Subject: Re: 2 more Chinese bioterror arrests
It depends - is the suspect someone who is working in a chemical processing plant working on dye coloring? Or a researcher who is studying propionyl chloride? And is propionyl chloride a very typical chemical for making dye coloring - or one that has emerged as an important substance in a wide variety of research:


Hmm. If we have someone in the chemical industry, that only makes your point less tenable as they *know* that compound is on the DEA's radar.

These guys are a bunch of biologists working in a biology program at a major research institution, and they were importing animals that are frequently used for biological research.


"Importing"? That's a great euphemism for "smuggling", which is the word you should be using.