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On December 3rd, 2002, ABC News "revealed" , that the CIA are investigating whether a Russian scientist transferred a particularly lethal strain of smallpox to the government of Iraq in the 1990s. The allegations involve a smallpox strain stored at the Research Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow. Intelligence officials (said) an informant has reported the institute's late director, virologist Nelja Maltseva, moved the smallpox on a trip to Iraq in 1990. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/Iraq_smallpox021203.html The information was leaked to the press by Dr. Alan Selikoff, a scientist at the Sandia National Laboratories (->) in Albuquerque, N.M. During the next three weeks, President Bush was still searching for a plausible reason to invade iraq. At the end of 2002, the FBI released an alert on 19 new muslim suspects, who have "entered" the United States. As later came out, this alert was based on a hoax.