Baer and Scheuer

* btw - i meant to point to this comment by viget the other day - he begins:

"I don't trust either Baer or Scheuer. They both have said things that end up actually supporting some of the imperial hubris they apparently disdain."

and then he says:

"And the idea of "labs" making vast quantities of ricin or anthrax out in the Afghan, Iraqi or Pakistani hinterlands is just laughable. The equipment is expensive, the know-how is difficult to obtain (you can't just read a protocol and voila, know how to do this kind of stuff), and at some point, someone would notice the suspicious amounts of raw materials flowing to these sites. We should be able to get reliable intel on at least THAT front. (hmm, I just carried a big load of castor beans over to that camp over there, don't know why they wanted them).

Most likely, any such bioweapons programs would be hidden in dual-use, ostensibly legit pharmaceutical or biomedical reserach facilities that are sponsored by the gov't or private capital. Not in the middle of some known terrorist training camp.

Just like there weren't any mobile bioweapons labs in the Iraqi desert..."

which is what triggered my judy/hatfill/mobile labs post