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To: Prunetacos
Who tried to frame Dr. Ayaad Assaad, a former biowarfare researcher at the Army lab? Was it the same person responsible for last fall's anthrax mail terrorism?

So, you're going to rely on crap printed in the media and just ignore the facts?

The anthrax concentration used the create the powders mailed in 2001 did not exist when Dr. Zack worked at USAMRIID.

Dr. Zack and Dr. Rippy left USAMRIID in 1991. The spores in the flask controlled by Bruce Ivins weren't created until 1997. So, Dr. Zack would never have had access to them.

But, you are making it VERY clear that you don't care about facts. You're just going to believe your mindless beliefs regardless of what the facts say.

Clearly, it is a waste of time to discuss anything about the anthrax attacks with you.

Ed at www.anthraxinvestigation.com

77 posted on 09/01/2008 9:42:51 AM PDT by EdLake
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To: EdLake

“So, you’re going to rely on crap printed in the media and just ignore the facts?”

“As soon as it came out” about the anthrax letters, “the first thing that came to my mind was Fort Detrick,” said the scientist, who requested anonymity and is now employed in academia. “I don’t know how many labs are utilizing anthrax from Detrick. Detrick represents a repository of many organisms, and they would send it out to various other labs. A lot of people who were working on anthrax in this country got their anthrax from Fort Detrick.”

The scientist also claimed that he understood DNA analysis being performed by a private lab in Rockville, Md., had already determined that the source of the anthrax in the letter sent to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy was from Detrick. However, the private lab has told journalists that it will be another two weeks to a month before they publicly reveal their results.

According to interviews with Assaad and this scientist, along with additional Army investigative transcripts obtained by Salon, the Army’s biowarfare research lab in the early 1990s was an organizational disaster area. A big problem at the lab, which apparently contributed to specimens going missing, was that after the Gulf War, USAMRIID decided to phase out work some scientists had been doing on projects that the Army lab no longer considered crucial to their core mission of researching vaccines against bioweapons. Many scientists who had been engaged in other projects, such as Lt. Col. Phil Zack, who had been researching the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), were eager to continue working on projects USAMRIID said they should stop. What followed, the documents reveal, were scientists sneaking into the Army biowarfare lab to work on pet projects after-hours and on weekends, former workers like Zack, who left in 1991, still being let in to do lab work, pressure applied to technicians to help out, documents going missing, and deliberate mislabeling of specimens among other efforts to hide unsanctioned lab work.”

Dr. Ayaad Assaad


78 posted on 09/01/2008 10:15:02 AM PDT by Prunetacos (In this country we prosecute people, not beakers)
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