Bioterrorism

FBI anthrax investigators are turning up the heat on former Army bioterrorism scientist Steven Hatfill, searching his Maryland apartment for a third time Thursday and questioning students who attended an African medical school with Hatfill 20 years ago....

Pink-slipped in 1997 after 11 years working with the world's deadliest toxins at the Army biodefense lab in Fort Detrick, Md., Richard Crosland reluctantly packed a box of personal items into his red Mustang and drove home. Over the next two days,...

The FBI denied yesterday that anthrax investigators have smeared a former Army bioterrorism expert with leaks to the news media but said it would look into some allegations of misconduct made by Dr. Steven J. Hatfill. FBI spokesman Chris Murray said...

WASHINGTON - President Bush narrowed his request to Congress yesterday for authorization to launch a unilateral attack against Iraq, offering to impose some limits on a broad resolution he proposed last week. The new language was an effort to forge a...

First of two parts On the morning of his second day in the hospital, Rich Richmond's lungs filled with fluid, and blood drawn from his arm produced a culture swarming with angular strands of anthrax. Unchecked, experts knew, the bacterium could flood the...

Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, who says the federal government has ruined his life by linking him to the anthrax investigation, was fired yesterday from his job as a bioterrorism trainer at Louisiana State University. Hatfill was hired as associate director of...

Reflecting a new mood of cooperation with Moscow, the U.S. has delayed testing of its missile defense system while strategic arms talks are under way with Russia, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday. Rumsfeld denied at a Pentagon news...

Government scientists have opened the anthrax-laden letter sent to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and found it to be "virtually identical" to one mailed to a colleague, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), the FBI said Thursday. The disclosure...

President Bush on Sunday sternly rejected an offer by Afghanistan's Taliban regime to turn over Osama bin Laden to a neutral country, while U.S. jets began a second week of bombing by striking targets near Kabul and the area where Taliban troops are...

Declaring that the threat posed by germ warfare and terrorism "is real and extremely dangerous," President Bush opened a campaign Thursday to strengthen and expand the provisions of a 1972 treaty banning biological weapons. His proposal would extend many...

WASHINGTON - U.S. warplanes pounded the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul yesterday, striking a Taliban tank unit and other military installations, while the Taliban headquarters in Kandahar was hit dozens of times. As the U.S.-led aerial assault...

Three keen-nosed bloodhounds named Lucy, Knight and TinkerBelle, flown in by the FBI from Southern California late last summer to help with the anthrax investigation, are a major reason for agents' focus on former Army bioterrorism expert Dr. Steven J....