[Jolly Rodgers]

Strictly routine. In the interest of improved public health, better animal husbandry and more productive agriculture, national and university labs regularly exchange pathogens.

You don't really expect me to believe that, do you? The nature of our relationship with Iraq during that period was of a somewhat different character.

[okie01]

"You don't really expect me to believe that, do you? The nature of our relationship with Iraq during that period was of a somewhat different character."

But that relationship had nothing to do with the routine exchange of these materials. Ag colleges and the Dept of Agriculture routinely exchange anthrax, foot & mouth, etc. cultures with ag schools and the equivalent departments of foreign countries.

It's a fact. You could look it up...