Two: The suspects have widely differing personalities. Harris is a confirmed former member of the Aryan Nation, previously convicted after obtaining bubonic plague samples, who has frequently boasted in interviews with the media of his ability to obtain anthrax. Leavitt is a stranger to publicity, a family man from a remote desert town with a microbiology business, who said he did not exactly understand the charges against him. Leavitts mother, Betty, stood on the court steps Thursday to tell the press about her model citizen son. Every day he says, `Mom, can we have a prayer together? I want to pray that we can settle the world's conflicts, she said.
Three: We wont really know for a while whether Leavitt and Harris are sinners or the saints they claim to be (the two say they were trying to develop an anti-anthrax vaccine for humans). Tests are being run on the bags marked biological found in their Mercedes, to determine whether the anthrax is military grade or simply a livestock vaccine. Meanwhile, Las Vegas was pretty relaxed about the bio plot supposedly uncovered in its midst Thursday. Children played in a preschool yard across the street from where the men were arrested, residents went about their lives -- and at the casinos, business was barely interrupted.