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Romania sends anti-biowarfare specialists to Gulf BUCHAREST, April 4 (Reuters) - Romania said on Friday it sent an unspecified number of troops trained in responding to chemical, nuclear and biological attack to Kuwait following a request from U.S.-led forces fighting the war in Iraq. Romania has offered a total of 278 non-combat troops and technical help to Washington, similar to offers made by other ex-communist states grateful for U.S. support during the years of Soviet domination and for backing their efforts to join NATO. "A section of the non-combat troops took off early on Friday aboard American planes from Timisoara...

SARGAT, Iraq, April 4 — MSNBC.com tests reveal evidence of the deadly toxins ricin and botulinum at a laboratory in a remote mountain region of northern Iraq allegedly used as a terrorist training camp by Islamic militants with ties to the al-Qaida terrorist network. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is conducting its own tests at the same area, but has not yet released the results, according to officials in northern Iraq. Excerpted. Full article here: http://www.msnbc.com/news/895185.asp

March 29, 2003 Exclude More From Smallpox Vaccinations, U.S. Is UrgedBy DENISE GRADY hree days after the government suspended smallpox vaccinations for people known to have heart disease, a panel of medical advisers recommended yesterday that people who have three or more major risk factors for cardiac disease — like smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol — also be excluded. The initial suspension was announced on Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which had received reports that seven health care workers had developed cardiac problems after being voluntarily vaccinated as part of the government's program...

The woman who U.S. intelligence officials say is a top Iraqi biological weapons scientist is a University of Missouri-Columbia alumna who was once issued a summons by campus police for disturbing a speech about Iraq and Iran. AP photo U.S. Intelligence officials believe this image taken from a video on Iraqi television yesterday shows Huda Salih Mahdi Amash, one of Saddam Hussein's top biological weapons scientists. Amash received her doctorate in 1983 from the University of Missouri- Columbia. Seated next to Amash is Sad-dam's son, Qusai. Huda Amash received her doctorate from the MU microbiology area program in 1983, according...

<p>March 28, 2003 -- Intelligence officials are puzzling over a top Iraqi biowar expert's TV appearance yesterday with Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>Dr. Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash showed up on Iraqi TV videotape of a meeting with Saddam. Also on the tape was Qusay Hussein, Saddam's younger son and probable successor.</p>

In a chilling signal to the Allies, the woman who runs Iraq's chemical warfare programme has been shown on TV at Saddam Hussein's war cabinet. Scientist Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, known as Mrs Anthrax to Western intelligence, was sitting next to Saddam Hussein's son Qusay. The pictures, broadcast by Iraqi television, send a clear message to the West and increase fears that the Iraqi dictator is on the brink of using his weapons of mass destruction. The woman is the key figure behind Iraq's illegal weapons programme and helped rebuild his biological capibility after the Gulf war in 1991. But...

December 3, 2002 C.I.A. Hunts Iraq Tie to Soviet SmallpoxBy JUDITH MILLER he C.I.A. is investigating an informant's accusation that Iraq obtained a particularly virulent strain of smallpox from a Russian scientist who worked in a smallpox lab in Moscow during Soviet times, senior American officials and foreign scientists say. The officials said several American scientists were told in August that Iraq might have obtained the mysterious strain from Nelja N. Maltseva, a virologist who worked for more than 30 years at the Research Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow before her death two years ago. The information came to...

Some of the Iraqi scientists and military men involved in Iraq's weapons programs: -Dr. Rihab Taha, a microbiologist who was in charge of the country's secret biological laboratory which weaponized anthrax. She was nicknamed "Dr. Germ," by inspectors. -Jaffar al-Jaffar, considered the reluctant father of Iraq's nuclear weapons program. He was jailed and tortured until he agreed in the 1980s to head the program. -Hazem Ali, a virologist who may have knowledge of attempts to develop small pox or other lethal viruses. -Mahdi Obeidi, a nuclear physicist who was involved in constructing gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment....

<p>ATLANTA, Mar. 13 - The director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the doctor who led the worldwide effort to eradicate smallpox were vaccinated Wednesday.</p> <p>CDC officials said Julie Gerberding wanted to be vaccinated in case she was needed in an emergency.</p>

Here is at least one poet whose words have had an effect on the war effort - Shakespeare. Not only did he aptly describe all of the conflict's major players, but his line from Henry IV about discretion being the better part of valor has been taken to heart by the healthcare professionals responsible for the pre-attack smallpox vaccination program - both those called to implement it and those called to receive it. The plan was to have 500,000 health care workers immunized against the disease, the better to care for victims of a possible attack. By the end of...

Federal health officials said last night that they are investigating whether the death of a Maryland hospital worker was related to the smallpox inoculation she received this month. Authorities also are investigating a second case in which a recently vaccinated woman, from an unidentified location, suffered a heart attack and is now on life support. Historically, the smallpox vaccine has not been associated with heart failure, but officials said several recent heart attacks in people who have been immunized have prompted them to change their vaccination guidelines. For now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that...

White Powder found in envelope in Senator Saxby Chambliss Office. Cobb County Georgia. HAZMAT is on scene. Per AM640 in Atlanta.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda is close to being able to produce anthrax and other biological and chemical weapons, according to evidence recently seized by the U.S. government, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al Qaeda network has assembled the material necessary to make the biological toxins botulinum and salmonella as well as the poison cyanide, the Post said. The group is also nearly able to produce anthrax, which is far more deadly than the other agents, the newspaper said, citing three sources with access to written reports describing the capabilities. The report...

Al Qaeda leaders, long known to covet biological and chemical weapons, have reached at least the threshold of production and may already have manufactured some of them, according to a newly obtained cache of documentary evidence and interrogations recently conducted by the U.S. government. Three people with access to written reports said the emerging picture depicts the al Qaeda biochemical weapons program as considerably more advanced than U.S. analysts knew. The picture continues to sharpen daily, one official said, because translation and analysis of the documents continues, and because the operative captured with them began divulging meaningful information about production...

Breaking: Bob Arnot of NBC News reports coalition forces have captured an Iraqi soldier who was found to have an envelope with a suspicious powder, presumably anthrax, and instructions on how to kill coalition soldiers using it. Arnot is stationed with the medivac units supporting coalition forces.

aplist-post@MyInJesus.com concern for Intercessors to consider Meri Burlingame Mar 21, 2003 Dear AP Subscribers and Intercessors: This post was in my mail box this morning and comes from an US prophetess who is generally known and well respected throughout the international community. Her words are birthed through much prayer and consideration and there is absolutely no reason for me to question the possible truth of what this sister in the Lord is sharing. She did NOT asked me to not include her name, but I have chosen to not include her name so that you will not use that to...

<p>March 22, 2003 -- Officials in the United States and Mexico are frantically searching for six Iraqi nationals suspected of possessing dangerous "toxic materials," it was reported yesterday.</p> <p>The men are believed to be at large in the southern U.S. or northern Mexico, a Homeland Security official told Fox News Channel.</p>

We've been told for weeks, months, years, by the Janeane Garofalo crowd that taking ANY military action against tyrants and terrorists would just lead to more and angrier Islamists who attacking us almost instantaneously, leading us into a downward spiral that will end only with the downfall of civilization itself.Well, the war's a few days old now. I have one simple question: Where are the terrorist attacks against the US?Come on socialists. Come on Bush-haters. Come on America-haters. Please show me where they are. I can't find them!

Carl Cameron on now.