Denne er ifølge min egen epostleser sendt til kk-forum, men den er ikke lagt
ut når man går inn på KK-forum via nettet. Derimot mottar jeg selvsagt
fortsatt den samme virusfila fra "Bjørn.Eksner", i dag henved 30 stk. Kjenner
andre her på forumet til fenomenet?
Det hvite hus liker i følge Daily Telegraph ikke at undersøkelsene om
miltbrann-terroren mer og mer tydelig peker mot at amerikanske krefter står
bak. Hvorfor mon ikke?
"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."
Legg merke til uttrykket "en" innenlandsk terrorist. Den historiske tradisjon
holdes ved like: høyrekstremister handler i følge mediene alltid som ensomme
galninger helt upåvirket av sin ideologi, venstreekstreme derimot aldri, deres
terror skyldes utelukkende ond ideologi.
Karsten Johansen
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/29/wanth
29.xml
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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