Mounting SARS death toll triggers speculation of bio-weapon link

SpaceWar.com ^ | May 1, 2003

[NP-INCOMPLETE]

I'm beginning to suspect that we did this.

[nopardons]

WE ? Please adjust your over abundance of tinfoil; it's closed down your brain.

[NP-INCOMPLETE]

Well, seems to me that we have a great deal to gain from this. China is our primary military and economic competitor. Attacking them directly would mean WWIII, doing nothing would be suicidal for us in the long run. So why not just spread a genetically engineered plague to spread panic, kill off some of their people, and slow down their growth? If something like smallpox or anthrax was used, they would know immediately who did it, but something like SARS could plausibly have come naturally, so they can't point the finger. Maybe I'm wearing too much tin-foil but this theory is not totally implausible.

[Mo1]

We???? .. get real

[NP-INCOMPLETE]

If I was totally immoral military planner, this would look like a pretty good option.

[Mo1]

I have read over the edge posts before .. but your's takes the cake

[NP-INCOMPLETE]

Hey, you have to admit that it aint too bad for a conspiracy theory.

[Mo1]

Sorry ... it is that bad

[piasa]

Back when the Soviet Union was our competitor, they had an outbreak of anthrax which for a long time was attribute to "natural causes," bad meat," etc.

But it was not natural and people began to suspect as much. No doubt some folks would have claimed "we" did it, but it was their own goof. And they later admitted this.

If anything, the case would be more compelling in the anthrax case since there was little chance of it spreading to the US from the USSR with everything closed off in that society. In the case of China, attacking it would only end up introducing the stuff into the US in short order owing to the relatively free travel. It would be stupid for the US to do that sort of thing.

Were this some sort of engineered bug, my gut instinct would be to look at history; from that my guess would be that if it isn't a natural mutation, it's like the old Russian anthrax case and Chinese goofed up with sloppy containment procedure in their own lab, or they have a mad scientist.

[onyx]

To: NP-INCOMPLETE

WE ? Please adjust your over abundance of tinfoil; it's closed down your brain.

ROFLMBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Pheonix]

If China had invented the virus, they would also have the anti-dote for it, right?

If China is the victim of a Bio-attack, it could be from several possible sources:

Islamic terrorists groups--Osama Laden had said in an Arab TV in 2001, that "..after I had destroyed the US , I will next destroy China, the World's second greatest power...". Islamic Separatist Terrorist groups from the Xinjiang Province in China have been carrying out terrorist bombings attacks on Chinese civilians, even bombing Chinese school-buses ,and killing 100s of Chinese school-children

Non-governmental Right-Wing Anti-Communist Extremists groups, from the US, Japan etc

Taiwanese Separatist Groups-the more extreme ones

It is unlikely that any Govts would do this

[Free the USA]

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[verity]

Dear Mr. Fisher:

My dog is emitting noxious fumes from the vicinity of its hind quarters. Could this be a WMD attack?

[Odyssey-x]

zavtra.ru which you can read through systransoft says that the U.S is responsible for SARS. Of course zavtra is about as "Black Helicopters" as it gets for Russian news media.

[aristeides]

Downside is: what if it gets traced back to your side, or maybe even to you personally?

[Betty Jo]

"What would happen if its traced back to you"?

When its traced back to Bin Ladens group of mad PhD's ,Bush can bomb Harvard.

A little inside joke!

[Lucy Lake]

Thank you aristeides, for keeping up with and posting SARS articles.

[vetvetdoug]

Rivero, is that you? Michael, I haven't heard from you in sooo long.

[tallhappy]

Hello, Feng. I see one of our resident ChiCom netagandists, "The Pheonix," is back.

I don't think it is bio-warfare virus, but it is not inconceivable.

Concerning your knee-jerk communist defense, and your comment:

If China had invented the virus, they would also have the anti-dote for it, right?

Read the #6 article at here from an April 24 report and then translate the key part that addresses your comment for piasa and the rest of the folks here at FR.