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...Administration officials never anticipated this predicament. They expected that WMD arsenals would be uncovered quickly once the U.S. occupied Iraq. Since then, Iraq has been scoured, and nearly every top weapons scientist has been captured or interviewed. That the investigators have found no hidden stockpiles of VX gas or anthrax or intact gas centrifuges suggests that it may be time to at least entertain the possibility that Iraqi officials all along were telling the truth when they said they no longer had a WMD program...
...Irving How, the late Senator Paul D. Wellstone, D-Minn., and Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. When asked whether he believed the “stories” that he reported were “sloshing around the news” involving Israeli complicity in 9/11 and in the Anthrax attack, his response was “I don’t know there’s enough exterior evidence to determine whether they are true or not.” (The New Republic Online 4/8/02). According to Franklin Foer, “Cockburn is the only prominent western journalist...
...virtually impenetrable security of a BSL-4 facility enables researchers to work with such parlous pathogens as aerosol-state Anthrax...
...proposal to bring a high-level biodefense research facility to Boston received federal approval on Tuesday, creating a new opportunity for researchers at Harvard and other local research institutions to perform tests on pathogens such as Ebola and Anthrax in their most dangerous forms...
...Congress’s Sept. 11 commission, Lehman has been privy to classified intelligence on al Qaeda. “There is no doubt in my mind,” he told the commission in July, “that [Iraq] trained them in how to prepare and deliver anthrax and to use terror weapons.” It’s impossible to know, of course, just how strong the evidence to which Lehman referred might be. But if it’s as compelling and unassailable as he implies, one wonders when President Bush will deem the moment...