Posted on 11/01/2001 5:59:30 PM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
>Would a local nut have sent an anthrax letter to a doctor in Nairobi on 9/8?
Here's a Kafkaesque postscript to that story:
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"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. |
LOL--you got off a beauty...
Case closed.
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.
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