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...Reported by Hannah Bloch/Islamabad, Paul Quinn-Judge/the Kabul front, Hannah Beech/the Taloqan front, Helen Gibson/London, Terry McCarthy/Peshawar, Tim McGirk/Quetta, Ghulam Hasnain/Spin Boldak, Michael Fathers/Tashkent, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington
...that 280 million investigators have a better chance of foiling the next plot. But we are not trained for this, and an unmarked catering truck on a quiet street prompts three different neighbors to call the cops. "Be on the lookout for mysterious health symptoms," said health czar Tommy Thompson, but who doesn't have those? We were told last week not to panic but to be prepared; to get on with our lives, even though we barely recognize them now that there are F-16s overhead and National Guardsmen at the train station. The Vice President...
...Reported by Hannah Beech/Dast-e-Qale, Massimo Calabresi, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington, Michael Fathers/Tashkent, Helen Gibson/London, Ghulam Hasnain/Kandahar, Terry McCarthy/Islamabad, Tim McGirk/Quetta, Paul Quinn-Judge/on the Kabul front
...everyone from HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to President Bush calls the anthrax-laced letters "acts of terrorism," but it's not yet clear where the blame lies. Asked whether he believes the letters are traceable to Osama bin Laden, President Bush replied, "I wouldn't put it past him." If the threat is coming from al-Qaeda or bin Laden, the operatives are far-flung: While at least one of the contaminated letters was postmarked in Malaysia, others were sent from Trenton, New Jersey and Boca Raton, Florida...
...Mark Thompson: No. As the Pentagon said in response to those reports, there's nothing new there. U.S. ground troops have been in and out of Afghanistan for a considerable period of time. Now that the U.S.S. Kittyhawk is in place in the Arabian Sea, we've begun ferrying in small numbers of U.S. special forces to do in southern Afghanistan to do what we've been doing in northern Afghanistan for weeks - liaison with local anti-Taliban forces, trying to turn their knowledge into our intelligence regarding potential targets, potential political splits and the whereabouts of al-Qaeda...