Second Senate Anthrax Letter Found
FBI Says the Letter Is Similar to Deadly Mail Sent to Senate Majority Leader Daschle
Nov. 16 — The FBI has discovered a second anthrax-laced letter targeting Capitol Hill, its intended target Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, sources told ABCNEWS.
Sources tell ABCNEWS that the letter was "similar in nature" to the one opened in Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office on Oct. 15. Officials told ABCNEWS that the letter was postmarked Oct. 9 from Trenton, N.J. It also had the same phony return address from the Greendale School.
Investigators discovered the letter today while going through all the mail that was impounded after Daschle's office received the letter. The letter has not been opened, but sources said the bin where it was discovered was "completely contaminated" with anthrax. The letter is on its way to authorities for further testing.
Investigators had suspected there was more than one letter responsible for the outbreak of anthrax infections. Last weekend, anthrax was detected in the offices of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Sen. Larry Craig, D-Idaho, and Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., in the Hart Senate office building, and the office of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., in the Longworth House office building.
FBI profilers say anthrax-laced letters to Daschle, NBC News and The New York Post were likely mailed by the same person, an angry young man with a grudge who may be familiar with the Trenton, New Jersey area. |
