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An Afghan governor today showed the media photographs of arrested Taliban spokesman Mohammad Hanif, claiming he had been picked up in a house containing packets of anthrax powder. Gul Aghar Sherzai, governor of Nangarhar Province, where Hanif was arrested late on January 15, did not say how it had been proven the powder was the deadly anthrax bacteria or what quantity had been found. Intelligence officials and police did not confirm the discovery of anthrax.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda is close to being able to produce anthrax and other biological and chemical weapons, according to evidence recently seized by the U.S. government, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al Qaeda network has assembled the material necessary to make the biological toxins botulinum and salmonella as well as the poison cyanide, the Post said. The group is also nearly able to produce anthrax, which is far more deadly than the other agents, the newspaper said, citing three sources with access to written reports describing the capabilities. The report...

INS detainee anthrax suspect TRACY KENNEDY, Register Citizen Staff December 06, 2001 HARTFORD - A Hartford judge set bail Wednesday for one of four local men detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service since Nov. 25 for their suspected involvement in the deadly national anthrax mailings. At Immigration Court, Judge Michael W. Straus ordered Mohammed I. Khan, 46, of Torrington, to pay $12,000 bail during a hearing regarding his application for asylum. Kahn reportedly filed the application after arriving in this country from Pakistan in 1993. According to an INS representative, he had not posted the bail by late ...