World News 24-10-2001 Anthrax Attacks: White House Targeted who: George W Bush what: Says "I do not have anthrax" after traces are found in White House mail facility where: Washington DC when: Yesterday snippet: "The White House yesterday became the latest target of the anthrax terror campaign," reports The Guardian. "A spokesman for the Bush administration confirmed that a small concentration of anthrax had been found in a sorting office which handles post for the presidency." The spores were found on a letter-slitting machine used to open mail at Bolling Airforce Base about three miles from the White House. Police have not found the letter that passed the spores on to the machine, says The Telegraph, so cannot be sure it did not reach the President`s offices. "I don`t have anthrax," President Bush told the press yesterday. And he seemed unready to accept suggestions that the attacks originated in the US, saying "There is no doubt that the evildoers are still trying to harm Americans. There is no question that anyone who mails anthrax with an intention to harm Americans is a terrorist." Elsewhere, The Sun online publishes pictures of three anthrax-laced letters, dated September 11th, which were sent to NBC, The New York Post and Senate majority leader Tom Daschle. Two of them contain the message "Death To America, Death To Israel, Allah Is Great." [... more]

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