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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41448)	11/4/2001 4:17:38 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Victim may hold vital anthrax clue..as the FBI is trying to establish whether she may have come into direct contact with the killers. A news reprot in Sunday Times today.. THE DEATH from inhalation anthrax of a Vietnamese hospital worker in New York last week has given American investigators what they believe may be the first important clue to catching the bioterrorists responsible, writes Sarah Baxter. Because Kathy Nguyen, 61, the fourth American to die in a month of the disease, is believed to have received no letter containing anthrax, nor had any contact with other targets, the FBI is trying to establish whether she may have come into direct contact with the killers. "Her tragic death may turn out to be our most important clue so far. Every detail of her life and work is being examined," said one FBI source last week. President George W Bush confronted growing criticism of his administration's handling of the anthrax outbreak yesterday, while praising the public's calm response to "a second wave of terrorist attacks" and promising: "We will solve the crimes and we will punish those responsible." Bush admitted in a radio address it was not known whether those responsible were "the same terrorists who committed the attacks on September 11", but said in answer to claims that the White House had not reacted quickly enough, that the terror had no precedent. The FBI still favours the theory that domestic extremists, rather than Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda body, are responsible for the anthrax-laced letters in America, but just how little the authorities know about the source of the terror was confirmed by Robert Mueller, its director, who appealed last week for the public to "join us in trying to bring leads to the front to help us solve both the anthrax and the September 11 investigation". Despite the offer of a $1m (£684,000) reward, the FBI has received few tips of any value from the public. Some relief has set in, in that the confirmed anthrax cases, which have risen to 17, appear to be clustered around the tainted letters sent to Senator Tom Daschle in Washington and to the New York media. Nguyen's case, despite the absence of any evidence, is now thought likely to fit the same pattern.