Talk:Mohammed Salim (Bagram detainee)

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11/05/2001 USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/attack/2001/11/03/anthrax-pakistan.htm KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Police in Pakistan have detained two men in connection with a letter that was believed to contain anthrax. Mohammed Salim, detained Sunday, is suspected of putting powder in an envelope along with a news release that was sent to Pakistan's largest newspaper, the Daily Jang. Another man, Mohammad Yousaf, was detained Saturday. Yousaf, who works for a non-government organization that runs education projects in Karachi, told authorities he suspected his friend, Salim, had mailed the letter. Salim had earlier taken some letterhead stationery from Yousaf's organization, which apparently was mailed along with the powder. It wasn't clear when Yousaf became aware the letter had been sent. The editorial offices of the newspaper reopened Saturday, one day after they were sealed for decontamination because of the letter. The Daily Jang has set up a special room for handling mail and provided masks and gloves to workers who open it, said Zahid Hussain, a reporter. At a news conference in Islamabad, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said two people at the newspaper had been exposed to anthrax but had not been infected. Dozens of staffers, including the reporter who opened the letter, were taking antibiotics as a precaution. On Friday, workers in protective suits sealed the newsroom after tests at a private laboratory showed the presence of anthrax in powder on the press release, which arrived Oct. 23. However, Health Minister Abdul Malik Kasi questioned the accuracy of the test and said the Pakistan National Institute of Health would conduct its own test on the powder. Officials feared the incident might be in retaliation for the war in neighboring Afghanistan. The Urdu-language Jang newspaper has generally been supportive of Musharraf, who has sided with the United States in its war against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement and terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden.

Is this the same Mohammed Salim by chance? Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 22:44, 26 June 2007 (UTC)