A month after the attacks of September .nth 2001, a letter arrived in the office of Patrick Leahy, a senator from Vermont. It read: "You cannot stop us. We have this anthrax. You die now. Are you afraid? Death to America. Death to Israel. Allah is great." Accompanying the note-one of at least five such letters sent to government and news offices-was a cache of the deadly powder that shut down Capitol Hill, killed five people and terrified an already shell-shocked country.rnAl-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein topped the list of suspects shortly after the attack. They were easy villains. But nearly seven years later federal authorities believe the real perpetrator was Bruce Ivins, a longtime anthrax researcher at Fort Detrick in Maryland, who apparently committed suicide on July 29th, just as investigators werernpreparing to file charges against him.
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