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Article: Anthrax Spores From Hill Said to Be Made Recently; Officials Say Finding Suggests Attacker Had Access to Modern Lab and Could Make New Batch
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- The Washington Post
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- June 23, 2002
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Government officials said yesterday that scientists have
determined that anthrax spores mailed to Capitol Hill last fall were
made less than two years ago, suggesting that the author of the
anthrax attacks had access to a modern laboratory and could make a
new batch of the lethal pathogens.
The officials said the researchers' new determination did not
change the general direction of the FBI investigation, which for
months has been searching for a suspect among disgruntled domestic
scientists with the expertise needed to culture, mill and "weaponize"
the spores.
But the new findings cast further doubt on the hypothesis that the