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so maybe it's bs after all
Greg — (archived)

According to the International Herald Tribune, David Kay, head of the Iraq Survey Group, said yesterday his team discovered a vial of highly deadly botulism toxin in Iraq -- clear proof, it would seem, that Saddam had an ongoing biological weapons program: Toxins found in Iraq, chief inspector says David Kay, the head of the U.S. team searching for banned weapons in Iraq, said Sunday that his inspectors had found a vial of botulinum toxin... The only problem is, that's not what the ISG found. What they found was this: One noteworthy example is a collection of reference strains that ought to have been declared to the UN. Among them was a vial of live C. botulinum Okra B. from which a biological agent can be produced. That's from the text of David Kay's congressional testimony, which has been posted on the CIA's web site. In other words, the ISG found a vial of germs that could have been used to produce deadly botulinum toxin, if they hadn't been stashed in an Iraqi scientist's refrigerator since 1993.

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