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Swedish Military Cited as Unable to Defend Against WMD Strikes

(Global Security Newswire) The Swedish military lacks the ability to protect the country's populace from chemical, biological or radiological attacks, among other threats, The Local on Monday cited issue specialists as saying. “The Swedish armed forces could not be deployed if the situation would require it,” ex-Swedish Defense Research Agency analyst Johan Tunberger said in an Read More »

May 1, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Biological Weapons, and Policy & Initiatives
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Illnesses Prompt Fears of Anthrax Strike at British Army Facility

(Global Security Newswire) Several personnel at the British army’s primary intelligence site showed significant symptoms of illness on March 30, raising later-disproven suspicions that an anthrax attack had occurred and bringing attention to the site’s vulnerability to a biological or chemical strike, the London Daily Star reported on Sunday. The incident forced workers to vacate Read More »

May 1, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Biological Weapons, and Bioterrorism
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Bioweapons Bill with AG by year-end

(The Sun Daily) KUALA LUMPUR – The proposed Bioweapons Bill, which is aimed at safeguarding the country against germ and chemical warfare, will be presented to the Attorney-General’s Chambers by year-end. The bill, which has already been drafted, will be hashed out in a Defence Ministry briefing next Tuesday. “We will be going into the Read More »

April 25, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Biological Weapons, and Policy & Initiatives
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The trouble with American military laboratories

(Democracy & Freedom Watch) TBILISI – A new U.S. financed biological laboratory opened in March 2011 near Tbilisi. It will have American military researchers working there. Is it a problem? According to the website of the Central Public Health Reference Laboratory, it “will belong to an international network of infectious disease surveillance laboratories whose mission Read More »

April 19, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, Biological Weapons, Biosafety, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Syria’s WMD Threat

(The National Interest Online) Reports differ as to Syria’s biological-warfare capability. German and Israeli sources believe it possesses bacillus anthracis (which causes anthrax), botulinum toxin and ricin. American sources believe the capability is “probable.” In 1972, Syria signed the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, but it has never ratified it. The international community seems prepared Read More »