Hannity, O'Reilly Hit by Anthrax Scare Letters

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[Wallaby]

Post #15:

>Would a local nut have sent an anthrax letter to a doctor in Nairobi on 9/8?

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Here's a Kafkaesque postscript to that story:

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Kenya; US, Nairobi Conflict On Anthrax Tests The Monitor Africa News October 26, 2001 Friday A letter which Kenyan authorities last week said contained spores of anthrax has since tested negative for the deadly bacteria, a US embassy spokesman told AFP on Wednesday. "We have not seen the additional tests. Our position remains the same." "After further testing of the Kenya sample... the initial positive result cannot be replicated or confirmed," added the spokesman, who said his announcement followed advice received from the Centres for Disease Control (CDC), a US government agency with staff in Kenya. But Kenyan officials said they were not informed. The health ministry said it had no knowledge of the new findings.

"We have not seen the additional tests. Our position remains the same. We are not aware of new results," the health ministry's director of medical services Richard Muga told AFP, adding that the original tests had been carried out by "experts." On October 18, Kenyan Health Minister Sam Ongeri announced that two separate tests, smear-and-stain and culture, had shown that material from the Atlanta missive had tested positive for anthrax, making it the first confirmed case of the bacteria outside the United States. "The letter was re-tested by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and the consensus of the microbiologists was that the letter was not contaminated with anthrax. It is believed that the tests were conducted on mildew or fungus," said the US spokesman's information statement put out by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Atlanta. Senior officials from KEMRI and CDC were not available for comment Wednesday.

[Pharmboy]

There's not enough anthrax in the world to send to Alan Dershowitz.

LOL--you got off a beauty...

[Mo1]

I saw it ... Hannity RIPPED into that SOB .. it was Great ..

[Fulbright]

Before September 11.

Case closed.

[aristeides]

Thanks. The letter to Nairobi always was anomalous -- sent before 9/11, and the identified sender denied having anything to do with sending anthrax. I guess I'll have to stop referring to that one. But there are also the anthrax letters to the American embassies in Pakistan and Lithuania, and the anthrax letter sent to some business in Pakistan. I don't think a local nut would have sent those either.

[classygreeneyedblonde]

why would it be closed

[anymouse]

Is 'Waly Samar' the mastermind behind the Anthrax mailings?

Abdul Rahman Yasin. Yasin was born in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1960, while his father was working on his Ph.D. at the University of Indiana. Yasin grew up in Baghdad, and he came to New York in early September 1992 on a U.S. passport acquired two months earlier from the U.S. embassy in Amman. An epileptic, he ostensibly came for medical treatment, staying with his brother Musab in Jersey City. (See illustration 4-2, the wanted poster for Yasin.)

[Wallaby]

Speaking of Nairobi -- did you see this little item about the 4 Al-Qaida convicts? I'd rather they weren't in my backyard.

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The New York Times

October 25, 2001, Thursday, Late Edition - Final

Section B; Page 10; Column 6; Metropolitan Desk

A NATION CHALLENGED; Convicted Terrorists Sent to Pennsylvania

Federal authorities moved quickly to transfer four convicted followers of Osama bin Laden to a high-security prison in Pennsylvania after they were sentenced last week in the embassy bombings trial.

The four terrorists, who received life prison terms last Thursday for conspiring with Mr. bin Laden in global terrorism, arrived Sunday at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., government officials said.

The terrorism conspiracy included the bombings of the American Embassies in East Africa in 1998, the government said, in which 224 people died.

Linda Smith, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Prisons in Washington, refused to say whether the four men -- Wadih El-Hage, 41; Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, 36; Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali, 24; and Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, 28 -- would remain at Lewisburg, which is in central Pennsylvania, or be moved elsewhere.

[Fulbright]

It would indicate that the hijackers, or someone in their group, is probably sending the letters--and that elements of the attack on America may have been showing up before September 11.

[Plummz]

Thanks, I missed that.