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To: John Soileau who wrote (127292)	3/23/2004 10:20:40 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Before you get all excited, you should know the rest of the story. The bacteria samples were shipped from ATCC, a non-profit science lab which exists solely to receive, catalogue, and transmit biological samples to legitimate researchers. They were also shipped from the Pasteur Institute, and others in Europe, but that's beside the point. At the time, ATCC would ship any biological sample to anyone who requested it using official letterhead, sent a handling fee ($78), after interviewing them via telephone in order to insure that the recipient had sufficient scientific knowledge to actually use the samples for research. The materials sent to Iraq were sent to a university, which is an obvious place for biological research of a benign nature. In retrospect, this was naive, but not an atrocity.