Posted on 11/04/2001 10:59:25 AM PST by t-shirt
Anthrax: Man Arrested
Sky News
November 4, 2001
A man has been arrested after FBI agents investigating anthrax attacks searched his apartment.
They raided at least two apartments in Trenton, New Jersey.
Three of the letters contaminated with the potentially deadly spores were posted from Trenton.
Another case
The development came as anthrax was discovered at a third US post centre in New Jersey. State officials say one worker is already suspected of suffering from the skin form of the disease.
Witnesses said the arrest followed a three-hour search by FBI and immigration agents of an apartment where four "Middle Eastern" men were living.
The arrested man, identified by his brother Ilyas Chaudry as Allah Rakha, was understood to have been detained by US immigration authorities. FBI agents seized several bags of potential evidence from the flat.
Known source
Two other people were reported to have been detained in areas near the Trenton post office, which has emerged as the only known source of the anthrax contamination.
Four people have died and 13 others have been infected in what President George W Bush said was "a second wave of terrorist attacks upon our country".
Human experiment
In Britain, the Health and Safety Executive was reported to be planning an experiment, using human volunteers, in which spores mimicing anthrax will be released in a post sorting office to simulate a possible biological attack.
An HSE spokeswoman: "The whole point of this exercise is to discover how and why anthrax becomes airborne."
Postal workers in several countries, including the UK, were issued with gloves as a precaution against anthrax.
Above Story--Last Modified: 12:55 UK, Sunday November 04, 2001
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Anthrax developments
Wire Service, Associated Press November 03, 2001
Developments Friday related to anthrax cases:
-- The nation's 17th case of anthrax is confirmed on Friday as top health officials say they expect more people to fall ill.
-- The Bush administration issues a fresh appeal to the public to help identify the culprits behind the anthrax attacks.
-- Democratic congressmen lobby to include families of those who died from anthrax in a fund created by Congress for victims of the terrorist attacks.
-- Pakistan's largest newspaper evacuates some of its editorial offices after a letter tested positive for anthrax.
-- In India, the health secretary of a western state says powder found in an envelope in a government office tested positive for anthrax and will be tested further.
-- At the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece, traces of bacteria are found in a mailbag. Greek officials also test a suspicious envelope sent to a U.S. Navy base.
-- The U.S. Postal Service reveals it stopped selling the type of pre-stamped envelope that carried anthrax-tainted mail to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, the New York Post and NBC.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2591886&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=68561&rfi=6
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NBC tape sent to Giuliani contained anthrax
November 4, 2001 Posted: 1:06 PM EST (1806 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani confirmed Sunday that a tape sent by NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw's office to City Hall contained anthrax.
Giuliani said the tape was sent in the first week of October, before Brokaw's assistant tested positive for the cutaneous form of the disease.
Giuliani said the tape sent by NBC was dropped off at the City Hall police desk, then was picked up by two people, including his chief of staff, Tony Carbonetti.
"Tony handled it, watched it," Giuliani said.
The mayor did not elaborate on what was on the tape, nor did he say why NBC News sent the tape to his office.
After the NBC case was reported, the tape was submitted for testing several times beginning October 23, and final results have turned up positive, he said.
Giuliani said none of the people who handled the tape have shown any symptoms, which usually occur within a week of exposure. No one is being treated with the antibiotic Cipro, he said.
Environmental testing for anthrax at City Hall has already been conducted since the tape was delivered last month, and results have been negative, he said.
But, Giuliani said, "We'll test again and go into more places in more detail."
The matter is still being investigated.
So far, 17 people have been confirmed to be infected with anthrax, with four confirmed deaths from the more serious inhaled form of the disease
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Anthrax traces found at Washington VA hospital
November 3, 2001 Posted: 8:10 PM EST (0110 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A mailroom in the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center has tested positive for anthrax, the federal agency reported Saturday.
The mailroom is located in a hospital that houses 250 patients but is not near patient areas, said Phil Budahn, the VA's media relations director. But, he added, hospital officials are keeping "a close eye on patients."
Swabs were taken in the mailroom October 30 because the hospital receives its mail from the main Brentwood branch post office in Washington, the facility that processed an anthrax-laden letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Two Brentwood postal employees have died of inhalation anthrax, and two others are hospitalized with the same disease.
Of the 22 swabs, one was positive, Budahn said. Administrators closed the mailroom, he said.
Five mailroom employees have been on antibiotics since October 25, and investigators have not found evidence that anthrax has spread at the hospital, he said. "There is absolutely no indication this is a problem beyond the mailroom," Budahn said.
Hospital administrators at present are not considering moving patients, Budahn said.
It sure sounds weird about the emergency team being ready Sept 10th though. Something was going on!
Thanks for your correction. (I'm flagging aristeides since he was the one who asked.) Texas Avenue looks pretty far away.
If the Spiegel article is correct that there's a post office near 1001 N. Olden, I don't know which they mean. If the Circle Branch is gone, the two closest (according to USPS site) would be
Fort Dix Branch, 6038 W 9th St, Trenton, NJ 08640, about a mile from 1001 N. Olden,
or Trenton Downtown Station, 20 S Montgomery St, Trenton, NJ 08608, a little farther than that,
or Trenton Station E, 1137 Hamilton Ave, Trenton, NJ 08629, about the same distance as Downtown.
My German's really rusty, but I'd interpret In der Gegend um das Postamt von Trenton wurden auch mindestens zwei Wohnungen durchsucht as "In the area around the Trenton post office, also at least three apartments were seached." Gegend I think means neighborhood, but also general area. In der nähe would mean, like, more close neighborhood. And the Trenton Times article suggested the FBI was very interested in a drop box near to the 1001 N. Olden. So I'd suspect the perps didn't go to a post office to mail the letters.
The FBI was asking the Trenton suspects if they "had any friends in Florida." This was reported in the Trenton Times.
Ooops, didn't see your post 102 before I posted 144. (This up and down thing with FR makes it hard to read anything!) You know the post offices better than I do.
So there is a blue drop box right in front of 1001 N. Olden? Maybe that's the one the FBI was watching.
The neighbor, who asked not to be identified, told The Associated Press he saw one of the men now in federal custody carrying a "Ziploc bag" with the letters. He said the man was holding it away from his body and "placed it real slow" onto the passenger seat of his car.
So maybe we're getting all hung up here on drop boxes and nearest post offices for no reason, if the perp was driving somewhere to mail it.
I know it's obvious that they knew much because the WTC was already attacked in 1993, they had every reason to start deporting enemy foreigners then. Now with 6000 killed they still won't deport them, but will impose some serious restrictions on every American. Do you see a solution?
Am I missing something in the logic here.
And at the risk of getting flamed, I am growing ever more in favor of closing our borders----tight!
Thanks for the ping.
Three suspects arrested
During the fight against US president of the George W. Bush titulierten in such a way " second terror wave " are in the USA three suspects arrested. They are to have spread letters with spleen fire exciters.
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You are thinking rationally...something our politicos need to do.
;^)
(Sarcasm off.)
More ominously, there could have been suspicions but the feds didn't want to "alarm" anybody. However if the fed policy had been to issue an alert for each suspected danger, I wonder whether for the last several months we would have been seeing alert after alert every few days just like we have since 9/11.
Thank you.
Sometimes I just do not understand how easily people can forget, ignore, or just plain let stupidity reign. What is it going to take for our government to do the one thing it really is supposed to do----protect it's citizens? And "Oh My Gosh" we may even hurt some feelings in saving our lives.
My personal opinion---sticks and stones (and suicide airliners and Anthrax) will break our bones, but names (and political correctness) may kill us because we let it.
I'll have to remember that saying. LOL.
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