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...challenge for Saddam's engineers. Nonetheless, a gram of anthrax could serve as a poor man's suitcase bomb: that's 1 trillion spores, enough for 100 million fatal doses. Hiding, transporting and disseminating that type of poison is relatively easy: no missiles are needed, just a crop duster, backpack sprayer, even a perfume atomizer...
...officers to crack down on un-Islamic activities. He is currently identifying sites where state prisons can be built. Hadi has never elaborated on where and how the amputations and stonings will be carried out or who will perform them. Clad in a traditional white turban and a green duster draped from neck to ankles, he insists that both the state's Muslims and non-Muslims (about five percent of the population) will welcome the new system. "The important issue is the wisdom of the law," he says with a cold smile. "Islamic laws will prove to be wiser...
...family. His father was a fighter pilot in World War II for the English, escaping his native Netherlands by stealing a small plane and simply flying to England. He later met David’s mother when recuperating from a career-ending plane crash as a crop duster pilot. She was the nurse who accidentally fell in love with him. This history, surreal as it seems, manages to captivate the reader by the poignancy with which it is drawn...
...evocative passage, David recalls when his father became a crop duster pilot...
...brought a vacuum cleaner, a duster and an ironing board to school...