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OTHER COVER SUBJECTS The target is Pakistan's nuclear plant...
...they often blast away at one another too. Feuds drag on for generations, with every man called upon to defend his tribe's honor. The Pashtun unite briefly when an outsider swaggers in, such as Alexander the Great, the Soviets and now the Americans. Left to themselves, they plant land mines to settle a property dispute. A youth from Peshawar was recently celebrated in the newspapers as a true Pashtun hero for shooting his father's assassin...
...prosecution table. The press was excluded, except one day when reporters were allowed in while proceedings were in recess so they could see the setup. There was still no revelation that Dasch and his roommate had cooperated. Their plan had been to blow up factories, bridges, an aircraft manufacturing plant and other sites, and they were charged with sabotage and espionage. All 8 were convicted, and all were sentenced to death...
...fact, says Harvard's Matthew Meselson, a Nobel-prizewinning biologist who did an in-depth study of an anthrax accident at a Soviet bioweapons plant in Sverdlovsk in 1979, "there is no theoretical or experimental basis to believe in any sort of minimum threshold." A dozen or even fewer spores could be sufficient to kill, he suspects, under the right circumstances...
Khartoum was bin Laden's base from 1991 to '96. The U.S. responded to the 1998 embassy bombings with a missile assault on a suspected chemical-weapons plant in the capital...