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Five days before he died of an apparent suicide, Bruce Ivins, the FBI's sole suspect in the 2001 anthrax mailings, visited C. Burr Artz Library to access email accounts and a website dedicated to the anthrax investigation, according to search warrant applications made public today.Agents will use the search warrants, granted by a federal judge today, to look for any documents, Internet activity and stored writings that identify plans to kill witnesses, names of intended victims or suicide letters, the documents said. Federal agents on July 31 removed the two computers Ivins had used. Surveillance on the evening of July 24 had determined that Ivins had used those specific computers, according to the documents. Frederick County Public Library director Darrell Batson said an agent had requested the computers and took them without presenting a court order. A search warrant will allow agents to investigate the contents of the hard drives. Ivins, a Fort Detrick scientist and leading anthrax researcher, was named the sole suspect in the anthrax mailings that killed five people and 17 others. The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI publicly presented their case against Ivins Wednesday. The evidence, although lacking in physical proof, could have found Ivins guilty of the mailings beyond a reasonable doubt, said Jeff Taylor, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
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