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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...
Saddam's rhetoric is probably overblown. Iraqi soldiers may well surrender as readily as they did in 1991 after 38 days of heavy bombing. But the Iraqi leader, intelligence officials believe, is shrewdly calculating that the U.S. military brass--and the American public--cannot stomach the prospect of sizable losses in such an exchange. Think back to the debacle in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993 (chronicled in the movie Black Hawk Down), when 18 U.S. troops were killed, prompting a quick American withdrawal from that African nation. In Iraq there is the added risk that Saddam will use biological or chemical...
...have one material asset to sell outside the domestic business, and that's Orange," says Nomura analyst Mark James. The very idea of selling or completely de-merging the telecom crown jewel whose acquisition pushed FT's share price to all-time highs once looked like heresy. And the prospect isn't happier now that the relatively healthy Orange would have to be sold in a very sick market. But as Michel Bon could tell the next CEO, in Europe's current telecom environment, tough choices are about the only ones left. SPACE The Businessman in the moon...
...Crimson would view the situation differently if another category, perhaps race or religion, were the object of the military’s discrimination. I doubt they would still argue that the possible loss of federal funding would outweigh the prospect of a racist or anti-Semitic employer...
...course, a substantial amount of those yards can be credited to the offensive lines ahead of Palazzo—a group that included an NFL prospect in Mike Clare ’01 two years ago and four senior starters last season...