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Monday, April 9, 2007 11:10 AM

Sophisticated

In the paragraph that set the scientific and arms control communities abuzz, Beecher writes: A "widely circulated misconception is that the spores were produced using additives and sophisticated engineering supposedly akin to military weapon production."

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/84/8449gov1.html

It reminds me of the "widely circulated misconception" of those EFPs the Iraqis were incapable of manufactuuring. They were so sophisticated they had to come from untermenschen in Iran.

Monday, April 9, 2007 11:15 AM

The preferred terror weapon of the GOP base...

Anthrax Scare At Edward's Campaign Office 3 weeks ago

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/03/15/anthrax-scare-at-edwards_n_43473.html

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