The Long, Long War on Terror
Feb. 27, 2006, 2:46PM Substance found at UT is not ricin
Rummy's "long war" on terror took on a radically new meaning this weekend.
A powdery substance found in a roll of quarters by a University of Texas student on Thursday while doing laundry in her dormitory is not the deadly toxin ricin, FBI officials said Sunday.
FBI agents took custody of the sample Saturday and sent it to the Interagency Biomedical Research Confederation Fort Detrick, Md., Within a day, scientists at the Army base determined it was not ricin or any other dangerous material.
So if ricin was a problem (which it isn't as it is only lethal if enjected in a very pure form) the field testing procedures are crap and it would take three days to find out if it was ricin ... curiously Fort Detrick have declined to say what the powder was .... Colombian marching powder anybody ?
Google News has 773 hits for this story .... Ricin ... deadly ... lethal ... we are all going to die !!!!
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