[rmvh]

This is essentially C*R*A*P

[HiTech RedNeck]

Why you say so?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Please elaborate in support of your opinion or state your rebuttal case.

[Jesse]

I don't think so. Manufacturing anthrax and plague is easy. The problem is the efficient dispersal. The difficulty in the most efficient dispersal has been used by some to state that there is not a reasonable chance to use bioweapons to attack us.

In the 1980's, several dozen people in Russia were killed because a secret government anthrax manufacturing plant forgot to install filters on a bioprocessor. What was released were just the raw spores. The inefficient dispersal of spores could still kill a lot of people. In fact, that cult in Japan which released Sarin nerve gas into the subway, did so because their anthrax didn't work. The reason their anthrax didn't work was because they chose a strain used to make vaccines, which was much less lethal.

Worries me. I went through Newark airport 3 days before attack on wtc, and thought "What if they let loose a biowar agent in the terminal before the attack".

[Demosthenes]

And if someone told you Hey, dont go to work today, I heard that a bunch of crazy islams are going to fly a couple jets into your building, would you say the same thing?

No, my friend, it isn't ANY different anymore.

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

If this is not true, then why was Rep. Chris Shaw on FOX News just now talking about this?

[Bill Rice]

"which is known as the Betel (sp?) Institute"

I think if I worked for Battelle, I'd know better than to call it Betel (sp?).

I never heard of them having an "institute", either.