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WASHINGTON � A suspicious sample of biological material recently found by U.S. weapons hunters in Iraq probably was purchased legally from a U.S. organization in the 1980s and is a substance that has never been successfully used to produce a weapon, experts said.

The discovery of the hidden vial of C. botulinum Okra B, which was revealed in an Oct. 2 interim report by chief U.S. weapons hunter David Kay, was highlighted in speeches by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and other senior administration officials as proof that President Saddam Hussein's government maintained an illicit bio-weapons program before the war....

The single vial of botulinum B had been stored in an Iraqi scientist's kitchen refrigerator since 1993.

Did anyone seriously expect the public to believe this was a WMD? It's been in the guy's home fridge for 10 years! You don't keep food in your refrigerator 10 weeks because it might go bad. You certainly don't keep something you might accidentally pour on your Corn Flakes when you wake up in the middle of the night. John Fund's underpants are more of a biohazard than that stuff.