From what we're being told, the Anthrax is very hard to produce in powder form.
Austrian Post Office seized three letters containing white powder,
one of which had been addressed to the Austrian public radio
and television broadcaster ORF.
French police sealed off a post office just off Paris'
Champs Elysees avenue, and a bank in the southwest of the
city for tests after two more suspicious envelopes were
found. A day earlier 12 people were taken into hospital after
letters containing powder were sent to a scientific
institute and state financial offices, but tests of the
substance and those exposed to it proved negative.
A German government spokesman said Tuesday that a
powder found in the mail room of Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder's office had not contained the anthrax
bacterium and had been sent for further analysis.
A large mail sorting office in the centre of Liverpool,
northwest England, was evacuated Tuesday after white
powder leaked out of a package.
Tests on three people in Britain who worked in the Florida
and US offices at the centre of the scare and may have
been exposed proved negative, Britain's public health
laboratory service said.
A Finnish television company in Helsinki received a suspect
letter on Tuesday containing an unidentified powder, the
news agency STT/FNB said.
In Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Estonia government
scientists are examining a spate of letters and parcels
containing white powder, police said. Many of the letters
were posted in Italy and at least one from South Korea,
officials said.
White powder found leaking from an envelope discovered
at the central post office in Fukushima city, northern
Japan, was not the deadly anthrax bacteria as originally
feared, police said.
In Ottawa, a section of Canada's main Parliament building
was evacuated and cordoned off after a suspicious package
arrived. 35 people were taken to a detoxification unit but
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said there was no
evidence the white powder contained anthrax.
A train was evacuated at the railway station in the
northwestern Italian town of Sestri Levante after the
discovery of a bottle containing a suspicious white liquid,
Italian railway police said.
Unidentified powder suspected to contain anthrax spores
was found on an Israeli cargo plane arriving from Europe,
according to media reports.
Eleven people were undergoing tests for anthrax in Poland
after opening letters containing a suspicious powder sent
to a police office and a television station, officials said.
Brazil's defense ministry asked that a Lufthansa plane
found carrying a suspicious white powder be grounded until
laboratory tests could be conducted.
In Melbourne, Australia, US Consul General David Lyon said
40 consulate staff members were evacuated for 45
minutes after a letter found to have a suspicious chemical
residue arrived at the office.
In Israel public health officials, police and soldiers rushed
to investigate reports of the white powder at the offices
of the daily Maariv, only to find that an office worker had
confessed to sending a harmless substance as a joke.
And the latest:
Anthrax Scare at London Stock Exchange
Now, I'm sure some of this is hoax action, but I would certainly question the American Militias' involvement.