By the way, there was apparently a book published in 1999, just months before the NYC outbreak, by an Iraqi defector; in it, he claimed that Saddam Hussein was preparing to release a modified form of West Nile virus with a 97% fatality rate. Notwithstanding the incorrect fatality rate, it seems like quite a coincidence: that somebody would say that a release of WNV as a bioweapon was in the works, just a few months before an actual outbreak. (I've done searches, and West Nile virus was not commonly in the news or otherwise referred to, until the NYC outbreak.)
That assumes that the strain currently going around is the same as the defector was speaking of. Not necessarily the case.
Follow: If you've spent resources to develop a bioweapon based on a disease prevalent on one continent, but plan on using it on a population in another, using a vector which you cannot be sure would carry your weapon, wouldn't you run a test or three with a mild form of your weapon first? Just because the strain we've seen doesn't have that 97% fataity rate discussed does not mean that its development is a myth. We may not have seen anything yet...
the infowarrior
Does he say anything about Anthrax?
You managed to combine extreme optimism and extreme pessimism in one sentence.