Are We Scared Enough Yet?-2001 Redux? Anthrax Scares Follow Terror Plot

[kpete]

2001 Redux? Anthrax Scares Follow Terror Plot
Zachary Roth | January 5, 2010, 10:06AM

Yesterday -- ten days after the failed Christmas bombing attempt -- there were anthrax scares in both Alabama and California.

Envelopes containing white powder were sent to the district offices of senators and congressmen, as well as to a federal courthouse, in five different Alabama cities, and were believed to come from the same source. None of the letters tested positive for anthrax or any other harmless substance.

The letters were sent to the offices of senators Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby, and congressmen Jo Bonner and Mike Rogers, all Republicans, in the cities of Mobile, Foley, Anniston, and Montgomery. Letters containing the powder were also sent to the federal courthouses in Anniston and Birmingham.

Meanwhile, two professors at the University of California, Irvine, yesterday received letters containing white powder and a message reading "Black Death." The Orange County Health Department quickly determined that the powder in both letters was harmless.

more:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/2001_redux_anthrax_scares_follow_terror_plot.php

[dipsydoodle]

1. You have yet

to hear me learning to play the banjo.

[NightWatcher]

2. is there some type of formula in place? 8-12 months in office, stoke a terror scare

to get the public and critics off your back for a few years......

[mbperrin]

3. Works well, doesn't it?

Never change a winning strategy.....

[Junkdrawer]

4. Dr. Ivins launches terror attack from the grave....

Will nothing stop him?

[Don Caballero]

5. I hope the terrorists who released the anthrax are caught