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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (11321)	2/21/2003 8:36:14 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Anthrax is found around the world. The spores survive in soil for at least a century. I think if you were looking to find anthrax spores, you could check the soil in areas where anthrax outbreaks have occurred before over the past century. Its likely to be in the soil there. There are dozens of outbreaks among cattle in the US every year. But its more common in the old world than here. BTW, as I recall, the anthrax used in attacks was of the "Ames strain" (named after the town of Ames, Iowa although the Ames strain actually was taken from a Texas cow and mislabeled as being from Ames). Most lab anthrax in the US is the Ames strain. Although if you're right in your past assertions that Iraq's weaponized anthrax was grown from anthrax an American lab sold them, their anthrax would be the Ames strain too. Did we sell them VX or did we sell them VX antidote which can be reverse engineered to produce VX. The latter I believe. The small quantities of biological agents an American lab sold to Iraq don't equal chemical or biological weapons though. Yes they do. One, the quantities are not that small. What were the quantities? It remains to be shown whether an American lab sold anything to Iraq knowing that Iraq would make weapons out of it.