This report came out yesterday from Agence France Presse. Oddly enough, it has received almost zero notice from the rest of the mainstream media: Governor Suggests Taliban Spokesman Caught ‘With Anthrax’. (Hat tip: WordWarp.)

Maybe if Rosie O’Donnell mentioned that biological weapons of mass destruction had been allegedly found in Afghanistan, it might make the news.

January 17, 2007 — An Afghan governor today showed the media photographs of arrested Taliban spokesman Mohammad Hanif, claiming he had been picked up in a house containing packets of anthrax powder.

Gul Aghar Sherzai, governor of Nangarhar Province, where Hanif was arrested late on January 15, did not say how it had been proven the powder was the deadly anthrax bacteria or what quantity had been found.

Intelligence officials and police did not confirm the discovery of anthrax.