[John H K]

It's KENYA that says it doesn't contain anthrax. The letter was from the doctor's daughter, btw.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A44845-2001Oct24

"NAIROBI, Oct. 24 – Authorities today retracted last week's "confirmed" finding of anthrax bacteria in a letter mailed Sept. 8 to Kenya from Atlanta. A subsequent test found the white powder on damp pieces of fabric in the envelope was mildew or fungus."

Amazing the desperate lengths people go to to cling desperately to the various foreign anthrax letters.

It's pretty hilarious. Gubbmint conspiracies are supposed to deflect attention from the government as a cause (TWA 800 nutters, chime in). But now gubbmint conspiracies are to BLAME the government to deflect attention away from foreign countries. Gotcha.

[aristeides]

It was also Kenyan agencies which continued to insist the letter really did have anthrax. Can't you imagine how the U.S. government could pressure the Kenyan government to say what it wanted?

As I say, maybe the Nairobi letter really did have no anthrax, but I am going to continue to keep an open mind.