April 21, 2003

South African Biotoxins, believed destroyed, end up in private hands

Joby Warrick, Washington Post Staff Writer, posted a two day series about the top-secret biological and chemical weapons program known as Project Coast in South Africa.

In 1993, South Africa declared all the weapons, pathogen strains and documents destroyed. Since then, South Africa has been held up as a model -- an example for Iraq and other nations of 'what real disarmament looks like,' as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said in a speech in January.

Bacterial strains that supposedly were destroyed continue to turn up in private hands.

[full story: part 1 - part 2]

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