"Iraqi diplomats in New York and Washington have asked American authorities to test two letters containing white powder for contamination with anthrax spores, U.S. and Iraqi officials say. The letters arrived Friday at the Iraqi mission to the United Nations on East 79th Street in New York and the Iraqi interest section on P Street NW in Washington, said an Iraqi official, who requested anonymity." Wondering aloud: ... nothing like a couple of self-inflicted hoaxes to deflate rising suspicions and finger-pointing... could it be? | 
