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Tests being developed to aid ricin, toxin investigations

(SpokesmanReview) As federal prosecutors build a case against a Spokane man charged with sending ricin-laced letters to the president, the CIA, a federal judge and Fairchild Air Force Base, one of the legal challenges they’ll face is proving that the substance is indeed ricin, a lethal poison derived from ground seeds of the castor plant.  Read More »

US, S. Korea holding joint bioterrorism exercise

(StarsAndStripes) U.S. and South Korean officials will hold their third annual joint anti-bioterrorism exercise this week in Seoul, a sprawling mega-city of more than 10 million residents that some fear could someday become a target of an attack. “Seoul is the capital of South Korea, and there are so many people in this city, so  Read More »

Hearing set for ricin-laced letters suspect

(DenverPost) Federal authorities don’t want bond set for a Texas woman accused of mailing ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama threatening violence against gun-control advocates. Shannon Richardson’s detention hearing is set for Thursday in Texarkana. She’s been in custody since her June 7 arrest. Authorities say the 35-year-old pregnant actress sent the letters to Obama  Read More »

A Biological Threat Prevention Strategy: Complicating Adversary Acquisition and Misuse of Biological Agents

(CSIS) The risk of a biological attack is ever present. The relevant knowledge and material are becoming more widely available because of the global dispersion and rapid advances of technology, combined with its inherent dual-use nature. While technical challenges remain to a successful large-scale, high-impact biological attack, such an attack could kill tens of thousands  Read More »

BioWatch’s chief aim is off-target, U.S. security officials say

(LATimes) Homeland Security Department planners have privately rejected a central premise of BioWatch, the nation’s decade-old system for detecting biological weapons released into the air, according to government documents and testimony Tuesday at a congressional hearing. Although BioWatch was designed with the belief that hostile foreign governments could sponsor large-scale germ attacks on American cities,  Read More »

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