Nick Ring points to a news article buried in all the Baghdad looting stories.
Scientists say looters took refrigerators full of the deadly viruses last Friday, but they’re not sure what’s actually missing.
“They are in containers, all of these things taken together, cholera, AIDS and black fever,” chemist Rasa Al-Alaq said. “The viruses that are lost, we have no idea where they went.”
U.S. sources are concerned that polio and hepatitis may have been stolen, in addition to other viruses that may not be reflected in the official records in Baghdad.
The Iraqi scientists say they have no idea who took the material. They don’t know whether it was swept up in the looting rampage or taken by someone who knew what they had.
And if you needed more proof that the entire invasion plan was a modernization of a Keystone Kops plot…
U.S. Marines were sent to guard the facility today after Iraqi scientists reported the dangerous material had been removed by looters.
Er… Oops?!