[BlackVeil]

"the fact that someone would predict its use in the immediate future in a biological weapons test just a few months before ... the first ever in the Western Hemisphere, is quite remarkable." Damn right it is. I didn't realise that.

[Mitchell]

Yes, this is hard to explain as mere coincidence, although it's certainly not hard proof. I did some searches on this a few months ago, and there is virtually nothing on the web about West Nile virus until the NYC outbreak. Only then did it become a common subject in news articles and the like. It's not as if this was a commonly discussed disease that a defector would naturally have brought up in the first part of 1999. (The NYC outbreak seems to have begun in early August, 1999, and it wasn't identified as West Nile virus until Fall.)