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BIOLOGICAL These are the inspectors' biggest worry right now. Before the Gulf War the Iraqis had a secret germ-weapon program that brewed up and tested huge quantities of several lethal agents, including 8,500 liters of anthrax, 19,000 liters of botulinus and 2,500 liters of aflatoxin. (That's theoretically enough to kill everyone on earth.) They had "weaponized" them by loading them into bombs and missile warheads. Iraq claims it unilaterally destroyed all those weapons after the war, but has never offered proof. U.N. inspectors have been checking more than 80 suspected areas for clandestine storage...
...hiding" some of their key military equipment while the inspectors are locked out. "It looks a little bit like, 'the cat's away, the mice will play,'" said the chief U.N. weapons inspector, Richard Butler ? an Australian. And what exactly are the mice playing at? "They could have enough anthrax to fill a warhead in one week," Butler later warned...
...thousands of documents turned over to the U.N., Iraq admitted that as the U.S. mobilized forces to invade Kuwait in November 1990, it had begun filling 191 bombs and Scud missile warheads with deadly biological agents such as anthrax and botulinum toxin. The bombs would have been mounted on missiles, planes or drone aircraft and dropped on enemy troops, fewer than half of whom had received the appropriate germ-warfare vaccinations. Twenty-five Scuds outfitted with biological weapons were aimed at cities in Saudi Arabia and Israel...
...Baghdad, contained "radically new valuable data." Iraq had previously insisted that its biological weapons program was only a low-level research effort and that all agents manufactured had been destroyed before the war started. Now it admits that there were five secret facilities producing a large stockpile of anthrax and botulinum toxin as well as three other types of poisons. Iraq claims the agents were destroyed after...
...nuclear device and detonate it in the western Iraqi desert in a demonstration explosion "to shake the teeth of Saddam's Arab neighbors," as a former senior agency official puts it. Before the latest revelations were made, U.N. officials believed that Baghdad had produced more than a ton of anthrax and botulinum toxin, a small portion of which they suspect has not yet been destroyed...