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	<description>Biological &#38; chemical weapons and disease topics, with a smattering of technology, political rant, and everyday life thrown in.</description>
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		<title>Sarin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First let me say that I am not back from my sudden departure from the blogosphere, and I do not have an ETA for when I plan to be regularly blogging again. However, maybe as something of a tease, I do have a link to pass along to Molecule of the Day&#8217;s post on sarin.
Who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bugsngasgal.wordpress.com&blog=297899&post=560&subd=bugsngasgal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging break</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blog will probably be dormant for a while due to an emergency.
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		<title>FBI releases documents on Amerithrax investigation</title>
		<link>http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/fbi-releases-documents-on-amerithrax-investigation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BGG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main site is here. I&#8217;m still absorbing it but so far I&#8217;ve found this document pretty juicy—read it on your own, I just don&#8217;t have the time today to pull out the goodies and post them here.
Based on DNA sequencing it looks as though there&#8217;s not really any question as to the source being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bugsngasgal.wordpress.com&blog=297899&post=549&subd=bugsngasgal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spertzel: wrong on weaponized anthrax</title>
		<link>http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/spertzel-wrong-on-weaponized-anthrax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Richard Spertzel, former U.N. weapons inspector, had this to say in WSJ:

Information released by the FBI over the past seven years indicates a product of exceptional quality. The product contained essentially pure spores. The particle size was 1.5 to 3 microns in diameter. There are several methods used to produce anthrax that small. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bugsngasgal.wordpress.com&blog=297899&post=546&subd=bugsngasgal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biological surety—would you pass?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those few out there seething with conspiracy theories about how the government has framed Bruce Ivins with the Amerithrax murders, I gotta tell ya, it&#8217;s not looking good for your side at this point but it&#8217;s not entirely in the bag yet.
He&#8217;s been under the microscope, so to speak, since 2006.  How they kept [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bugsngasgal.wordpress.com&blog=297899&post=540&subd=bugsngasgal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He&#8217;s dead, Jim.</title>
		<link>http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/hes-dead-jim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago we were all wondering whether Abu Khabab had been kindly introduced to his maker by a missile attack in Pakistan.  It appears to be so this time.  Another one bites the dust.  
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		<title>Ivins&#8217; plan to kill coworkers</title>
		<link>http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/ivins-plan-to-kill-coworkers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s more today at the NYT on Bruce Ivins, as relayed by Jean Duley, a social worker who counseled him.  Apparently, he was a very sick man.
Bruce E. Ivins arrived last month for a group counseling session at a psychiatric center here in his hometown with a startling announcement: Facing the prospect of murder charges, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bugsngasgal.wordpress.com&blog=297899&post=527&subd=bugsngasgal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So begins the hand-wringing about mad biodefense scientists</title>
		<link>http://bugsngasgal.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/so-begins-the-hand-wringing-about-mad-biodefense-scientists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my two previous posts about the Amerithrax suspect, (here and here), the entire country will soon be all tits-a-flutter about the looming threat of mad biodefense scientists.
Science magazine joins in with this article and soundbites from Gerald Epstein and Jonathan Tucker.
Biodefense researchers were pondering today whether there might be a backlash [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bugsngasgal.wordpress.com&blog=297899&post=517&subd=bugsngasgal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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