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Friday, May 2, 2003

MEMRI translation from Al-Jazeera:

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So, not only were uranium cakes and other radioactive bric-a-brac looted from the Iraqi Nuclear Authority, with people making off with the storage barrels and using them to store, like water and tomatoes and such, but apparenty there were these flies...

[...]"I entered the compound of the [Nuclear Energy] Authority with my colleague and saw that all the doors, except in four places, were opened by the invading forces. I understood that the invading forces knew what was [in store] at the Authority, and that was the reason why they did not open these doors, where there were insects [to be used as biological insecticides]." [...]

"Dr. Zeidan talked about the expected ecological disaster from releasing thousands of flies known as chrysomya bezziana, nicknamed screw worm, which were bred by the Nuclear Authority to be used as biological farming insecticides. The flies were released by the looters and were expected to harm animals in Iraq and neighboring countries. These flies were to be released after being sterilized. However, the flies that were actually released in large quantities were not sterilized."[...]

Jebus, what next?

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