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If you want to see some chilling daily "news" each day, check out the online version of the Tehran Times from Iran, www.tehrantimes.com, as it seems to me their propoganda machine is revving up those fanatic Muslims. Here's today's front page "story":

Use of Biological Weapons Against Afghans Possible

TEHRAN TIMES INTL. DESK

TEHRAN Sources in Germany say that the United States is purchasing the components to develop biological and chemical weapons, raising fears of the usage of bio-chemical weapons against Afghans in the current supposed U.S. war against terrorism.

On Tuesday, German Interior Minister Otto Schilly was quoted as saying that Germany exported the weapons' raw materials to the United States. The estimated value of the components was 77 million marks.

In related news, German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping has stated that Germany's biological and chemical weapon production potential is rapidly increasing.

Fear of attacks in Germany has sparked off a run on gas masks in some areas, a military supply shop manager said Tuesday.

Marianne Ohrem of the NATO shop for German Army supplies in the western city of Duesseldorf said that wholesalers have sold out their gas mask inventories due to dramatically increased demand.

"Since the attacks, we have sold nearly 200 gas masks in Duesseldorf alone," she said, adding that sales had previously averaged two per year.

Duesseldorf has a population of 580,000.

Ohrem said that customers cited fear of chemical or biological attacks when buying the protective gear.

But she acknowledged that she could not guarantee that the masks would offer protection from all dangerous substances.

Meanwhile, Australia's leading authority on terrorism said Tuesday that the anthrax attacks now spreading terror through the United States are unlikely to have had anything to do with Osama bin Laden.

Clive Williams, a specialist in terrorism at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, said the evidence points to right-wing U.S. militia.

"I think the first instances of it, the ones involving media, were more likely to have been caused by extremist militia in the U.S. who have shown an interest in anthrax in the past and tried to acquire it," he told AFP.

"The subsequent instances were basically copy-cat episodes by mentally unbalanced people, I believe."

Williams, widely acknowledged as Australia's leading authority on the subject, is preparing a graduate course in terrorism for the ABU's Strategic and Defense Studies Center.

Speaking 24 hours after Australia was plunged into chaos and panic because of a series of hoaxes involving "suspicious" packages of white powder, he said Australia, in reality, is in little danger from bio-terrorist attack.

However, up to 16 buildings were evacuated on Monday because of hoax packages and authorities reported dozens more were received on Tuesday.

He said that the U.S. attacks have involved the use of a form of anthrax readily available to scientists and researchers.

A photo editor died on October 5 from respiratory anthrax at American Media Inc. in Boca Raton, Florida.

Three other people who have since developed the disease were employees of media companies, triggering suspicions of a bio-terrorist campaign.