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...willing to take it on, and they may well have saved the entire Middle East. Today, all freedom-loving nations face the same challenge: immobilizing the technological pursuits of a vicious, land-hungry, terror-mongering despot before he gets his hands on the world’s most lethal weapons. President Bush is ready to lead, just as Begin was in 1981; and just as the Israeli prime minister stayed resolute in his convictions despite the barrage of international criticism that followed the bombing of Osirak, Bush should likewise remain unfazed by the muddled arguments of U.N. Secretary General Kofi...
Biological weapons present a scarier prospect. Iraq is believed to have fermentation equipment at animal-feed facilities near Baghdad and the ability to convert workaday centrifuges into Cuisinarts for whizzing up lethal agents. But weaponizing most pathogens so that airborne bombs can spray them effectively over large areas remains a 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...
...Thursday, a bomb planted in a taxi detonated on one of Kabul's busiest downtown streets, killing 32 and injuring at least 150. Government investigators said they had no evidence that the attacks were coordinated, but many Afghans had their suspicions. The blast in Kabul last week, the most lethal in a rash of bombings this summer, came after weeks of intelligence warnings about the likelihood of terrorist attacks around the anniversary of Sept. 11. Although U.S. commanders say the 12,000 allied troops in Afghanistan have flushed nearly all remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban forces out of their redoubts...
...University of Liverpool researcher received permission to X-ray the mummy and discovered some intriguing clues: there was a sliver of bone floating in the brain cavity and a dense area at the base of the skull that may have been a blood clot, suggesting a severe--perhaps deliberately lethal--blow to the back of the head...
Thank you for having the guts to show pictures of the lethal poison-gas experiment that may have been carried out on a puppy by al-Qaeda, even if people don't like seeing them [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 26]. I encourage you to expand your coverage of vivisection; there are countless animal experiments as horrific as the ones you showed. More people should know that this is going on. PATRICIA PANITZ Centerville, Mass...