SARS Rumors
My friend Jon Chin wrote the following. I don't vouch for its accuracy, but I'm more than willing to take credit for this it turns out to be right:


I was doing this article at 4:00 in the morning and it was ill-focused...

What is important, though, is that I had just ate with my father's friend, who is an advisor of Taiwanese Vice President and majored in Public Health. According to him, WHO discovered new DNA evidence which indicates SARS is a biological weapon. That is why the WHO has been speedy in denying the Chinese official explainations about the origin of the disease.

The sample was collected on the bodies of the first seven SARS victims. They are all medical workers in a Chinese governent hospital. The bodies were ferried to the USA, where WHO officials and US specialists used bio-weapons probe to test them. According to the friend, the DNA samples showed traces of genetical engineering. He says the WHO has not publicized the report because it is using the report to put political pressure on China for bargainging purposes. However, if the Chinese does not comply, the WHO will bust it.

Taiwanese security officials are communicating with their counter-parts in Sigapore and they are considering to unite Asian states (Sigapore, Korea, Japan...etc) in order to pressure WHO in releasing the documents.

Besides for his being an insider, he is also a public health specialist. He theorized that, if this disease is originated from animals, the specie should have been pin-pointed. He says when AIDS was discovered, it took four years to find its genetic sequence and profile of behavior. It took four months now to find SARS'. But the origin of AIDS was found in the first month of its outbreak. The natural host of SARS remained unknown. "It was not found because it doesn't exist," he says.

The report sounds fancical, but its from very reliable resource. It is also consistent with reports from Russian experts and The Washington Post. Given Russia's history of bio-weaons research, its report should not be easily dismissed, espeically when China is one of Russia possible buyers of weaponry. It is reasonable to assume that they share at least some common technologies.

After using so many key-words for terrorism, the FBI is going to read this letter. Yap, the Carnivore must be interested. Anyway, don't be too suprised if any of this stuff pop up in a real media.