Fearing Saddam, anthrax scientist kept her secret - and chanced war

WKRC ^ | 3/28/04

[areafiftyone]

Oh now why should the MSM report this when the Michael Jackson Trial is on!!

[Peach]

FNC = all tabloid, all the time.

Thanks for posting the thread. I'm trying to remember the people who were interested in anthrax stories.

[areafiftyone]

Oh you are welcome. I practically have to dig with a shovel to get stories on Iraq in the MSM that aren't about how many soldiers died or how many peaceniks protested the war. - Thank god I have my other sources.

[Mo1]

The microbiologist's dilemma, she has told U.S. interrogators, was that her team 12 years earlier had destroyed the lethal bacteria by dumping it practically at the gates of one of Saddam's main palaces, and the feared Iraqi despot might grow enraged at news of anthrax on his doorstep.

12 years ago?

[veryconernedamerican]

ya right, story seems like bs

[steve-b]

The microbiologist's dilemma, she has told U.S. interrogators, was that her team 12 years earlier had destroyed the lethal bacteria by dumping it practically at the gates of one of Saddam's main palaces, and the feared Iraqi despot might grow enraged at news of anthrax on his doorstep.

Especially if they deposited it in a flaming paper bag, rang the doorbell, and ran.

[areafiftyone]

Yea that was about the time the Weapons inspectors were in Iraq. Bubba was in office having fun in the Lincoln Bedroom at that time.

[Peach]

LOL.

And now that soldiers are safer and things seem to have calmed down considerably over there, it isn't interesting to even the liberal media.

It used to just be Chicago and NYC that had the mantra "if it isn't bleeding and burning, it isn't news". Now it's all the cable outlets.

Now wonder people don't understand the issues half the time; they can't get the facts from their old sources.

[Doctor Stochastic]

... dumped deactivated anthrax within sight of one of the principal presidential palaces...

Was there anywhere in Iraq not within sight of one of these palaces?

[Calpernia]

ping

[areafiftyone]

The only time the liberal media perks up about Iraq is if there is a bombing and a bunch of soldiers get killed.

[Coop]

FNC = all tabloid, all the time.

Oh brother, what an ignorant statement!

[Calpernia]

I'm trying to remember that freeper's nic, badabing or something. Shermy or genefromjersey might be able to ping him here :)

[peacebaby]

so where's the other 1800 gallons of anthrax the UN experts believe were produced, and how is it "activated" and "deactivated?"

[UCANSEE2]

It also demonstrates anew that the war was launched on the basis not of hard fact, but of speculation and untruths, especially about Iraqi motives and actions.

It seems that if she kept it a secret, then that would prove exactly the opposite. And it was Saddam's motives and actions that were under suspicion, not the Iraqi people.

[FreedomSurge]

The Iraqis got rid of the anthrax because they felt it might be harmful to bunny rabbits.

[blanknoone]

While I don't dispute this particular woman's account, there is so much confusion, deceit and uncertanty involved that I don't completely buy it as conclusive either. This could easily be "I am Spartacus, I destroyed the WMD" "No, I am Spartacus, I destroyed the WMD"

[Peach]

I guess you haven't noticed that some people you know quite well on this forum make the exact same statement. I don't think you'd be calling them ignorant.

And surely you've noticed now that Iraq is a safer place, we don't hear about it more than a few minutes every couple of hours.

It's Martha Stewart, Michael Jackson, etc.

[Peach]

I'm going through my notes and don't see any for anthrax. Hopefully they'll see this and show up.

[Steely Tom]

Can't anthrax survive for decades or centuries in the ground? Doesn't it form spores that are practically impervious to environmental degradation?

Shouldn't we be able to find the spot where this stuff was (supposedly) dumped and test the soil there? Maybe she can pin down the location a little bit.

(steely)