the U.S. biodefense program describe missing Ebola and other pathogens, vicious feuds, lax
security, cover-ups and a "cowboy culture" beyond anyone's scrutiny. Moreover, germ warriors in the C.I.A. and the
Defense Department decided — without bothering to consult the White House — to produce anthrax secretly
and tinker with it in ways that arguably put the U.S. in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention.
It's time for Congress or an outside commission to investigate our nation's biodefense program and establish oversight.
"Shenanigans have been going on," declares one internal Army memo about the labs at ground zero of the biodefense
world: Usamriid, the acronym for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, based at Fort Detrick, Md.
The 400 pages of documents, which I've obtained and which were described by The Hartford Courant earlier this year, quote
a newly arrived officer named Michael Langford as saying that he found "little or no organization," "little
or no accountability," "a very lax and unorganized system" and signs of covert work and cover-ups.
Mr. Langford requested an inventory of pathogens acquired in 1991. The resulting memo shows that 62 samples had vanished,
including Ebola, hantavirus, anthrax, S.I.V. (the monkey version of the virus that causes AIDS), and several described only
as "unknown."
Usamriid says that it rechecked this year and was able to account for virtually all of the missing specimens except one
set that would have been irradiated to render it harmless. But a decade's delay in bothering to look for missing Ebola seems
a bit much, and conversations with scientists who have worked at Usamriid do not inspire confidence (although, in fairness,
many who talk publicly have lawsuits pending against the lab).
"When I was laid off, I walked out for three days in a row with boxes, and no one looked inside them," recalled
Richard Crosland, who worked at Usamriid from 1986 to 1997. "I was there for 11 years, and never once did anyone ask,
`Where is the substance you ordered?'
"I could have walked out with it when I left, and no one would have known. I didn't, but I could have. 7-Eleven had
better inventory control. And I was working with botulinum, which is one of the deadliest substances on earth.
"If you couldn't find a microscope, you were in real trouble. But if you misplaced five micrograms of botulinum that
could kill thousands of people, nobody would notice."
In truth, many microbiology labs are pretty chaotic, and ultimately labs have to pick reliable people and then trust them.
But that's what piqued my interest in Usamriid in the first place — my research about a man I've called "Mr.
Z," who has been interviewed four times by the F.B.I. and whose home has been searched twice in connection with the anthrax
investigation. Usamriid hired Mr. Z in 1997 to work with Ebola and Marburg viruses, although he had spent years in the armed
forces of Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa.
Most researchers at Usamriid are dedicated patriots who could earn more in the private sector. When Mr. Z left Usamriid
in 1999, he was making $58,000 a year — and jumped to a $150,000-a-year job with a private contractor. Many bio-defense
scientists risk their lives working with deadly germs to improve vaccines for American troops, and they deserve our gratitude.
Still, the Army documents indisputably point out serious problems. They recount incidents in 1992 when someone appeared
to be working secretly with anthrax at night and on weekends and then trying to cover it up. Memos describe how someone tried
to roll back a numerical counter on an electron microscope to hide his work with anthrax.
As recently as April of this year, anthrax spores were found in a hallway and administrative area of Usamriid —
shortly after Senator Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat, visited the complex. Anthrax spores seem to have it in for Democratic
senators.
Reprinted from The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/
07/19/opinion/19KRIS.html
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Camillier Ft Detrick USAMRIID - Bizarre, disjointed and juvenile |
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(Col) David Franz USAMRIID |
"Assaad said he approached his supervisor, Col. David R. Franz, with his concerns, but Franz "kicked me out of his
office and slammed the door in my face"
Dr Assaad Accused of Terrorism |
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by Anonymous Letter September 2001 |
Assaad's lawyer, Rosemary McDermott, said that Assaad has not been questioned by the FBI since Oct. 3, 2001, when he was shown
the letter naming him as a terrorist threat. McDermott said her client was cleared of any suspicion at the end of that interview.
Assaad is convinced that anonymous writer is connected to the person who mailed the anthrax letters, and that the warning
was intended set him up as a scapegoat."
NewsDay
February 17, 2004, 7:07 AM EST
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)
"The anonymous letter was sent Sept. 26, 2001 from a northern Virginia mailbox. It accused Egyptian-born scientist Ayaad
Assaad of being a "religious fanatic" with the "means and will" to launch a bioterrorist attack against
the United States.
Federal investigators have always said the letter had no bearing on their hunt for the anthrax killer."
-Newsday
After an F.B.I. agent mentioned something about "the Camel Club," Dave Altimari and Jack Dolan of the Hartford Courant
searched online legal archives for the phrase. They found a lawsuit, not yet resolved, involving Dr. Ayaad Assaad, an Arab-American
scientist who worked at USAMRIID until he was laid off in 1997. Dolan and Altimari gave Assaad's attorney a call and got an
earful.
- Don Foster
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"Mohammed was a goober, as well as a goathumper. Ever since 9-11, I've been using the Koran for toilet paper. Keeps me
regular. Makes taking a dump into a rewarding and even artistically satifying experience." -Luigi "The Great Satan"
Warren
"The Rhyme of the Ancient Camellier"
"Ayaad Assaad was the start,
with a reputation for not having heart
A 'skimmer' without equal
We hope there's no sequel
In his honor we created this beast
It represents life lower than yeast
Whoever is voted this sucker,
you can't duck her,
You must accept blame,
And bear all the shame
Unlike Assaad, that first motherfucker"
***
Well it's time for the camel to pass.
So let's all reach and raise up a glass.
Let's give'm the credit,
the one who will get it,
the poor bastard we're gonna harass."
-The Camel Club
"Fuck Screw it; kill exterminate all Muslims, wherever you find them. No exceptions."
-John Shelley's Journal
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Camel Club USAMRIID Ft Detrick Around 1990 |
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"The Rhyme of the Ancient Camellier"
"Ayaad Assaad was the start,
with a reputation for not having heart
A 'skimmer' without equal
We hope there's no sequel
In his honor we created this beast
It represents life lower than yeast
Whoever is voted this sucker,
you can't duck her,
You must accept blame,
And bear all the shame
Unlike Assaad, that first motherfucker"
***
Well it's time for the camel to pass.
So let's all reach and raise up a glass.
Let's give'm the credit,
the one who will get it,
the poor bastard we're gonna harass."
-The Camel Club
"Fuck Screw it; kill exterminate all Muslims, wherever you find them. No exceptions."
-John Shelley's Journal
Fort Detrick's anthrax mystery
Who tried to frame Dr. Ayaad Assaad, a former biowarfare researcher at the Army lab? Was it the same person responsible
for last fall's anthrax mail terrorism?
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By Laura Rozen
Salon.com
Jan. 26, 2002 | THURMONT, Md. -- On Oct. 2, Ayaad Assaad, a U.S. government scientist and former biowarfare researcher,
received a call from an FBI agent asking him to come in for a talk. It was well before anthrax panic gripped the nation --
in fact, it was the same day that photo editor Robert Stevens, 63, was admitted to a Florida hospital. It wasn't until the
next day that Stevens was diagnosed with inhalation anthrax, and another two days later, on Oct. 5, when he would become the
first of five eventual fatalities caused by the apparent bioterrorist attack.
The day after hearing from the FBI, Assaad met with special agents J. Gregory Lelyegian and Mark Buie in the FBI's Washington
field office, along with Assaad's attorney, Rosemary McDermott. They showed Assaad a detailed, unsigned, computer-typed letter
with a startling accusation: that the 53-year-old Assaad, an Environmental Protection Agency scientist who filed an age discrimination
suit against the U.S. Army for dismissing him from a biowarfare lab, might be a bioterrorist.
"Dr. Assaad is a potential biological terrorist," the letter stated, according to Assaad and McDermott. The
letter was received by the FBI in Quantico, Va., but Assaad did not learn from the FBI where it had been mailed from. "I
have worked with Dr. Assaad," the letter continued, "and I heard him say that he has a vendetta against the U.S.
government and that if anything happens to him, he told his sons to carry on."
According to Assaad, "The letter-writer clearly knew my entire background, my training in both chemical and biological
agents, my security clearance, what floor where I work now, that I have two sons, what train I take to work, and where I live.
"The letter warned the FBI to stop me," he said.
After their meeting, Assad was thanked by the FBI agents, who have not contacted him since. The bureau says it cleared
Assaad of the anonymous allegations against him.
"We received an anonymous letter with certain allegations about Dr. Assaad," Chris Murray, an FBI spokesman,
told Salon Thursday. "Our investigation has determined those allegations are unfounded. Our investigation is complete.
Period." But Assaad believes there is a possible link between the person who sent the unsigned letter to the FBI and
the terrorist who sent anthrax to Democratic politicians and prominent members of the media. Whoever it was seemed to display
eerie foreknowledge of the biological attacks, since the letter was sent to the FBI well before any anthrax terror attacks
were known to the public.
And there is also the fact that Assaad used to work at the U.S. Army's Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases
(USAMRIID), in Fort Detrick, Md., a biowarfare lab many critics believe might have been the source of the stolen anthrax.
According to internal Army documents in Assaad's own possession (and first reported about in the Hartford Courant), 27 specimens,
including anthrax, Ebola and the hantavirus were lost in the early 1990s from the lab. The documents paint a chaotic picture
of a poorly managed lab.
Assaad had his own unhappy experience at the lab: Before he was dismissed, he had run-ins with colleagues, once filing
a racial discrimination complaint against some of them. And he believes that if the letter-writer was someone who at one point
worked at the lab, it would explain why he knew so much about Assaad and would think that Assaad would make an easy target
to frame.
"I'm the perfect scapegoat," Dr. Assaad explained. "I'm Arab-American. I'm a scientist who knows about
biological and chemical agents. I'm suing the U.S. Army," he said. "Whoever did this clearly wants revenge."
There is no proof that former colleagues of Assaad at the Fort Detrick facility were behind the attempt to frame him or
the anthrax mailings. But there is no doubt that security at the lab was notoriously sloppy. And government investigators
hunting for the anthrax mail terrorist are reportedly looking at the lab as a possible source of the toxin.
Assaad worked for eight years, from 1989-97, at the Army-run lab, where civilian and military scientists with top security
clearances handle the most lethal biological agents known. Assaad's tenure at the lab was not a particularly happy one. He
was ultimately dismissed from the lab in 1997, along with six other older scientists, when the lab announced it needed to
downsize because of budget restrictions. But Assaad disputes that reason in his age discrimination suit, which is still pending.
He shared with Salon copies of Army internal documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Assaad's attorney,
that are from the Army's own investigation into allegations of racial discrimination brought by Assaad.
But he is not alone in his concerns about his former colleagues. Another scientist who worked at the lab at the time --
and who admits to having been part of a group in the lab that called itself the "Camel Club," organized as a kind
of drinking club that on the side ridiculed the Egyptian-born Assaad -- said he also believes that the anthrax in the recent
terror scare came from Fort Detrick's USAMRIID.
"As soon as it came out" about the anthrax letters, "the first thing that came to my mind was Fort Detrick,"
said the scientist, who requested anonymity and is now employed in academia. "I don't know how many labs are utilizing
anthrax from Detrick. Detrick represents a repository of many organisms, and they would send it out to various other labs.
A lot of people who were working on anthrax in this country got their anthrax from Fort Detrick."
The scientist also claimed that he understood DNA analysis being performed by a private lab in Rockville, Md., had already
determined that the source of the anthrax in the letter sent to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy was from Detrick. However, the
private lab has told journalists that it will be another two weeks to a month before they publicly reveal their results.
According to interviews with Assaad and this scientist, along with additional Army investigative transcripts obtained
by Salon, the Army's biowarfare research lab in the early 1990s was an organizational disaster area. A big problem at the
lab, which apparently contributed to specimens going missing, was that after the Gulf War, USAMRIID decided to phase out work
some scientists had been doing on projects that the Army lab no longer considered crucial to their core mission of researching
vaccines against bioweapons. Many scientists who had been engaged in other projects, such as Lt. Col. Phil Zack, who had been
researching the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), were eager to continue working on projects USAMRIID said they should
stop. What followed, the documents reveal, were scientists sneaking into the Army biowarfare lab to work on pet projects after-hours
and on weekends, former workers like Zack, who left in 1991, still being let in to do lab work, pressure applied to technicians
to help out, documents going missing, and deliberate mislabeling of specimens among other efforts to hide unsanctioned lab
work.
Lt. Col. Michael Langford, an Army scientist who became head of the USAMRIID experimental pathology division in February
1992, was interviewed by a USAMRIID investigator in the spring of 1992. The transcripts of that and other interviews reveal
shocking lapses of security and resistance to oversight by USAMRIID lab scientists, including some of the same ones who engaged
in harassment of Assaad.
"At the time I took over the Experimental Pathology branch on the 3rd of February [1992] it was obvious to me that
there was little or no organization of that group and little or no accountability of many things," Langford told the
Army investigator, Col. Thomas J. Taylor.
Langford describes walking in to work one morning and seeing a group of lab scientists and technicians huddled behind
closed doors in the room that houses an electron microscope. What Langford concluded was that certain scientists were covertly
working on projects at night and on weekends that had been ordered halted by their division chief. He further concluded that
employees were desperately trying to find old specimens of biological agents, including anthrax, they could "re-label"
to cover up specimens that had gone missing in the chaos of prohibited, after-hours lab work.
"I walked in and the lights were on, the scope was off, and they were intensely looking for these blocks [of anthrax],"
Langford described. "What was indicated to me was that perhaps these specimens were bootleg so to speak, they were going
to cover them with old specimens, and when the old specimens disappeared, they were going to take these old anthrax blocks
and substitute them. Well, when those were unavailable then these new blocks [of anthrax] mysteriously disappeared. So of
course the probability is high that there was a problem there."
Langford also described to the investigator strong resistance from his underlings and other scientists to his efforts
to manage the group. Among those Langford considered management problems were Marian Rippy, a researcher in the experimental
pathology division. (Zack and Rippy had also been reprimanded by the Army for harassing Assaad.) Langford said he considered
a number of those on his staff to be "extremely difficult to deal with, would volunteer almost nothing, nearly almost
always had to be given a written request to get a response, were very defiant, were very obstructive, and I also heard rumors
that ... Marian [Rippy] had made comments to the people in that lab basically to undermine me, you know, when I was coming
in there," according to Langford.
"We were not to continue any work; in fact I was aware that [Pathology division commander Lt. Col. Nancy Jaax] had
secured the SIV materials and people because again it appeared from many sources that Phil Zack was asking people to work
basically covertly and continue his SIV work against obvious clear mandates and directives of the division chief," Langford
told the investigator. (In an interesting side note, Jaax, whom Langford refers to, is the protagonist of the Richard Preston
book "The Hot Zone," about an Ebola outbreak in lab monkeys in Reston, Va., in 1989. The real-life events were also
the basis of the movie "Outbreak," starring Dustin Hoffman.)
It was during this period, from 1990 to early 1992, when scientists apparently pursued projects covertly at the lab, that
the Army facility appears to have lost track of 27 specimens, including anthrax, Ebola and hantavirus. USAMRIID told media
this week that any specimens that went missing were rendered harmless by various preservation and radiation processes -- a
contention Assaad says is not true. He says the specimens leave behind a residue that could be reactivated.
Assaad's personal experience at that lab makes him particularly skeptical. He complains of behavior from colleagues that,
while certainly not necessarily that of potential terrorists, does seem like symptoms of a poorly managed lab that was out
of control.
In particular, Assaad, who is Egyptian-American, was the target of the group of USAMRIID scientists and lab technicians
who called themselves the Camel Club. Among his antagonists were colleagues in Fort Detrick lab's experimental pathology division,
Zack and Rippy.
Using a stuffed camel as a kind of mascot, the Camel Club composed a poem, "The Rhyme of the Ancient Camellier,"
with the apparent purpose of humiliating Assaad. It begins:
"Ayaad Assaad was the start,
with a reputation for not having heart
A 'skimmer' without equal
We hope there's no sequel
In his honor we created this beast
It represents life lower than yeast
Whoever is voted this sucker,
you can't duck her, You must accept blame,
And bear all the shame Unlike Assaad,
that first motherfucker"
The poem continues for five typewritten rhyming pages, ending with:
Well it's time for the camel to pass.
So let's all reach and raise up a glass.
Let's give'm the credit,
the one who will get it,
the poor bastard we're gonna harass.
Assaad theorizes that the Camel Club and the racial discrimination he experienced were at least partly an outgrowth of
a dispute he had with Zack and Rippy over the authorship of a scientific paper for which he says he had done the research.
Rippy and Zack, Assaad says, had done only minor work, but wanted to put their names on the research paper, and he says he
felt they didn't deserve it. Assaad says the dispute escalated, with Rippy and Zack threatening to be disruptive and humiliate
him at a scientific conference where he delivered his paper's findings. Then, he says, their harassment took an ethnic cast,
because of his Arabic heritage.
Assaad said he filed a formal complaint with the Army after his supervisor ignored him. The commander of the U.S. Army
lab investigated the complaint and found in Assaad's favor, and singled out Zack and Rippy for criticism for being at the
center of the Camel Club. (The Army investigation documents further revealed that the two, both married, were also having
an affair.)
"Based upon your complaint, I directed that an informal investigation be conducted," USAMRIID's then-commander,
Col. Ronald Williams, wrote Assaad in a memo in August 1992. "The investigation revealed that Lieutenant Colonel Zack
and Dr. Rippy had participated in discriminatory behavior.
"On behalf of the United States of America, the Army, and this Institute, I wish to genuinely and humbly apologize
for this behavior," Williams' memo continued.
Before the investigation ended, both Zack and Rippy were reprimanded. Then Zack left USAMRIID in December 1991, first
heading to the Army's Walter Reed Institute, then going to the private pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, and then to a company
in Colorado acquired by St. Louis' Nexstar Financial Management. Several calls by Salon to his last known phone number and
address in Boulder, Colo., went unreturned, and Nexstar says it no longer has any record of Zack. Rippy, who left USAMRIID
shortly after Zack, in February 1992, worked for a while at Eli Lilly, but could not be located by Salon.
Assaad is puzzled that after clearing him of the accusation that he could be a bioterrorist, the FBI showed no interest
in talking with him about his days at Fort Detrick. "The whole world wants to talk to me, except the FBI," he said,
as his lawyer's phones rang nonstop this week, with media organizations seeking interviews with him. "Something's wrong
here."
But while the FBI may not be interested in talking with Assaad further, federal authorities increasingly seem to believe
that the anthrax letters were sent by a U.S. government scientist -- and not by the Iraqis or al-Qaida, as some hawks have
continued to insist over the past few months, while hundreds of Islamic and Arab-born immigrants have been questioned and
detained by the FBI and INS.
"I can tell you there are scientists out there who do have military connections that we are focusing on, at least
that connection," Kevin Donovan, FBI special agent in charge of the Newark bureau, said at a press conference Wednesday.
For his part, Assaad says, "I want people to know the truth," and wants to show the American people that Arab-Americans
are not the enemy. Should the FBI trace the anthrax attacks back to his former lab, Assaad may have gone a long way toward
his goal.
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About the writer
Laura Rozen writes about U.S. foreign policy and the Balkans crisis for Salon News.
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Arab scientists recount hostility
and harassment at military anthrax lab
Seattle Times
19 December 2001
by Lynn Tuohy
Days before the anthrax attacks became known, Dr. Ayaad Assaad sat terrified in a vault-like room at an FBI field office
in Washington, D.C. The walls were gray and windowless. The door was locked. It was Oct. 3.
Assaad, an Egyptian-born research scientist laid off in 1997 from the Army's biodefense lab at Fort Detrick, Md., was
handed an anonymous letter describing him as "a potential terrorist" with a grudge against the United States and
the knowledge to wage biological warfare against his adopted country.
"I was so angry when I read the letter, I broke out in tears," Assaad recalled during a recent interview. "That
people could be so evil."
After a brief interview, the FBI let Assaad go and assured him that they believed the letter was a cruel hoax. But for
Assaad, the incident was another in a series of humiliations he traces to a decade-long workplace dispute at the Fort Detrick
lab.
He and other scientists allege that ethnic discrimination was tolerated, and even practiced, by the lab's former commander.
A cadre of coworkers wrote a crude poem denigrating Arab Americans, passed around an obscene rubber camel and lampooned Assaad's
language skills.
The locker-room antics in the early 1990s preceded a series of downsizings, some acrimonious, that saw the lab's staff
reduced by 30 percent. Along the way, the court record suggests, the Fort Detrick facility became a workplace where "toxic"
described more than just the anthrax and other deadly pathogens handled by its 100 scientists.
It also characterized a dysfunctional, at times hostile, atmosphere that had the potential to create the type of disaffected
biowarfare scientist that some experts suspect is behind the anthrax attacks.
Neither Assaad nor any other scientist named in the court documents has been linked to the attacks, and most say they
have not even been questioned by the FBI. A Fort Detrick spokesman said yesterday that investigators are seeking to question
current and former employees of the lab, as well as other government facilities that had access to the same strain of anthrax.
FBI spokesman Chris Murray confirmed yesterday that Assaad has been cleared of suspicion. Murray also said the FBI is
not tracking the source of the anonymous letter, despite its curious timing, coming a matter of days before the existence
of anthrax-laced mail became known.
"My theory is, whoever this person is knew in advance what was going to happen (and created) a suitable, well-fitted
scapegoat for this action," Assaad said.
Assaad had come to the United States 25 years earlier, obtained graduate degrees from the University of Iowa, became a
citizen in 1986, married a woman from Nebraska and has two young sons. He spent nine years researching biological and chemical
agents at high-security U.S. Army laboratories, including Fort Detrick, where he was working on a vaccine against ricin, a
cellular poison.
Bizarre, disjointed and juvenile
Court documents in federal discrimination lawsuits filed by Assaad and two other scientists who also lost their jobs at
Fort Detrick in a 1997 downsizing portray a bizarre, disjointed and even juvenile workplace environment in the country's premier
biowarfare research lab. The Fort Detrick lab is one of two government labs that work with the world's deadliest pathogens
and since 1980 has had the Ames strain of anthrax officials say was used in the recent attacks.
During a three-hour interview last week at the Thurmont, Md., office of their lawyer, Rosemary McDermott, Assaad and Dr.
Richard Crosland also were critical of the perennially changing leadership and "warring factions" that they say
undermined scientific research at Fort Detrick.
Assaad said he was working on the Saturday before Easter 1991 when he discovered an eight-page poem in his mailbox. The
poem, which became a court exhibit, has 235 lines, many of them lewd, mocking Assaad. The poem also refers to another creation
of the scientists who wrote it a rubber camel outfitted with sexually explicit appendages.
The poem reads: "In (Assaad's) honor we created this beast; it represents life lower than yeast." The camel,
it notes, each week will be given "to who did the least."
The poem also doubles as an ode to each of the participants who adorned the camel, who number at least six and referred
to themselves as "the camel club." Two Dr. Philip Zack and Dr. Marian Rippy voluntarily left Fort Detrick soon
after Assaad brought the poem to the attention of supervisors.
Attempts to reach Zack and Rippy were unsuccessful. Supervisor approached Assaad said he approached his
supervisor, Col. David Franz, with his concerns, but Franz "kicked me out of his office and slammed the door in my
face, because he didn't want to talk about it. I just wanted it to stop."
In a telephone interview Monday, Franz said the downsizings at the Fort Detrick lab in the late 1990s "were the toughest
part of my job. ... If I lost my job, I might be pretty upset, too."
Franz now a private consultant on countermeasures to biological and chemical attacks said he was not aware that Assaad
had been interviewed by the FBI, but acknowledged it's fair to interview scientists who've left sensitive research positions.
The FBI's profile of the anthrax suspect is a person who is likely male, has some background or strong interest in science
and probably has access both to a laboratory and a source of weaponized anthrax.
Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a microbiologist affiliated with the Federation of American Scientists, earlier this month carried
the profile a bit further when she predicted that the perpetrator is an American microbiologist with access to weaponized
anthrax that likely came from a government lab or one contracted by the government.
The third plaintiff who was laid off from Fort Detrick, Jordanian-born Dr. Kulthoum Mereish, was commissioned a captain
in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and began researching biological-threat agents at Fort Detrick in 1986. She alleged in the
affidavit accompanying her lawsuit that Franz exhibited "a bigotry toward foreigners" and refused to confront the
"camel club."
Confronted with the allegations and asked this week if he considers himself racist, Franz replied, "You obviously
don't know me."
Crosland and Assaad still hold sensitive positions with the U.S. government. Assaad works for the Environmental Protection
Agency as a senior toxicologist reviewing and regulating pesticides. Crosland is scientific-review administrator of biological
research at the National Institutes of Health. Mereish, McDermott said, works for the United Nations in a job that has top
security clearance.
Fort Detrick's anthrax mystery
Who tried to frame Dr. Ayaad Assaad,
a former biowarfare researcher at the Army lab?
Was it the same person responsible for last fall's anthrax mail terrorism?
26 January 2002, Laura Rozen, Salon
THURMONT, Md. -- On Oct. 2, Ayaad Assaad, a U.S. government scientist and former biowarfare researcher, received a call
from an FBI agent asking him to come in for a talk. It was well before anthrax panic gripped the nation -- in fact, it was
the same day that photo editor Robert Stevens, 63, was admitted to a Florida hospital. It wasn't until the next day that Stevens
was diagnosed with inhalation anthrax, and another two days later, on Oct. 5, when he would become the first of five eventual
fatalities caused by the apparent bioterrorist attack.
The day after hearing from the FBI, Assaad met with special agents J. Gregory Lelyegian and Mark Buie in the FBI's Washington
field office, along with Assaad's attorney, Rosemary McDermott. They showed Assaad a detailed, unsigned, computer-typed letter
with a startling accusation: that the 53-year-old Assaad, an Environmental Protection Agency scientist who filed an age discrimination
suit against the U.S. Army for dismissing him from a biowarfare lab, might be a bioterrorist.
"Dr. Assaad is a potential biological terrorist," the letter stated, according to Assaad and McDermott. The
letter was received by the FBI in Quantico, Va., but Assaad did not learn from the FBI where it had been mailed from. "I
have worked with Dr. Assaad," the letter continued, "and I heard him say that he has a vendetta against the U.S.
government and that if anything happens to him, he told his sons to carry on."
According to Assaad, "The letter-writer clearly knew my entire background, my training in both chemical and biological
agents, my security clearance, what floor where I work now, that I have two sons, what train I take to work, and where I live.
"The letter warned the FBI to stop me," he said.
After their meeting, Assad was thanked by the FBI agents, who have not contacted him since. The bureau says it cleared
Assaad of the anonymous allegations against him.
"We received an anonymous letter with certain allegations about Dr. Assaad," Chris Murray, an FBI spokesman,
told Salon Thursday. "Our investigation has determined those allegations are unfounded. Our investigation is complete.
Period." But Assaad believes there is a possible link between the person who sent the unsigned letter to the FBI and
the terrorist who sent anthrax to Democratic politicians and prominent members of the media. Whoever it was seemed to display
eerie foreknowledge of the biological attacks, since the letter was sent to the FBI well before any anthrax terror attacks
were known to the public.
And there is also the fact that Assaad used to work at the U.S. Army's Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases
(USAMRIID), in Fort Detrick, Md., a biowarfare lab many critics believe might have been the source of the stolen anthrax.
According to internal Army documents in Assaad's own possession (and first reported about in the Hartford Courant), 27 specimens,
including anthrax, Ebola and the hantavirus were lost in the early 1990s from the lab. The documents paint a chaotic picture
of a poorly managed lab.
Assaad had his own unhappy experience at the lab: Before he was dismissed, he had run-ins with colleagues, once filing
a racial discrimination complaint against some of them. And he believes that if the letter-writer was someone who at one point
worked at the lab, it would explain why he knew so much about Assaad and would think that Assaad would make an easy target
to frame.
"I'm the perfect scapegoat," Dr. Assaad explained. "I'm Arab-American. I'm a scientist who knows about
biological and chemical agents. I'm suing the U.S. Army," he said. "Whoever did this clearly wants revenge."
There is no proof that former colleagues of Assaad at the Fort Detrick facility were behind the attempt to frame him or
the anthrax mailings. But there is no doubt that security at the lab was notoriously sloppy. And government investigators
hunting for the anthrax mail terrorist are reportedly looking at the lab as a possible source of the toxin.
Assaad worked for eight years, from 1989-97, at the Army-run lab, where civilian and military scientists with top security
clearances handle the most lethal biological agents known. Assaad's tenure at the lab was not a particularly happy one. He
was ultimately dismissed from the lab in 1997, along with six other older scientists, when the lab announced it needed to
downsize because of budget restrictions. But Assaad disputes that reason in his age discrimination suit, which is still pending.
He shared with Salon copies of Army internal documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Assaad's attorney,
that are from the Army's own investigation into allegations of racial discrimination brought by Assaad.
But he is not alone in his concerns about his former colleagues. Another scientist who worked at the lab at the time --
and who admits to having been part of a group in the lab that called itself the "Camel Club," organized as a kind
of drinking club that on the side ridiculed the Egyptian-born Assaad -- said he also believes that the anthrax in the recent
terror scare came from Fort Detrick's USAMRIID.
"As soon as it came out" about the anthrax letters, "the first thing that came to my mind was Fort Detrick,"
said the scientist, who requested anonymity and is now employed in academia. "I don't know how many labs are utilizing
anthrax from Detrick. Detrick represents a repository of many organisms, and they would send it out to various other labs.
A lot of people who were working on anthrax in this country got their anthrax from Fort Detrick."
The scientist also claimed that he understood DNA analysis being performed by a private lab in Rockville, Md., had already
determined that the source of the anthrax in the letter sent to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy was from Detrick. However, the
private lab has told journalists that it will be another two weeks to a month before they publicly reveal their results.
According to interviews with Assaad and this scientist, along with additional Army investigative transcripts obtained
by Salon, the Army's biowarfare research lab in the early 1990s was an organizational disaster area. A big problem at the
lab, which apparently contributed to specimens going missing, was that after the Gulf War, USAMRIID decided to phase out work
some scientists had been doing on projects that the Army lab no longer considered crucial to their core mission of researching
vaccines against bioweapons. Many scientists who had been engaged in other projects, such as Lt. Col. Phil Zack, who had been
researching the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), were eager to continue working on projects USAMRIID said they should
stop. What followed, the documents reveal, were scientists sneaking into the Army biowarfare lab to work on pet projects after-hours
and on weekends, former workers like Zack, who left in 1991, still being let in to do lab work, pressure applied to technicians
to help out, documents going missing, and deliberate mislabeling of specimens among other efforts to hide unsanctioned lab
work.
Lt. Col. Michael Langford, an Army scientist who became head of the USAMRIID experimental pathology division in February
1992, was interviewed by a USAMRIID investigator in the spring of 1992. The transcripts of that and other interviews reveal
shocking lapses of security and resistance to oversight by USAMRIID lab scientists, including some of the same ones who engaged
in harassment of Assaad.
"At the time I took over the Experimental Pathology branch on the 3rd of February [1992] it was obvious to me that
there was little or no organization of that group and little or no accountability of many things," Langford told the
Army investigator, Col. Thomas J. Taylor.
Langford describes walking in to work one morning and seeing a group of lab scientists and technicians huddled behind
closed doors in the room that houses an electron microscope. What Langford concluded was that certain scientists were covertly
working on projects at night and on weekends that had been ordered halted by their division chief. He further concluded that
employees were desperately trying to find old specimens of biological agents, including anthrax, they could "re-label"
to cover up specimens that had gone missing in the chaos of prohibited, after-hours lab work.
"I walked in and the lights were on, the scope was off, and they were intensely looking for these blocks [of anthrax],"
Langford described. "What was indicated to me was that perhaps these specimens were bootleg so to speak, they were going
to cover them with old specimens, and when the old specimens disappeared, they were going to take these old anthrax blocks
and substitute them. Well, when those were unavailable then these new blocks [of anthrax] mysteriously disappeared. So of
course the probability is high that there was a problem there."
Langford also described to the investigator strong resistance from his underlings and other scientists to his efforts
to manage the group. Among those Langford considered management problems were Marian Rippy, a researcher in the experimental
pathology division. (Zack and Rippy had also been reprimanded by the Army for harassing Assaad.) Langford said he considered
a number of those on his staff to be "extremely difficult to deal with, would volunteer almost nothing, nearly almost
always had to be given a written request to get a response, were very defiant, were very obstructive, and I also heard rumors
that ... Marian [Rippy] had made comments to the people in that lab basically to undermine me, you know, when I was coming
in there," according to Langford.
"We were not to continue any work; in fact I was aware that [Pathology division commander Lt. Col. Nancy Jaax] had
secured the SIV materials and people because again it appeared from many sources that Phil Zack was asking people to work
basically covertly and continue his SIV work against obvious clear mandates and directives of the division chief," Langford
told the investigator. (In an interesting side note, Jaax, whom Langford refers to, is the protagonist of the Richard Preston
book "The Hot Zone," about an Ebola outbreak in lab monkeys in Reston, Va., in 1989. The real-life events were also
the basis of the movie "Outbreak," starring Dustin Hoffman.)
It was during this period, from 1990 to early 1992, when scientists apparently pursued projects covertly at the lab, that
the Army facility appears to have lost track of 27 specimens, including anthrax, Ebola and hantavirus. USAMRIID told media
this week that any specimens that went missing were rendered harmless by various preservation and radiation processes -- a
contention Assaad says is not true. He says the specimens leave behind a residue that could be reactivated.
Assaad's personal experience at that lab makes him particularly skeptical. He complains of behavior from colleagues that,
while certainly not necessarily that of potential terrorists, does seem like symptoms of a poorly managed lab that was out
of control.
In particular, Assaad, who is Egyptian-American, was the target of the group of USAMRIID scientists and lab technicians
who called themselves the Camel Club. Among his antagonists were colleagues in Fort Detrick lab's experimental pathology division,
Zack and Rippy.
Using a stuffed camel as a kind of mascot, the Camel Club composed a poem, "The Rhyme of the Ancient Camellier,"
with the apparent purpose of humiliating Assaad. It begins:
"Ayaad Assaad was the start, with a reputation for not having heart A 'skimmer' without equal We hope there's no
sequel In his honor we created this beast It represents life lower than yeast Whoever is voted this sucker, you can't duck
her, You must accept blame, And bear all the shame Unlike Assaad, that first motherfucker"
The poem continues for five typewritten rhyming pages, ending with:
Well it's time for the camel to pass. So let's all reach and raise up a glass. Let's give'm the credit, the one who will
get it, the poor bastard we're gonna harass.
Assaad theorizes that the Camel Club and the racial discrimination he experienced were at least partly an outgrowth of
a dispute he had with Zack and Rippy over the authorship of a scientific paper for which he says he had done the research.
Rippy and Zack, Assaad says, had done only minor work, but wanted to put their names on the research paper, and he says he
felt they didn't deserve it. Assaad says the dispute escalated, with Rippy and Zack threatening to be disruptive and humiliate
him at a scientific conference where he delivered his paper's findings. Then, he says, their harassment took an ethnic cast,
because of his Arabic heritage.
Assaad said he filed a formal complaint with the Army after his supervisor ignored him. The commander of the U.S. Army
lab investigated the complaint and found in Assaad's favor, and singled out Zack and Rippy for criticism for being at the
center of the Camel Club. (The Army investigation documents further revealed that the two, both married, were also having
an affair.)
"Based upon your complaint, I directed that an informal investigation be conducted," USAMRIID's then-commander,
Col. Ronald Williams, wrote Assaad in a memo in August 1992. "The investigation revealed that Lieutenant Colonel Zack
and Dr. Rippy had participated in discriminatory behavior.
"On behalf of the United States of America, the Army, and this Institute, I wish to genuinely and humbly apologize
for this behavior," Williams' memo continued.
Before the investigation ended, both Zack and Rippy were reprimanded. Then Zack left USAMRIID in December 1991, first
heading to the Army's Walter Reed Institute, then going to the private pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, and then to a company
in Colorado acquired by St. Louis' Nexstar Financial Management. Several calls by Salon to his last known phone number and
address in Boulder, Colo., went unreturned, and Nexstar says it no longer has any record of Zack. Rippy, who left USAMRIID
shortly after Zack, in February 1992, worked for a while at Eli Lilly, but could not be located by Salon.
Assaad is puzzled that after clearing him of the accusation that he could be a bioterrorist, the FBI showed no interest
in talking with him about his days at Fort Detrick. "The whole world wants to talk to me, except the FBI," he said,
as his lawyer's phones rang nonstop this week, with media organizations seeking interviews with him. "Something's wrong
here."
But while the FBI may not be interested in talking with Assaad further, federal authorities increasingly seem to believe
that the anthrax letters were sent by a U.S. government scientist -- and not by the Iraqis or al-Qaida, as some hawks have
continued to insist over the past few months, while hundreds of Islamic and Arab-born immigrants have been questioned and
detained by the FBI and INS.
"I can tell you there are scientists out there who do have military connections that we are focusing on, at least
that connection," Kevin Donovan, FBI special agent in charge of the Newark bureau, said at a press conference Wednesday.
For his part, Assaad says, "I want people to know the truth," and wants to show the American people that Arab-Americans
are not the enemy. Should the FBI trace the anthrax attacks back to his former lab, Assaad may have gone a long way toward
his goal.
Salon.com
http://glassfrequency.blogspot.com/2002B_Rozen_Salon.html
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