Posted on 11/07/2001 5:29:54 AM PST by pumacan
TIMES NEWS NETWORK WASHINGTON: The finger of suspicion for the anthrax attack on America points to terrorists in Pakistan.
US officials disclosed on Tuesday that a letter to the American consulate in Lahore that tested positive for anthrax in preliminary checks was mailed locally in Pakistan. Hitherto, all anthrax-tainted letters have originated in the United States.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher confirmed that the Lahore letter was mailed from within Pakistan. "It came in the local mail. They had an off-site mailroom facility and it was checked, bagged, isolated there and then sent on to us for further testing," he said.
Samples from the tainted letter have since arrived in the United States for further testing by the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Several American consulates and facilities across the world have reported receiving anthrax-tainted letters. But all of them have come via diplomatic pouches from the United States. If further tests on the Lahore letter confirm anthrax contamination, it will be the first piece of such mail not to have originated in the U.S.
That could go a long way in determining whether the anthrax attacks are the work of the domestic disaffected or international terrorist, a question that has been vexing US authorities since the first tainted letters were detected soon after the September 11 carnage.
Officials however cautioned that it was still too early to come to any conclusions. Many preliminary confirmations of anthrax presence have turned out to be negative in later tests. For US authorities to make a linkage between the Lahore letter and the anthrax attack in the US, the strain would have to be identical.
Despite the growing indications that extremist elements in Pakistan may have penetrated facilities handling weapons of mass destruction, administration officials, particularly from the state department, appear sanguine about the security aspects, and have repeatedly certified that General Musharraf has things under control.
I wish we would get off this extremist nonsense. There is no "moderate" or "extreme muslims". All Islam is beligerent. Read the Koran Qu'ran.. Whatever it is called.
Stay well - stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
Unfortunately right now, America needs Pakistan...this is the rock and a hard place situation.
and I thought disease was Pakistan's #1 export....
Bush is not going to lead the world to Iraq and say, "Guilty!"
The case will be made one crumb at a time, as with this little nugget.
Patience, my friend, and all will be revealed...
It doesn't matter if this is a propaganda or not but America needs to turn away from Pakistan before it becomes the graveyard for Americans. These muslims wants to rule the world in the name of Allah. All non-islam believers have to die as per their Jihad's rule.
I heard this was a free republic site. Doesn't matter if you are new or old to this forum as long as you are correct in your judgement.
Exactly! Pakistan is composed of a variety of Muslims and extremists from other countries as well as their own. The source most likely will turn out to be not Pakistani, but just in Pakistan.
We all know extremists cannot breed if not armed and funded properly. Pakistani extremists is an answer from Pakistan government in support of Taleban to stamped the extreme islamic law in muslim nations or perhaps in the world world who knows.
It's a biggest threat from these extremists.
On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the nation on "America's Answers to Japan's Challenge." His words ring true nearly six decades later: "When we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well against immediate evil. We Americans are not destroyers - we are builders... . We are going to win the war and we are going to win the peace that follows."
Our immediate goal is to bring Bin Laden and Taleban to justice. Once this is over the real war will start to root out the terrorism from other states sponsoring them.
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