[woofie]

In 2002, Alan Zelicofff, an adviser to inspection teams and a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories who has run a hepatitis C monitoring program with Russian epidemiology units, uncovered a Soviet-era secret report about the Aralsk outbreak. When forced to admit its occurrence, Dr. Zelicoff's Russian counterparts claimed it was a natural outbreak triggered by the "garden variety" smallpox virus. But after interviews with victims and an analysis of the outbreak's timing and trajectory, Dr. Zelicoff determined that it was caused by "a new and lethal strain of smallpox that traveled at least 20 miles from a secret biological weapons testing site on an island in the Aral Sea to infect people downwind on a ship." Of the six adults who were exposed to the strain, five contracted smallpox despite being immunized. Dr. Zelicoff and others believe that the strain is more communicable, and might be vaccine-resistant. He asked colleagues in Russia to help him locate the strain last summer and to determine if the current smallpox vaccine can protect people from infection. They replied curtly that no such strain existed, a stance they maintain to this day.

[EternalHope]

We will be very lucky if the only trouble this Russian perfidy causes is a diplomatic dust-up. They have the potential to put a lot of Americans in the grave.

[nanomid]

infected with smallpox despite vaccine

We need to be sure we use our advantages to our advantage.
Give the poorest of them tickets back to Russia and China.
They'll die in much larger numbers.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I hope this Iraq campaign shocks us into reevaluating our relations with the Four Weasals: France, Germany, Russia, and China.

[Smokin' Joe]

"There is no evidence confirming violations by Russian firms of existing sanctions,"

How Clintonesque.