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To: Rascal who wrote (5573)	10/16/2001 1:26:01 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Poland ? Why Poland ? hindustantimes.com 11 hospitalised in Poland after finding suspicious powder AFP (Warsaw, October 16) Eleven people were in a hospital in Poland undergoing tests for anthrax after opening letters containing a suspicious powder sent to a police office and a television station, officials said. The patients -- including three television employees and several police officers -- were receiving antibiotics at the hospital, in Gdansk, while the tests were carried out, the head of the local authority for the town, Pomorski Sowinski, said. The rooms in the police office and the television station in Gdansk where the letters were received have been sealed off as a precaution. Since the discovery of anthrax-laced letters in the United States, reports of suspicious correspondence have surfaced around the world. So far, none of them have been found to contaminated. ---- 25 hospitalised in Slovakian suspect mail alert BRATISLAVA: Twenty-five people were taken to hospital Monday in Slovakia after having been in contact with two letters containing suspect powders, the Tasr news agency reported. The 25, who are either postal employees or policemen, were given antibiotics at a clinic in Trnava in the west of the country, but there was no evidence so far of any contamination by bacterial agents such as anthrax. A police source quoted by Tasr complained that the behaviour of those people in contact with the suspect mail had been "irresponsible" but did not go into details. The envelopes are being examined at a laboratory in Banska Bystrica, in the centre of the country. - AFP khaleejtimes.co.ae

To: Rascal who wrote (5573)	10/16/2001 1:36:34 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Rascal, U.S. media forget about dimpled chads As interesting as this story is, It has no place on this forum. In the future, please refrain from posting non-foreign policy material to this board. TIA, -FaultLine