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...possible use in weapons programs. They may also have destroyed critical records or carted them off. They may have rehidden weapons parts they do not intend to give up. Some of the inspectors suspect the Iraqis might have used the time to produce small batches of poisons or germ weapons to add to their secret stocks...
...have been hidden during the blackout period. Then his team will try again to enter suspected weapons sites from which the Iraqis, violating Security Council resolutions, have repeatedly barred inspectors. Of most concern to the specialists is the arsenal of biological weapons they are certain Saddam is still concealing. Germ weapons like anthrax and botulinum are so deadly, so easy to make and hide that the monitors are not prepared to take the Iraqis' word that they have destroyed their stocks, especially since Saddam's scientists have denied for years that they ever...
...inspectors renew their search, they will tangle once again with Iraq's longtime chief of bioweapons production, a diminutive woman named Rihab Rashida Taha or, to the U.N. representatives who distrust her, "Dr. Germ." Little known until last week, when NBC Nightly News revealed her role, Taha was responsible for tests of anthrax and botulinum at Iraq's Salman Pak facility, first on rats and mice, then on rhesus monkeys, beagles and donkeys. Still unreleased videotapes seized by the U.N. two years ago show animals that had been exposed to germ agents writhing and dying in agony...
...time," they assure me confidently, scattering dust bunnies around the room. I cringe at first; such annoying girls! What horrible friends! I question the health of our relationship. But the dirty life becomes easier with each passing day, and the state of my room and the germ level of my hands become less precious...
...which called for government action to block assaults on U.S. territory and help for local governments to prepare to deal with them. The Pentagon is beginning to work on better detectors, masks, filtration systems and vaccines. The Army and Marine Corps have created special task forces to respond to germ or gas threats. But earlier this year President Clinton reported to Congress that local authorities are not properly trained. In fact, he said, the first police and paramedics on the scene were likely to become casualties themselves. Antidotes and other medical supplies should be stockpiled around the country...