Bryon Daly wrote:
>
> "Miller, Jeffrey" wrote:
>
> > > My thought is that it's pretty easy to hide a bio-warfare (or
> > > even nuke) research lab in a country the size of Texas, when
> > > there's only a few hundred heavily-supervised inspectors to
> > > search the whole country, and
> > > where peoples' silence is easily bought with death threats
> > > and murder. Something's bound to slip through
> > > the cracks eventually.
> >
> > nitpick - its the size of California, not Texas ^_^
>
> Heh. I was wondering if someone was going to nitpick me on that. :-)
> I have no idea of the real sq. mile numbers and just eyeballed it with my
> world map.
Area of Iraq: 167,975 sq. mi
Area of TX: 268,601 sq. mi.
Area of CA: 163,707 sq. mi.
Figures from the 1997 World Almanac and Book of Facts. :)
Julia
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