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Immediately following 9-11, an anthrax attack originating from letters containing anthrax spores infected 22 people, killing five.  After almost six years, the case has not been solved.  Intelligence analysts and academics report that North Korea has developed anthrax, plague, and botulism toxin and conducted extensive research on smallpox, typhoid and cholera.  A world-renowned bioweapons expert has confirmed that Syria has weapons grade smallpox resistant to all current vaccines developed under the cover of legitimate veterinary research  on camelpox, a very closely related virus.  The researcher further reports that Syria is suspected of testing the pathogen on prison populations and possibly...

A former United Nations official who worked in Iraq says he does not believe it possesses weapons of mass destruction. The official, Denis Halliday, was the UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Iraq in 1997-98. Mr Halliday said he thought a US attack on Iraq was likely later this year, and people there were deeply concerned. Any attack could mean appalling losses of Iraqi civilians and US troops. Mr Halliday worked for the UN for 34 years, and was an assistant secretary-general when he was sent to Baghdad. But he resigned from the UN to have the freedom to criticise the international...