World News Tonight (ABC) - 2001-10-16
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[0:05] furniture on World News Tonight the
[0:07] anthrax sent to Senator dashel contained
[0:09] an extremely potent form produced by
[0:12] someone who knew what they were doing
[0:14] overwhelmed by Anthrax hoaxes cities
[0:17] towns and agencies stretched thin and
[0:19] short of money and testing for it it's a
[0:22] 19th century science and in Afghanistan
[0:26] trying to intimidate the Taliban
[0:30] with a special operations
[0:35] aircraft from ABC News world
[0:38] headquarters in New York this is World
[0:41] News Tonight with Peter Jennings good
[0:44] evening everyone we're going to begin
[0:45] with Anthrax tonight it has been a long
[0:47] and very difficult day in the Congress
[0:49] and an unsettling one here at ABC but
[0:52] the Congress got a real scare today when
[0:54] it was learned that the anthra sent to
[0:56] Senator Tom Dash's office he's the
[0:59] Senate majority leader was the most
[1:01] dangerous kind we've also learned
[1:03] something about the letters to Senator
[1:04] dashel and to NBC and we'll come to that
[1:06] in a minute but first the anthrax itself
[1:10] ABC's Brian Ross is here Brian this is
[1:12] described as surprisingly pure that's
[1:15] right Peter the gold standard military
[1:18] grade according to one expert that only
[1:20] a sophisticated operation could produce
[1:23] it seems to have been designed and mil
[1:24] to a size specifically so it stays in
[1:26] the air that takes a lot of money and
[1:28] special machinery and it Le leads to a
[1:30] greater chance of the deadly inhalation
[1:33] Anthrax type and does this particular
[1:35] type of Anthrax give any clue to Source
[1:38] quite a few countries have made it a
[1:39] long list ranging from Iraq and Russia
[1:41] to Britain and the Uni