[naturalman1975]

If this is what it looks like, Australian law enforcement will have to get the people responsible.

Terrorism is Terrorism.

[FairOpinion]

Some additional info:

"Mr Howard said the package contained a quantity of the bacillus bacteria, and that more tests were being conducted.

Most bacillus-type bacteria are harmless to humans, but one type - anthracis - causes anthrax in humans and animals.

MrHoward said it was the fist time a biological agent had been used in this way in Australia."

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=11702


Doesn't "bacillus" merely mean "bacteria" and then it depends what type of bacteria it is. Also, most bacteria aren't harmless, they may not all be deadly, but they make people sick.

[maica]

Well, at least the sender did not desecrate a Koran! /sarcasm

[dawn53]

Okay, help me understand this.

AQ has blown up Indonesia targets in the past.

Biological agent arrives at the Indonesian embassy (in Australia) but they assume it's domestic terrorism against the Indonesians and not an AQ based attack against Indonesia.

Are they completely dismissing foreign terrorism, like AQ?

[trubluolyguy]

Inside the embassy?

Sounds like someone forgot their lessons in safety while mixing up some WMD.

This IS Indonesia's embassy, after all!

[river rat]

"To continually attack Indonesia and denigrate its institutions and leaders will build up a good deal of anti-Australian sentiment in Indonesia".........."

Insanity!!! Now, we're expected to respect the unrespectable and complement the ignorant..

Semper Fi

[Wiz]

ping!

[brothers4thID]

"An embassy staff member later said by phone that staff had not been told of the initial test results revealing the presence of a biological agent"

Ha! You think that's rough, try being told for 3 days that it was perfectly safe to work 40 feet from Daschle's office with the air conditioning still running.

[followerofchrist]

Scary.

[Calpernia]

This is the article you saw in Google Groups NW_AZ