A real sting operation against terror (bees and rats sniff out WMDs)

[RamboLiberal]

http://news.mysanantonio.com/global-includes/printStory.cfm?xla='saen'&xlb=180&xlc=1049261

Swarms of honeybees and moths housed in a big mesh-covered tent in San Antonio might hold the key to finding nuclear weapons.

The Southwest Research Institute has developed a threat awareness course for the Internet. Sherri T. Miller, shown Friday, has headed technical development of the project.
Karen L. Shaw/Express-News

For three years, scientists at the Southwest Research Institute have worked with the insects to sniff out explosives under a Defense Department contract.

They're also experimenting with rats, said Walter Downing, the institute's executive vice president.

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[ReadTomPaine]

1. Assuming they aren't taken out by those radioactive wasps... <eom>

[Aidoneus]

2. .....

so this is what it's come to.

billions of dollars tossed into the black hole, and these guys come up with our secret weapons:--bugs and vermin.

I'd say that's worth crying about.

[RamboLiberal]

4. To a company founded by an oilman

Is this another Bush Ranger/Pioneer?

[smaug]

3. Historical precedent

Does anyone remember the bats that were supposed to set fire to Japan during WWII? I don't have a link to the story, but this semms to be along the same lines . . .

Patriotic vermin - sounds like the Rethuglican pArty has fellow travelers now <grin>.

[damnraddem]

5. "They're also experimenting with rats ..."

My God, the Bushistas get their twitchy, little noses into everything, don't they? ;-)

[newyawker99]

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[RamboLiberal]

7. Went a tad over since the paragraphs were only 1 or 2 sentences

And I wanted to make sure oil man connection got in.

My apologies - sometimes tough to get gist of story in post.