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Wednesday, July 21, 2004

ASSOCIATED PRESS July 21, 2004:

FREDERICK, Md. — FBI agents yesterday combed laboratory suites at Fort Detrick — home to the Army's biological warfare defense program — and a source said they again were looking for evidence in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

The labs at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have been closed since Friday, Fort Detrick spokesman Charles Dasey said.

A law-enforcement source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press the activity is related to the anthrax mailings that killed five persons and sickened 17 in autumn 2001.

FBI agents have visited Fort Detrick frequently since the unsolved attacks, amid speculation that the deadly spores or the person who sent them may be connected to the fort.
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