Posted on 09/27/2006 4:55:59 AM PDT by Renfield
Old thread.
1988 : (IRAQI SCIENTISTS NASSIR HINDAWI & ABDUL RAHMAN THAMER TRY TO ACQUITE THE AMES STRAIN FROM THE UK’s PORTON DOWN) Also, top Iraqi scientists Nassir Hindawi and Abdul Rahman Thamer first tried to acquire a sample of the Ames strain from Porton Down in 1988. They were turned down, but over the next two years they did manage to purchase an enormous quantity of anthrax-ready biological growth medium from a British commercial supplier. And nine other strains of anthracis from the Institut Pasteur and an American company now located in Manassas, Virginia. And at least two variants of the intensely pathogenic Vollum strain from...who knows where, and in addition to who knows what else. ————http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/669487/posts
Yep, very old... every so often I run onto an old thread and update it if I have anything in the files to add.
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