First case of anthrax linked to suspicious mail confirmed in Pakistan

AFP | 10/27/01

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A local employee at a foreign bank in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi has contracted anthrax, the doctor treating him told AFP.

The man was admitted to the private Aga Khan hospital this week after coming in contact with a suspicious letter at the bank, the doctor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.

The doctor said the patient's contition was not life threatening.

"He definitely will not die. His condition is okay. He will be out in a week or so," the doctor said.

The anthrax case is the first in Pakistan linked to suspicious mail following a series of similar apparent biological weapon attacks in the United States.

Fourteen people in the United States have contracted the disease through either inhalation or the less serious manifestation, skin anthrax, after spores were sent in the mail.

The attacks began after the September 11 suicide plane terrorist attacks on New York and Washington but US authorities have not been able to determine who is behind them.

Aga Khan hospital officials confirmed this week it had received three possible anthrax samples delivered in letters to at least two foreign banks in Karachi.

The doctor said early Saturday the man he was treating was the only person at the hospital to have contracted the disease.

He did not name the bank but said it was a branch of a major international financial institution located in the business district of southern Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city and commercial hub.

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And these letters were mailed from.......

drumroll....

[MilburnDrysdale]

Theoretically in retaliation for the banks' actions which would not be generally known outside the circle of those affected by those actions. For those in Palm Beach I mean that the terror network and or its' sympathizers are among the few that would know this bank "deserved" the attack for its' complicity with the U.S.

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Odd that this important piece of information was omitted.

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But I thought it was a VRWC!

[MilburnDrysdale]

What information--the postmark? If so I agree although they may be keeping that secret for good reasons--I'll bet Pakistan is not burdened by our open system of government and media access

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And these letters were mailed from.......

According to NBC, Ames Iowa and the HQ of the NRA/RNC...

[MilburnDrysdale]

Yeh-right can you imagine some militia type in this country for any reason sending some of his precious small supply of Anthrax fine ground by a machine that set him back $200K to anyone but Hillary and Bill? I cannot

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Have to wonder if this man was a random victim or did he have knowledge of certain transactions or customers that someone wanted erased.

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Must be the work of some midwest militant group.

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"domestic terrorist" Paki-ping

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Aga Khan hospital officials confirmed this week it had received three possible anthrax samples delivered in letters to at least two foreign banks in Karachi.

Aha!