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The failed prosecutions of former defence minister Magnus Malan and Wouter Basson, who headed apartheid SA's chemical and biological warfare programme, were a significant setback for the state and the NPA will be anxious to avoid a repeat of those outcomes. In fact, it is by no means clear that the case against Vlok could have been made to stand up had he not had a Damascene experience and all but admitted complicity by begging Chikane's forgiveness in the now famous public foot-washing... (allAfrica.com)
Engelhardt: Wrong Again! Jul 18, 2007
Top administration officials, the President, and/or Vice President claimed that Saddam Hussein had his nuclear program; that he was searching for yellowcake uranium in Niger; that the Iraqi dictator had an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction (and that they where these were); that he "mobile biological warfare labs"; that he had unmanned aerial vehicles the East Coast of the U.S. (hundreds of miles inland, no less) with deadly toxins, including anthrax; that he was with al-Qaeda; and that he... (Zmag.org)
Find another culprit Jul 14, 2007
" Your post doesn't simply misrepresent Solanki, it gets his views exactly back to front. It's only in the forums like CiF, with a large scientifically illiterate readership, that anyone could try to pull off this crap. [Offensive? Unsuitable? ] ThomasCopyrightMMVII Comment No. GBR I think the current scientific answer just depends on whose funding the research. And a lot more funding gets done by manufacturers who have a vested interest in producing a convincing argument as to why consumers... (Guardian Unlimited)
Easing Soldiers' Recovery Jul 4, 2007
Called , or SERV, the program will feature history classes that focus on countries where veterans have served, courses on biological warfare, and composing essays to help them sort through their traumatic war experiences. The idea is to equip veterans with the information and tools they need to readjust. (Utne.com)
Powers: What Tenet Knew Jul 3, 2007
This is not the place for an exhaustive reexamination of the agency's long-exploded claims, but no plea of honest error can survive even a quick look at the facts in three disputes -- what Iraq intended to do with aluminum tubes, how the agency knew about Iraq's mobile biological warfare labs, and why a report that Iraq was trying to buy uranium "yellowcake" in Niger made its way into one official speech after another until it finally appeared -- the infamous "sixteen words" -- in Bush's state... (Zmag.org)
'Toxic mold' is a myth, claims local allergy specialist Jul 2, 2007
Strongly Disagree wrote on Jun 30, 2007 3:36 PM:" Mycotoxins (poisons) from common building molds are used in biological warfare. People don't have to be allergic to become very ill. The Institute of Medicine, in Damp Indoor Spaces and Health, 2004, said "Bacteria and Fungi can cause allergic responses, non-allergic, toxic and inflammatory effects" (p.7). Physicians are generally not trained on the toxic effects of molds or chemicals in medical schools. Physician associations have adopted... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
How Plague-causing Bacteria Disarm Host Defense May 30, 2007
Identifying this new target is the first step to developing effective strategies for preventing disease, including means to fight antibiotic-resistant strains of Yersinia that could be used in biological warfare, according to Navarro. The genus Yersinia includes three species of bacteria that are pathogenic to humans: Y. pestis is perhaps the most infamous, being responsible for the bubonic plague (also known as the Black Death), which killed more than 200 million people in the Middle Ages. (Science Daily)
Chinese plaintiffs protest against ruling of Japanese Supreme Court May 21, 2007
"The ruling by the Japanese Supreme Court ignores the judicial responsibility of the Japanese government for biological warfare activities carried out in China... (It) had full knowledge of Japanese biological warfare during World War II, one of the most despicable war crimes ever committed," said the statement ... The epicenter of Japanese atrocities in China during the war years was Unit 731, a biological warfare unit headed by the infamous Shiro Ishii, based at Pingfan near Harbin in... (People's Daily Online, China)
The marathon path to enlightenment May 17, 2007
During World War II he had been a member of Japan's notorious biological warfare group, Unit 731. At first, he struggled to gain acceptance from the monks. (Aljazeera.Net)
Leader never lived up to rhetoric May 10, 2007
The Blair years will also be associated with wars that went right (Kosovo) and those that went wrong (Iraq); with the death of the Ministry of Defence biological warfare expert David Kelly; with the bloated size of the public sector; with the first civil partnerships for gay couples; with the removal of hereditary peers from the House of Lords; and with constitutional reforms that have left nationalists in charge of Scotland and former terrorists in government in Northern Ireland. Blair recently... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Middle East Apr 29, 2007
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs. And Rice gets a free ride from the press to boot. (Asia Times Online)
Letter: Iraqi war taking heavy toll in lost lives, money Apr 18, 2007
Give me a break wrote on April 17, 2007 8:51 PM:"Voltaire- First about the WMD's: From the Duelfer Report. 1) "ISG technical experts fully evaluated less than one quarter of one percent of the over 10,000 weapons caches throughout Iraq" 2) "Iraq could have re-established an elementary BW [biological warfare] program within a few weeks to a few months of a decision to do so" 3) "we cannot express a firm view on the possibility that WMD elements were relocated out of Iraq prior to the war".... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
General Dynamics locks up $30M military contract Apr 13, 2007
The company, a unit of U.S. defence contractor General Dynamics, said yesterday the company's Vital Point Bio-Sentry system detects toxins used in chemical or biological warfare and gives soldiers time to put on protective equipment. The contract is expected to lead to economic spinoffs for operations in Calgary and Ottawa, Saskatoon and a key supplier in Quebec. (Canoe.ca)
Today in History - April 10 Apr 10, 2007
In 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union joined some 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare. In 1981, imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was declared the winner of a by-election to the British Parliament. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Book details Army drug experiments Apr 6, 2007
"There are things that have taken place in the past that should probably stay there," says Hammond, director of the Sunshine Project, an Austin group that opposes biological warfare. Ketchum's memoir draws from previously classified files, including filmed experiments, and notes of tests given subjects before, during and after they were fed, sprayed or injected with mind-altering chemicals. (USA Today)
The Wildlands Project: Nothing New Apr 5, 2007
Hunters poisoned wolves, shot them, dragged pups from dens, and even used biological warfare against them (veterinarians introduced sarcoptic mange into the wolf population to weaken and kill it). As a result, the wolf had disappeared from the Great Plains by 1926 and from Washington, Colorado, and Wyoming by 1943. (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
Isis device detects infection cause quickly Apr 1, 2007
Called the IBIS T5000, it's intended to detect dangerous microbes, not only from superbug outbreaks, but deliberately created menaces from biological warfare. An Isis subsidiary, Ibis, received federal funding to develop the device with both uses in mind. (North County Times)
Give us a break Mar 19, 2007
On one of the busiest transportation days of the year, flying or driving anywhere summons the sort of anxiety normally reserved for fluid mechanics midterms or biological warfare. We've all experienced it: That dreaded Wednesday, interstate traffic resembles downtown Cairo. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
Letters to the Editor Mar 18, 2007
The world should remember that the war crimes committed by the Japanese government during its aggression toward its Asian neighbors in the 1930s and 1940s were not limited to the sex slaves, but included the Rape of Nanking, chemical and biological warfare and the Bataan Death March. Japan must acknowledge those wrongs before it can be accepted as a respected member of the international community. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Boy Gets Rare Infection From Dad's Shot Mar 18, 2007 Agee: U.S., Latin America Trends Mar 15, 2007 Art from the science lab: It's weird, but to what effect? Mar 14, 2007 CLAUDE SALHANI: Cloak and dagger confab Mar 12, 2007 Underwood: Japan War Victims Mar 7, 2007 Florida Senate candidate says yes Mar 1, 2007 Ex-insider: Cuba has bioweapons Mar 1, 2007 'Dr Death' defends practice Feb 26, 2007 K-State National Agricultural Biosecurity Center director speaker at AAAS Biosecurity Symposium Feb 19, 2007 Iemma versus Debnam. What should they debate? Feb 16, 2007 Native Americans misrepresented Feb 13, 2007 The US's pricey fighting flops Feb 10, 2007 Questions about germ warfare still plague Feb 6, 2007 United States's Feb 6, 2007 Bush asks Congress to give him billions of dollars more for Iraq Feb 6, 2007 Glad global warming left us for a while Feb 6, 2007 Monday's best bets Feb 4, 2007 United States Jan 30, 2007 Opponents question legality, impact o... Jan 30, 2007 Risk confidence — By thinking the unthinkable, preparedness expert is ready for emergency Jan 28, 2007 Animal tests provide insight into 1918 flu virus Jan 19, 2007 County hires new sanitarian Jan 17, 2007 An American waged germ warfare against U.S. in WWI Jan 15, 2007 Castro's Cuba: Quo Vadis? Jan 12, 2007 Scientists Leverage Robotic Diagnostic Technology To Diagnose Plant Diseases Jan 9, 2007 Affinium Pharmaceuticals Awarded US$4.8 Million Biodefense Research Contract by United States Department of Defense/DTRA Jan 4, 2007 SADDAM TOLD THEM TO 'GO TO HELL' Dec 31, 2006 Next edition Dec 30, 2006 President Bush Honors Medal of Freedom Recipients Dec 22, 2006 Developing Bioterror Weapons for Offensive Use Dec 22, 2006 Wrightsville soldier grateful to be home this Christmas Dec 22, 2006 • Letter to the Editor - Many said Saddaminterested in WMDs Dec 13, 2006 Sundance fest unveils shorts program Dec 7, 2006 University for men-in-khakiAddMyLinkImage("/news/181_1858914,0035.htm", "University for men-in-khaki"); Dec 4, 2006 Japanese doctor admits POW abuse Nov 27, 2006 Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? Nov 26, 2006 Japanese Navy experimented on POWs, ex-officer says Nov 26, 2006 Poison experts Nov 24, 2006 World's most deadly bugs... in the hands of terrorists Nov 15, 2006 Safty: Iraq and Vietnam Nov 10, 2006 Bush's November surprise Nov 9, 2006 UK-US bomb plotThe prosecution case against a British link to al-Qaeda Nov 7, 2006 Firm readies wearable weapons sensor Nov 7, 2006 Visiting professors to discuss biotechnology, writing Nov 7, 2006 Thousands of disabled, political prisoners used in WMD experiments beyond nukes Nov 5, 2006 How Neocon Favorites Duped U.S. Nov 5, 2006 * Just say no to imports of harmful food items Nov 3, 2006 Not for Public Release! Nov 2, 2006 WP: Al-Qaidas anthrax consultant Oct 31, 2006 ...Zawahiri Was Target Oct 31, 2006 Damning all nanomaterials would be damned silly Oct 26, 2006 Pentagon Poised To Require Anthrax Vaccine Again Oct 17, 2006 Bangalore: Dengue outbreaks raise the spectre of yellow fever Oct 14, 2006 Your country needs you - to halt relentless march of the grey squirrels Oct 11, 2006 In case you missed the point Oct 10, 2006 Nanotechnology To Stop Weaponized Anthrax In Its Tracks Oct 10, 2006 Lettuce Recalled Over E. Coli Concerns Oct 9, 2006 Remembering Bobbie Lou Bunner: Mother's enthusiasm for life pulled her through trials of living Oct 3, 2006 Would You Be Prepared For A Disaster? Sep 28, 2006 Anthrax for the Memories: Sep 28, 2006 SENDING CARE ... OVER THERE Sep 19, 2006 Biotech firm to redevelop derelict mansion in Buffalo Sep 19, 2006 A varsity to teach policing Sep 18, 2006 Tokyo excavation may show WWII experiments on POWs Sep 18, 2006 Veterans of biological offensive rese... Sep 13, 2006
While smallpox was eradicated worldwide in 1980, small stocks of the virus still exist, leading to fears they could be used in biological warfare or terrorism. The virus that has affected the mother and son is not smallpox itself but a relative close enough to confer immunity. (Playfuls.com)
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Expelled Mar 17, 2007
They found an extensive wire tapping operation and two biological warfare laboratories. They also found evidence of an experiment to develop a live AIDs virus to be used against dissidents. (Suite101.com)
All this they did against every effort by the United States to isolate them as an unacceptable example of independence and self-determination, using every dirty method including infiltration, sabotage, terrorism, assassination, economic and biological warfare and incessant lies in the cooperating media of many countries. I know these methods too well, having been a CIA officer in Latin America in the 1960s. (Zmag.org)
The genetic alteration of plants and animals for all sorts of purposes will continue to evolve, as will technologies of biological warfare and bioterror, and the effects of such developments might not be known until it's too late. But as happens too frequently with science- and technology-themed shows, the art presented by "It's Alive!" only illustrates a topic that you can learn more about by regularly perusing the science section of any major metropolitan newspaper. (Boston Globe)
One American who specializes in biological warfare has been paying particular attention to advances in the biowar arsenal being developed by a Middle Eastern country said she was followed on a trans-Atlantic flight by two agents from the country in question. While the conference offered interesting insight into the world of terrorist tactics it had its shortcomings; and one can easily name two. (Washington Times)
Japanese lawyers, historians and citizen activists have vigorously supported the more than two dozen lawsuits filed by Chinese victims of biological warfare, abandoned chemical weapons, the Nanjing massacre, the Pingdingshan massacre, indiscriminate aerial bombing, military sexual slavery, and forced labor in Japan ... For example, whereas the Japanese government today insists it knows nothing about the activities of , a Tokyo court concluded that the unit killed many Chinese through biological... (Zmag.org)
Cohen's letter concluded by telling Thurmond that the Department of Defense "remains vigilant to the concerns posed by Castro's Cuba." Attached to the letter was the defense secretary's classified report, "The Cuba Threat to U.S. National Security." The report's publicly released summary read: "Cuba's biotechnology industry is one of the most advanced in emerging countries and would be capable of producing biological warfare agents.". That same year, the CIA released a report that warned of the... (WorldNetDaily)
The former chief of Cuba's military medical services is calling for international weapons inspections of a secret underground lab near Havana, where he says the government is creating biological warfare agents like the plague, botulism and yellow fever ... After living here quietly for four years, this week Ortega went on the Spanish-language media circuit to denounce what he claims is an advanced offensive biological warfare weapons program ... Ortega is believed to be the first defector with... (Yahoo News -- Cuba)
Apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare expert, Dr Wouter Basson, will defend his medical practice after it emerged that he would be charged for his role in the army's weapons programme, the Cape Times reported on Monday. Complaints were lodged with the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) about Basson's role in Project Coast, a top-secret programme which included attempts to develop bacteria capable of killing black people or make them infertile. (iAfrica.com)
He served as the chief inspector on three United Nations special commission biological warfare inspection missions to Iraq, and as a technical adviser on long-term monitoring. He also served as a member of the first two United States/United Kingdom teams that visited Russia in support of the Trilateral Joint Statement on Biological Weapons, and as a member of the Trilateral Experts' Committee for biological weapons negotiations. (EurekAlert!)
1 The proposal for biological warfare outlined by the Libs. Who needs terrorists. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Government bounties were advertised to encourage settlers to kill the native inhabitants and, in one of our first acts of biological warfare, blankets infected with small-pox were intentionally gifted to the Indians. It is bad enough that we attempt to minimize these atrocities in our history books. (The New Hampshire, NH)
Earlier recorded instances of biological warfare - catapulting carcasses of dead animals into walled cities under siege and handing native Americans disease-laden blankets - introduced difficult-to-control pathogens into warfare. But the widespread use of poison gas in World War I represented a new and systematic use of substances other than explosives, kinetic energy, or piercing devices to kill or incapacitate people. (Asia Times Online)
With some notable exceptions, "The Living Weapon," produced, written, and directed by John Rubin, is a flat, linear look at the history of the American biological warfare program that begins during World War II and ends with the renunciation of biological weapons by Richard Nixon in 1969 ... The American government made this dreadful decision to avoid questions about its own biological warfare program ... In the '60s, domestic opposition mounted as American forces used tear gas and the toxic... (Boston Globe -- Living)
It was revealed that the United States government was selling old declassified reports to the general public with titles such as The Stability of Botulinum Toxin in Common Beverages and Development of 'N' for Offensive Use in Biological Warfare. Botulinum is the most poisonous substance known; N was the military code word for. (Harper's Magazine)
"Boyle traces advocacy for aggressive biowarfare back to the neo-conservative Project for a New American Century(PNAC), whose members, including Paul Wolfowitz, later influenced President Geoge Bush's military and foreign policy. Before assuming his current post as World Bank head, Wolfowitz served Bush as deputy secretary of defense.Before the anthrax attacks on Congress, PNAC advocated "advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare... (Scotsman)
To Steve Kulas wrote on February 05, 2007 8:30 AM:"I liked your article. We need to do everything we can to improve our usage of fossil fuels. To control global warming (provided humans are responsible and it's not a natural occurrence) here are several sure fire ways to turn the problem around. No more intervention or aid to tsunami, hurricane, earthquake, tornado or volcano disasters and the victims. No more medical research, free or assisted health care or prescription coverage. No more bans... (Winona Daily News, MN)
We think of biological warfare as something the "other guys" use; Americans would never do that. or would we. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Democratic Representative Loretta Sanchez cancelled a Playboy Mansion fundraiser after objected to it. 5 billion plan to fight , of which $1. (Harper's Magazine)
Korch, then deputy director of a Department of Homeland Security center that is also part of the planned biodefense campus, said the research could include developing aerosols containing deadly germs and new methods of delivering biological warfare agents. Some arms control advocates also have warned that work planned at the biodefense campus may violate the Biological Weapons Convention and encourage other countries to follow suit. (Frederick News-Post)
"Since I was 8. You develop a thick skin." Here's what she tells people who say it's silly to prepare for long shots for fallout and EMP and biological warfare and earthquakes that jar the Wasatch Front in the middle of winter: "You have to be right every day. I only have to be right once.". E-mail. (Deseret News)
"We know this virus is different. We want to know what is different about it,'' said University of Wisconsin virology Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who led the research. The findings are the latest from a remarkable and unnerving effort that began in 1995 to reconstruct the Spanish flu virus. First, researchers reassembled the genetic code that serves as a blueprint for the virus by piecing together fragments of Spanish flu genes taken from victims of the pandemic. One of those victims had been... (San Francisco Chronicle)
He said his role in the group is the responsibility of dealing with water supplies and monitoring air quality in the case of chemical or biological warfare and natural disasters. To visit with the Steve Anderson about issues related to wells, septic systems, water or radon testing or to fill out a new construction application or pick up a radon kit stop in to the Hancock County Public Health Service office at 545 State St. in Garner or call (641) 923-3676. (Forest City Summit, IO)
In his basement, he set up a small laboratory and, on behalf of the General Staff in Berlin, he began a highly secret campaign to wage biological warfare on U.S. soil. His target would be the horses and cattle supplied to the Allied armies by the then-neutral United States, and Dilger set about cultivating anthrax bacteria and Pseudomonas mallei, the germ that causes glanders, a crippling equine disease. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bolton stated, The United States believes that Cuba has at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort. Cuba has provided dual-use biotechnology to other rogue states. (Ocnus.net)
-- Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of any organism (bacteria, virus or other disease-causing organism) or toxin found in nature, as a weapon of. . (Science Daily)
The contract will fund preclinical studies of selected compounds from Affinium's fatty acid biosynthesis inhibitor portfolio that have demonstrated potential as therapeutics for the treatment of diseases caused by serious pathogens including Francisella tularensis, a potential biological warfare and bioterrorism agent. This DTRA contract builds on Affinium's previous successful research into the inhibition of Francisella tularensis conducted with the US National Institute of Allergy and... (Canada Newswire)
We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons. (The Drudge Report)
And former head of defence planning for security at the Sydney Olympics Adrian d'Hage has a timely thriller in The Beijing Conspiracy (Penguin, July), in which al-Qa'ida demands coalition forces withdraw from Muslim lands or biological warfare will hit Sydney Harbour. Overseas, the New York Times Review of Books calls A Field of Darkness (Arena, February), the exploits of US author Cornelia Read's wise-cracking hero Madeline Dare, a spellbinding crime debut. (The Australian)
And even three decades ago, he was warning of the dangers of biological warfare. All of his life, people have seen something special in this rabbi's son from Montclair, New Jersey. (White House News Releases)
He states the Pentagon "is now gearing up to fight and `win' biological warfare" pursuant to two Bush national strategy directives adopted "without public knowledge and review" in 2002 ... " Boyle contends the U.S. is "in breach" of both the Biological Weapons and Chemical Weapons conventions and U.S. domestic criminal law. In Feb., 2003, for example, the U.S. granted itself a patent on an illegal long-range biological weapons grenade. Boyle said other countries grasp the military implications... (Ocnus.net)
Lovett works for the Department of Defense as a manager for Biological Warfare Detection Systems and, in this position has served two tours in the Middle East. Additionally, he has served as a part-time Guardsman for the Georgia National Guard since he was 19 years old. (Dublin Courier Herald, GA)
3 We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
DUCT TAPE AND COVER (Director: Yong-Jin Park)-A satirical response to the Department of Homeland Security's recent advice for Americans to ready themselves for possible chemical and biological warfare. EVERYTHING WILL BE OK (Director: Don Hertzfeldt)-A series of dark and troubling events force Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life - or lack thereof. (Variety)
The country s first university to train serving and future police officers in key areas like biological warfare and other possible forms of terror attacks will come up in the National Capital Region (NCR). The five-member committee formed by the Union Home Ministry to prepare a detailed action plan for setting up the National Police University submitted its report last week and proposed NCR as the ideal location , official sources said. (Hindustan Times, India)
A Japanese army unit specialising in biological warfare is believed to have carried out medical tests on prisoners during the wartime occupation of north-eastern China. At least 3,000 prisoners are believed to have died at the hands of the unit. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
The two men coitally bond over military diplomacy, regime change, rigged elections, biological warfare and much else. But Sam demands a "total commitment" that Jack, who has left his family for his lover, cannot give. (Guardian Unlimited)
A Japanese army unit which carried out biological warfare experiments in northern China during World War II is also believed to have undertaken medical experiments on Chinese victims. - BBC. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Top Stories)
It supplies the lethal products for Department 12 of Directorate S of the SVR (the Russian foreign intelligence service), which deals with biological warfare. Oleg Kalugin, who spent 32 years in the KGB and now lives in the West, revealed in his expos. (TimesOnline)
" Scientists have already shown how easy it can be to create synthetic viruses. Last year, a team in New York created a synthetic polio virus using information about its gene sequence readily available on the internet and genetic material from one of the many companies that sell made-to-order DNA. Alistair Hay, a toxicologist from Leeds University, said synthetic biology offered an opportunity to improve human health by, for example, allowing scientists to create DNA sequences that may help... (Yahoo News -- Terrorism & 9/11)
The report concluded that postwar findings do not support a 2002 intelligence community report that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program, possessed biological weapons or ever developed mobile facilities for producing biological warfare agents. . (Zmag.org)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention even sent Iraq 14 agents "with biological warfare significance," including West Nile virus, according to U.S. Senate investigators, in a 1994 report led by Sen ... Another Senate committee report, also in 1994, detailed 70 shipments of dangerous biological strains, including anthrax bacillus, which later were found to be "identical to those the U.N. inspectors found and recovered from the Iraqi biological warfare program," the Senate Banking... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
A handbook listing hazardous chemicals was found, as were notebooks containing references to books on subjects including explosives, chemical and biological warfare, and building structures. "Shopping lists" of electrical items that could be used to construct an "improvised explosive device" were also seized, as was the text of a statement by Osama bin Laden "glorifying the September 11 attacks". (BBC News -- UK)
"The potential market has changed so much from detection, detection, detection, to other aspects of chemical and biological warfare and how you would defend against it," Farr said. LeJeune said his firm plans to expand well beyond just detection devices. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)
He has worked with NASA on projects in astrobiology and is a member of the Chemical and Biological Warfare working group at the Center for International Security and Cooperation. Since 2002 he has served on the President s Council on Bioethics. (US Santa Cruz Currents, CA)
LONDON Not only is North Korea planning to carry out a second nuclear test early next year, according to Britain's MI6 secret security service, but it is also expanding its biological warfare program with thousands of people, including the disabled, dwarves and political prisoners as the guinea pigs. Based on interviews with defectors from North Korea to its southern neighbor after the Oct. 9 plutonium device test, MI6 believes the next nuclear test Kim Jong-II will order "will probably take... (WorldNetDaily)
He contributed important details about Iraqs alleged mobile facilities for producing agents for biological warfare ... Drawings of Curve Balls imaginary bio-weapons labs were a central feature of Secretary of State Powells presentation to the U.N. Even after the invasion, U.S. officials continued to promote these claims, portraying the discovery of a couple of trailers used for inflating artillery balloons as the strongest evidence to date that Iraq was hiding a biological warfare program... (Ocnus.net)
It also leaves open a possibility of biological warfare by bringing in foot-and-mouth disease, avian influenza, rabies, SARS, anthrax and other sources of disease. The relevant government bodies must immediately prohibit any possible harm to public health or the nation's defense capabilities. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
In fact, the Russian brass ordered top minds at the State Scientific Center Research Institute to develop a 'universal antidote' for biological warfare agents. They researched over 600 different compounds - and found one with astonishing power and safety. (Newsmax)
That's because U.S. officials remain stymied in their nearly five-year quest to bring charges against a man who they say admitted serving as a top consultant to al-Qaeda on anthrax -- a claim that makes him one of a handful of people linked publicly to the group's effort to wage biological warfare against Western targets. Rauf, 47, has been under scrutiny in Pakistan since he was detained there for questioning in late 2001, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials who agreed to talk about the... (MSNBC -- International)
TOP BLOTTER CATEGORIES. Zawahiri Was Target in U.S. Attack on Religious School in Pakistan. (The Drudge Report)
That even one man thinks to employ science in warfare, or biological warfare, and others understand his thought, it is that any of us do not perceive it as a playing with the elements, that it pleases us not to make the distinction between a lack of empathy for living things with the alterations of materials: as objects do not have DNA or appear to have an aeteology related to natural evolution, life processes or speciation, I suspect all of the world is only the chemistry, physics and... (Nature News Service)
"This rate of vaccination not only put the service members at risk, but also jeopardized unit effectiveness and degraded medical readiness. The threat environment and the unpredictable nature of terrorism make it necessary to include biological warfare defense as part of our force protection measures," Winkenwerder said. More Stories. (KWTX.com, TX)
But as a new book on yellow fever (Prometheus books, Amherst, New York) by award winning investigative journalist James L. Dickerson says, "There is the potential threat of YF as a biological warfare agent in the hands of terrorists" ... India's vulnerability to biological warfare attack by YF has been known since World War II. According to C.G. Pandit, former director general of ICMR, "the Indian government, early in 1940, received confidentially the information that in the event of war... (Mangalorean.com)
That's one of the reasons when I hear about plans for biological warfare I just cringe. I don't think there are many good solutions when a foreign flora or fauna gets established in an ecosystem. (Yahoo News -- Animals & Insects)
We are confident that Saddam Hussein retained some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capability. Intelligence reports also indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons, but has not yet achieved nuclear capability. (Arkansas Times)
Picture a spider web coated with sugar. But instead of luring in unsuspecting creatures, this spider web pulls in deadly anthrax spores, rendering them harmless. (Science Daily)
I bet it will never occur to our homeland "security" people to wonder whether these outbreaks of poisonings are test runs for biological warfare. Opinions and Feedback. (ABC 7 News, DC)
With a bachelor's degree in education from Ohio State, Bobbie Lou Bunner was working as a research analyst for the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center, studying medical defenses against biological warfare. Then, duty called. (North County Times)
"This is if there's another 9/11 or a biological warfare situation, and they say everybody evacuate the city," said Caroline Dillon. Mark Dillon was traveling on 9/11 and the anxiety of not being able to reach his family made having a viable disaster plan now a necessity. (CBS2Chicago.com, IL)
The 2002 Post story, written by Guy Gugliotta and Gary Matsumoto, questioned the FBI's theory (which appears to be very similar to today's theory) that a "single disgruntled American scientist prepared the spores and mailed the deadly anthrax letters that killed five people last year." The 2002 piece quoted at least eight scientists or biological warfare "experts" on the record to argue that the anthrax spores used in the postal attacks were of "such sophistication and virulence" that they would... (Slate)
Sorry, but some people's cooking can easily be counted as biological warfare. HOW TO SEND Just ask your overseas soldier for his unit's mailing address. (Up & Coming Magazine, NC)
The company does research on such infectious diseases such as influenza, HIV, hepatitis and various biological warfare agents. A newly-formed sister company, Buckler Biodefense Biotechnology, which focuses on anthrax therapies, will also be housed in the new space. (Buffalo News)
The institute will offer graduate, post graduate and PhD courses to civilians and serving police officers in a range of subjects and pertinent issues like forensic science, biological warfare, criminal psychology, public relations, human rights, insurgency, communal tension and man management. The Union Home Ministry last week took the first step towards setting up the institute, expected to cost around Rs 1,000 crore, by forming a five-member high-power committee headed by BSF Additional... (India Times, India)
But Ishii's account publicly released in June could yield a far larger number and a firmer connection to Unit 731, Japan's dreaded germ and biological warfare outfit. "If the bones are actually there, they are likely related to Unit 731 itself, because the facility that used to stand in that part of the compound was closely linked to the unit," said Keiichi Tsuneishi, Kanagawa University history professor and expert of Japan's wartime biological warfare. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Fort Detrick, where scientists now study defenses against biological agents, was founded in 1943 as Camp Detrick to conduct research on biological warfare. President Richard Nixon ended the nation's offensive biological weapons program in 1969, causing a series of employee layoffs at Fort Detrick in 1969, 1970 and 1972. (Frederick News-Post)
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