Troopers search for underwater bombs
Saturday, July 10, 2004
BY RON MARSICO
Star-Ledger Staff
Trolling the murky channel off Bayonne yesterday, a New Jersey State Police patrol boat pulled a yellow torpedo-shaped sonar unit for the agency's latest mission: Searching for underwater explosives.
Members of the State Police diving team were poised to jump into the uninviting Port Jersey Channel's waters, but were spared when the sonar's chart signaled nothing more than the expected bulkheads and pilings along the city's former military ocean terminal.
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Polio 'easy' to make; U.S. study created virus from scratch
IAN MACLEOD
CanWest News Service
Sunday, July 11, 2004
Bioterrorists using commercially available technology and materials could, with relative ease, make a synthesized version of the polio virus, the Canadian military has warned.
"There are concerns that terrorists can now create viruses," says a military intelligence assessment obtained by Ottawa researcher Ken Rubin through the Access to Information Act.
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