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Wired: Potentially lethal microorganisms getting even more aggressive in the slaughterhouse of Iraq. (via Raw Story)

Since OPERATION Iraqi Freedom began in 2003, more than 700 US soldiers have been infected or colonized with Acinetobacter baumannii. A significant number of additional cases have been found in the Canadian and British armed forces, and among wounded Iraqi civilians. The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology has recorded seven deaths caused by the bacteria in US hospitals along the evacuation chain. Four were unlucky civilians who picked up the bug at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, while undergoing treatment for other life-threatening conditions. Another was a 63-year-old woman, also chronically ill, who shared a ward at Landstuhl with infected coalition troops.

[T]he Pentagon had accidentally invented a machine for accelerating bacterial evolution and was airlifting the pathogens halfway around the world.

And those are just the microorganisms that we are allowed to know about. With some “luck”, the US may end up accelerating development of the next global pandemic in their grisly dungeons and combat hospitals and then use their intricate base network to get it all over the world. All in all sort of funny and ironic given that the rationale for the US war in Iraq allegedly was about uncovering so called weapons of mass destruction.