[Khan Noonian Singh]

<< You're right, Khan, I was not thinking of Hatfill's belabored appearance in the Times.

The New York Times article that came to mind was the Sep-4-2001 report by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and Wm J Broad, U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits.

A thought-provoking article which has received just scant attention.

If you haven't seen it, here's a link. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/strategy/germs.htm >>

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That is the report I was thinking of too. Thought provoking. In-deed.

The New York Times article is long, may-be a summary would be utile:

1. The US is engaged in a secret biowarfare research program, claimed to be for defence. Only defensive biowarfare research is compatible with US treaty obliggations. Program begun under Clinton, continued under Bush.
    
2. In 2001, some time before 11 September, the Pentagon made plans to have Battelle create a superpotent anthrax, via genetic engineering.
    
3. The CIA built and tested a model of a Soviet-designed germ bomb, said to lack some parts needed for a working bomb.
    
4. The Defense Dept built a biological weapons factory in the Nevada desert from commercially available materials.

This is not tinfoilhat conspiracy theory. All as stated directly in Judith Miller's New York Times article of 4 Sept 2001 linked to above.

[John Faust]

The Judith Miller article was published in the New York Times on Sep-4-2001.

Just one month later, on Oct-5-2001, a hoax anthrax letter was mailed to Judith Miller from St Petersburg, Florida. Strong indications are that this was connected to the real anthrax mailings.

What do you think was the reason Judith Miller received a letter? Could the reason be Miller's Sep-4-2001 article?

[genefromjersey]

Khan, are you aware the reason for experiments in "super-potency" was the revelations of Ken Alibek ? The Russians had done a LOT of work in breeding antibiotic-resistant diseases,chimeras,etc.

I can see where our research would alarm the FAS-though the Russian efforts never really seemed to.( The head of the FAS kept saying :"Nothing to see here ! Move along !" -even after it was disclosed there were TONS of bioweapons in their arsenal,and specially designed rockets to deliver them.)

By contrast, Alibek was stunned by our lack of a weapons program and our lack of a viable infrastructure.(He had assumed the US was lying,just as the Soviets had.) The source of that is Alibek himself.