[bioterroism] How to spread terror for the price of a stamp … what it’s like to be in the middle of an anthrax scare.

‘…I had visited the decaying laboratories in once secret cities and interviewed some of the tens of thousands of Soviet scientists who had worked to perfect mankind’s most vicious, efficient killers. I was now familiar with the stench of such places – the haunting mix of bleach, dust, animal waste – the smell of death. The research had terrified me at first. Not even the terrorism I had covered as a correspondent in the Middle East in the 1980s had so unnerved me. But I had remained, through it all, detached from the reality of my often awful subjects. To do our work, journalists had to be. We were trained to be the cool, professional observers that our business requires and readers demand. Yet now I was no longer covering a story. I was the story.’

What it’s like to be in the Middle of an Anthrax Scare

This entry was posted on Monday, October 15th, 2001 at 11:02 pm and is filed under Terrorism.

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