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The Sunday edition of the English Telegraph reports that in a video which has been circulating for 2 weeks among bin Laden?s supporters, he admits he was behind the attacks on the World Trade Towers. The video, showing a smiling bin Laden, was shot in the Afghan mountains at the end of October. It was not released on the al-Jazeera T.V. network, as is usually the case, because it?s believed to have been made as a propaganda tool to inspire al Qaeda members.
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Two incoming Northwest Airlines flights were detained by FAA officials in Seattle and San Francisco on suspicion that they could be carrying couriers with anthrax.

Two men on Northwest Flight 8 from Tokyo to Seattle were detained and then released.

Northwest Flight 28, also from Tokyo, was being held on the ground at San Francisco airport, pending inspection of baggage by FBI and Customs agents.

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It has been discovered that the bacteria used for the anthrax attacks in the U.S. is either the strain we used to make anthrax weapons in the 1960s, or close to it. It is not a strain that Iraq or the former Soviet Union mass-produced for weapons.

Some experts have recently said that the fact that the anthrax was ?weaponized? (that is, ground into a fine powder) suggests it was produced with the backing a government such as Iraq. But neither the strain nor the physical form of the anthrax is particularly sophisticated, bioweapons specialists say now. This means that the anthrax that has been sent through the mail could be the work of a lone, Unabomber-type terrorist, who may or may not be aligned with fundamentalist extremists.
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It has been discovered that the anthrax spores that contaminated Senator Thomas Daschle?s office were treated with a chemical additive so sophisticated that only three nations are capable of making it. Experts in anthrax weapons say they have no doubt that such an additive was present based on the high dispersal rate from the letter sent to Daschle.

?The evidence is patent on its face,? says Alan Zelicoff, a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories? Center for National Security and Arms Control. ?The amount of energy needed to disperse the spores [by merely opening an envelope] was trivial, which is virtually diagnostic of achieving the appropriate coating.?
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