Lake: Right. Is it true to say that spores are not actually COATED with silica, they are MIXED with silica?
Alibek: (laughing) Yeah, because there is no principle for coating. This is one mistake, hopefully, which just comes from the media.
Stop squabbling.
The 3 pictures that prove you are both dunces are here. Post them all or post none of them.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze43v8m/anthraxandalqaeda.html
Ed’s favorite entry from his playbook is to endlessly repeat “none of the experts who examined the pictures of the spores actually saw any additives”. He must have repeated this line around 10,000 times over the years. Naturally, it’s not true.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1001136-2,00.html
The material’s light, fine texture and a brown ring around each spore suggest an additive had been introduced to prevent clumping.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011025-4.html
General Parker - October 25, 2001
Well, first of all, your question is complex, and I’d like to say that, although we may see some things on the microscopic field that may look like foreign elements, we don’t know that they’re additives, we don’t know what they are, and we’re continuing to do research to find out what they possible could be. They’re unknowns to us at this present time.
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/press_release_0018.shtm
General Parker - October 29, 2001 (4 days later)
We do know that we found silica in the samples. Now, we don’t know what that motive would be, or why it would be there, or anything. But there is silica in the samples.