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| Terror Networks |
| Bootleg Botulinum Toxin Producers Sought by AQ & Investigators |
| 2010-01-25 |
| In early 2006, a mysterious cosmetics trader named Rakhman began showing up at salons in St. Petersburg, Russia, hawking a popular anti-aging drug at suspiciously low prices. Rakhman's "Botox" was found to be a potent clone of the real thing, but investigators soon turned to a far bigger worry: the prospect of an illegal factory in Chechnya churning out raw botulinum toxin, the key ingredient in the beauty drug and one of world's deadliest poisons. No Chechen factory has been found, but a search for the maker of the highly lethal toxin in Rakhman's vials continues across a widening swath of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. U.S. officials and security experts say they know the lab exists, and probably dozens of other such labs, judging from the surging black market for the drug. "It is the only profit-making venture for terrorists that can also potentially yield a weapon of mass destruction," said Kenneth Coleman, a physician and biodefense expert. Al-Qaeda's earlier known bioweapons efforts were hampered by rudimentary lab equipment and limited access to lethal strains. All of those problems can now be bypassed at a time when illicit networks are making the toxin for profit, said Coleman. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #7 Hey - someone has to supply Congress! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-01-25 23:35 |
| #6 I have never understood why liberals, most of whom would never eat an artificially fertilized vegetable, or hormone enhanced cow (if they eat meat at all), or use anything but pure natural sea salt, would willingly and cheerfully inject one of the most poisonous substances known into their faces. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2010-01-25 21:29 |
| #5 and John Kerry http://www.botoxkerry.com/ |
| Posted by: GirlThursday 2010-01-25 15:24 |
| #4 OUCH @#1 Nasty Pelosi indeed!! |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-01-25 15:17 |
| #3 We could spread the story that we have new technology that seeks out manufacturers of illicit botulinum toxin and kills those working on such toxins by means of some new virulent "swine" flu bug or some other swine-related bug delivered via nanotechnology. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-01-25 12:36 |
| #2 Neither is Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, most certainly Dolly Parton, Pam Anderson and her trout pout, and practically all of Hollywood. www.awfulplasticsurgery.com |
| Posted by: GirlThursday 2010-01-25 10:52 |
| #1 Nancy Pelosi is not amused. |
| Posted by: Glomock Tojo6610 2010-01-25 06:15 |