1.   As evidence of a weapons link, the Monterey report cites an interview with Gen. Pyotr Burgasov, a former official in the Soviet germ weapons program.

2.   But the Iraqis have told inspectors that two top scientists in the germ program whom the United Nations wanted to question are out of the country.

3.   But veterans of the Soviet and American germ programs dismiss such claims.

4.   So far, all the anthrax samples discovered have characteristics of the so-called Ames strain, a variety the United States used in its germ weapons program.

5.   So the return to an emphasis on Iraq as a potential culprit, in testimony by two veterans of germ weapons programs, came as something of a surprise.

6.   The classified study was produced at Fort Detrick in Maryland, the headquarters for the U.S. germ research program, by the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center.

7.   The Soviet germ program was hidden in a myriad of civilian and military institutes.

8.   The U.S. germ program, decades ago, seized on the so-called Hall strain because it made huge quantities of the A toxin.

9.   The U.S. military, in its germ program decades ago, seized on the so-called Hall strain because it made huge quantities of A toxin.

10.   Top Russian scientists deny that Russia still has a germ weapons program.