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To: TrebleRebel
he is not to be trusted much in any opinion he expresses on chemical and biological weapons.

Evidently, you aren't aware of it, but there is a difference between opinion and fact.

When Professor Meselson looked at the images of the Daschle anthrax and saw no additives, that wasn't an "opinion" about the powder, it was a statement of FACT of what he saw. The FACT that no additives were visible was supported by others, including Ken Alibek.

Tom Giesbert, who was the first to examine the powder under a Transmission Electron Microscope provided a picture of a "reference sample of pure anthrax spores" similar in character to what was in the Daschle letter. It doesn't look ANYTHING like the coated spores in the pictures I previously showed you.

Richard Preston describes what Geisbert saw this way:

The view was wall-to-wall anthrax spores. The spores were ovoids, rather like footballs but with more softly rounded ends. The material seemed to be absolutely pure spores.

There is no "opinion" that the spores were not coated. That is a FACT. There is only an idiotic "opinion" held by some that all the experts are not to be believed for one reason or another, and that the spores were coated.

Ed at www.anthraxinvestigation.com

102 posted on 07/12/2007 9:46:59 AM PDT by EdLake
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To: EdLake

Parts of the Richard Preston description you conveniently omit:

10/25/01 Geisbert tests a sterilized sample of the Daschle anthrax. X-rays, and other tests show two materials present: silica and oxygen...glass.

“The silicon was powdered so finely that under Geisbert’s electron microscope it had looked like fried-egg gunk dripping off the spores.” Geisbert calls his boss, Peter Jahrling on a secure STU phone and says: “Pete ! There’s glass in the anthrax.”

...superfine powdered glass,known as silica nanopowder,which has industrial uses.The grains of this type of glass are very small.If an anthrax spore was an orange,then these particles of glass would be grains of sand clinging to the orange.The glass was slippery and smooth,and it might have been treated so that it would repel water.It caused the spores to crumble apart,to pass more easily through the holes in the envelopes and fly everywhere, filling the Hart Senate office building and the Brentwood and Hamilton mail-sorting facilities like a gas.”


112 posted on 07/12/2007 11:16:00 AM PDT by TrebleRebel
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