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To: Les H who wrote (132614)	11/2/2001 2:56:25 PM
From: rolatzi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Police Say Have Suspect in German Anthrax Packages Friday November 2 2:24 PM ET KIEL, Germany (Reuters) - German police said on Friday they had identified a suspect in connection with two packages found in the northern town of Neumuenster which preliminary tests showed were contaminated with anthrax. ``We have a definite person under suspicion but we must continue our investigation,'' Joerg Ziercke, a spokesman for police in the northern city of Kiel, told journalists. The suspect was not in custody. Further details were not available. Ziercke said their investigation showed that a total of 30 packages with suspicious contents were left in various locations in Neumuenster, including a pedestrian zone and a nearby forest. Of these, 21 had been discovered so far. It was not clear how police had come to the conclusion there were 30 in total. One of the packages was open when the police found it and subsequent tests showed it was contaminated with anthrax, Ziercke said. Police were seeking anyone who may have come into contact with the contents of the packages. Earlier, the regional health minister for the area, in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, said initial tests on two of the packages had confirmed initial suspicions of anthrax. The packages from Neumuenster were being tested at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, a national center for disease control. The institute was also testing a letter received by a labor office in the eastern state of Thuringia. Provisional tests on this letter also confirmed the presence of anthrax.