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炭素菌事件犠牲者の未亡人：「政府は誰が夫を殺したのか知っているのではないか」
９月１８日付のPrison Planet誌は『炭素菌事件犠牲者の未亡人は、政府は誰が夫を殺したのか知っているのではないか、と語る（Anthrax victim's widow says government may know who killed husband）』という見出しの記事を掲げました。元記事はPalmbeach Post（９月１３日付）です。
９・１１に続く２００１年１０月に米国を震撼させた炭素菌バラ撒き事件ですが、犠牲になったThe Sun紙の写真編集者Bob Stevens氏の未亡人Maureen Stevensさんは「米国政府は誰が私の夫を殺したのかおそらく知っているだろう。」と語りました。
彼らが何も語っていないのはそのことが政府が暴露されたくないことを暴露してしまうかもしれないからだ、と彼女は信じます。
「私は何が起こったのかを知りたいのです」と語るMaureenさんは、政府を相手に訴訟を起こしました。「私は裁判所に入り何が起こったのか見出したい。どんな情報が明らかにそこにあるのかを。真実はそこにあります。」
『本当のことを知りたい』という人々の思いだけが、巨悪に立ち向かう基盤になるでしょう。
以下に、この記事の原文を貼り付けておきます。
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http://prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/180906_b_Anthrax.htm
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/local_news/epaper/2006/09/13/0913stevens.html
Anthrax victim's widow says government may know who killed husband
By Eliot Kleinberg
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Maureen Stevens says the federal government probably knows who killed her husband.
She believes they're not telling because that might reveal things the government doesn't want revealed.
Nearly five years after Bob Stevens' death, the first in the anthrax attacks that terrified a nation, "I want to know what happened," his widow, who's sued the government, said Wednesday from her lawyer's office. "I want to go into court and find out what happened. What information's obviously there. The truth is there."
Bob Stevens of Lantana, a photo editor for Boca Raton-based tabloid The Sun, died in October 2001, after he apparently opened mail laced with the deadly substance.
The government said in February of 2002 that it had a "short list" of 18 to 20 people who had the knowledge, equipment, access, and motive to obtain and "weaponize" anthrax. Richard Schuler, Stevens' attorney, said Wednesday it might be fewer than a dozen.
Stevens filed suit in December 2003, alleging security lapses at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Md., led to her husband's death. A federal judge refused to dismiss the case and it has been in front of a federal appeals court for nearly a year. The government has argued proceeding with the suit would jeopardize the ongoing search for the killer.
In Washington, Justice Department spokesman Charles Miller said he could not comment because the suit is still active.
Stevens said she's had only two contacts with the FBI since shortly after her husband's death. Agents talked with her in West Palm Beach in July 2003.
And she and families of the other four people confirmed killed by anthrax met with the agency in Washington in November of last year.
Stevens said the agents told the families they were getting close to solving the case and that she felt positive after that meeting. But, she said Wednesday, "it was just lip service. I don't want to say things like this, but I do feel that."
And Schuler said, "To only get with families once in five years, and to give what's only window dressing, I believe is a disgrace."
Stevens said she still believes the case will be solved.
"I have to be patient," Stevens said.
But, she said of her suit, "What else do I have?" she said. "Do I stand on a street corner and ask everybody to ask the government for answers? It's not going to happen."
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