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The Anthrax Scare |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / WORLD VIEWS |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 3,125 Words, 21,760 Characters |
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TERROR IN THE MAIL UNITED STATES--The war keeps expanding. Some 800,000 postal employees entrusted with 680 million pieces of mail daily now find themselves on the front lines in the struggle against terror. Two of their colleagues who worked in Washington's central processing facility have died of what is believed to have been anthrax inhalation. Two other workers at the facility, where the contaminated letter was sent to Senator Tom Daschle's office was processed, have been hospitalized with anthrax in their lungs. vbcrlf These new developments raise disturbing questions about the potency and transmissibility of the anthrax being sent in the mail. It should also trigger a comprehensive and determined response on the part of the Postal Service and Congress to ensure the safety of employees and the continued reliability of America's 226-year-old mail service. vbcrlf Terrorists have taken aim at the vitality of our famously restless nation. First they commandeered commercial aviation to serve as an instrument of terror. Now someone is attempting to do the same with the nation's mail system. These crucial economic lifelines are as much targets as weapons. Paralyzing America's travel and communication networks would amount to a terrorist triumph. vbcrlf--New York TimesvbcrlfOctober 23, 2001 vbcrlfLISTENING TO ANTHRAX vbcrlf UNITED STATES--The anthrax in these letters was not put there by amateurs. All the more so because the anthrax was of a potent, finely milled sort able to infect several people, some of whom may not even have handled the anthrax-carrying letter. They caught it in the air. vbcrlf "Creating this form of anthrax isn't easy," says former CIA Director Jim Woolsey. "You need a sophisticated individual, sophisticated equipment or both." Richard Spertzel, a bioterror expert, says that only five people in the entire U.S. could make such anthrax and only four countries in the world--the U.S., Britain, Russia and Iraq. What we have here is ...
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...hey represented a culture that did not belong to them. vbcrlf As the Weekly Standard reported in Washington, the enemy is not Islam, but nihilism practiced by these extremists. It is this that threatens the basis of our civilization and democracy and why it is imperative that the war against terror is won.--Kyodo News ServiceOctober 25, 2001 vbcrlf
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