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“Curveball” Reaffirms Lying on Iraqi WMD

The Iraqi defector once known as "Curveball" has reaffirmed a prior admission that his assertions on prewar Iraq's WMD capabilities were fabrications aimed at toppling Saddam Hussein's regime, the London Independent reported on Sunday (see GSN, Feb. 17, 2011). Rafid Ahmed Alwan's now-discredited charges that Iraq possessed mobile biological weapons laboratories and secret production sites  Read More »

US bioethics panel approves bird flu studies

(BBC News) A US panel has approved the publication of two controversial H5N1 bird flu studies, after they were revised. The studies, funded by the US government, created strains of the virus that spread easily among ferrets. The US National Security Advisory …

Fort Detrick Faces Shutdown: Report

(Global Security Newswire) Fort Detrick in Maryland, home to key federal biodefense facilities, is one of four U.S. armed forces installations under the highest consideration for potential shutdown in three to 13 years, Kiplinger earlier this month quoted informed legislative insiders and independent defense analysts as saying. The United States has ended operations at 130  Read More »

U.S. to Scrutinize More Weapon-Sensitive Biological Studies

(Global Security Newswire) The United States is set under rules unveiled on Thursday to methodically assess possible threats linked to U.S.-financed research incorporating any of 15 “high consequence” biological agents and substances, Science magazine reported. The plan would expand an existing mechanism under which the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control  Read More »

US biosecurity board revises stance on mutant-flu studies

(Nature.com) Today, after a two-day meeting, the board decided to revise its earlier decision. The NSABB unanimously recommended full publication of one of the two disputed papers, a manuscript submitted to Nature by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his colleagues. “We at Nature are delighted,” said editor-in-chief Philip Campbell. “Subject to  Read More »

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