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Series of EmergencyNet News Reports Concerning the Threat of Usage of Shoulder-fired Anti-aircraft Missiles: 31 May 2002 to 01 June 2002 From: ERRI DAILY INTELLIGENCE REPORT-ERRI Risk Assessment Services-Saturday, June 1, 2002-Vol. 8 - 152U.S. COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATIONS:U.S. Forces Capture Cache Of Portable Missiles In AfghanistanAFGHANISTAN: The Washington Times was reporting on Saturday that U.S. military forces in Afghanistan confiscated a cache of 30 anti-aircraft missiles as a new general took control of the U.S.- led campaign there. A Pentagon official said that the missiles were described as a Chinese-made version of the SA-7 surface-to-air missile. Disclosure of the missile...

Two Big Arms Caches Found in Afghanistan - Pentagon Tue May 14, 3:55 PM ET By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has found two huge al Qaeda and Taliban arms caches in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and is moving to reorganize its operations in that unsettled country under the commander of the elite 18th Airborne Corps, the Pentagon (news - web sites) said on Tuesday. Five T-54 tanks and more than 15,000 mortar rounds, 800,000 50-caliber machine gun bullets and 600 rocket-propelled grenades were found over the weekend near Herat in northwestern Afghanistan and Orgun in...

Radioactive cache found in Kabul UK troops in Kabul have discovered a cache of radioactive equipment, capable of making nuclear weapons, that had been kept hidden from al-Qaida. The soldiers were said to be "astounded" by what they found in the basement of Kabul University and the ruins of a mental hospital, after being led to it by two nuclear physicists. It included a broken radiotherapy machine, containing enough cobalt 60 to kill a man instantly. not for commercial use