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Co-defendant: Ga. men accused in plot not violent

(Columbus Ledger Enquirer) A Georgia man who pleaded guilty to federal explosives charges in what prosecutors described as a plot against the government testified in federal court Thursday that two other men accused in the plot aren’t violent. Dan Roberts testified in the trial of Ray Adams and Samuel Crump before U.S. District Judge Richard Read More »

January 16, 2014
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biological Weapons, and Bioterrorism
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U.S. Army tested biological weapons in Okinawa | The Japan Times

January 15, 2014
| Filed under Biological Weapons and International
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U.S. Army tested biological weapons in Okinawa

(The Japan Times) The U.S. Army tested biological weapons in Okinawa in the early 1960s, when the prefecture was still under U.S. rule, according to U.S. documents obtained by Kyodo News. In the tests, conducted at least a dozen times between 1961 and 1962, rice blast fungus was released over paddies to see how it Read More »

January 15, 2014
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Agriculture, Biological Weapons, and International
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Biological weapons experts warn of deteriorating US readiness

(StarsandStripes) A quartet of biological weapons experts painted a chilling picture of a United States unprepared for a biological or chemical weapons attack — and currently squandering the opportunity to do so — before a congressional panel Friday. Testifying before the Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, the four Read More »

October 14, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, and Bioterrorism
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Commentary: Syria’s Real Threat: Biological Weapons

(TheNationalInterest) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has made the fierce debate on intervention in Syria irrelevant with an apparent gaffe suggesting that in order to avoid a strike, Syrian president Bashar al Assad must simply turn over his chemical weapons within a week. Russia, Syria and the United Nations all jumped on this diplomatic Read More »