The Puzzling Poison Letters

Laboratory tests concluded that the white powder mailed to the Indonesian embassy was not anthrax. Further tests are being conducted.

June 7, 2005

SOME unsettling news was delivered by Australian Prime Minister John Howard. "It's not an innocent white powder, it's some kind of biological agent," he said last week. He spoke to the press about a white powder in an envelope which was delivered to the Indonesian embassy in Canberra.

The envelope, addressed to Indonesian Ambassador Imron Cotan, was opened by the ambassador's secretary on Wednesday at 10am last week. The letter, writt

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