[dogbyte12]

Just a note. ABC is also reporting tonight that they believe that the person who mailed the envelopes in New Jersey sent out two strains. A weakened strain was sent to Tom Brokaw, really nasty stuff to Tom Daschle. It's bad enough that this person or person's has anthrax, but they actually have two different versions of it.

Perhaps they want to scare the media with tame versions, and kill politicians with the "good stuff"

Discuss...

[homegroan]

how does the sender NOT inhale the spores? Even if he/she wears a gasmask while putting the stuff in the envelope, wouldn't some be left behind? They must go thru a lot of bleach and Cipro.

[America's Resolve]

A weakened strain was sent to Tom Brokaw, really nasty stuff to Tom Daschle. It's bad enough that this person or person's has anthrax, but they actually have two different versions of it.

If that's true, it might be a source of comfort. Why send the weaker strain and put everyone on guard against opening mail? I understand that the lady who opened it in Dashle's office didn't have it anywhere near her face and looked down into the envelope and saw the powder. We're all watching our mail a lot more closely since Fla. Really stupid to put people on their guard like that, no?

[HiTech RedNeck]

patented a secret process

Oxymoron alert. No patents are secret; all are on file for public viewing. Perhaps they mean "developed a secret process."

[hoyaloya]

How could this be? According to CNN's experts, the whole anthrax business is being perpetrated by domestic parties like the Aryan nations?

I'm stuck at a hotel and don't have FOX - so I watched Greta Van (whatever) interview some guy named Larry Ellison (presented as a "Counterterrorism Expert") tonight. She laid out all of the suspicious stuff indicating a foreign threat . . . then he presented his evidence. You know what it was? That the targets were "liberal-type places" and it wasn't deadly enough to be bin Laden. He argued that "instilling fear isn't bin Laden's modus operandi." That's it. A "counterterrorism expert" and that's what he has to add. Where do they get these buffoons?

I flipped over to CNBC, and whaddyaknow, Larry Ellison was talking to Brian Williams as a "Aviation Counterterrorism Expert." Is he reknowned or just a run-of-the-mill rent-a-talker?

[ladyinred]

This is just horrid. I guess this report will stop the accusations that it is the VRWC that has started already though. I have felt from the beginning that this is the terrorists continuing attack on us, in spite of people I know buying into this internal nuts stuff. Perhaps some of the false alarm ones are, but the deadly ones have to be more sophisticated. I keep asking where a pro lifer could get ahold of Anthrax that is military grade?

[atafak]

Bin Laden's strategy seems to be to insert small amounts of controlling effort into critical points in our system, where their effect will be multiplied by the existing components of our system. He used both our planes and buildings as weapons to multiply the number of deaths that his small squad could cause. He uses the media to amplify the terror effect of a few cases of anthrax by striking at the media itself, putting fear into the voices, faces, and words of media folk. He uses the omnipresense of the US Mail to constantly remind us to be afraid. In short, his strategic model is the amplifier. We've got to think carefully about our system from his strategic viewpoint to guard against further damage.

[classygreeneyedblonde]

Anyone know the life span of these spores?

[wayne_shrugged]

Anthrax Evidence Points To State Sponsor

Which state? Hollywood's "State of D'Nile"?

[eFudd]

I resent the implication that a State could make any product better than private industry. Even Anthrax.

Does anyone really belive that our legislators in Washington that are currently hiding under their beds could manufacture higher quality Anthrax than Merck for example.

More war time propaganda to sway public opinion.

George, if you want to take out Bagdad just do it.