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Israel warns of mega attack on New Year's Eve... -- Israel warns of major 'non-conventional' attack Israeli intelligence officials say militant groups are planning a major "non-conventional" attack on New Year's Eve. Possible targets are holy sites, nursery schools, apartment buildings and hospitals. Police have been told to prepare for three possible scenarios: an air or sea-based attack or a ground assault involving several simultaneous suicide bombings, the officials said. Senior intelligence officials know which of the three scenarios is most likely, but are reluctant to share the information with police officers to prevent leaks, the officials said. The warnings...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Former National Guard intelligence officer Rafael Davila admits he spent years bringing home secret and top-secret documents, stacking them in his basement and finally in a rented storage locker. He told the FBI he just wanted to read them. Now in a case with ties to the shadowy world of white supremicists and anti-government militias, prosecutors are accusing Davila and his ex-wife, Deborah, of espionage. Investigators are still trying to track down hundreds of files apparently containing information about nuclear, chemical and biological warfare. A federal indictment charges the Davilas with unauthorized possession of sensitive documents during...

Was the flu outbreak in the United States actually a biological terrorist attack? That is a question being debated behind the scenes these days, not as a matter of medical science, but as another step on the path of abridging American Freedoms, in the name of national security. If it can be postulate that this flu outbreak was actually a biological terrorist attack, that would pave the way to putting the medical industry under the control of the Pentagon - nationalizing it in the name of national security. Who could argue that the health of America is not in the...

Inside Makeria's boxes were two capsules of highly radioactive metals -- strontium and cesium -- of a type that terrorism experts said can be used in a "dirty bomb," a device that spews radiation but does not trigger a nuclear explosion. A third container held a vial of brown liquid that Georgian police identified as the substance used in mustard gas, one of the earliest chemical weapons. Only later did police learn Makeria's role in the affair. He was a courier for criminals trading in components and materials for weapons of mass destruction. There have been dozens of cases of...

ASHINGTON, Nov. 18 — The Bush administration will try to force the nation's largest shipping companies to install electronic tamper sensors and use reinforced metal seals on millions of steel-box cargo containers in an effort to keep terrorists from trying to ship nuclear or other catastrophic weapons into the United States, senior officials said Tuesday. Advertisement The decision, which is expected to be announced later this week by the Department of Homeland Security, will not mandate the overhaul of the containers. But under the administration's plan, shipping companies will have a choice of installing the sensors and using the high-quality...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The al-Qaida terror network is determined to use chemical and biological weapons and is restrained only by the technical difficulties of doing so, a U.N. expert panel said in a confidential report. Sanctions on supporters of al-Qaida and Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers appear to be too limited to prevent them from obtaining weapons and explosives, said the report, obtained Friday by The Associated Press. ``The risk of al-Qaida acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction also continues to grow,'' the experts said. ``Undoubtedly al-Qaida is still considering the use of chemical or bio-weapons to perpetrate its...

<p>Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Iraq had chemical and biological weapons and not just programs aimed at creating them, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said.</p> <p>Blair, like U.S. President George W. Bush, is under political pressure to justify the war that toppled Saddam Hussein in April. Since then, no chemical or biological arms have been found in Iraq.</p>

(CBS) The FBI is calling it "Operation Trip Wire" and says it may be their best bet yet to uncover another terrorist cell operating in the U.S. The goal, as CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart reports, is to set up warning systems, or trip wires, like one they've established involving crop duster planes, for example. It works like this: the FBI would be called any time a duster showed up at a small airport unexpectedly or someone wanted to rent one, or be trained to fly one. The Sept. 11 hijackers had checked out such planes as a possible way...

Suspected biological terror lab found From correspondents in Manila October 20, 2003 SECURITY forces have recovered traces of possible biological weapons in a raid on a Jemaah Islamiyah hideout in the southern Philippine city of Cotabato, a senior military official said Monday. Possible residues of a "tetanus virus-carrying chemical was among those found" in Sunday's raid, along with a "bio-terror manual", vice chief of staff Lieutenant General Rodolfo Garcia said over ABS-CBN television. Filipino as well as foreign suspects whom he refused to name escaped. Agence France-Presse

Excerpt from Statement by David Kay on the Interim Progress Report on the Activities of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG): "...We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002. The discovery of these deliberate concealment efforts have come about both through the admissions of Iraqi scientists and officials concerning information they deliberately withheld and through physical evidence of equipment and activities that ISG has discovered that should have been declared to the UN..."

<p>On Thursday, weapons in spector David Kay offered Congress a simple, and entirely rational, explanation for why the United States had not yet uncovered vast stashes of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It's all about size. Or lack thereof.</p>

Media's Focus After Interim Report Surprises Top Arms Inspector By John D. Banusiewicz American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2003 – The man leading the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq expressed surprise here today that media reports focused mainly on what his team has yet to find and not on what it has turned up so far after his Oct. 2 interim report to Congress. David Kay, chief U.S. arms inspector, told host Tony Snow on the "Fox News Sunday" that while his team indeed has yet to find illicit weapons, "I'm sort of amazed that...

Kuwait foils smuggling of chemicals, bio warheads from Iraq Associated Press Kuwait City, October 2 Kuwaiti security authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle $60 million worth of chemical weapons and biological warheads from Iraq to an unnamed European country, a Kuwaiti newspaper said on Wednesday. The pro-Government Al-Siyassah, quoting an unnamed security source, said the suspects had been watched by security since they arrived in Kuwait and were arrested "in due time." It did not say when or how the smugglers entered Kuwait or when they were arrested. The paper said the smugglers might have had accomplices inside Kuwait....

<p>The al-Qaeda terrorist network may be planning attacks more devastating than those of Sept. 11, 2001, possibly involving chemical or biological agents, the U.S. government said in a worldwide advisory to its citizens.</p> <p>Noting recent terrorist incidents in Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Indonesia, the government said it is concerned European or Eurasian locations may be venues for the next round of attacks. The United Nations said in a report in June attacks in Morocco and Saudi Arabia showed al-Qaeda still posed a threat to international security.</p>

<p>The United States wants to talk to North Korea not only about nuclear bombs, but the communist nation's entire arsenal: suspected stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, missiles that can reach all of South Korea and Japan and massive conventional forces massed near the border.</p>

A new intelligence dossier is being prepared on the progress made in finding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, it was reported today. The Economist magazine reports that the MI6 document will contain evidence, based on interviews with Iraqi scientists, that Saddam Hussein had produced quantities of biological weapons. The report, which would come out one year after last September's controversial dossier - which the BBC alleged No 10 "sexed up" to support the case for war - is also said to contain hard evidence of cover-up programmes designed to conceal WMDs. A "Whitehall source" told the Economist: "We would hope...

From the DEBKAfile: CIA Adviser Kay Amasses Evidence of Saddam’s WMD DEBKAfile Updates DEBKA-Net-Weekly 118 July 25 Exclusive August 2, 2003, 10:42 PM (GMT+02:00) ... One of the most horrendous discoveries so far is the secret graveyard of convicts abused as human guinea pigs of Saddam’s illegal programs. Kay sent a special team out to Baquba, northeast of Baghdad after a collection of videotapes was discovered in Iraqi central intelligence archives, on some of which Iraqi officers talked freely with dates and locations about prisoners and detainees subjected to biological and chemical weapons experiments. Some involved toxic chemicals or gases;...

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Good evening. Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world. Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons. I want to explain why I have decided,...

"I believe we have to stay at this business until we get all those biological and chemical weapons out of there." -- Bill Clinton (see below) Wednesday, 2 October, 2002, 17:42 GMT 18:42 UK 'Call Saddam's bluff' urges Clinton Bill Clinton talking at the Labour conference in Blackpool Former US President Bill Clinton has stressed the need to strengthen the United Nations and to "call Saddam Hussein's bluff" with tough new inspections demands. In a speech lavishing praise on Tony Blair's stance on Iraq he told Labour members in Blackpool that although the Iraqi leader posed a real threat to...