Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3175-1003606216-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sat, 20 Oct 2001 12:31:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 31180 invoked by uid 510); 20 Oct 2001 19:29:51 -0000 Received: from n10.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.60) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 20 Oct 2001 19:29:51 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3175-1003606216-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.55] by n10.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Oct 2001 19:30:17 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 20 Oct 2001 19:30:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 96649 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2001 19:30:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 20 Oct 2001 19:30:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 20 Oct 2001 19:30:16 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f9KJUOo17496 for iwar@onelist.com; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 12:30:24 -0700 Message-Id: <200110201930.f9KJUOo17496@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 12:30:24 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Mailbox.Pinpointed.in.Anthrax.Cases] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailbox Pinpointed in Anthrax Cases By ALAN FRAM .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (Oct. 20) - Authorities say they have pinpointed the New Jersey post office sorting box from which anthrax-bearing letters were sent, advancing their investigation even as two more people were found to have the skin form of the disease. Tom Ridge, chief of homeland security, disclosed the discovery of the mailbox Friday but provided no details. Determining which sorting box the letters were in may give authorities hints as to where the letters were sent from. Ridge also said anthrax strains that have been found in Florida, New York and Washington are ''indistinguishable'' from each other and may have been from the same batch. Both revelations were important developments for investigators trying to learn who managed to get the potentially fatal bacteria into newsrooms in New York and Florida and the Washington office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. Eight people have now contracted the disease, including one Florida man who died, and 37 others have tested positive for exposure. Even though the ill and exposed people are all using antibiotics and are expected to recover, an entire nation - already frazzled by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - has seemingly moved to an even higher level of anxiety. ''It is terrorizing people, and Americans are not ready to live with this,'' Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told a crowd of troops and their relatives at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri on Friday. ''What is in the mind of people who do this, we don't know. We haven't been able to track down who they are, but I am confident we will.'' Ridge told reporters the anthrax had not been ''weaponized,'' meaning it had not been manipulated to facilitate inhalation by potential victims. Even so, one participant in a conference call for lawmakers said Robert Gibbs, a Defense Department official, reported the anthrax was of ''relative high quality'' and that ''there is an effort to downplay and not promote the abilities of the people doing this.'' The participant spoke on condition of anonymity. Congress recessed until Tuesday so hazardous materials teams could check the Capitol and House and Senate office buildings for evidence that anthrax spores had spread. Officials said they had not found any of the bacteria beyond previously known locations, including Daschle's office and a central Senate mailroom. They said three of 31 people had been removed from a list of employees who earlier tested positive for exposure, citing more complete tests. That was out of 1,400 people for whom nasal swab results were completed. Test results remain incomplete for 2,500 more people. The 28 people who tested positive for exposure were six Capitol police officers, 20 Daschle aides and two staff members who work for Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., who occupies the office suite next to the majority leader. Feingold's aides have said they were not in Daschle's suite Monday, when the letter was opened. Officials conceded for the first time that meant the anthrax-laden powder had escaped the confines of the majority leader's offices. Dr. John Eisold, the Capitol physician, said at least 120 people had been placed on a 60-day regiment of Cipro, an antibiotic used to treat those at risk or affected by the disease. One of the two new reported anthrax victims was Johanna Huden, 30, an assistant to the editorial page editor of the New York Post, Bob McManus. He said she had recovered and was working Friday. The other, a mail sorter at a Hamilton, N.J., postal facility, was infected with cutaneous, or skin, anthrax, a much milder form of the disease than the inhaled form that killed a Florida man Oct. 5. The 35-year-old Levittown, Pa., man was in stable condition at a hospital and is expected to recover, Pennsylvania Department of Health spokesman Richard McGarvey said. A letter carrier who works at the West Trenton, N.J., post office had already been diagnosed with the skin form of the disease. The carrier may have handled the letters that were mailed to Daschle and to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw. FBI investigators are interviewing people who live and work in the carrier's Ewing Township route to try tracing the source of the tainted letters. The West Trenton post office feeds mail to the Hamilton facility. Officials have not been able to determine the source of infections traced to ABC, CBS or the Post. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE VeriSign guide to security solutions for your web site: encrypting transactions, securing intranets, and more! http://us.click.yahoo.com/UnN2wB/m5_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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