Comments on: Iran: suspicious monkey business http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/iran-suspicious-monkey-business/ Biological & chemical weapons and disease topics, with a smattering of technology, political rant, and everyday life thrown in. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:13:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: BGG http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/iran-suspicious-monkey-business/#comment-48383 BGG Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:18:32 +0000 http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/?p=445#comment-48383 Now don't go giving Tom Clancy an even bigger head. Well, I'm no virologist or vaccine scientist, but as I understand it, kidneys from the vervet monkeys in question have been harvested for decades to provide cell cultures for producing vaccines. In other words, if Iran says the monkeys are for vaccine production, there's nothing here that proves them wrong. But if any specialists in the subject have a comment on that weight issue, I'm sure we'd all appreciate hearing what you have to say... Now don’t go giving Tom Clancy an even bigger head.

Well, I’m no virologist or vaccine scientist, but as I understand it, kidneys from the vervet monkeys in question have been harvested for decades to provide cell cultures for producing vaccines.

In other words, if Iran says the monkeys are for vaccine production, there’s nothing here that proves them wrong. But if any specialists in the subject have a comment on that weight issue, I’m sure we’d all appreciate hearing what you have to say…

]]> By: SteveinSd http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/iran-suspicious-monkey-business/#comment-48382 SteveinSd Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:48:27 +0000 http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/?p=445#comment-48382 I was re-reading Tom Clancy's Execuitve Orders last month. It was written in 1996, and is set in the aftermath a terrorist attack where a plane is crashed in the U.S. Capitol. Clancy's vision of a catastrophic terroist attack and the U.S., while not dead-on, does seem prescient when you re-read the book post 9/11. So my eyes opened wide when I read this blurb. A large part of the book focuses on attempts by the Iranian government to cultivate and grow the Ebola Virus for use in a biological attack. The plot involves obtaining several hundred african green monkeys whose kidneys are extracted and liquified to provide a culture for the virus to gorw in. Eerie similarities. I was re-reading Tom Clancy’s Execuitve Orders last month. It was written in 1996, and is set in the aftermath a terrorist attack where a plane is crashed in the U.S. Capitol. Clancy’s vision of a catastrophic terroist attack and the U.S., while not dead-on, does seem prescient when you re-read the book post 9/11. So my eyes opened wide when I read this blurb. A large part of the book focuses on attempts by the Iranian government to cultivate and grow the Ebola Virus for use in a biological attack. The plot involves obtaining several hundred african green monkeys whose kidneys are extracted and liquified to provide a culture for the virus to gorw in. Eerie similarities.

]]> By: BGG http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/iran-suspicious-monkey-business/#comment-48372 BGG Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:31:16 +0000 http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/?p=445#comment-48372 I agree on that CNS page. I sometimes make such links available for my own reasons...I try to indicate that people should take them with a grain of salt due to their age, or sometimes for other reasons. I do read <a href="http://www.wmdinsights.com/" rel="nofollow">WMD Insights</a> and it occurs to me I don't have it on my links. I agree on that CNS page. I sometimes make such links available for my own reasons…I try to indicate that people should take them with a grain of salt due to their age, or sometimes for other reasons.

I do read WMD Insights and it occurs to me I don’t have it on my links.

]]> By: Markus http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/iran-suspicious-monkey-business/#comment-48371 Markus Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:11:02 +0000 http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/?p=445#comment-48371 In passing, I would not rely too heavily on the CNS page that you link to. It has not been updated in quite some time. While not wanting to toot my own horn to loudly there was an article on the topic of Iranian CW activity in WMD Insights earlier this year that has a lot of useful links to public US intell assessments of this program. In passing, I would not rely too heavily on the CNS page that you link to. It has not been updated in quite some time. While not wanting to toot my own horn to loudly there was an article on the topic of Iranian CW activity in WMD Insights earlier this year that has a lot of useful links to public US intell assessments of this program.

]]> By: totaltransformation http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/iran-suspicious-monkey-business/#comment-48368 totaltransformation Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:33:22 +0000 http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/?p=445#comment-48368 Creepy stuff. Creepy stuff.

]]> By: BGG http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/iran-suspicious-monkey-business/#comment-48355 BGG Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:39:28 +0000 http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/?p=445#comment-48355 Yes I had heard about that. I'll comment on this over at your blog. Yes I had heard about that. I’ll comment on this over at your blog.

]]> By: Drew Conway http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/iran-suspicious-monkey-business/#comment-48354 Drew Conway Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:31:08 +0000 http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/?p=445#comment-48354 Well, the Dutch have figured out how to exact to take care of a piece of the Iran WMD threat. Have you seen this? http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/agc282/zia/2008/07/netherlands_bans_iranians_from.html I am very interested in your opinion on this, given your WMD expertise. Well, the Dutch have figured out how to exact to take care of a piece of the Iran WMD threat. Have you seen this?

http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/agc282/zia/2008/07/netherlands_bans_iranians_from.html

I am very interested in your opinion on this, given your WMD expertise.

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