IP: Microbes were mail-ordered

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
>
> Microbes were mail-ordered
>
> Lax controls let extremists easily obtain anthrax
>
> By Tatsha Robertson and Robert Schlesinger, Globe Staff, 11/6/2001
>
> WASHINGTON - Larry Wayne Harris, a former Aryan Nations member and a
> microbiologist from Ohio, was arrested three years ago after he
> bragged to an informant that he was carrying enough military-grade
> anthrax to wipe out all Las Vegas.
>
> Federal officials were well aware of Harris, who in 1995 was
> convicted of wire fraud related to his purchase of freeze-dried
> bubonic plague through the mail. ''It was easy, and it's still
> easy,'' said Harris.
>
> He was eventually cleared of the anthrax charges when it turned out
> that what he carried was anthrax vaccine, not the bacteria.
>
> ...
>
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/310/nation/Microbes_were_mail_ordered+.shtml


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