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'Lady Al Qaeda' the woman Texas synagogue hostage-taker wants freed: She planned chemical attacks on Empire State Building and Brooklyn Bridge and demanded juror at her trial be DNA tested to see if they were Jewish

A leading weapons academic has claimed that the Khan Sheikhoun nerve agent attack in Syria was staged, raising questions about who was responsible. Theodore Postol, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), issued a series of three reports in response to the White House's finding that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad perpetrated the attack on 4 April. He concluded that the US government's report does not provide any "concrete" evidence that Assad was responsible, adding it was more likely that the attack was perpetrated by players on the ground. Postol said: "I have reviewed the [White House's] document...

Before the Senate Offices, Ricin-Laced Letter Was Also Sent to White House Feb. 3 — As federal investigators try to trace the origin of suspected ricin found Monday in the office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, ABCNEWS has learned of an earlier, undisclosed incident in which a ricin-laced letter was intercepted on its way to the White House. In November, a letter postmarked Chattanooga, Tenn., and addressed to the White House was intercepted at an off-site mail sorting facility in the Washington area, sources told ABCNEWS. The powdery substance in the letter tested positive for ricin. However, the tests...

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a380199044cff.htm Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. 'USFK Setting Up Germ Detection Equipment' Korea Times October 4, 1999, Monday The U.S. forces stationed in Korea has begun to set up germ detection equipment in major military bases like Pyongtaek, for instance, in preprations for possible bacteriological and chemical attacks from North Korea. The USFK has been installing anti-germ warfare facilities called potal shield' beginning this May against possible North Korean offensives using bio-weapons,'' said Rep. Kim Deok of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP). During an National Assembly inspection...

Berlin (CNSNews.com) - Adding another sticking point to strained relations with the United States, Germany says its troops will not come to the rescue of American soldiers if they invade Iraq and face a chemical or biological attack there. German defense minister Peter Struck said Friday that his forces will only defend and assist American soldiers and civilians based in Kuwait, where some German troops are currently stationed. German soldiers in Kuwait possess equipment to detect contamination by biological and chemical weapons. But if the attack takes place in Iraq, German troops will not go forward to assist U.S....

<p>WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Anti-terror police say there's been a threat made against the America's Cup sailing competition.</p> <p>They went public after postal workers in New Zealand seized letters containing cyanide crystals and white powder.</p> <p>The letters were addressed to the U.S. Embassy and British and Australian High Commissions in the capital, Wellington.</p>

Washington Legal Foundation Legal Backgrounder Vol. 17 No. 33 August 23, 2002 CHEMICAL RISK DATA REMAINS DANGEROUSLY AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC by Emily Cochran Emily Cochran is the Institute for Humane Studies Fellow at the Washington Legal Foundation In June Greenpeace put a color map on the Internet illustrating how a terrorist attack on a New Jersey bleach plant could blanket New York City with a toxic cloud of chlorine, threatening the lives and lungs of millions of people. To celebrate this website addition to their dozens of other maps of Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans, the group sponsored a “Run...