[vannrox]

A good read... indeed.

[Betty Jo]

Well, this must not be the "Isis"that is a biological products company that is leasing "antisense"from "Hybridon"that is owned by Mahfouz and Bin Laden to make antidotes for biological weapons!

How funny!

"Ibis"through "Isis"through "Hybridon" is doing leading edge research work .

Work that I alledge is being hi-jacked by the bad guys by way of their ownership of "Hybridon".

Such a headache so early in the day!

[wastoute]

Biologicals are not relevant to military applications because they don't produce casualties fast enough. They also have a problem with another basic tenet of miltary conquest. Owning the real estate. Hard to occupy if heavily contaminated and without huge levels of contamination bilogicals are completely useless from a military standpoint. Sure we could contaminate petrol reserves with a petrol eating bug or some "nusiance" type biological, but they just don't make sense for "weapons". Now if you want to talk about terror, that is a whole different issue. But if one wants to engage in terror, one had best have total anonymity and a GREAT hiding place, because we still hold the ultimate trump of terror, the Fusion Bomb. "Behold I am the Destroyer of Worlds..."