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Anthrax Spores From Hill Said to Be Made Recently
Government officials said scientists have determined that anthrax spores mailed to Capitol Hill last fall were made less than two years ago, suggesting that the author of the anthrax attacks had access to a modern laboratory and could make a new batch. The researchers' determination did not change the general direction of the FBI investigation, which for months has been searching for a suspect among disgruntled domestic scientists with the expertise needed to culture, mill and "weaponize" the spores. But the new findings cast further doubt on the hypothesis that the spores could have been stolen from a lab decades ago, saved in dry storage and used in the wave of attacks last October and November.It narrows the field where they have to look. But if they're looking in the wrong field, it doesn't matter how narrow it is. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, at a recent meeting with Washington Post editors, declined to discuss the eight-month investigation in any detail. The new findings do not appear to have pushed the investigation appreciably forward. It sounds like the investigation is stalled dead. That bespeaks either the slickness of the perps, or ineptitude on the part of the investigators. Once FBI is on a case, they're not usually inept. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-06-23 |
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