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clipped from a news article of 05/28

The good news for the Pentagon yesterday was that its investigators
had finally unearthed evidence of weapons of mass destruction,
including 100 vials of anthrax and other dangerous bacteria.
The bad news was that the stash was found, not in Iraq, but fewer
than 50 miles from Washington, near Fort Detrick in the Maryland
countryside.

The anthrax was a non-virulent strain, and the discoveries are
apparently remnants of an abandoned germ warfare programme. They
merited only a local news item in the Washington Post.

But suspicious finds in Iraq have made front-page news (before later
being cleared), given the failure of US military inspection teams to
find evidence of the weapons that were the justification for the
March invasion.

Even more embarrassing for the Pentagon, there was no documentation
about the various biological agents disposed of at the US bio-
defence centre at Fort Detrick. Iraq's failure to come up with
paperwork proving the destruction of its biological arsenal was
portrayed by the US as evidence of deception in the run-up to the
war.



how did that go, about sin, and casting the first stone.