But overall, American intelligence had three human sources who provided information about the meeting.
In his presentation, Mr. Powell made clear that his case was based mainly on human intelligence, in particular on reports from four human sources about the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological weapons.
In the classified version of the report, the officials said, nearly three pages are devoted to questioning the credibility of the defector, who was one of four human sources cited last year by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in a speech to the United Nations as having provided crucial information about Iraq's mobile laboratories.
In addition, altogether 7,342 N2 sequences of human (n = 5,866) or avian (n = 1,476) sources were analyzed, of which six human sources and one avian source genes contained the R292K mutation, considered to be of relevance for OE resistance in human subjects.
This included all 35 bovine sourced isolates and seven human sourced isolates.
Of the seven human sourced isolates that possessed Lac.2, three were ST-88, two were undetermined, and the remaining two were ST-25 and ST-103.
While both the putatively bovine adapted isolates possessed Lac.2, the human isolate lacked it, and previous examination of genome sequences for seven human sourced isolates and one bovine sourced isolate also showed that Lac.2 was only present in the bovine sourced isolate [ 20].
According to the recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee report, the U.S. military places no name on its targeting list until there are "two verifiable human sources" and "substantial additional evidence" that the person is an enemy.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation maintains more than fifteen thousand "confidential human sources".
According to requirements of the START-MSC-Project we used hMSC from the three different human sources cord blood (CB), bone marrow (BM), and adipose tissue (AT) which were isolated and prepared as previously described in detail [34].
