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| 2010-02-15 |
| The professor who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor in 1993, a law enforcement official said today. Amy Bishop and her husband, James Anderson, were questioned after a package containing two bombs was sent to the Newton home of Dr. Paul Rosenberg, a professor and doctor at Boston's Children's Hospital. Rosenberg was opening mail, which had been set aside by a cat-sitter, when he returned from a Caribbean vacation on Dec. 19, 1993, according to Globe reports at the time. Opening a long, thin package addressed to "Mr. Paul Rosenberg M.D.," he saw wires and a cylinder inside. He and his wife ran from the house and called police. The package contained two 6-inch pipe bombs connected to two nine-volt batteries. In March 1994, the Globe reported that federal investigators had identified a prime suspect in the case. But the article did not name the suspect. A law enforcement official said today that the investigation by the US Postal Service and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms focused on Bishop, a Harvard postdoctoral fellow who was working in the human biochemstry lab at Children's Hospital at the time, and her husband, Anderson. Bishop surfaced as a suspect because she was allegedly concerned that she was going to receive a negative evaluation from Rosenberg on her doctorate work, the official said. The official said investigators believed she had a motive to target Rosenberg and were concerned that she had a history of violence, given that she had shot her brother to death in 1986. Investigators conducted a search of the home where Bishop and Anderson were living and questioned the couple, the official said. Anderson was questioned about whether he had purchased any of the components used to make the bombs, the official said. During a search of Bishop's computer, authorities found a draft of a novel that Bishop was writing about a female scientist who had killed her brother and was hoping to make amends by becoming a great scientist, according to a person who was briefed on the investigation and spoke to the Globe on the condition of anonymity. Sylvia Fluckiger, a lab technician who worked with Bishop at the time, said Bishop had been in a dispute with Rosenberg shortly before the bombs were discovered. Shortly after the attempted bombing, Fluckiger said, Bishop told her she had been questioned by police. According to Fluckiger, Bishop said police asked her if she had ever taken stamps off an envelope that had been mailed to her and put them on something else. "She said it with a smirk on her face,'' said Fluckiger. "We knew she had a beef with Paul Rosenberg. And we really thought it was a really unbelievable coincidence that he would get those bombs." |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #17 If my name was Fluckiger, I would try to stay out of the press. |
| Posted by: Skunky Glins**** 2010-02-15 23:05 |
| #16 Huntsville is also home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the Army's Redstone Arsenal. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-02-15 22:46 |
| #15 Go get 'em Joe, Roll Tide! |
| Posted by: notascrename 2010-02-15 22:40 |
| #14 An American University trying to blow up anuther Amer University, AND NO ONE GETS SENT TO GITMO - THERE GOES THE TAILGATE PARTY! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-02-15 20:04 |
| #13 Uh, uh, PENN STATE INTEL-PYWAR is trying to wipe out the 'BAMA CRIMSON TIDE??? Gut nuthin. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-02-15 20:00 |
| #12 For the record, the Rantburg legal team from Dewey, Cheatam & Howe advised insertion of the (alleged) in the headline and some mod complied with the directive from the Bureau of Standards & Practices. It weren't me. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-02-15 19:16 |
| #11 #2 Angry, moonbat scientist with history of violence in dispute with Jewish professor, biochem lab, pipe bombs.... nope, not enuf evidence for the ATF. We'll just wait until she actually whacks somebody....again. Posted by: Besoeker 2010-02-15 04:49 Actually I think Besoeker has outlined her credentials well enough to make her a front runner for Obama's next administration appointment. |
| Posted by: WolfDog 2010-02-15 11:47 |
| #10 Skunk - I didn't say it was a *credible* theory, just that it is the one which generates this sort of thing. Well, that, and the oversupply of Ivy PhDs. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-02-15 10:39 |
| #9 I've suggested that our next tenure review meeting be done by teleconference. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2010-02-15 10:32 |
| #8 Mitch - That's right, the strategy to cut down on groupthink is for everybody to hire Ivy League graduates. |
| Posted by: Skunky Angeack7024 2010-02-15 10:31 |
| #7 Geraldo reported she shot her younger accomplished brother and her mother worked at police personnel, where records have mysteriously vanished, too. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-02-15 10:01 |
| #6 That is, after all, the natural progression at the Ivies. They over-produce PhDs, and dump them on the state systems. It even happens with the better state schools. I know someone from PSU who ended up in northern Alabama because his wife got a job teaching at some barely-credentialed state school in the boonies. In general, colleges don't like to hire their own - it's supposed to cut down on group-think and cronyism if you don't get a job at the school you got your postgrad. When I was a student, they also said that they didn't want you doing postgrad work at the school you got your bachelors from. Did you see Bishop's mugshot? She's got a face that just *screams* "Maoist lunatic", right down to the Moe Howard bowl cut. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-02-15 10:00 |
| #5 I did wonder what a Harvard grad was doing in Alabama state U. Happens a lot, for two reasons: First, the grads come from all over the country, and most of the ones who came from outside New England return to their home regions. Second, Harvard doesn't keep many of its own grads. In fact, internal promotion candidates have a very hard time at Harvard; Harvard prefers to pick off the very best from elsewhere and dismiss their own internals. So the latter group head off to other institutions where they can get jobs. Crazy, but that's how they do it. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-02-15 09:41 |
| #4 Link for the family "vanishing"? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-02-15 09:23 |
| #3 Several other bits. It is being suggested that there was some considerable involvement of her Democrat congressman Bill Delahunt, in dropping the investigation of her brother's death: http://myturl.com/0pA2Z Also, that the rest of her family seems to have vanished and left no forwarding address. Which have led some wits to opine that maybe the police should dig up her backyard. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-02-15 08:55 |
| #2 Angry, moonbat scientist with history of violence in dispute with Jewish professor, biochem lab, pipe bombs.... nope, not enuf evidence for the ATF. We'll just wait until she actually whacks somebody....again. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-02-15 04:49 |
| #1 I did wonder what a Harvard grad was doing in Alabama state U. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-02-15 02:57 |