TrebleRebel,
To my ear, Omutninsk sounds like a gag by the late comedian Danny Kaye where he says it while he sneezes. But Debra wrote the book. Literally. I’m going to have to send you her 2006 thesis “Lessons learned from the former Soviet biological warfare program” or have her send a copy if we are going to be on the same page — or the same 240 pages with 3 pages of bibliographic references. She’s learned a lot from the esteemed faculty member Peter L, who worked at the DOD while he taught at GMU, so perhaps you can glean whether the DOD credits your theory. (We know Ken doesn’t — he thinks that the concept of a “coating” makes no sense.) See transcript of his explanation provided by Mr. Lake.
On Sverdlosk, unclassified DIA documents show that the intelligence community met with Dr. Meselson at his request and there was a consensus of the representatives from the various agencies that was reached after he left the room that they felt he wasn’t asking the Russians the hard questions. So while we have someone so steeped in learning, let’s ask her the hard questions. Communication is a prerequisite to understanding.
BTW, if ever it should turn out that Ken has obfuscated how to weaponize anthrax, that’s a good thing, right? That’s what he’s supposed to do, right? The gaps left to the knowledge in the GMU patents (where one is referred to the knowledge of those practiced in the art) are broad. It’s important to keep them so.
I’ll send you the thesis later this morning.
But in the meantime, hopefully someone will go for the documents that will show Al-Timimi’s access. GMU moved around a bunch and there wasn’t official directory beyond the less detailed and fallible directory published in October 2001 of each year that only provided the location and phone number of faculty and administration. The official records that are highly pertinent, however, relate to the forms relating to his approved access — the actual form that have to be filled out in order to issue people keys. The forms contain not only the room numbers but also the hours the person is allowed to enter the building. The records were kept in a manilla folder in key control, right around the corner from the police dept office in Occoquan. They may still have Timimi’s paperwork which would be able to tell you everywhere on campus he had access. He likely had more than one form. Here is a website address.
http://www.gmu.edu/police/programsandservices.htm
Characterizing Mesleson’s behavior regarding Sverdlovsk as “not asking the hard questions” is akin to calling Charles Manson a misunderstood musician.
Meselson is a biologist with zero expertise in pathology. On the first trip to Sverdlovsk Meselson was accomapnied by one of the worlds top pathologists, Alexis Shelokov. Soviet pathologists at Sverdlovsk risked their lives to show Mesleson and Shelokov autopsy slides from the victims that they had hidden from the KGB. Shelokov immediately diagnosed inhlational anthrax from the position of lesions seen in the samples. Meselson, who was the leader of the team, unilateraly overruled this and went along with the official KGB-inspired contaminated sausages fairy tale.
Shelokov personally related this story to me several years ago.