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  • Iraq could use human germ carriers against West: defector

    09/20/2002 7:20:00 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 11 replies · 382+ views
    Agence France-Presse | September 20, 2002
    WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (AFP) - Iraq could unleash a biological attack on the West by using unsuspecting people traveling abroad as carriers of deadly germs, a prominent Iraqi defector warned late Thursday. Nuclear scientist Khidhir Hamza, who left Iraq in 1994 and now lives in the United States, told the US Congress he suspected the Iraqi security service, which runs the country's biological weapons program, had already used people traveling abroad to reunite with relatives to infect exiled dissidents with the deadly AIDS virus. "An angle rarely reported -- and I found extensive incidents regarding it when I left...
  • A force to be reckoned with (Egyptian Air Force)

    08/09/2010 7:02:30 AM PDT · by sukhoi-30mki · 17 replies
    Arabian Aerospace ^ | 9 August 2010
    A force to be reckoned with Posted on 9 August 2010 in Defence The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) or Al Quwwat Al Jawwiya Il Misriya, is one of the largest air arms in the region and is also one of the longest established. Formed in 1930 as the Egyptian Army Air Force, it became fully independent in 1937. Initially it had close links with the British Royal Air Force and was primarily equipped with British-supplied aircraft. Spitfires gave way to Meteors and Vampires before the 1952 revolution, after which the new president, General Gamal Abdel Nasser, turned to the Soviet...
  • Cruise Missile Pretenders

    06/30/2010 1:39:43 AM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 10 replies · 1+ views
    The Strategy Page ^ | 6/29/2010 | The Strategy Page
    An American amphibious ship, the USS Bonhomme Richard, has left California carrying two 1960s Czech jet trainers on its flight deck. These L-29s are 3.2 ton aircraft, rebuilt with American engines. The two L-29s will be used to simulate air-launched cruise missiles attacking American ships. While the original L-29s had a top speed of 655 kilometers an hour, the rebuilt ones with more powerful. J-60 engines, can moves as fast as 800 kilometers an hour. While the L-29s, which are supplied by a civilian contractor, are adequate for simulating the more numerous subsonic Chinese anti-ship missiles, they are obviously not...
  • Flashback to 2/26/1998: Iraq working on unmanned planes (to deliver anthrax)

    02/27/2008 3:23:25 PM PST · by faq · 9 replies · 72+ views
    CNN ^ | February 26, 1998 | CNN
    WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Iraqi is attempting to develop an unmanned aircraft capable of delivering chemical or biological agents, according to a U.S. intelligence report. ... An intelligence official told The Associated Press, on condition of anonymity, that Iraq was trying to convert an L-29 trainer jet into an unmanned delivery system for nerve gas or the biological agent anthrax. ... According to a report Wednesday on "The CBS Evening News," Iraq previously admitted that before the Gulf War it mounted a crash program to convert a MiG 21 that could carry chemical or biological agents in fuel tanks under its...