To: Prodigal Son
The kicker for me is the use of bentonite clay as the ionic despersal agent. That is the method that Iraq was developing. We use another method. This guy may be able to make Anthrax but even he cannot do it with bentonite. We flat don't know how. Our research went a different way. The anthrax is clearly traced to SoDamned Insane. I figure that is why we are going to pay him a visit.
To: American in Israel
The US anthrax attack did not use bentonite, it used silica. The IRAQI connection was dismissed because they purportedly used bentonite but evidence referenced in the news account I read this morning indicated the IRAQ had used silica before.
On top of that the refinement of the spores was listed as 50X anything the US had produced and 10X anything the Russians had produced.
Hardly the stuff of some disgruntled loner in his apartment.
To: American in Israel; Nogbad
What counts is that the weaponization technique wasn't ours or the Soviets. The development process for an anthrax weaponization technique requires industrial-scale resources which are not available to an individual or small group.
Ergo, the Daschle-grade anthrax was manufactured using a weaponization technique developed by a foreign government. That means Iraq. I've been saying this all along.
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10/28/2002 11:58:31 AM PST by
Thud
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