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Originally posted by Superbelt
Anthrax can stay viable for a long time, even years.
But not from 1998, which is when all WMD programs were halted by Operation Desert Fox, to the present. That's 5 full years. The anthrax, if any survived the bombings, has been dead for years now without a laboratory to keep growing new strains safely.
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Was there something special about 1998 which makes all anthrax spores die?
Anthrax spores live for
decades ,
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The Iraqis are hiding anthrax stores as well. “Iraq has declared that it produced about 8,500 litres of (anthrax), which it states it unilaterally destroyed in the summer of 1991.” Iraq failed to declare the illegal import of bacterial growth media. The quantity of media involved would suffice to produce, for example, about 5,000 litres of concentrated anthrax.
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You get live anthrax from said spores (biology 102) even if Clinton's missle attack destroyed every lab and every live strain (laughable) all it would take would be a handfull of spores to start over.