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Weapons grade { October 26 2001 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/10/26/smith.cnna/index.html ------------------------- http://www.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/10/26/smith.cnna/index.html October 26, 2001 Posted: 4:37 PM EDT (2037 GMT) Dr. Craig Smith is the director of Infectious Disease Services at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia, and is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society (ISDA) of America's bioterrorism committee. Dr. Smith was the only biological warfare officer in Saudi Arabia for the United States Army during the Persian Gulf War. He joined the CNN.com chat room from California, where he is attending the 39th annual ISDA meeting. CHAT PARTICIPANT: I heard today that "experts" are able to narrow down the type of strain of the anthrax to be able to determine where this anthrax came from. Is that correct and if so, how long will that process take? SMITH: To give the specific site of production for an anthrax bioterrorism product is virtually impossible. To identify the strain is more easy, and has been done in the three known locations. The strain appears to be similar to the Ames strain first isolated in Iowa more than 20 years ago. However, this strain is not used for anthrax research around the world, and is not traceable because of so many locations having access to the strain. The anthrax powder has been analyzed for the recipe used to produce the powder. The exact individual who produced the powder cannot be identified, however, the recipe can be identified as to the source as different state-sponsored offensive biological warfare programs use different recipes. Currently, three countries would be suspected for a source of the production due to the recipe used in preparation of the current product. ------------------------- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011021/ts/attack_anthrax_employee_dc_9.html Sunday October 21 1:54 PM ET Second U.S. Man Confirmed with Inhalation Anthrax By Jill Serjeant Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news - bio - voting record) of Connecticut said it was clear the delivery system and the quality of the anthrax ''requires a real effort -- more than a couple of guys in a kitchen''. ``It says to me there is either a significant amount of money behind this, or this is state sponsored, or this is stuff that was stolen from a former Soviet program,'' Lieberman told NBC's ``Meet the Press'' program on Sunday. ------------------------- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/laweekly/20011101/lo/29657_1.html Writing in the October 17 New Republic, anthropologist Wendy Orent, an expert on biological diseases, said the anthrax that has shown up so far "isn’t made by amateurs," but said, "It is possible these are the actions of a group using a small laboratory." ------------------------- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011102/wl/iraq_un_sanctions_dc_1.html Experts have said that three countries -- the United States, the former Soviet Union and Iraq -- were known to make the dangerous, high-grade anthrax powder that floats easily in the air and lodges in the lungs. But others say that techniques used in those programs were common enough that a well-trained scientist could have produced similar results. ------------------------- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011022/hl/russia_2.html NO RUSSIAN LINK Germ warfare experts say the anthrax strain that has sown panic in the United States is indigenous to the United States, for the weapons-grade strain designed for Soviet biological bombs would have been much more lethal.

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