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U.S. Counterterror Chief: “Dirty Bomb” as Much a Risk as Biological Weapon

A senior U.S. counterterrorism official said yesterday the risk of an attack against the nation using a “dirty bomb” might be as high as that of a potential terror strike involving a biological weapon. Police officers wearing hazard materials protection suits secure an area during a 2004 exercise simulating a radiological “dirty bomb” strike at Read More »

February 11, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and Countermeasures
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Wikileaks Reveals Biological, Chemical Weapons Existed in Iraq

The release by Julian Assange’s web site Wikileaks of classified documents reveals that U.S. military intelligence discovered chemical weapons labs, encountered insurgents who were specialists in the creation of toxins, and uncovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

December 9, 2010
| Filed under Middle East and Biological Weapons
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Indian Doctors to Train for WMD Response

Indian medical workers are to receive training from the government’s Defense Research and Development Organization on responding to a WMD attack, the Indian Express reported yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 4). The DRDO Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences is expanding its training efforts on dealing with chemical, biological, nuclear or radiological weapons strikes to Read More »

November 23, 2010
| Filed under South Asia, Biological Weapons, and Countermeasures
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Egyptian Leader Asserted Iraq had Bioweapons, Bush Memoir Says

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak privately asserted prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that the regime of then-dictator Saddam Hussein held biological weapons, former President Bush said in his memoir published this week (see GSN, Nov. 4). (Nov. 12) – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, shown in September, asserted before the Hussein regime was toppled Read More »

November 12, 2010
| Filed under Middle East, North America, and Biological Weapons
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NATO Experts Discuss WMD Terror Countermeasures

NATO this week hosted discussions by roughly 50 experts on preparations for dealing with terrorist attacks involving chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons (see GSN, Aug. 5). The three-day session that began Tuesday in the Czech city of Brno offered participants the opportunity to exchange knowledge on WMD “resources” available to extremists and on equipment Read More »