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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41499)	11/9/2001 4:07:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Hi IQBAL LATIF; Re the US anthrax letters. The FBI just released some analysis: FBI: Same Person Probably Wrote Anthrax Letters Yahoo, Reuters, November 9, 2001 The FBI (news - web sites) said on Friday it was near certain the same person authored three anthrax-tainted letters and that the person was probably was an adult male who may have worked in a laboratory or had a scientific background. "It is highly probable, bordering on certainty, that all three letters were written by the same person," the FBI said of anthrax-laced letters sent to NBC News In New York, the New York Post newspaper and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. In releasing a profile of the person and asking for public help in identifying who may be responsible, the FBI said the anthrax in the Daschle letter was more potent, more refined and more easily dispersed than what the other two letters contained. The FBI said whomever sent the letters was likely to have taken "appropriate protective steps to insure their own safety," such as an anthrax vaccine or getting antibiotics. It said the person may work in a laboratory and "probably has a scientific background to some extent or at least a strong interest in science." The person also may be "comfortable working with hazardous materials," the FBI said. dailynews.yahoo.com I'm guessing that the FBI thinks this is home grown. -- Carl P.S. I think the individual Taliban soldiers exited Mazar-i-Sharif quickly because they remember that the last time they lost the city to the Northern Alliance there were massacres. There's talk that they are headed towards Kabul, but I don't see how they could possibly get there alive.