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Why didn't the Bush administration connect the dots and take aggressive measures before 9/11? For the same reason we're not doing so today: distractions and a lack of urgency. Forget about the blame game — for it's just that kind of distraction. It's more important to look ahead and try to block the next attack. Where are the dots today? One dot is Osama bin Laden's fervent efforts to obtain bio-weapons, reflected in the lab he was building near Kandahar, Afghanistan, to produce anthrax. Another dot is Iraq. Hazem Ali, a senior Iraqi virologist involved in his country's bio-weapons program,...

By Charles Arthur Technology Editor 18 April 2002 Iraqi scientists could turn a smallpox-style disease that infects camels into a deadly weapon, a British researcher says. Camelpox, a non-lethal disease that causes fever and skin rash in camels, has been found to be so similar to smallpox that only a few changes would be needed in its genetic make-up to create a harmful agent. Such a change could happen naturally or be engineered, New Scientist magazine reports today. In 1995, Iraq admitted to UN weapons inspectors that it was working with camelpox with a view to using it as a...

I just heard an interview with someone named Andrew ? (I didn't get the last name) a Canadian who reports on a meeting held jointly by the CIA and CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Services) who claims Iraq has developed Smallpox and another disease called Camelpox (for which there is no vaccine), as well as Anthrax (of course). He claims agents already probably are infiltrating and estimated casualties (infecting the NY subway, etc.) would be 1,000,000 in New York and California. Have a good night.