Washington — The powder in the new threatening letter sent to Sen. Tom Daschle was talc and contained no trace of anthrax, Army scientists and the FBI said Friday.
Tests on the letter, which was opened Thursday, were completed more quickly than expected, said a spokesman for the Army's Fort Detrick in Maryland, where the testing was done.
The letter is being investigated as a criminal hoax, the FBI said.
Daschle described the letter as "a copycat mailing" that was similar in message and tone to one he received last fall containing anthrax.
"It said this was anthrax, death to America, something to that effect, and 'stop the bombing' was the only phrase that was new," Daschle told reporters.
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