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Monday, November 15, 2004'It's absolutely the right decision,' said Dr. Ken Alibek, a former top scientist in the Soviet biological weapons program who said the Soviets covertly developed smallpox as a weapon in the 1980's. Alibek, who defected to the U.S. in 1992 and now teaches at George Mason University, said it's now possible to genetically engineer smallpox to render current vaccines useless. 'The bad guys already know how to do it,' Alibek said. 'So why prohibit legitimate researchers to do research for protection.' Given the trade in weapons we now know to have existed between the Soviets and Iraq, could it be that some of those smallpox samples made it there, too? If so, where are they now? posted by Sydney on 11/15/2004 06:50:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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