Buried WMDs Found ... In Maryland

CBS News ^ | 5-28-03

[AxelPaulsenJr]

And your point is.......?

[cubreporter]

Yeah exactly. They'll probably try to blame President George Bush too. Like in 1950 he was 4 years old and in 1955 he was 9 years old. Just a thought...trying to jump the gun before I'm "surprised" at the no doubt coming accusations. :))))

[EggsAckley]

Interesting that they actually credit a Republican Pres. with ended the testing.

[Grig]

So it took 30-50 years to find them. Why the rush in Iraq then?

[dandelion]

So if we only find a very small portion of Anthrax vaccine in Iraq, that means that CBS will call it WMD!! Yay!!!

[dts32041]

What about Ft. McCleelan AL, they have mustard gas buried there and it is seeping into the ground water, nary a world about that, of course, there are parts of france (who cares) that still has mustard gase seeping out, but with the state that country is in you really don't know.

Understand the frogs are trying to get all the Islamic fascists to move there, but understand about 90% of the population would have to move into those areas.

[Psalm 73]

"...until President Nixon ended the research in 1969."

Hmmm, seems as though the project ran through mostly Democratic administrations, and it took a republican to put a stop to it.

[cubreporter]

:)

[dead]

materials sometimes burst into flames as they are dug up.

Cool. Sounds almost haunted.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

The point is, we are actively destroying our weapons of mass destruction. And more importantly, I trust The United States with WMD's a whole lot more than I do Iran, or Iraq, or North Korea, or Syria, or Russia, or name your favorite rogue state.

[cgk]

The United States' biological weapons program ran from 1941, when it was headed by pharmaceutical magnate George Merck

This would be the same Merck who has a "new" endeavour: making vaccines out of aborted babies. From Bio-weapons to genocide. What a legacy.

[RLK]

Hmmm, seems as though the project ran through mostly Democratic administrations, and it took a republican to put a stop to it.

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The project was very limited until Eisenhower expanded it into major proportions.

[Psalm 73]

...and after Eisenhower (a marginal Repub), eight years' of JFK/LBJ - what's your point?

[Puppage]

[Fred Mertz]

Here we go again...

[RLK]

what's your point?

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The point is obvious to anyone of intelligence.

[Shermy]

Dibs.

[Psalm 73]

"...obvious to anyone of intelligence."

I asked you to clarify your statement and I get a grammer-school-boy insult.
Thanks, pal, I'll remember to ignore your comments from now on.

[Shermy]

http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_article.asp?storyid=18752

Ft. Detrick Digs Uncover Live Bacteria

Two years of digging at Fort Detrick have unearthed more than 2,000 tons of hazardous waste, including vials of live bacteria and nonvirulent anthrax the military didn't know were there, Army officials say.

The discovery of pathogens apparently dumped by the offensive biological weapons program that operated at the post until 1969 has turned what was expected to be an industrial waste removal into the biggest cleanup in Army history.


"When Nixon shut us down, we had a deadline, we were given six weeks to clean up the post. Well you couldn't do it. People sneaked out to the good area, and dumped it in a pit." says Hubert Kaempf, the retired Army maintenance engineer in charge of cleanup back then.

Kaempf tells 9 News's Bruce Leshan that concerns began to rise when cleanup workers first found autopsied rats, and vials of viruses.

So far, cleanup crews have found more than 100 glass vials containing live bacteria.

"Nothing that we removed from the pit has been released into the environment, " said Lt. Col. Donald Archibald.

Here's why: Inside a specially pressurized and filtered vinyl tent, workers in biohazard suits operate bulldozers under blast shields, protected from small explosions. The crew breathes through air hoses. The site is quarantined for two hours at the end of each working day, while the tent's air is tested for pathogens.

When digging began in April 2001, the Army expected to find mostly lab chemicals, debris and incinerator ash. But the bulldozers soon hit upon corroded drums of herbicides and unidentified chemicals, syringes, lab instruments and strange substances mixed with the dirt.

After larger objects are removed, the soil and waste are pulverized, and throughout the process, they are doused with bleach to kill all bacteria.

After testing for pathogens, it is sent in sealed containers to a disposal facility in Texas.

The Army did not expect to find tiny vials of live bacteria like Brucella melitensis, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Bacillus anthracis, the potent form of Anthrax,which was brewed by the gallon at Fort Detrick until President Nixon banned offense weapons research.

"The documentation for where this came from doesn't exist," says Archibald, Fort Detrick's director of safety, environment and integrated planning, said.