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IRAQIS DISPLAY DRONE AND SOME SURPRISE
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BAGHDAD - Seeking to dispute US claims that the discovery of an
Iraqi drone constituted proof that Baghdad has been hiding secret
weapons programs, Iraqi officials yesterday showed reporters a
prototype of the unmanned aircraft.
Duct tape reinforced by aluminum foil held together the black and
white drone's balsa wood wings. The wooden propellers and tiny
engines were fastened to a well-worn fuselage, fashioned from the
fuel tank of a larger aircraft. The words "God is Great" were hand...
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Iraqis escort journalists on tour of biological weapons plant; Visit: The Iraqis try to disprove claims it is producing weapons of mass destruction
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A top Iraqi official took journalists Tuesday to a site near Baghdad that Iraqis maintain is a food warehouse but U.S. officials suspect is a biological weapons facility. It was the second tour this month of a suspected weapons site, part of stepped up Iraqi efforts to convince
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LEASHING THE DOGS OF WAR.(chemical and biological weapons)
World and I
; The vast technological advances of the twentieth century have certainly aided and improved human life enormously, but they have also come with a terrible downside--war has become much more horrible and devastating. Whereas in previous centuries wars were fought with clubs, spears, swords, arrows,
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The problem of biological weapons.(book review)(Book review)
Chemistry and Industry
; The problem of biological weapons Milton Leitenberg Imagine a weapon that spreads invisibly, cannot be seen, cannot easily be detected, and kills everyone who breathes in even the tiniest amount. Add to that something that spreads like wildfire, for which there is no prevention, no treatment and no
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THE NEW NEW TERRORISM BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS: AVOIDING THE NEXT, WORST THREAT
The Boston Globe
; The unprecedented magnitude of the terrorist assault on the United States - the hijackers' use of fully fueled, 400,000-pound planes as bombs, the murder of more than 6,000 people, almost all civilians, the invasion of the nation's economic and political capitals - has brought home American
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 "The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News Network)")
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Unresolved Problems: Russia's Biological Weapons Program
The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News Network)
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Chemical and biological weapons: prospects and priorities after September 11.
Brookings Review
; Before the terrorist assaults of September 11 and the anthrax letter attacks that followed, U.S. officials often drew a distinction between the threat posed by national chemical and biological weapons programs and the threat posed by terrorists using chemical and biological weapons. The two threats
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Scientists' warning on biological weapons
The Independent - London
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