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Here's a link to Friday's Trenton Times story about Friday's raid on the apartment on No. Olden Ave. in Trenton: Feds raid apartment [wearing HazMat suits - more details than CNN].

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This article says the neighbor who saw the man with the letters in the ziploc bag told his story to the AP. But I could find nothing on the AP about this incident except these few paragraphs...

...At least two apartments have been searched, the latest Friday, and three people detained in neighborhoods near the Trenton-area post office that is the only known source for the anthrax contamination.

The FBI maintains investigators have found no direct link between the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the anthrax poisonings and the apartment raids. But information that led agents there was developed during the massive search for who mailed the contaminated letters, authorities said.

Authorities would say little about the search or about a man taken into custody Friday. He was identified as Allah Rakha by his brother, Ilyas Chaudry.

Why the AP is sitting on the ziploc bag story? And why are they not pointing out links to the September 11 hijackers and Al Qaeda? In fact, the AP's middle paragraph seems to be an attempt to squelch the idea of a connection.

But the Trenton Times published an article on Halloween suggesting the FBI believes there's a link between the anthrax messengers and the Al Qaeda:

[FBI spokeswoman Sandra] Carroll said the individuals from the Greenwood Village Apartments were questioned in connection with ongoing investigative efforts.

Asked whether she was referring to the World Trade Center attacks or the anthrax probe, she responded: "The two are not necessarily separate at this point."

- FBI seizes property at Hamilton [NJ] apartment [anthrax/hijackers link], 10/31/01

My guess: the AP wants to keep blaming the "right wing."