[Keith in Iowa]

About the only places I can think of that might have had a strain on file is the USDA's National Animal Disease Lab in Ames, and perhaps the vet school at Iowa State University...

[Ada Coddington]

So if correct we forget about foreign terrorists because its a domestic strain.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks JH2, sometimes I worry you don't sleep enough, although I appreciate your vigilance in getting us the news.

[VA Advogado]

Federal investigators believe they have traced ``unique characteristics'' of the anthrax that killed a Lantana man to a strain harvested at an Iowa facility in the 1950s, according to law enforcement sources.

Interesting. One of the arrests relating to 9/11 was of an Arab guy in Iowa. Iowa Connection?

[Lorraine]

A Health Department official said of the roughly 300 employees, 70 still had not reported for testing. The department is contacting those employees.

Where the heck are these 70 people?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

P.M. Blair is said to be undertaking to "explain America to the Moslem World." Perhaps Mr. Blair could explain that although in the beginning the historically unusual prosperity of the common person in America started on the basis of plentiful farmland, that was merely opportunity. "America" is the idea of individual people identifying ways of fulfilling other peoples' needs and accomplishing what needs doing. Aggressive cooperation is our national culture, and we aggressively tolerate whatever opinions do not threaten cooperation.

Somebody must also explain to the Moslems that after you've ordered suicide attacks which even the desperate Japanese were troubled at doing, after you've launched those attacks in civilian clothes from inside the targeted country, and after you have launched the attacks anonymously without so much as an immediate explanation even afterward, there is only one threshold left to cross, and that threshold is CBN attack.

If that threshold is well and truly crossed by an attack causing thousands of casualties in America, and if moslems are still dancing in the streets or even smiling about it, the question of what good all those nukes in our arsenal are will be asked in earnest. And that beforehand is the time to have an answer ready--something a little more substantive than, "the check is in the mail."

[DAGO]

Los Alamos??????????Aint that where all that stuff happened with the Nuclear files and china?Now maybe Anthrax.When does the Clinton DEBOCLE END?

[Politically Correct]

Bump to you.....I was unaware of the Arizona group but figured that someone was DNA fingerprinting these organisms.

[Thoreau]

Raymond Zilinskas, senior scientist at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, said Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz., and Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., have collections of anthrax ``sequences'' from around the world

[BellStar]

Yes and I bet it comes from Pine Bluff Arsenal Arsenal Arkansas!

[mostlyundecided]

check out the article I posted regarding HAZMAT investigations in Detroit area - white powder is showing up in mail packages both in businesses and private homes, and in files at a local bank.

The title of the post is: Hazmat Investigations Keep Crews Busy

[rogers21774]

Meanwhile, investigators confirmed that two hijackers who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks had subscriptions to tabloid newspapers published in the Boca Raton headquarters of American Media Inc., where photo editor Robert Stevens is believed to have contracted the fatal disease.

``We're not sure what to make of that yet,'' a source close to the inquiry said. ``It may mean absolutely nothing.''

Maybe they just appreciate good journalism.

[loveliberty]

Might want to check out the homelanddefense.org site for info and links.

[Free Vulcan]

This strain is 50 years old. Probably not unlike a freeware program, it gets passed, copied, and passed again down the line. A bacterial agent can be passed to a legitimate user and be grown and proliferated to many unauthorized users. 50 years is plenty of time for something like this to trickle down to people like Sadaam Hussein and bin Laden, and from what I read screening of those who request samples is pretty lax. Look at Larry Wayne Harris, he had few problems getting the samples he had.

[untenured]

Meanwhile, investigators confirmed that two hijackers who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks had subscriptions to tabloid newspapers published in the Boca Raton headquarters of American Media Inc., where photo editor Robert Stevens is believed to have contracted the fatal disease.

``We're not sure what to make of that yet,'' a source close to the inquiry said. ``It may mean absolutely nothing.''

Interesting. Do those newspapers run classified ads? That might have been how those eventual hijackers got their instructions.