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...Reported by Hannah Bloch/ Islamabad, Ghulam Hasnain/ Dabori Valley, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/ Washington and Michael Ware/ Musa...
...TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson believes the news will make an impact - but won't affect widespread support for the military?s mission. "The U.S. public will care about this because such deaths are rare," he says, "but I don't think it will affect public support for the war one iota." Thompson, like other military analysts, credits the grim realism of the Pentagon's public relations team for keeping the possibility of American deaths in the forefront of everyone's mind - and lessening the blow of this new reality. "Rumsfeld and others have been predicting U.S. deaths since this...
...With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty and Douglas Waller/Washington
...first it was attributed to natural causes. Anthrax is common in wild animals and livestock; its spores can live in soil for decades. Stevens was an avid outdoorsman, so maybe he picked up a few spores in the wild--perhaps, as Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson famously suggested at a press conference, from drinking water out of a stream...
...Thompson's theory never made much sense. It's hard to imagine any scenario by which buried spores could emerge from the ground, mix with drinking water and then lodge in someone's lungs. And sure enough, a sweep of the American Media building quickly made clear that Stevens had come into contact with anthrax at work, not play. Traces of powdery spores were found on his computer keyboard, in the company mailroom and, ultimately, throughout America Media's Boca Raton, Fla., offices. Someone had deliberately sent the microbes into the building...