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...Biological Weapons: Iraq continues to manufacture chemical and biological weapons, and has military plans for their use - in some cases within 45 minutes of the order being given. It also has mobile labs for producing biological warfare agents and multiple methods of delivering them, including mortars, artillery, bombs, drone sprayer aircraft and missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blair Indicts Saddam | 9/24/2002 | See Source »

...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 sprayer, even a perfume atomizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Does Saddam Have? | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...been tinkering with other methods. Before the Gulf War it had several hundred Italian-made pesticide dispensers fitted with spray nozzles for spitting out bioweapons in droplet size. In 1990 the Iraqis flight-tested a remote-controlled MiG-21 fighter mounted with a 2,200-liter belly tank and sprayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERM WARFARE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...Soviets can usually be found at the beach, in snorkeling gear and Baltic bathing costumes. The island's favorite Russian so far is a chauffeur with steel teeth. He has been nicknamed "Jaws," of course. The Soviets have given the people of Grenada a one-engine crop sprayer and imported two cream-colored Mercedes sedans for themselves. But they are a bit slow on the draw when it comes to parting with nickels on the beach. They have not won the hearts and minds of the straw-doll and coconut vendors, who complain that the visitors bring their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grenada: Revolution in the Shade | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

Daddy strapped the sprayer on and went back to work in the tobacco. He worked until it was so dark he couldn't see, and then he hitched Daisy to the only two cows he had ever owned and dragged them off behind the field for the buzzards to eat. He was afraid to butcher them because of the poison...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Like Georgia Mud | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

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