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http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/7663/updates.htm
The Sleeping Giant is an international online resource detailing the
intensifying threat of non-conventional terrorism from transnational groups and
rogue nations.
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In this issue:
a.. Resisting nuclear energy's siren song
b.. Signs of Iraqi Arms Buildup Bedevil U.S. Administration
c.. An Inspector for Iraq
d.. Secret arrest of a Saddam ally
e.. The Plot Thickens
f.. Coping with bioterrorism is difficult, but may help us respond to new
epidemics
g.. US Readies Sale of Anthrax Vaccine to ROK
h.. DPRK Believed To Use Real Bio-Chemical Weapons in Drills
i.. Sticking Point In Defending Its Troops Against Anthrax, The Pentagon Has
Injected Distrust Instead
j.. Doomsday Cult Seeks To Soften Image
k.. Britain 'seeks US nuclear protection'
l.. General in charge of air defense worries about terrorism from the sky
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Resisting nuclear energy's siren song
By Danny Rabinowitz
Ha'aretz
Wednesday, February 2, 2000
... "One thing is sure: In a week when the United States has taken another step
toward parting with its 20-year legacy of problematic nuclear policy, Israel
must not allow its leaders to drag it toward a nuclear quandary that many Third
and Fourth World nations have found cause to avoid.
In the immediate short term, the conflicting reports of America's nuclear
fall-out and Suissa's nuclear fall-toward come as the Knesset is setting the
stage for a precedent-setting discussion of Israel's nuclear policies. One can
only hope that Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg, who has sponsored this discussion,
will have the prudence and wherewithal to guide it away from a predictable
scenario in which the Hadash party (which has called for immediate nuclear
disarmament) stands ostracized, facing the rest of the Knesset alone, thereby
reinforcing the perception of the nuclear issue as a trivial curiosity that is
of interest only to extremists.
Far from such a scenario, it is imperative for Israel to start setting the
foundations of a sustained and serious public discussion, one which is open and
democratic and which revolves around the life-or-death question of Israel's
nuclear arsenal"
http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/htmls/kat9_7.htm
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Signs of Iraqi Arms Buildup Bedevil U.S. Administration
February 1, 2000
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
New York Times
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 -- Satellite photographs and American intelligence reports
have shown that Iraq has in the last year rebuilt military and industrial sites
damaged by American and British air strikes in late 1998, officials say.
The recent intelligence findings have raised concerns among Defense Department
and other officials in the Clinton administration that in the prolonged absence
of international weapons inspectors, whose job would be to search those
structures, President Saddam Hussein's government has continued its pursuit of
biological and chemical weapons.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/020100iraq-weapons.html
Recent editorials on Iraq:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/7663/iraqnews.htm
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An Inspector for Iraq
Monday, January 31, 2000; Page A18
Washington Post
NEARLY NINE years ago, the Security Council of the United Nations demanded, as a
condition of cease-fire in Iraq's war against Kuwait, that Iraq rid itself of
nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and of the means to deliver such
weapons. That goal remains unfulfilled--stymied first by Clinton administration
inconstancy, then by French and Russian shortsightedness and throughout by
Saddam Hussein's deceit. For more than a year, the United Nations has been
without inspectors or monitors in Iraq; soothing administration assurances to
the contrary, no one outside Iraq can be sure how the dictator's arsenal may
have progressed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/m-editorial.html
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Secret arrest of a Saddam ally
Tuesday February 01, 2000
A 'commander' of an Iranian guerrilla group, who is being held in Ottawa, is a
key recruiter and fundraiser, ex-members say. Aaron Sands reports.
She stood in the hot sands of an Iraqi desert guerrilla camp and groomed a
killing machine.
With traditional headdress, a military helmet and an old-fashioned Russian AK-47
slung over her slim shoulder, Mahnaz Samadi is said to have trained women as
fighters for the Mujahedeen Khalq's heavily armed military wing, the National
Liberation Army of Iran -- an organization widely believed to be a secret army
of Iraqi warlord Saddam Hussein. The Mujahedeen Khalq is a guerrilla group
dedicated to overthrowing the Iranian government.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/000201/3524963.html
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The Plot Thickens
Arrests and investigations yield clues to the broad reach of bin Laden's network
By Donatella Lorch and Daniel Klaidman
Newsweek, February 7, 2000
..."The Karroum case is just one of many that have investigators chasing new
terrorism leads from the United States to the Middle East, Africa and Canada.
Much of the fresh intelligence concerns the network of Osama bin Laden, the
Saudi fugitive based in Afghanistan. Some of the 14 alleged bin Laden associates
arrested in Jordan in December, for instance, have begun talking to
investigators. U.S. law-enforcement officials say an attack on American and
Israeli tourists over the New Year holiday was only narrowly averted. The
planning of the attack, which was to be carried out at Jordanian holy sites, was
"advanced and sophisticated," according to a secret FBI memo. Chillingly, the
plotters were preparing to use "nonconventional explosive devices" - poison-gas
bombs, say two knowledgeable U.S. sources. One of the alleged plotters was
Khalil Deek, an Afghan-war veteran and U.S. citizen who had worked in California
as a computer technician. A CD-ROM that police seized from his home contained
bomb-building instructions, law-enforcement officials say. They describe Deek
(who refuses to talk to Jordanian interrogators) as a key bin Laden lieutenant.
http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/in/a2868-2000jan30.htm
Jordan or Jerusalem?
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/7663/bljerusalem.htm
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Coping with bioterrorism is difficult, but may help us respond to new epidemics
Editorials
British Medical Journal 2000;320:71-72 ( 8 January )
The terror attacks on the World Trade Center in Manhattan in 1993 and the
Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, together with the Sarin attack on the
Tokyo subway in 1995, have forced upon America an unwanted awareness of its
vulnerability to terror attack. So far there have been no biological attacks
within the United States, but many feel that this may only be a matter of time.
Recently the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences have
made recommendations for research that would help in managing chemical and
biological terror attacks against the civilian
community.1
There are specific problems that are unique to biological attacks. Firstly,
whatever the agent, and however it is delivered, there will be time lags between
exposure and onset of the first symptoms and the development of the
full blown disease. Thus the disease will be dispersed before we become aware
that an attack has occurred (assuming no public announcement by the terrorists).
Since the population exposed in a large community will approach the health
system in many different ways there may be no clumping of cases to trigger
awareness of an attack.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/320/7227/71
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US Readies Sale of Anthrax Vaccine to ROK
Seoul: The Korea Times (Internet version) in English
3 Jan 00
The specter of the defoliant Agent Orange, which was sprayed along the
demilitarized zone (DMZ) bordering North Korea under a secret operation 30 years
ago, is haunting Koreans again. This time the "agents" involved are different:
anthrax vaccine and squalene.
The United States is gearing up to sell controversial anthrax vaccine, possible
containing squalene, which requires and is awaiting the supplementary safety
tests under the U.S. government regulations, to South Korea.
http://www.korealink.co.kr/times/times.htm]
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DPRK Believed To Use Real Bio-Chemical Weapons in Drills
Seoul Choson Ilbo (Internet version) in English
23 Jan 00
[FBIS Transcribed Text]
North Korea is believed to have conducted major nuclear, biological and chemical
(NBC) warfare drills in Yangdeok-Gun, south Pyungahn every December since 1990,
according to military authorities on Sunday. The North Koreans have added attack
drills to its previous defense drills in its NBC warfare drills, it added. A
military official said that the area where the drills are conducted is
surrounded by 1,000-1,200 meter-high mountains with a very small number of
civilians nearby, which makes it an ideal place for the NBC drills. North Korea
is believed to have used real bio-chemical weapons in its NBC drills, which is
against international rules on NBC drills.
[Description of source: Seoul Choson Ilbo (Internet version) in English --
WWW-based version of Chosun Ilbo carrying English- language summaries and
full-texts of items in vernacular hard copy. Root URL on filing date:
http://www.chosun.com/g__.html}
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Sticking Point In Defending Its Troops Against Anthrax, The Pentagon Has
Injected Distrust Instead
By James Terry Scott
Sunday, January 30, 2000; Page B01
I've always believed that the military tries to do the right thing. That's why I
never really questioned its decisions to protect me against various
diseases--even if I sometimes wondered what the odds of contracting those
illnesses might be. Thirty-five years ago, as I prepared for duty in Vietnam, I
accepted the painful gamma globulin shots to reduce the risk of hepatitis, even
though at the time my fellow soldiers and I had serious questions about their
efficacy. I accepted them just as I accepted the forced separation from my
family and the rigors of combat. I certainly never considered inoculations to be
the most dangerous part of the contract between soldier and state.
So you might think I'd have no understanding for the 300 or so men and women who
have refused to take the anthrax vaccine that the Department of Defense has
ordered for all 2.4 million active-duty and reservist personnel. But after
reading and hearing the confusing and contradictory claims about the vaccination
program, and observing the positions of both the Defense Department and the
resisters harden into intractability, I've come to believe there's an important
message that both sides need to hear:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/30/151l-013000-idx.html
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Doomsday Cult Seeks To Soften Image
By The Associated Press
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) -- Since his release from prison a month ago, Fumihiro Joyu
has presented a very different image from that of the strident spokesman he once
was for the doomsday cult accused in the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo's
subways.
Trading his religious garb for a suit and tie, Joyu and other cult members have
embarked on a campaign of apologies, vows of reform and statements distancing
themselves from the guru they once worshipped as a living god.
So far, they are generating more fear than sympathy.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Japan-Contrite-Cult.html
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Britain 'seeks US nuclear protection'
By Ben Fenton in Washington
The Telegraph
30.1.00
BRITAIN may ask to be sheltered under the United States's proposed nuclear
umbrella, according to Newsweek magazine.
Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, visited Washington last week and had
top-level meetings at the Pentagon during which he is said to have raised the
possibility of Britain being covered by the so-called National Missile Defence
system, which would use missiles, guided by satellites and ground-based radar,
to seek and destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles aimed at America.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000271261842766&rtmo=aN2pa38L&atmo=99999\
999&pg=/et/00/1/31/wnuk31.html
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General in charge of air defense worries about terrorism from the sky
Sunday, January 30, 2000
By BILL KACZOR, Associated Press
TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE - The general responsible for protecting the continental
United States from air attack says he fears it is not matter of if, but when
terrorists or a rogue nation try something.
It may be a small plane or even a cruise missile carrying a biological or,
perhaps, chemical weapon, said Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold, commander of the 1st Air
Force.
http://www.naplesnews.com/today/florida/a2237a.htm
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The Sleeping Giant News
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2.2.1999
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/7663/updates.htm
The Sleeping Giant is an international online resource detailing the
intensifying threat of non-conventional terrorism from transnational groups and
rogue nations.
Brooks Isoldi
Intelligence Analyst - NightFall Security Group
http://www.nfsg.org
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