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To: lorne who wrote (34767)6/2/1999 1:29:00 PM
From: John Hunt  Read Replies (1) of 116764
 
OT - At Bleak Asian Site, Killer Germs Survive

<< Vozrozhdeniye Island, Uzbekistan -- In the spring of 1988, germ scientists 850 miles east of Moscow were ordered to undertake their most critical mission.

Working in great haste and total secrecy, the scientists in the city of Sverdlovsk transferred hundreds of tons of anthrax bacteria -- enough to destroy the world many times over -- into giant stainless-steel canisters, poured bleach into them to decontaminate the deadly pink powder, packed the canisters onto a train two dozen cars long and sent the illicit cargo almost a thousand miles across Russia and Kazakhstan to this remote island in the heart of the inland Aral Sea, American and Central Asian officials say ... more ... >>

nytimes.com

Scary stuff of madmen.

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