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Obama amputates our nuclear arms By: Charles Krauthammer ...snippet...Under President Obama’s new policy, however, if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is “in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” explained Gates, then “the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it.” Imagine the scenario: Hundreds of thousands are lying dead in the streets of Boston after a massive anthrax or nerve gas attack. The president immediately calls in the lawyers to determine whether the attacking state is in compliance with the NPT. If it turns out that the attacker...

Note: The following text is a quote: Grand Jury Indicts Two Men for Mailing Hoax Anthrax Letters BIRMINGHAM—A federal grand jury today indicted two men in connection with a series of hoax anthrax letters that were mailed in Alabama this month and in March, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, U.S. Postal Inspector Frank Dyer and Federal Protective Service Threat Management Branch Chief Curtis Huston announced. The first 15 counts of the 24-count indictment charge CLIFTON LAMAR “CLIFF” DODD, 38, of Lincoln, with mailing 15 hoax letters between March 6 and April 5 that contained a threat in the form of...

Investigators are trying to determine who sent a suspicious letter to a Boca Raton publishing company that was targeted in 2001 in a deadly anthrax attack. Friday the offices of American Media Inc., which publishes the National Inquirer, the Sun, Star magazine and other grocery store tabloids, were evacuated for about 45 minutes after a letter containing a white powder arrived at the company. Police were able to determine the powder was harmless. Sun photo editor Bob Stevens, 63, died in October 2001 was the first fatality from the anthrax attacks that killed four others and harmed 17 from Florida...

CALGARY -- On the same day that Mexican president Vicente Fox visited the campus, more than 600 people were evacuated from the University of Calgary's Sciences building when staff found two envelopes containing a suspicious-looking powder. The powder turned out to be harmless. Fire, EMS, and police personnel cordoned off the facility at about 11:30 a.m. yesterday after a male professor opened one of the letters and subsequently complained of feeling sick, said fire department spokesman John Conley. The man, reportedly in his 50s, and a woman in her mid-20s who was also complaining of nausea, were taken to hospital...

Collegian held after mail scare Notes claimed anthrax sent at Dickinson Thursday, November 01, 2001 By Elizabeth Gibson Of Our Carlisle Bureau CARLISLE (PA) -- A Dickinson College senior has been charged with carrying out an anthrax scare that caused college students and staff to believe the bacteria was sent through the campus mail. Police arrested Andrew James Theodorakis, 21, of Stoney Brook, N.Y., yesterday morning and charged him with making terroristic threats and causing a catastrophe, among other counts. He was in Cumberland County Prison last night in lieu of $250,000 bail. "It's a great disappointment for other members ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. postal worker in Virginia was arrested and charged with sending an anthrax hoax letter and tampering with U.S. mail, authorities said on Thursday. Sharon Watson, an employee at the Falmouth Post Office in Virginia, was charged in a criminal complaint with knowingly mailing threatening communications and with unlawful delay or destruction of mail. The violations can carry penalties of a maximum of 20 years in prison. Four people, including two postal workers, have died from inhaling anthrax spores over the past month and a total of 16 people have been infected with the bacterial ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Two state workers were fired Monday over a 2001 anthrax hoax that forced the evacuation of more than 800 employees from an office building. Joseph Faryniarz and David Sattler were dismissed by Connecticut's Department of Environmental Protection for engaging in an activity which is "detrimental to the best interests of the agency or the state," said commissioner Arthur Rocque. Faryniarz was convicted last December of lying to federal agents about the source of a white powder found on his desk next to a piece of paper marked with the misspelled word "anthax" on Oct. 11, 2001....

Envelopes with white powder determined to be hoaxes, officials said By Dave Birkland Seattle Times staff reporter Envelopes containing white powder, some containing anti-war messages, were found at six locations in West Seattle this morning, and all were quickly determined to be hoaxes, officials said. At mid-morning, no one had taken responsibility, nor were there any suspects, according to Seattle police, whose bomb squad responded to the sites. All six appeared to be linked. The white powder on each was determined to be wheat flour, according to Helen Fitzpatrick. It started about 7 a.m., when an employee at the West...

A Chicago woman who had an anthrax hoax letter mailed to a Houston woman was sentenced Friday to six months in federal prison. Robin Lynette Butler, 28, pleaded guilty in June to mailing threatening communications. In November, she mailed an envelope with white powder and a note saying "Anthrax kills b----, to a friend in Virginia. Butler asked the unsuspecting friend to forward the letter to a Houston woman dating her ex-boyfriend, said prosecutor Abe Martinez. Butler told the friend the envelope contained money for the Houston woman, who would not accept money from her. Butler apologized in court Friday...

Article details the race-based corruption of the Philadelphia Police Department, where incompetent and even dangerous candidates are hired, based on the color of their skin, and who as police officers go on to shoot children, engineer anthrax hoaxes, and otherwise engage in criminal acts.

<p>A Point Breeze woman who sent a fake anthrax letter to her husband's office as a Halloween joke last year was sentenced in federal court Thursday to one day in jail and fined $5,000.</p> <p>U.S. District Judge Gary L. Lancaster admonished Jaime Lynn Reaser, 32, before handing down the sentence, which also included 100 hours of community service and three years probation.</p>