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DUST PROBE: The FBI gave the detainee Zacarias Moussaoui a test for the anthrax vaccine. Result: negative. A would-be pilot, he was arrested last August with literature on crop dusters in his possession. He is being held as a material witness in the Sept. 11 case. TOWERING TARGETS: In 1999, Spanish police intercepted a van with more than a ton of explosives. Last week a captured Basque separatist said the target had been Madrid's 48-story Picasso Towers, designed by the World Trade Center architect...
Thomas Morris Jr., who worked in the post-office building that processed the Daschle letter, thought he might have had anthrax when he called 911 early in the morning Oct. 21. He died later that...
MORRIS: Ah, I, I don't know if I have been, but I suspect that I might have been exposed to anthrax...
MORRIS: This is the post office downtown, um, Brentwood Road, Washington, D.C., post office. [pause] There was--ah, a woman found an envelope, and I was in the vicinity. It had powder in it. They never let us know whether the thing had anthrax or not. They never, ah, treated the people who were around this particular individual and the supervisor who handled the envelope. Ah, so I don't know if it is or not. I'm just--I haven't been able to find out. I've been calling. [That particular envelope tested negative.] But the symptoms that...
...ever pretended it would be easy finding the person or people responsible for the anthrax attacks, but mopping up the messes they have made in post offices and government buildings seemed like a pretty straightforward--if painstaking--business. As the Environmental Protection Agency experts assigned to decontaminate the Hart Senate Office Building are learning, however, cleanup may be the hardest part...