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...bottom kept falling out before they could get there. Health officials were confounded by a germ weapon never before unleashed on a civilian population; law-enforcement officials were stymied by bioterrorists who were either linked to the Sept. 11 attacks or merely pretending to be. Military officials faced a Taliban army whose tanks they could blow up but whose will was much harder to degrade. And while the public continued to show great support for the President, each new setback would test that faith. "The American people are going to have to be patient," the President declared Friday, "just like...
...anyone with undergraduate training in biology can raise colonies of dangerous microbes. Delivering them is much harder, as the technologically savvy extremist Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo learned in the early 1990s when it tried to spread botulism in the streets of Tokyo before finally settling on sarin gas. Moreover, germ weapons have a tendency to boomerang, as gas attacks often did during World War I when winds suddenly shifted. Highly infectious agents also are difficult to handle, a risk underscored by at least one major anthrax accident in the Soviet biowarfare program that killed scores of Russians--though that wouldn...
...bottom kept falling out before they could get there. Health officials were confounded by a germ weapon never before unleashed on a civilian population; law-enforcement officials were stymied by bioterrorists who were either linked to the Sept. 11 attacks or merely pretending to be. Military officials faced a Taliban army whose tanks they could blow up but whose will was much harder to degrade. And while the public continued to show great support for the President, each new setback would test that faith. "The American people are going to have to be patient," the President declared Friday, "just like...
...Just days after the White House accused the press corps of overplaying the anthrax story, the deadly germ had penetrated every branch of government, from the Vice President's mechanical letter opener to the postal facilities serving the CIA, the Supreme Court, the State Department and, of course, the White House and Congress. When D.C. mail clerk Joseph Curseen arrived at the hospital on Sunday with "the flu," he was sent home with stomach medicine and died the next day. Investigators who had swabbed down his post office hadn't told anybody to get tested or treated and hadn...
...Unsurprisingly, there is already a booming Internet market for personal germ warfare accoutrements: You can buy your very own Sterilizer online for the low, low price of just $2800 (plus shipping...