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Moroccan Officials Tour Ft. Detrick To Improve CBRN Defenses

Lt. Col. Mohamed El Haouri and Capt. Jalal Kasouati, two Moroccan military medical officers, were recently given a familiarization visit to Fort Detrick, Maryland and multiple other facilities in the area between November 14 and 19.

Bioweapons Pact Members to Discuss Attack Response

Signatories to the Biological Weapons Convention are set to meet next week in Geneva, Switzerland, for an annual meeting expected to focus on providing aid and coordinating with outside agencies in the event of a biological weapons incident, according to a United Nations press release (see GSN, Nov. 29). During the five-day gathering, BWC member  Read More »

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 »

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 »

Notification of Single Source Cooperative Agreement Award for the World Health Organization (WHO)

Notification of Single Source Cooperative Agreement Award for the World Health Organization (WHO)

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