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http://www.theadvocate.com/stories/082202/new_birds001.shtml

Fogging trucks, however, have been spraying seven days a week, Ourso said. But, at $6,200 a drum for 30 gallons, "we're using it pretty quick," he said.

· In Crowley, the Acadia Parish Police Jury voted unanimously Tuesday night to implement a one-time, parishwide mosquito-control spraying, using $200,000 from Public Health Unit funds and two crop-dusters owned by Broussard Flying Service.

There are many outstanding and informative replies on this thread by honway.

Atta and Moussaoui werre both involved and interested in crop duster planes, lessons and manuals.

I wonder if any thing about use of crop dusters,West Nile virus, anthrax, water biological agents,was in Moussaouis emails and on his computer hard drive? The FBI claims to have lost track of or not to be able to recover his emails which the Fed judge in the case does not believe-the judge flatly does not believe the FBI and ordered the FBI to prove to her that the FBI really could not retrieve some of his emails. Have we ever been told by the FBI or White House all that was on his computer hard drive?

Last year ABC reported that five experts ABC hired had concluded the anthrax was from Iraq because of special bentonite clays used by Iraq to keep the anthrax airborne and from clumping. The White Hosue rushed to the public and told the public that it should not believe the ABC experts. But the White House never did explain or give a basis for why the ABC experts should not be believed either.

There were several threads (legitimate news stories, not editorials or vanities) that disappeared shortly after the first week or so after the attacks. I learned to try to recognize the ones that were likely to vanish and now copy them into a computer file. The Salman Pak article was one I copied after it disappeared the first time.

As for the WNV, I suspect it represents a study to see the spread pattern if birds (or maybe even insects) were used as a vector. I believe it originated in the vacinity of Plum Island, IIRC. (Which doesn't mean I'm accusing our gov't, BTW. Since that's near a large port of entry as well as a large population, it would suit propaganda purposes marvelously to start something there.)

But you're right about the spraying establishing a convenient cover for mischief,honway, particulary if people get used to seeing the little truck foggers going down the road. Those would provide a really nice cover for a chemical attack to gain entry to a base or some other heavily guarded target.