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Pakistani Lab Could Take Another Look at Anthrax Package

(Global Security Newswire) Pakistani authorities want another examination of a package mailed to the nation’s prime minister that initial laboratory analysis said contained anthrax. That finding appears in doubt, the Islamabad Dateline newspaper reported on Friday. A parcel purportedly containing anthrax spores was earlier reported to have been sent to Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Read More »

February 7, 2012
| Filed under South Asia, Agents & Toxins, and Bioterrorism
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Indian Crisis Teams to Receive WMD Response Training

(Global Security Newswire) Crisis management teams throughout India are to receive training in handling a disaster involving chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear materials, the Times of India reported on Monday. National Disaster Management Authority Vice President M. Shashidhar Reddy said a training facility is to be set up in Nagpur and property has also been Read More »

February 7, 2012
| Filed under South Asia, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Pakistani Officials Send Mixed Signals on Identity of Anthrax Mailer

(Global Security Newswire) Pakistani officials have issued conflicting statements on the identity of the individual who mailed anthrax spores to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in October, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Government spokesman Akram Shaheedi said security officials have singled out a Jamshoro University associate professor, identified only as Ms. Zulekha, as Read More »

February 3, 2012
| Filed under South Asia and Bioterrorism
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Illinois partnership targets agro-terrorism

(CattleNetwork.com) The threat of agro-terrorism is real, and a partnership between Illinois agriculture organizations and law enforcement agencies hopes to protect Illinois farms, consumers and food systems from those threats. This partnership, called the Illinois …

February 2, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, Bioterrorism, and Countermeasures
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Pakistan Says Anthrax Sent to Premier’s Office

(New York Times) ISLAMABAD — A university professor sent a packet containing anthrax to the office of Pakistan’s prime minister in October last year, his spokesman said Wednesday, an attack with an unclear background in a country hosting extremists and battling them at the same time. No one was made ill by the toxin sent Read More »