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