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...real world, memories of 9/11 give way to anthrax scares—a prankster targets Joyce’s office with an envelope filled with talc, and she suspects that it could be Marshall—the bombing of Afghanistan, renewed surges of terrorism in Israel, and the invasion of Iraq. Kalfus portrays post-bellum reality as few other 9/11 artistes have, showing how the attacks have faded into the background radiation of our country’s life, occasionally surfacing sharply in phrases like “suicide bomb” and “Orange Alert...
...send students to outside hospitals as it dragged on a public health investigation. The response to 1994’s outbreak formed the basis for UHS’s current protocol. And post-9/11 fears led administrators to refine those plans. After the 9/11 attacks, the threat of anthrax and other biological agents led administrators to consider the high risk of contagion in residential colleges. They try to preempt, rather than acting after the fact.The Hot ZoneLate in the evening of Dec. 8 of 1994, freshmen began streaming into Stillman Infirmary; thirty students would receive IV treatment on site...
...speculation during the last five years over how al-Qaeda might construct a sequel to 9/11 has centered on unconventional weapons: Could Bin Laden's men acquire a nuclear weapon, or even more easily, build a radioactive "dirty bomb"? Or might they seek to use poison gases or anthrax to kill thousands of Americans? But the plot revealed by British security services on Thursday suggests that al-Qaeda - prime suspects, according to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff - still sees plenty of mileage to be gained from using conventional explosives, which are far more accessible, and can be just as effective...
...these dispatches lack a coherent explanation for why the bombs are going off, recall that the Bush Administration has been rather cagey about that, too. They have their own highlight reel, after all: A montage of 9/11, Colin Powell holding up a vial of anthrax, Zarqawi's death mask presented in a gilt frame on a curtained stage. There's some flashes of mortar fire, but this edit contains no footage of dead soldiers or even coffins, no images of the abuse of detainees...
Imagine a blueprint for a paint-can-like device spewing hydrogen-cyanide gas gleaned from a computer in Saudi Arabia. Virulent anthrax developed by terrorists in Afghanistan. Most fearful of all, a fateful campfire meeting outside the Kandahar, Afghanistan, where al Qaeda leaders met secretly with a senior Pakistani weapons experts to discuss making al-Qaeda the first nuclear-armed terrorists in history. That's the witch's brew of what the experts call NBC - nuclear, biological and chemical - weapons. It's the terrorists' trifecta and the scary spine of Ron Suskind's new book, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep...