Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2281-1001300370-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:02:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19632 invoked by uid 510); 24 Sep 2001 03:00:33 -0000 Received: from n18.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.68) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 24 Sep 2001 03:00:33 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2281-1001300370-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.223] by mr.egroups.com with NNFMP; 24 Sep 2001 02:59:58 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 24 Sep 2001 02:59:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 54777 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2001 02:59:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by 10.1.1.223 with QMQP; 24 Sep 2001 02:59:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta2 with SMTP; 24 Sep 2001 02:59:58 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id TAA21062 for iwar@onelist.com; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:59:57 -0700 Message-Id: <200109240259.TAA21062@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:The.Danger.of.Biological.War] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Danger of Biological War By James P. Lucier INSIGHT on the NEWS Russia has enough anthrax to kill the world's population four times over. Iraq stockpiles weaponized neurotoxins. Can homeland defense hold up against these weapons? It was a low-tech attack with box-cutters and plastic knives. But suppose it had been a low-tech attack with even more murdered across a broader territory? In the weeks before the airline disasters, Washington officials were thinking a lot about that. But they were not thinking nuclear — they've been thinking biological. Since Sept. 11, they've been thinking about it even more intensely. Among the workers immediately sorting through the rubble were biohazard specialists, alerted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, quietly taking samples to see if biological agents had been secreted in the baggage of the terrorists. More disturbing still was a report by Bill Gertz of the Washington Times that Mohammed Atta, one of the dead terrorists, had been seen a year ago in talks with a high-level Iraqi intelligence official. Specialists long have known that Iraq possesses chemical and biological weapons, although U.N. inspectors in postwar Iraq, buffaloed by Saddam Hussein's game of three-card monte, did not find any. Intelligence sources tell Insight that Saddam simply hired scientists from the Russian biological-weapons complex called Biopreparat. FULL STORY: <a href="http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200110153.shtml">http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200110153.shtml> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Pinpoint the right security solution for your company- Learn how to add 128- bit encryption and to authenticate your web site with VeriSign's FREE guide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/JNm9_D/33_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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