--- "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Published on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 by the > Guardian/UK > http://www.guardian.co.uk/ > US Finds Evidence of WMD At Last - Buried in a Field > Near Maryland
> The good news for the Pentagon yesterday was that > its investigators had finally unearthed evidence of > weapons of mass destruction, including 100 vials of > anthrax and other dangerous bacteria. > The bad news was th > at the stash was found, not in Iraq, but fewer than > 50 miles from Washington, near Fort Detrick in the > Maryland countryside. Well, we do have documentation of *providing* various pathogenic bacteria to Iraq, as well as CDC training for at least one Iraqi scientist, back in the 80's... > The anthrax was a non-virulent strain, and the > discoveries are apparently remnants of an abandoned > germ warfare program. They merited only a local news > item in the Washington Post. > But suspicious finds in Iraq have made front-page > news (before later being cleared), given the failure > of US military inspection teams to find evidence of > the weapons that were the justification for the > March invasion. > > Even more embarrassing for the Pentagon, there was > no documentation about the various biological agents > disposed of at the US bio-defense center at Fort > Detrick. Iraq's failure to come up with paperwork > proving the destruction of its biological arsenal > was portrayed by the US as evidence of deception in > the run-up to the war. <snipped rest> Nor was there adequate documentation at the Rocky Mountain Weapons Arsenal, where sarin-type bomlets were found, nor at Lowery AFB here. And what will the gov't make of the reams of data they want to collect for Total - excuse me, *Terrorist* -Information Awareness? Listen To Your Underlings - They Might Have Valuable Information Maru >:P __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
