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...that presently want to give the inspectors more time. The Iraqis, Blix said, "have no credibility." He found it "a bit odd" that Baghdad, with "one of the best organized regimes in the Arab world," should claim to have no records of the alleged destruction of its stocks of anthrax and VX nerve agent. He was prepared to contemplate a timeline and ultimatum for the destruction of key weapons and their building blocks, saying that the Iraqis "cannot drag it on forever." He argued that American military might had been instrumental in what recent progress there has been on Iraqi...
...poor economy. "People here are just worried about feeding themselves and having a job," he says. This comment draws nods from diners on nearby stools. It has been a long winter--they are always out here--and the white powder of most concern to locals is snow, not anthrax spores. "Not being able to pay my heating bills is my imminent threat," says Brian Williams, who waits the lunch shift. "I work three jobs and don't travel," he explains, "so I don't expect terrorism to affect me much. I'm in my own survival mode...
...sheer scariness, the most grim talk came from Raymond Zilinskas, an expert in bioterrorism at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. In chilling detail, he described the efforts of Soviet scientists at the height of the Cold War to develop lethal germs, such as variations of anthrax and the smallpox virus, that could be carried to targets almost anywhere on Earth by ballistic missile. While these programs have presumably long since been cancelled, he foresaw no real defense against such bioweapons, other than stronger international conventions. That's something the Bush administration has resolutely opposed, he said...
Even if the Secret Service insists on calling them victims, these people are nothing more than would-be criminals. Instead of devoting precious investigative resources to these scams, our government should transfer that effort to tracking down Osama bin Laden, finding the anthrax mailer, or at the very least, scouring corporate tax statements...
...SMOKING GUN? The U.N. knew about the missile engines. Inspectors still dispute what the tubes are for, but the magnets and balancing machines prove Saddam wants uranium. The possibility of an anthrax-armed drone is terrifying Iraq's neighbors