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MAN SUSPECTED OF HAVING ANTHRAX PREDICTED ATTACK

February 20, 1998 Web posted at: 10:15 p.m. EST (0315 GMT)

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- A man arrested on charges of possessing what is believed to be the deadly toxin anthrax predicted on a radio talk show the day before his arrest that the United States would be the target of a major biological attack within two years.

Tuesday, Larry Wayne Harris, speaking on Talk America Radio Network's "The Buck Stops Here," gave a detailed description of what he said was a plot involving more than 200 "sleeper cells" of Iraqi students poised to unleash anthrax and bubonic plague bacteria on the American people.

"The odds of us making it through even the end of this century without a major biological incident are very low," Harris said.

Harris, 46, and William Leavitt Jr., 47, were arrested Wednesday night in a Las Vegas suburb after an informant called the FBI to report the two men told him they had anthrax. They are being held at the Clark County Detention Center.

Laboratory test results to determine whether a substance seized was in fact anthrax were delayed Friday. No reason was given.

Leavitt's attorney: Tests will be negative

Leavitt's attorney, Lamond Mills, said in an interview with CNN in Las Vegas he believes the tests will prove negative.

"On Monday, I think the test results will be in and show that it's non-toxic, and they're going to have to stand up and acknowledge that. And their case is going to be flushed," Mills said.

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