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FBI Closes Anthrax-Letters Case After 10,000 Interviews

The FBI has closed its investigation into the case of the Army microbiologist believed to be responsible for mailing anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and injured dozens of others in 2001. In announcing Friday that the investigation was over, the bureau released a report detailing the evidence against Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, a researcher at the Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., The New York Times reported. Ivins killed himself in 2008, as federal prosecutors were preparing to charge him with using a weapon of mass destruction. The FBI report, ...

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