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...possible reason Saddam never used his biological weapons is that Washington sent him veiled threats indicating the U.S. and Israel would retaliate with nuclear arms if he did. Deploying the weapons effectively would in any case have been difficult. Still, Administration experts say they were capable of causing thousands of casualties. "It would have been awful," says Matthew Meselson, a germ-warfare expert at Harvard University. For example, botulinum toxin kills by interfering with the nervous system and ultimately paralyzing the respiratory muscles. The Pentagon estimated that just one Scud missile warhead filled with the toxin could contaminate...
...coverage, she says, is a "multidisciplinary challenge." A Simpson trial reporter needs to be "a lawyer, a sleuth, a Hollywood entertainment specialist, an expert in race relations, a sociologist and a political strategist." That's why we're glad to rely on a couple of correspondents with a multitude of gifts...
...highest bidder. During the Gulf War, according to Pentagon officials, a group of Dutch hackers offered to disrupt the U.S. military's deployment to the Middle East for $1 million. Saddam Hussein spurned the offer. The potential for disruption was great, says Steve Kent, a private computer-security expert in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of a Pentagon advisory panel on defensive information warfare. "In the Gulf War the military made extensive use of the Internet for its communications, and it would have suffered had the Iraqis decided to take...
...secret national-intelligence report being prepared by the CIA concludes that while there have been no clear attacks yet on the military's computer facilities, foreign intelligence services already are probing U.S. computers. A top Justice Department computer-security expert says five of the last seven identified intruders into the Pentagon's mainframes were foreigners. Retired Air Force Colonel Alan D. Campen, author of The First Information War, a 1992 book that described information technologies used during Desert Storm, says he got "requests for copies of the book from embassies all over the world." The Chinese army uses...
...clean, the quicker the country might resume oil exports and normal economic life. At bottom, though, the quarrel seems to have been over spoils: black-market profits, cuts of foreign business deals and all the other perks flowing from high rank in a dictatorship. Said Phebe Marr, an Iraq expert at Washington's National Defense University: "It's a terrific feud in the family, and it's been pretty grubby--over money and power...