Reasonable Rascal
11-30-01, 15:23
Washington Post
November 30, 2001
Steve Fainaru and Joby Warrick
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36408-2001Nov29.html
“Since the mid-1980s, the U.S. Army laboratory that is the main custodian of the virulent strain of anthrax used in the recent terrorist attacks distributed the bacteria to just five labs in the United States, Canada and England, according to government documents and interviews.
Two of the labs -- both in the private sector -- received the strain this spring, only a few months before letters tainted with anthrax spores were mailed to New York and Washington, the records show. The documents, obtained by The Washington Post, offer the first official accounting of how the microbes, known as the Ames strain, were
originally disseminated. They show that the distribution of Ames was much narrower than recently thought, and a top anthrax researcher said the strain may be limited to a dozen labs. The five original labs also
provide a starting point for investigators trying to determine how the Ames strain fell into the hands of a terrorist or terrorists.”
November 30, 2001
Steve Fainaru and Joby Warrick
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36408-2001Nov29.html
“Since the mid-1980s, the U.S. Army laboratory that is the main custodian of the virulent strain of anthrax used in the recent terrorist attacks distributed the bacteria to just five labs in the United States, Canada and England, according to government documents and interviews.
Two of the labs -- both in the private sector -- received the strain this spring, only a few months before letters tainted with anthrax spores were mailed to New York and Washington, the records show. The documents, obtained by The Washington Post, offer the first official accounting of how the microbes, known as the Ames strain, were
originally disseminated. They show that the distribution of Ames was much narrower than recently thought, and a top anthrax researcher said the strain may be limited to a dozen labs. The five original labs also
provide a starting point for investigators trying to determine how the Ames strain fell into the hands of a terrorist or terrorists.”