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Exclusive footage obtained by Sky News reveals IS terrorists have the technical know-how to reactivate surface-to-air missiles. The former head of the RAF has said evidence uncovered by Sky News of Islamic State recommissioning surface-to-air missiles is of great concern and that passenger planes would be an easy target. Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon was responding to exclusive footage which revealed the extremists were able to produce homemade thermal batteries for heat-seeking missiles - a feat that has eluded terror groups until now. It raises the possibility of the militants being able to reactivate discarded stockpiles of older missiles,...

This is very bad news. This is what awaits you. From a "jihadi university" in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the scientists have stunned western weapons experts by producing a homemade thermal battery for surface-to-air missiles. The Islamic State can now recommission thousands of missiles IS Bomb Skills 'Truly The Stuff Of Nightmares' A former Special Forces bomb technician tells Sky News the new footage shows IS are leagues ahead of their terrorist predecessors….. more. The trademark flag-waving masked gunmen I'd expected to see were replaced with clean-shaven, technically adept and highly trained weapons specialists giving expert tuition in how...

Baghdad,11/25/04 - Reuters,etc. Iraqi Minister of State Kassim Daoud says a chemical weapons lab has been found in Fallujah." Soldiers from the Iraqi National Guard found a laboratory that was used to prepare deadly explosives and poisons," the Minister told a press conference. "They also found in the lab booklets and instructions on how to make bombs and poisons.They even talked about the production of anthrax." Yesterday,US Marines in Fallujah reported the discovery of a banner used by Abu Musab Zarqawi in a chemical laboratory/workshop in Fallujah,but said there was no indication this lab was being used to prepare chemical...

Russia Dismisses U.S. Weapons Lab Proof Claim MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia dismissed Monday U.S. efforts to present its discovery of a mobile laboratory as an example of Iraq's banned weapons program, saying only U.N. scientists could officially certify weapons as illegal. President Bush, at a joint news conference with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, said Sunday that the truck, which Washington says could be used to make biological weapons, was part of a "weapons system." Washington used Iraq's supposed weapons program as justification for its invasion of the country, but has since failed to find any nuclear, biological or chemical arms....

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A retired FBI (news - web sites) intelligence expert linked to a spy scandal colored by sex and betrayal has resigned as the top security official at a nuclear research lab as officials there review his work for possible security breaches, an official said on Friday, The resignation follows the arrest on Wednesday of Chinese-American Katrina Leung, charged with serving as a double agent who passed classified national security information to China obtained during a secret 20-year love affair with her FBI handler, James Smith. Court papers refer to a third person, a former San Francisco-based...