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Anthrax reported in Pataki`s office
Fears of bio-terrorism threat in the US grew as spores of anthrax were reported in the Manhattan office of the New York governor George Pataki as House of Representative in Washington was shut down for five days for the first time after exposure of at least 31 people to the infection found in a letter sent to senate majority leader tom Daschle.
Fears of bio-terrorism threat in the US grew as spores of anthrax were reported in the
Manhattan office of the New York governor George Pataki as House of Representative in Washington was shut down for five days for the first time after exposure of at least 31 people to the infection found in a letter sent to senate majority leader tom Daschle.
Pataki said he was taking antibiotics as a precautionary measure as the staff was being tested for the exposure. Initial tests showed anthrax sent to NBC headquarters in New York and a tabloid company in Florida was the same strain and possibly laboratory grown. That gave rise to fears that same group might be trying to create panic in the country.
For the first time, experts were raising the possibility of some foreign government being involved in the attacks as they say the process involved in culturing and sending them requires a degree of sophistication which might be available with Osama bin Laden, prime suspect behind September 11 terror attacks against the US, and his al-Qaeda network. But FBI, which is also said to be investigating the possibility of internal groups being involved in it, so far has not connected the anthrax incidents to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Bureau Report
Pataki said he was taking antibiotics as a precautionary measure as the staff was being tested for the exposure. Initial tests showed anthrax sent to NBC headquarters in New York and a tabloid company in Florida was the same strain and possibly laboratory grown. That gave rise to fears that same group might be trying to create panic in the country.
For the first time, experts were raising the possibility of some foreign government being involved in the attacks as they say the process involved in culturing and sending them requires a degree of sophistication which might be available with Osama bin Laden, prime suspect behind September 11 terror attacks against the US, and his al-Qaeda network. But FBI, which is also said to be investigating the possibility of internal groups being involved in it, so far has not connected the anthrax incidents to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Bureau Report