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(Breaking)Anthrax Developments; (NJ). Man Arrested; New Spores Found (US Senate); Deeper..Probe NJ D
Sky News,ITV,CNN Top Stories ,AP,USA Today ^ | November 4, 2001 | Laura Weckler & Various News Wire Staffs As Labeled With Each Story

Posted on 11/04/2001 10:59:25 AM PST by t-shirt

Anthrax: Man Arrested

Sky News

November 4, 2001

A man has been arrested after FBI agents investigating anthrax attacks searched his apartment.

They raided at least two apartments in Trenton, New Jersey.

Three of the letters contaminated with the potentially deadly spores were posted from Trenton.

Another case

The development came as anthrax was discovered at a third US post centre in New Jersey. State officials say one worker is already suspected of suffering from the skin form of the disease.

Witnesses said the arrest followed a three-hour search by FBI and immigration agents of an apartment where four "Middle Eastern" men were living.

The arrested man, identified by his brother Ilyas Chaudry as Allah Rakha, was understood to have been detained by US immigration authorities. FBI agents seized several bags of potential evidence from the flat.

Known source

Two other people were reported to have been detained in areas near the Trenton post office, which has emerged as the only known source of the anthrax contamination.

Four people have died and 13 others have been infected in what President George W Bush said was "a second wave of terrorist attacks upon our country".

Human experiment

In Britain, the Health and Safety Executive was reported to be planning an experiment, using human volunteers, in which spores mimicing anthrax will be released in a post sorting office to simulate a possible biological attack.

An HSE spokeswoman: "The whole point of this exercise is to discover how and why anthrax becomes airborne."

Postal workers in several countries, including the UK, were issued with gloves as a precaution against anthrax.

Above Story--Last Modified: 12:55 UK, Sunday November 04, 2001

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Anthrax developments

Wire Service, Associated Press November 03, 2001

Developments Friday related to anthrax cases:

-- The nation's 17th case of anthrax is confirmed on Friday as top health officials say they expect more people to fall ill.

-- The Bush administration issues a fresh appeal to the public to help identify the culprits behind the anthrax attacks.

-- Democratic congressmen lobby to include families of those who died from anthrax in a fund created by Congress for victims of the terrorist attacks.

-- Pakistan's largest newspaper evacuates some of its editorial offices after a letter tested positive for anthrax.

-- In India, the health secretary of a western state says powder found in an envelope in a government office tested positive for anthrax and will be tested further.

-- At the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece, traces of bacteria are found in a mailbag. Greek officials also test a suspicious envelope sent to a U.S. Navy base.

-- The U.S. Postal Service reveals it stopped selling the type of pre-stamped envelope that carried anthrax-tainted mail to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, the New York Post and NBC.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2591886&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=68561&rfi=6

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NBC tape sent to Giuliani contained anthrax

November 4, 2001 Posted: 1:06 PM EST (1806 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani confirmed Sunday that a tape sent by NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw's office to City Hall contained anthrax.

Giuliani said the tape was sent in the first week of October, before Brokaw's assistant tested positive for the cutaneous form of the disease.

Giuliani said the tape sent by NBC was dropped off at the City Hall police desk, then was picked up by two people, including his chief of staff, Tony Carbonetti.

"Tony handled it, watched it," Giuliani said.

The mayor did not elaborate on what was on the tape, nor did he say why NBC News sent the tape to his office.

After the NBC case was reported, the tape was submitted for testing several times beginning October 23, and final results have turned up positive, he said.

Giuliani said none of the people who handled the tape have shown any symptoms, which usually occur within a week of exposure. No one is being treated with the antibiotic Cipro, he said.

Environmental testing for anthrax at City Hall has already been conducted since the tape was delivered last month, and results have been negative, he said.

But, Giuliani said, "We'll test again and go into more places in more detail."

The matter is still being investigated.

So far, 17 people have been confirmed to be infected with anthrax, with four confirmed deaths from the more serious inhaled form of the disease

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Anthrax traces found at Washington VA hospital

November 3, 2001 Posted: 8:10 PM EST (0110 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A mailroom in the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center has tested positive for anthrax, the federal agency reported Saturday.

The mailroom is located in a hospital that houses 250 patients but is not near patient areas, said Phil Budahn, the VA's media relations director. But, he added, hospital officials are keeping "a close eye on patients."

Swabs were taken in the mailroom October 30 because the hospital receives its mail from the main Brentwood branch post office in Washington, the facility that processed an anthrax-laden letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Two Brentwood postal employees have died of inhalation anthrax, and two others are hospitalized with the same disease.

Of the 22 swabs, one was positive, Budahn said. Administrators closed the mailroom, he said.

Five mailroom employees have been on antibiotics since October 25, and investigators have not found evidence that anthrax has spread at the hospital, he said. "There is absolutely no indication this is a problem beyond the mailroom," Budahn said.

Hospital administrators at present are not considering moving patients, Budahn said.


TOPICS: Anthrax Scare; Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: anthrax; antraz; chaudry; mail; postoffice; rakah; rakha; saleem; wmd
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To: MindBender26
Forgot to flag you to this thread.
101 posted on 11/04/2001 3:27:00 PM PST by aristeides
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To: aristeides
The nearest PO's are (1) The Circle Branch on Texas Avenue on Route 1, (2) Downtown on North Montgomery and (3) Station A -- Villa Park at 1167 Hamilton Avenue. All about the same geographic distance -- about 1.5 to 2 miles away.

There was actually a blue collection box directly in front of the apartment. They did test the box in front of the apartment. Results not known.

102 posted on 11/04/2001 3:36:55 PM PST by bvw
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To: aristeides
Can you post the entire article?

Our government and media are bent on blaming this on Patriots or militia or right wingers and not on the actual Arabs who the government is allowing to commit these anthrax attacks and murders.

All the solutions our government is bent on implementing are ones that involve taking away citizens rights, instead of enforcing existing immigration and deportation laws ewhich allow easy arrest, prosecution and deportation of non-citizens.

103 posted on 11/04/2001 3:40:01 PM PST by freedomnews
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To: aristeides
I'd say distance does not make the deutsch press any fonder to the facts.
104 posted on 11/04/2001 3:41:08 PM PST by bvw
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To: t-shirt
Get a rope! (Seriously, these guys are dumb enough to stay in the country?)
105 posted on 11/04/2001 3:47:58 PM PST by GVnana
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To: bvw
Well, when you're thousands of miles away, a mile or two doesn't seem like much. Looking at the article again, I think the article is referring to the apartment's proximity to the Hamilton station. Remember a German reader would probably have no idea where either Hamilton or Trenton is, and it would make sense to tell such a reader that the arrests in Trenton took place near the Hamilton postal center.
106 posted on 11/04/2001 3:48:51 PM PST by aristeides
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To: freedomnews
The article's in German. I don't have time to translate it now, and, when I've posted articles in foreign languages without giving a translation, I've gotten complaints. So, sorry, I prefer not to post the whole article. But I've given the link, so you're always free to post it yourself.
107 posted on 11/04/2001 3:51:52 PM PST by aristeides
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To: t-shirt
Is it time yet to get politically incorrect and start questioning EVERY muslim? Please? I'd feel a lot better if we at least had a start on tracing these guys interactions.

One more thing. Will these muslim women PLEASE begin to stand up and revolt against the cruelty of this control-freak religion of islam?

108 posted on 11/04/2001 3:55:19 PM PST by lds23
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To: aristeides
Ja, dass ist was ich dencken.
109 posted on 11/04/2001 3:57:10 PM PST by bvw
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To: struwwelpeter
Wait just a minute struwwelpeter!!! If they each were allowed to kick him 5000 times, he would be dead before that last firefighters have a chance to express their feelings! We need to limit it to 2 times and then when the last FF is done, we open it up for a free for all! LOL!!!
110 posted on 11/04/2001 3:58:20 PM PST by rambo
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To: lds23
Interesting enough, but there is a group doing just that. Please see www.rawa.org This female Muslim group must be applauded for having such strength!
111 posted on 11/04/2001 4:00:49 PM PST by rambo
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To: VA Advogado
"...in these trying times we all must give up a little liberty to be safe..."

Did you forget the (sarcasm) flag?

If not, then I would write that as, "...in these trying times all terrorist shall give up more than their liberty if they set a stinkin' foot in America.."

112 posted on 11/04/2001 4:10:55 PM PST by CWRWinger
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To: rambo; archy; Victoria Delsoul; Angelique; Boot Hill; Freedom007; FormerLurker; ChaseR; brat...
Someone asked on another thread: Who Really Controls International Terrorism?

Surely the CIA would know???

The CIA in the New World Order - Intelligence Challenges Through 2015 (Article From CIA Website)

Go the the thread above and and you will see that the CIA planned on these terror attacks occuring in America and accepted them as a necessary evil in achieving globalism(aka global government. The CIA also explain on it's site that these terror attacks would help unify the USA with (it's enemies) China and Russia, and the terror would facilitate (and make it acceptable to the Congress and American people)for the USA to share more of it's intelligence resources and military and other technologies with Russia & China among other nations(which before the increasing attacks were percieved as enemy nations).

This type of change is best known as sythesis.

113 posted on 11/04/2001 4:23:21 PM PST by t-shirt
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To: martian_22
His answer was that the indication of a "domestic" element has been the mailings from a Trenton NJ "domestic" mailbox.

In war time these 'domestic' terrorist (who only came here to conduct terrorism) are properly referred to as spys, infiltrators or saboteurs. These deserve the harshest punishments possible for utilizing biological weapons.

114 posted on 11/04/2001 4:25:19 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: aristeides
WOW AGAIN! THANKS FOR THE PING and the translation! I've been FR-deprived for almost 10 hours, wondering all the while when the break in this case would go public - so this was great to find !
115 posted on 11/04/2001 4:28:59 PM PST by gumbo
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To: AppyPappy
Allah Rakha!

Pick up any telephone book in Idaho and you'll find at least a dozen Allah Rakha's, two or three A. Rakha's, one Al Rakha, and that doesn't even take into account the unlisted numbers! (/sarcasm)

116 posted on 11/04/2001 4:31:26 PM PST by Boss_Jim_Gettys
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To: CWRWinger
"Tom Kennedy, a member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) "National Urban Search and Rescue Team" during an interview on national TV with CBS News anchor Dan Rather:
"We're currently one of the first teams that was deployed to support the City of New York in this disaster. We arrived on late Monday night [September 10] and went right into action on Tuesday morning" [September 11] Click Here to Listen to the actual interview segment in which these words are uttered.

117 posted on 11/04/2001 4:37:05 PM PST by freedomnews
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To: CWRWinger; archy; Victoria Delsoul; ChaseR; He Rides A White Horse; gogov; fellowpatriot...
Click below here and Hear A FEMA Guy Admit to Dan Rather of Prior Knowledge of the government of the September 11th attack as heard on national TV:

"Tom Kennedy, a member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) "National Urban Search and Rescue Team" during an interview on national TV with CBS News anchor Dan Rather:
"We're currently one of the first teams that was deployed to support the City of New York in this disaster. We arrived on late Monday night [September 10] and went right into action on Tuesday morning" [September 11] Click Here to Listen to the actual interview segment in which these words are uttered.

Sometimes the truth is sicker than you'd ever want to know......The above clip is bone-chilling.

118 posted on 11/04/2001 4:43:46 PM PST by freedomnews
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To: lds23
One more thing. Will these muslim women PLEASE begin to stand up and revolt against the cruelty of this control-freak religion of islam?

Excellent point. What does Islam stand for if not for the brutal oppression of women? And where is NOW in all of this? I'd think that they would be holding marches in the Muslim enclaves of America for the emancipation of Muslim women.

119 posted on 11/04/2001 4:48:00 PM PST by WRhine
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To: freedomnews
Maybe he misspoke..this is unreal...surely that isn't right
120 posted on 11/04/2001 4:49:06 PM PST by RummyChick
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