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King Bush II Donating Member (79 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-03 09:15 PM
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New biowarfare labs in the works
With very little media attention or public discussion, the Bush administration is quietly pursuing plans to build biowarfare agent facilities of its own. The new labs will handle, modify, and experiment with some of the most harmful agents known to humanity, including live anthrax, plague, Q fever, and botulism. But what should be even more controversial is where some of these biofacilities are being built: at nuclear weapons design sites -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. ... considering the seriously troubled security and safety histories both Livermore and Los Alamos have had, is it really wise to give the labs the added responsibilities of advanced bioresearch facilities?


http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/so03/so03kelley.html
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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-03 09:21 PM
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1. See link inside
...And advanced forms of biological warfare
that can "target" specific genotypes may
transform biological warfare from the realm
of terror to a politically useful tool....


http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-03 09:23 PM
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2. What were we burning in Alabama?
Bio weapons? Chem weapons? Which was it? And it was going to take, what, ten years?

And we want more?!?

:crazy:
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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-03-03 09:25 PM
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3. That was sarin gas. It doesnt target specific genotypes

for that you need a biologic agent.
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