Letters to the Editor
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Saddam's real anthrax
I've blogged [deepblade.net/journal/2006/04/persistent-falsehoods-about-bioweapons.html] about the related topic of ABC & other media promotion of the "Winnebagos of Death" story concerning the mobile bioweapons labs, found to be complete fabrication by the notorious "Curveball."
Thanks to Glenn Greenwald here for making a significant contribution to the background for this:
Pres. Bush, Oct. 7, 2002 in Cincinnati: ...the regime was forced to admit that it had produced more than 30,000 liters of anthrax and other deadly biological agents. The inspectors, however, concluded that Iraq had likely produced two to four times that amount. This is a massive stockpile of biological weapons that has never been accounted for, and capable of killing millions....And, of course, sophisticated delivery systems aren't required for a chemical or biological attack; all that might be required are a small container and one terrorist or Iraqi intelligence operative to deliver it.
Apart from this inflammatory prevarication, the truth is Saddam once had virulent anthrax cultures--traced to deadly strains developed from cattle in Britain during the 1940s.
"forced to admit"-- What a joke! The people who ran Iraqgate in the 1980s knew full well!!
A fine piece of research on this topic by my contributor Geoff Holland is posted here: [deepblade.net/journal/2005/07/crucial-us-iraq-history-unearthed.html].