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A man, a lab, a scam, Lagos
12.27.07 - 7:39 pm | Annalee Newitz |
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Apparently he'd been selling bioweapons information to groups variously labeled terrorists or insurgents, using his UN gig as cover. He had been teaching guerrillas about viruses. Nobody could figure out where he'd gotten his data. They figured it was a disgruntled Islamic militant somewhere, a person with a vendetta against the US government. Shiva never knew if it was her. *

Annalee Newitz is a surly media nerd who doesn't know anything about virus shells and has never been to Lagos.

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