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40 articles tagged "Weapon of mass destruction"
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DEBKAfile
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November 15, 2003, 3:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
A confidential report by a UN panel of experts finds that the only thing holding al Qaeda back from using chemical and biological weapons is its lack of technical know-how. But the decision has already been taken to use them in forthcoming attacks. Because of the lack of this technical ...
DEBKAfile
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August 2, 2003, 10:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
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US President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australian Prime Minister John Howard are preparing a rejoinder to quell the domestic credibility crises Iraqi WMD skeptics have whipped up in their countries, with the help of anti-American, anti-war factions in politics and foreign intelligence ... 
DEBKAfile
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June 16, 2003, 4:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Washington sources reveal that the Americans have turned up increasing indications that Iran is marching forward with its clandestine nuclear programs, which are the subject of the current International Atomic Energy Agency board meeting in Vienna on Monday and Tuesday, June 16 and 17. The board is ...
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December 26, 2002, 11:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
On December 20,DEBKA-Net-Weeklyran an exclusive report on the dual rationale behind what appears to be North Korea's nuclear blackmail. Firstly, Kim is determined to retain his independence of action in foreign and state policy. Second, by weaving his munitions industry and nuclear weapons production into Middle East and Gulf ...
DEBKAfile
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December 23, 2002, 1:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
The 39 Scud surface missiles that Iraq fired at Israel in 1991 carried conventional warheads. Today, a CIA document is reported that, in the first Gulf War, Saddam Hussein contemplated a biological attack but gave it up when three Iraqi air force Mig warplanes sent to test the opposition's defensives ...
DEBKAfile
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December 15, 2002, 7:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
UN Security Council resolution 1441 of November 8 gave the arms inspectors in Iraqi the right to interview in private any individual with information on the forbidden programs - if necessary by taking them and their families out of the country. However last week, Chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix ...
DEBKAfile
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December 13, 2002, 8:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
North Korea secretly transferred its nuclear manufacturing facilities to the Islamic Republic. Specifically, North Korean plant for the production of all the essential components of the North Korean bombs, including equipment for uranium enrichment, was shifted lock, stock and barrel to Iran, where production has been taking place at two ...
DEBKAfile
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December 3, 2002, 1:10 AM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, December 2, five days after the event, Al Qaeda took formal responsibility for the two attacks against Israeli targets at Kenya's Indian Ocean resort of Mombasa last Thursday, November 28, in which 16 people died - 13 Kenyans and three Israelis. Several hours before al Qaeda posted its admission, ...
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November 9, 2002, 10:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
bureaucratic mix-up in London Friday, November 8, forced British officialdom into the unwilling admission that international terrorists may now wield a nuclear threat and it could be aimed at Britain.
On Thursday, November 7, Tom Ridge, US homeland minister and senior member of the Bush cabinet, said to the center ...
DEBKAfile
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September 14, 2002, 2:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
US President George W. Bush and his top military and intelligence advisers are clearly convinced by the evidence in their hands that America faces an existential peril. One piece of evidence is revealed in the article on this page about the "Palermo Senator" container vessel, detained and searched at sea ...
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August 6, 2002, 4:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The so-called "dirty" or radiological bombs are conventional devices that spread radioactive contamination over large areas. Last May, the US authorities picked up a suspected al Qaeda terrorist feared to be plotting to build and set off one of these devices. Abu Zabaydah, the only senior al Qaeda operative in ...
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March 22, 2002, 9:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
One of Washington's key objectives in the run-up to its multiple anti-Saddam anti-terror campaign in the Middle East is to uncover the nuclear devices almost certainly acquired by Iraq and/or Osama bin Laden. Next, the US will test the probability of this capability being turned by either or both against ...
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January 9, 2002, 11:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli government perceives the threat of a nuclear, biological or chemical attack as tangible enough to earmark a sizeable amount, the equivalent of US$50 million, for measures to protect the population. According to debkafile's intelligence sources, intelligence supporting this reading has reached Jerusalem from more than one ...
DEBKAfile
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January 2, 2002, 7:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
A US Sixth Fleet ship docked in Haifa two weeks ago carrying counter-measures for nuclear warfare, especially highly radioactive "dirty bombs", as well as vaccines and antidotes to counter biological and poison gas contamination, such as anthrax and smallpox.
DEBKAfile
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November 10, 2001, 3:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
Three violently anti-American leaders suddenly burst into speechlast Wednesday, November 7 - all in the hearing of the media. The most wanted terrorist in the world, Osama bin Laden, waved his nuclear-chemical warfare threat in an interview he granted to the Pakistani editor Hamid Mir, in a secret place north ...
DEBKAfile
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November 10, 2001, 1:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Fresh foreign leads in the FBI's anthrax investigation point to the involvement of one or more German or Austrian biological or chemical researcher with pro-Nazi leanings, part of a complicated South American web linked to the Hizballah and fugitive Nazi communities, some of whom are also connected to Iraqi military ...
DEBKAfile
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November 10, 2001, 9:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
Three violently anti-American leaders suddenly burst into speechlast Wednesday, November 7 - all in the hearing of the media. The most wanted terrorist in the world, Osama bin Laden, waved his nuclear-chemical warfare threat in an interview he granted to the Pakistani editor Hamid Mir, in a secret place north ...
DEBKAfile
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October 28, 2001, 9:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
The United States-led Afghanistan campaign is facing grave difficulties as it enters its fourth week, notwithstanding the many tons of ordnance dropped on key Taliban targets.
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October 6, 2001, 2:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military and intelligence sources report that Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, in a single 70-minuted conversation o September 23, eleven days after the terrorist assaults in New York and Washington, agreed on the deployment of tactical weapons. This is an epic shift in the global ...
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December 6, 2000, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
America has warned Moscow that if its huge $7b arms deal with Tehran goes through, US-Russian economic and military cooperation will be detrimentally affected. This warning, conveyed by US defense secretary William Brown in an urgent meeting with his Russian counterpart Igor Sergeyev at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, is part ...
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