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To: maceng2 who wrote (48854)	10/2/2002 4:04:41 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Back when this guy was at the helm as Prime Minister. news.bbc.co.uk The UK had some problems with arms being sent to Iraq. Politicians spent a good amount of time covering it all up, so we didn't get the whole story. What came out was bad enough though. news.bbc.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------- The arms-to-Iraq inquiry was called after directors of the Coventry-based Matrix Churchill firm were prosecuted for selling Iraq machine tools which could be used to make weapons. Several Tory ministers signed public interest immunity certificates to try to stop the disclosure of documents that showed that the defendants had been working for British secret services. However, the judge in the case refused to accept the certificates and the prosecution collapsed in 1992. The case led to allegations that some ministers would have let innocent men go to jail rather than have the truth exposed. ------------------------------------------------------ I would so like to believe that that incidents like this are not happening today. Unfortunately John Major is a senior director for the European division of the Carlyle group. news.bbc.co.uk

To: maceng2 who wrote (48854)	10/2/2002 9:23:13 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Hi Pearly - it's not the strain of the anthrax I was thinking of when I said it was made in the US. It's the way that the bacilli were grown and processed. The culture was extremely pure, which is hard to do. Anybody, including me and you, can culture anthrax, dry it, and mill it. But you and I will have a lot of culture medium in our final product, and the powder will be grey and lumpy. The anthrax that was in the letters had hardly any culture medium in the final product. It was also coated with a substance that caused an electric charge that is the opposite of static cling. Can't remember the term right now, but the powder was whitish, very light and fluffy, and seemed to float away from itself, and whatever it was put on. But I didn't know that when I guessed that the sender was American. The reason I did was that the targets, Daschle, Leahy, and Tom Brokaw, are men that American right-wingers hate like poison. Further, it was clear that the intention was to frighten, not kill. If the intention had been to kill, the anthrax would have been broadcast, rather than sent tightly contained with a warning letter.