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State Dept. Worker Develops Anthrax
Times Staff WritersThe circle of anthrax exposure widened significantly Thursday as health officials announced that one State Department mail worker has the inhaled form of the disease and a second employee has suspicious symptoms, even though neither man is known to have...Tags: Television Industry, Guerrilla Activity, ABC (tv network), Defense, White House
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Steps to protect against terrorism straining budgets
Tribune national correspondentLOS ANGELES--Mayor Jim Hahn wants to outfit Los Angeles International Airport with an elaborate new security system that would include facial-recognition technology. In Iowa and other states, officials are seeking millions of dollars to upgrade public...Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Guerrilla Activity, Defense, Emergency Incidents, Social Issues
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Public Health Under the Scope
Times Health WriterWith anthrax exposures and infections mounting, the powers of public health face a new and daunting test--and the weaknesses of the system have come under a glaring light. The system's defects, brought on by years of budget cuts, are on display: Labs...Tags: Science, Guerrilla Activity, White House, FBI, Georgia
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Experts divided on odds of germ attack
Soon after a fuel-laden jetliner plowed into the Pentagon on Tuesday, the Army quietly locked down its sensitive biological weapons lab at Ft. Detrick, 50 miles to the north, in Frederick, Md. As the 3,804 civilian and military personnel at the 1,153-...Tags: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Guerrilla Activity, Terrorism, Defense, New York
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U.S. inspectors find no evidence of banned arms
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - After a three-month search, American inspectors have found no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Iraq and don't know whether any existed before the United States led an invasion of the country in March, the inspections coordinator...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Defense, United Nations, White House, U.S. Military
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Blix tells U.N. Iraq refuses to comply on disarmament
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The chief U.N. weapons inspector told the United Nations Security Council yesterday that Iraq has not accepted the need to disarm, even to avoid war, and could possess thousands of chemical weapons, thousands of gallons of a germ warfare...Tags: Diplomacy, Guerrilla Activity, Colin Powell, Defense, Osama bin Laden
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Questions raised as localities stockpile anthrax antidotes
Sun StaffFire Lt. Randall Owens keeps one in the locker at his Rockville station and another in the master bathroom of his Frederick County home. His are two of the 7,000 "bio-packs" of anthrax antidotes given to 3,500 Montgomery County firefighters and police...Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Guerrilla Activity, Defense, Family, Ciprofloxacin (drug)
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It Ain't Over,' Some Officials Fear
U.S. intelligence, law enforcement and military officials say they are concerned that terrorists associated with the perpetrators of Tuesday's attacks in New York and outside Washington are plotting another attack elsewhere in the country, although they...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Defense, Osama bin Laden, Bob Graham, FBI
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Frederick scientist's home searched in anthrax probe
Sun StaffThe FBI searched the apartment yesterday of a biological weapons scientist in Frederick as part of the continuing investigation into the mailing of anthrax-laced letters that killed five people last fall. An FBI car and Ryder rental truck were parked...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Science, Periodicals, Defense, FBI
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Workers find anthrax trace at 3 new sites
Tribune staff reporterIn another round of suspected cross-contamination cases, traces of anthrax were discovered in a Veterans Affairs hospital mailroom, a Pentagon post office and on a package sent to New York's City Hall, authorities announced Sunday. On another front in...Tags: Television Industry, Labor Legislation, Guerrilla Activity, Defense, FBI
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Scientist theorized anthrax mail attack
Sun StaffDr. Steven J. Hatfill, the former Fort Detrick biodefense researcher whose Frederick apartment was searched Tuesday by the FBI, commissioned a 1999 study that described a fictional terrorist attack in which an envelope containing weapons-grade anthrax...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, ABC (tv network), United Nations, Defense, FBI
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Measures to keep food supply safe are on the table
Tribune national correspondentThe war in Iraq and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have sparked a widespread movement by federal agencies, farmers and grocers to upgrade security "from the stable to the table" to reduce the prospect of sabotage of the U.S. food supply. This is an...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Guerrilla Activity, Defense, George W. Bush, Heads of State
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