From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 16:47:09 PDT
Now,...
Tell me again,... just who it is that the terrorists
are?
Which ones are they?
I fergit,
Joe
--- Ryan M Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 1:58 PM -0400 10/7/03, J. Forster wrote:
> >Ryan Gill wrote:
> >
> >'Geeze. I can get most of that stuff in the Bloody
> Grainger Catalog. Butyl
> >rubber suits with supplied air and hazardous
> chemical protective gear are all
> >basic items.'
> >
> >Clearly 'dual use' is a problem. When the story
> ran, I wondered if they drew a
> >distinction between a centrifuge used in a medical
> lab and one used in
> >biowarfare research. I doubt there is much.
>
> I can get those at surplus places that do bio
> medical research. Heck,
> my mom had one that was a throwaway from her old lab
> at Emory. Most
> of the big research institutes have cheap bio
> medical stuff that you
> can get.
>
> >As for beakers and other glassware, I remember a
> '60 Minutes' clip showing a
> >Russian bio establishment. No beakers, just old
> jars and coffee cans... full
> >of vials of smallpox, ebola, and what have you.
>
> I have 2-3 cases of beakers and other pyrex glass
> ware at home that
> my mother snagged from work that was getting thrown
> out after being
> replaced by more modern stuff.
> >
> >To make a fermenter, I suspect all you need is a
> stainless or glass tank, some
> >heaters and temperature controllers, stirrer,
> valves and plumbing.
> >Hardly star
> >wars junk.
>
> Hmm. Sounds like Brewing supplies to me. Stainless
> steel brewing and
> yeast manufacturing facility. I'll bet that Anheiser
> Busch and any
> number of other beer makers have most of the
> facilities for making
> bio warfare materials. They're already careful about
> contamination,
> just in the opposite direction.
>
> >IMO, this story is a PR stunt, designed for
> political purposes.
>
> Very likely, or people thinking they're doing good
> when it's pure crap.
>
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