Suitcase Full Of Anthrax
This could get interesting. An Egyptian man died on a boat from Brazil headed to Canada from organ failure caused by anthrax exposure. The anthrax was in a suitcase that the Egyptian was supposed to deliver to someone in Canada. Luckily, he died, and the suitcase never made it. What made me raise my eyebrows was this statement, from an Inspector with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police:
"There is absolutely no criminal or terrorist threat to Canada," Royal Canadian Mounted Police (search) Inspector Dan Tanner said from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
I hope this guy is just speaking in a very specific manner and he's only referring to this particular criminal/terrorist threat. Because the thought that the RCMP doesn't take seriously the threat posed by terrorists trying to use their ports to transfer biological weapons to within striking distance of the USA isn't too comforting.
UPDATE: DenBeste talks about this case, and hi-lites the exact same RCMP statement that concerned me. Winds of Change has a bit more information, and here's the LGF thread on the news.
UPDATE #2: Everybody is backing away from the anthrax claims tonight - though they don't have an alternate explanation for why this guy died of massive organ failure and made the medical workers who moved his body so ill they had to be hospitalized. Something stinks about this story.
"There is absolutely no criminal or terrorist threat to Canada," Royal Canadian Mounted Police (search) Inspector Dan Tanner said from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
I hope this guy is just speaking in a very specific manner and he's only referring to this particular criminal/terrorist threat. Because the thought that the RCMP doesn't take seriously the threat posed by terrorists trying to use their ports to transfer biological weapons to within striking distance of the USA isn't too comforting.
UPDATE: DenBeste talks about this case, and hi-lites the exact same RCMP statement that concerned me. Winds of Change has a bit more information, and here's the LGF thread on the news.
UPDATE #2: Everybody is backing away from the anthrax claims tonight - though they don't have an alternate explanation for why this guy died of massive organ failure and made the medical workers who moved his body so ill they had to be hospitalized. Something stinks about this story.
# | April 28, 2003