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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (130137)10/18/2001 5:43:46 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
Russian military suspected as source of anthrax

By Anne Penketh

18 October 2001

The hunt for the source of the weapons-grade
anthrax that shut down the heart of the American
political establishment yesterday has already
produced many false trails.

Much of the focus has been on Iraq, but according to
the world's leading germ warfare experts the finger of
suspicion points more directly at Russia's
broken-down military industrial complex.

If the finger of suspicion falls on any one country "the
obvious one is Russia, it's a league ahead of Iraq",
said David Kelly, a senior adviser to UN weapons
inspectors for Iraq.

Other countries that are thought to be working on a
biological weapons programme include Iran, North
Korea, Libya, Cuba, Egypt and Pakistan.

Unemployed top Russian scientists who helped to
run the Soviet Union's illegal and secret germ
warfare programme appear to be a likely source of
the anthrax outbreak in the United States. It is known
that Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida network has tried
to buy ingredients for weapons of mass destruction
in Russia in recent years.

news.independent.co.uk
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