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Utah bioterror labs expand—another warning for Boston
Over at the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Grounds…procurement officers quietly placed orders … for four fermentors with a total capacity of producing nearly 3,500 liters of bacteria and the possibility of another five fermentors in the future.…
Over at the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Grounds…procurement officers quietly placed orders … for four fermentors with a total capacity of producing nearly 3,500 liters of bacteria and the possibility of another five fermentors in the future.…
Edward Hammond, who keeps an eye on bioweapons research from his Texas-based Sunshine Project, said, “A few years ago, if somebody did that it would be viewed as possibly a smoking gun of an offensive program. It would probably get the Iranians bombed if they did that at one of their facilities.”…
One chilling, unexplained request from Dugway last year asked for batches of dead, frozen sheep for testing a mobile cremator-ium, resurrecting the specter of 6,000 sheep found dead in Utah’s Skull Valley following the accidental release of VX [nerve gas] from Dugway in 1968. Some worry the likelihood of accidents will increase as more tests are performed at a supposedly secure Army base where nine illegal workers from Mexico were found working for a subcontractor in February, building a new hotel.
“There is a very blurry line between offense and defense when it comes to germ warfare,” said Salt Lake City Dugway watchdog Steve Erickson, director of the Citizens Education Project.…
Critics say the problem is that such experiments look a lot like what a country would do if it wanted to make biological weapons. …in writing up plans for new biodefense centers being constructed this year, the Homeland Security department suggested developing defensive biological weapons would be OK. That’s a position taken by no other country….
— “Just Testing: Is the US Government making anthrax bombs in Utah?” Ted McDonough, Salt Lake Weekly 2/23/06