Jeg gir meg ikke. Faen heller. Hvorfor må ikke akkurat dette komme ut på
KK-forum på veven? Enhver kan jo lese det på offentlige hjemmesider allerede?
Er det min kommentar som gjør det? Men jeg refererer jo bare hva som står å
lese på engelsk allerede i Daily Telegraphs artikkel:
At det hvite hus "prøver å dempe" økende mistanker om at spor peker mot at
kilden til antrax-terroren er i USA. Og at man med god grunn kan spørre seg
hvorfor det hvite hus gjør det. Hvorfor det prøver å øve trykk på FBIs og
andres undersøkelser av kilden til denne terroren som åpenbart truer
demokratiske organers funksjon i USA i en bestemt retning og dermed
ytterligere reiser spørsmålet om ikke adskillelsen av utøvende, dømmende og
lovgivende makt nå er suspendert i USA? Med alt hva dette innebærer.
Karsten Johansen
Femte gangen:
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>http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/29/wanth
>29.xml
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>FBI investigates American link to anthrax mail
>
>By Ben Fenton in Washington (Filed: 29/10/2001)
>
>THE United States Postal Service began using electron beams yesterday to
>decontaminate 68 tons of undelivered mail destined for addresses in the
>American capital.
>
>The move comes as the White House tries to dampen increasingly strong
>suggestions that a domestic terrorist, not Islamic militants, who were
>responsible for the anthrax attacks across the country.
>
>The FBI and CIA have shifted their focus in the investigation away from a
>link with the September 11 attacks, favouring the idea that someone with
>considerable scientific training, but with a separate political agenda, is
>responsible.
>
>A senior government official told The Washington Post."Everything seems to
>lean toward a domestic source. Nothing seems to fit with an overseas
>terrorist type operation."
>
>The shift of emphasis seems to be based on the conclusion that the anthrax
>used in the attacks was not so sophisticated that it could have come only
>from a foreign power with a biological weapons programme.
>
>Nor has the FBI or CIA found any evidence in its intense investigation of
>al-Qa'eda to link it with the anthrax attacks.
>
>The wording of letters sent with the deadly bacteria has also led
>investigators to suspect an American rather than a foreigner wrote them,
>sources say. But Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff, said reports
>of a change of emphasis in the investigation were an "overstatement" of the
>intelligence agencies' position.
>
>Meanwhile, fears grew that one or more other anthrax-bearing letters were
>still waiting somewhere in Washington.
>
>Medical authorities warned that thousands of people who work in private
>postrooms at office buildings around Washington should start taking powerful
>antibiotics.
>
>The USPS, the American equivalent of the Royal Mail, has placed an order for
>eight electron-beam machines as part of their campaign to ensure they kill
>the deadly bacteria before it claims any more victims.
>
>The first decontamination programme had to be contracted out to a company in
>Lima, Ohio, because the USPS has no such capability at the moment.
>
>Concern about other letters containing anthrax has grown with the number of
>places in and around Washington where spores have been found.
>
>The White House, the CIA, the Supreme Court, the State Department and both
>houses of Congress are among the bodies which own mail-sorting buildings
>that have reported traces of the bacteria.
>
>Mr Card admitted that "there may be other letters that are stuck in the
>system".
>
>Two postal workers at the main letter-sorting office at Brentwood Road,
>Washington, have died of inhalation anthrax and two others are being treated
>for it.
>
>A worker at the State Department's mail-sorting office is also suffering
>from the deadly form of the disease. Others are in hospital because of fears
>that they may have contracted anthrax.
>
>Just how widespread the presence of lethal spores is and how anthrax was
>disseminated to so many places are just two of the questions investigators
>still face today.
>
>Doubts that the letter sent to Tom Daschle, leader of the Senate, two weeks
>ago could be the sole source of the bacteria have grown with each new report.
>
>Dr Jeffrey Koplan, of the government laboratory co-ordinating responses to
>the disease, said it would be "virtually impossible" for the Daschle letter
>to be responsible for the known spread of the spores to letter-handling
>buildings in Washington, Maryland and Virginia.
>
>A spokesman for the US Capitol Police said: "We don't know if we have
>cross-contamination from the original Daschle letter or if there is another
>letter out there we need to be concerned about."
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1625000/1625405.stm
>
>Monday, 29 October, 2001, 05:51 GMT
>
>New case of anthrax in US
>
>Anthrax tests are continuing in many offices US health officials in New
>Jersey say a female postal worker has been diagnosed with the most deadly
>kind of anthrax, the inhaled form of the disease.
>
>She worked as a mail handler at the sorting office which processed the
>anthrax-contaminated letter sent earlier this month to Senator Tom Daschle.
>
>In Washington, the US Justice Department is the latest official building to
>suffer traces of anthrax.
>
>The bacterium was discovered in an off-site mail-sorting office in Landover,
>Maryland, which handles post addressed to Attorney General John Ashcroft.
>
>The White House says there could still be undiscovered letters containing
>anthrax in the American postal system.
>
>President Bush's chief of staff, Andrew Card, said: "There may be other
>letters that are stuck in the system... but we are working hard to make sure
>that any contamination is confined and we can deal with it.
>
>"Our postal service and the FBI are working very hard to understand all they
>can and we are asking people to be very careful."
>
>Mr Card, interviewed on American television, defended the government's
>handling of the anthrax outbreak, which has killed three people - two of
>them postal workers.
>
>Many postal workers are angry at the government's response to the outbreak,
>saying there were delays in testing and treating staff after anthrax-laced
>letters surfaced.
>
>"I think our government is working very well," Mr Card said. "This
>government is doing everything it can."
>
>Improving condition
>
>The latest person diagnosed with inhalation anthrax is a middle-aged woman
>who worked at a mail sorting centre in Hamilton, near the New Jersey state
>capital, Trenton.
>
>Her condition is reported to be improving, five days after she first came
>under observation for suspected anthrax.
>
>At least 11 other people have been infected with anthrax and thousands more
>have been tested or given antibiotics for the disease.
>
>As well as sending mail to be sterilised in Ohio, the postal service is
>spending $40m on eight electron-beam devices to sanitise letters and
>packages. The equipment will be used first in Washington DC.
>
>The bacteria has been found in 11 separate locations in the capital,
>including three Congressmen's offices.
>
>The US Supreme Court has shut its doors and the nine justices are taking the
>antibiotic doxycycline, which health officials are now dispensing in place
>of Ciprofloxacin, because it has fewer side effects.
>
>Mr Card said authorities had so far been unable to identify the source of
>the anthrax, but suggested it had been developed in a sophisticated
>laboratory.
>
>"This anthrax has been milled, it may have additives," he said.
>
>FBI and CIA officials are now reported to believe the anthrax contamination
>is the work of extremists in the United States rather than terrorists abroad.
>
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