[The Great Satan]

If you see that somebody is trying to put together a story based on obviously bogus talking points -- as with Hatfill and the "Greendale School," or Zack and the "electron microscope" -- then the issue becomes no longer one of accounting for or disproving the accusers' claims, but one of figuring out what the accusers' motives are. And I think that there is no big mystery about the accusers' agenda in either the Hatfill situation or the Zack situation. Once the dust settles on the Hatfill fiasco, there will be no revivifaction of the "rogue scientist" theory, outside of the usual demented tin-foil communities. This Frankenstein's monster is on the way out, and the true state of affairs, which should have been obvious to anybody with a lick of sense, is going to come out real soon now.

[Plummz]

I know you're set on pinning this on Iraq, but I'd like your answer as someone familiar with the field -- what *would* one use to examine such anthrax?

I have no reason to believe that the reports of Zack engaging in illegal entry are "bogus," nor the reports of his concerted slander of an arabic scientist.