From your post of the announcement from the State Dept:
While conventional weapons such as explosive devices are a more immediate threat in many areas, use of non-conventional weapons, including chemical or biological agents must be considered a possible threat.
Well now...
This seems like a vital piece of information. A year or two ago they might have raised the alert for something like this. Now we have to dig to find it.
It's about time the State Department "got real."