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Apparent Suicide by Cyanide Causes Security Concerns
2010-09-14
A Northeastern U lab tech lost her job & then was found dead in her Milford, MA apartment yesterday morning with a plastic bag of what is thought to be cyanide.

Neil Livingston, a DC terrorism expert, said, "If she'd been a bad guy and gotten hold of a significant amount of cyanide . . . who knows?" "Cyanide is a good weapon of assassination or for killing a small number of people."

Police are checking Northeastern's records to see if she obtained the material there.

"There isn't adequate screening of who has access to chemicals or biological weapons," Livingstone said. "They're reluctant because of 'academic freedom.' "
Umm, no, we academic biology types are pretty aware indeed. Controls are sometimes lax just because of incompetence or divided attention, but I guarantee you everyone in the labs knows what cyanide can do. And retrovirus ...
Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418

#2  He pointed to a domestic terrorist, Joseph Konopka, aka “Dr. Chaos, ” a left-wing extremist who was caught in 2002 with a cache of cyanide hidden in an abandoned Chicago subway tunnel.


A news media person actually referred to an "left-wing extremist." When you are in a pond full of left-wing extremists such as we currently have, I'm guessing it is difficult to get noticed.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-09-14 07:56  

#1  I guess they prefer she had jumped off a building instead?
Posted by: gorb   2010-09-14 02:57  

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