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EmergencyNet News Instant Update

12:00CDT - 16 Sep 2001

Hoaxer Arrested in Connecticut; Attorney General Says

From the ERRI/EmergencyNet News Watchdesk

Washington, DC (EmergencyNet News) -- U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft
announced a short time ago that a man in Connecticut has been arrested and
charged with engaging in a "hoax" anthrax incident and then lying to federal
officials, who were investigating the matter. Ashcroft also expressed his
concern that emergency service agencies and federal health and investigative
are being overtaxed by their response to as many as 2,300 calls for
unfounded or "hoax" incidents involving suspected Weapons of Mass
Destruction. Ashcroft said that those purposefully engaging in perpetrating
these so-called "hoax" incidents would be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law.

In related developments, ERRI crisis analysts said that their preliminary
examination of the current rash of alleged anthrax incidents would seem to
indicate that there may be multiple sources of the letters containing
suspicious materials. "There would appear to be at least one or two sets of
letters that actually contain biological materials," ERRI's Clark Staten
said this morning.

"And there also appear to be several other sets of hoax letters which
contain various other kinds of materials that are not hazardous," Staten
added. "As we warned in our advisory to emergency service agencies on 08
Oct, we believe that there may be opportunistic groups or individuals, both
domestically and internationally, who are attempting take advantage of a few
real incidents in an attempt to further their obviously twisted agendas and
further escalate this crisis," the veteran emergency analyst added. "We're
sure that the FBI, the US Postal Service, and other appropriate
investigative agencies are pursuing a number of leads and theories
concerning the sources of these incidents," Staten concluded.

Emergency Response &amp; Research Institute

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