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>From The Washington Times,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20011110-15048816.htm
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November 10, 2001
Experts: U.S. hate groups not likely behind anthrax
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) � American hate groups have talked for years about
using anthrax to strike at the U.S. government.
But experts who monitor extremists doubt that neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan
or domestic militia organizations have the scientific know-how or the
financial means to carry out the anthrax-by-mail attacks.
"Obviously, we don't know, but we have leaned toward a foreign
explanation or a madman with a microbiology degree," said Mark Potok
of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. Some white
supremacist, anti-Semitic organizations cheered the September 11
terrorist attacks, finding common cause with the Israel-hating
terrorists. They are among the many suspects in the mailing of
anthrax-contaminated letters.
Four persons have died of anthrax over the past few weeks. On
Wednesday, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said the investigation
has not been able to determine if the attacks were the work of
domestic criminals or overseas terrorists.
In 1995, Larry Wayne Harris, a microbiologist and reputed white
supremacist, was arrested in Ohio with three vials of bubonic-plague
toxin he had ordered fraudulently by mail from a supplier in Maryland.
He was given 18 months on probation. He wrote "Bacteriological
Warfare: A Major Threat to North America," which some regard as a
how-to book.
Alexander James Curtis, arrested this year in San Diego on charges of
harassing civil leaders and vandalizing two synagogues, published an
Internet guide in 2000 called "Biology for Aryans" that described the
use of botulism, anthrax and typhoid for terror.
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