New Contamination Points to Undiscovered Anthrax Letter

FOXNews.com ^ | Nov. 13, 2001 | Fox News

[Mitchell]

WASHINGTON - Eight of 55 tests came back positive for anthrax contamination at a State Department remote mail facility in Virginia Tuesday, indicating a spore-laden letter remains to be found.

One State Department mail handler became ill with inhalation anthrax last month, a case that officials speculated resulted from cross-contamination with a letter mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

[Mitchell]

I searched for this story but didn't find it.

The undiscovered letter here apparently was mailed before Oct. 24, since the mail facility was closed on that date. Could this be the Oct. 12 letter hypothesized in the Anthrax-Nimda Connection article?

[Mitchell]

I guess I should have put this on the Anthrax bump list.

[eno_]

No no, it's an isolated event: a bird drank from a stream, got anthrax, died in midair, got ingested by a jet engine, which exploded, completely tearing off a wing, vertical stabilizer, AND the other engine, and spreading anthrax through this mail facility. Nothing to see. Move along.

[Scutter]

[Le-Roy]

Hey! That's enough!

Keep on like that, and you'll put the poor liberal media out of business...;^)

[Merovingian]

FOX NEWS Alert scroll: FBI:HAZMAT team entered 2 homes in Chester PA to search. No info given as to what they hoped to find..WARRANTS ARE SEALED.......hmmm

[NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh]

Last week, some Middle Eastern looking men in SUVs and Jeeps were making the rounds of individual Pittsburgh Fire Stations, taking pictures, taking notes, and when approached by curious, (and somewhat nervous,) firemen, they took off. Their license plate numbers were turned over to the FBI. Maybe this is the result.

[concerned about politics]

Warrents are sealed...."

Still going down the list of ELF and ALF members, eh?

NOW THE NEWS SAYS TURBULENCE MUST HAVE DOWNED THE PLANE! It must have tore the tail off, and the rest of the plane fell apart.
Hey, what happened to the bird, and the gas pouring out? This lie is so hard to keep up with!

[Merovingian]

Vertical Stabilizer on the tail now the focus of the investigation...No fire damage. ?Overload fatigue stress, sabotage....More tonight after they look at the flight data recorder...NO BIRDS....Maybe 'wake turbulence' from the plane that was 8 miles away....???.per Rita Cosby...

[Lady GOP]

Daschle looked pretty sick today. Anthrax could be all over the place with cross contamination. When the first case of small pox surfaces bet it will be "not related". Smallpox is a curse; horrible stuff. Msnbc did a national geographic special on this the other night. Just unbelievable.

[HiTech RedNeck]

What if one bad guy on antibiotics, mailed an anthrax envelope to another bad guy on antibiotics, or even to himself. As long as the envelope wasn't lumpy or scattering visible dust, it would secretly contaminate the postal system en route and then conveniently disappear.

[Lady GOP]

Honey if this turns out to be the case HEAD FOR THE HILLS. Stuff is absolutely horrifying, disfiguring.

[Sunshine55]

We had two guys here in Columbus doing the same thing at the AEP HQ. The bldg. houses the controls for the power grids across 11 states. If these guys have no visa issues, do they hold them anyway?

[muawiyah]

Just another case of the anthrax particles contaminating mail trays. These trays are used and reused, and if the anthrax powder managed to get sucked into the corrugation tubes, it will get puffed out all over the place every time someone places mail in the tray.

So far no one in the FBI has shown enough intellect to notice that post offices move mail in trays - mail pieces are not just toted around inside one at a time - which seems to be the FBI's template of analysis.

[NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh]

> If these guys have no visa issues, do they hold them anyway?

I don't know the answer to that. If they haven't DONE anything, they could be picked up for questioning, but unless there is reason to believe something deeper is going on, I don't think they can be held. If they had run away when approached for questioning, that could give the authorities a reason to hold them on suspicion, and perhaps a reason to ontain a search warrant.
Also last week, a non-english speaking intruder was caught inside the John Amos Power Plant in WVA. The lone security guard was an unarmed female who tried to wrestle him to the ground. He got away by boat. Have heard nothing since. Lots of stories. No resolutions.

[Cachelot]

The lone security guard was an unarmed female who tried to wrestle him to the ground.

Sigh. Time to get heavily into guard dogs, I think. At least they can be armed. Although the PC crowd might demand that they have their teeth pulled.

[Sunshine55]

yep, I posted that story here

[lonestar]

What if one bad guy on antibiotics, mailed an anthrax envelope to another bad guy on antibiotics, or even to himself. As long as the envelope wasn't lumpy or scattering visible dust, it would secretly contaminate the postal system en route and then conveniently disappear.

Worse yet, one bad guy could rent a PO Box, mail anthrax to the box, and it could be sitting there never to be claimed.