Word: anthrax
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...days after Sept. 11, doomsday scenarios like a nuclear attack on Manhattan suddenly seemed plausible. But during the six months that followed, as the U.S. struck back and the anthrax scare petered out and the fires at Ground Zero finally died down, the national nightmare about another calamitous terrorist strike went away...
...coming out in Iditarod weather, makes a few cracks about Enron and Arthur Andersen (the latter has its headquarters in Chicago), and the audience is his. He segues into the Olympic luge competition--"invented by a drunken German gynecologist; you steer with Kegels"--and then it is on to anthrax and botox, and then he jumps straight into Sept. 11. He gets cheers for a bit on a flight attendant telling passengers that in the event of a hijacking, a Louisville Slugger will fall from the compartment above--"Apply to the head, groin and knees...
...loaded chemical and biological weapons in missiles and bombs in 1991 and issued standing orders to fire them if U.S. troops moved on Baghdad. "The Iraqis stated that these actions apparently deterred the United States from going to Baghdad," said Duelfer. Saddam believed it was his poison gases and anthrax that saved him in 1991 - and with the U.S. having declared "regime change" as its primary objective in Iraq, Saddam may be loath to give up what he considers his trump card by submitting to unfettered inspections...
RESIGNING. JEFFREY KOPLAN, 57, director since 1998 of the Centers for Disease Control; in Atlanta. He and his staff came under fire for not responding quickly enough to last year's anthrax scare...
This isn’t controversial stuff. Democracy, human rights and civil liberties are good. North Korea selling missiles is evil. Iran arming Palestinian terrorists: evil. Saddam Hussein gassing Kurds, making anthrax and training commando teams to hijack planes (as he did in the Salman Pak neighborhood of Baghdad): very evil. And there is a great big Evil, with a capital “E,” common to all three nations: weapons of mass destruction. Each of these countries is building weapons that, were they to fall into the hands of terrorists or hostile regimes, would threaten...