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Search again Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20020801/ap_on_re_us/anthrax_investigation_3 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20020801/ap_on_re_us/anthrax_investigation_3 Anthrax Clues Sought at Apartment Thu Aug 1, 2:47 PM ET By CHRISTOPHER NEWTON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI ( news - web sites) agents wearing protective gloves Thursday conducted a second search at the apartment of a former Army researcher considered a "person of interest" in the anthrax investigation. The search at Detrick Plaza Apartments is connected to the government's anthrax investigation, according to two U.S. government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity. Agents searched the apartment of former researcher Steven J. Hatfill and trash bins outside the building. A dark blue van was parked nearby with its back doors open and white cardboard boxes sat next to the bins. FBI Director Robert Mueller declined to say why a second search was conducted at Hatfill's home. "We're making progress in the case but I can't comment on ongoing aspects of the investigation," he said. Federal investigators first searched Hatfill's home June 25 and questioned him about last year's deadly anthrax mailings. During the initial search, FBI agents, some in protective clothing, removed computer components and at least a half-dozen garbage bags full of material from Hatfill's apartment. But officials said no trace of anthrax was found in his home or at storage unit he rented in Florida. Hatfill keeps a residence at the apartment building, but has rarely lived there since his apartment was searched, a U.S. official said. The apartment complex is outside Fort Detrick, where Hatfill worked for two years for the Army Medical Institute of Infectious Disease, center of the nation's biological warfare defense research. Hatfill worked at the facility until September 1999. Although he probably had access to anthrax, his primary duties didn't involve working with it, a spokesman for the base has said. The FBI has identified Hatfill as one of 20 to 30 scientists and researchers with the expertise and opportunity to conduct the anthrax attacks, but investigators say he is not a suspect. Five people died from inhaling anthrax spores mailed last fall.

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