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Latest CIA WMD Threat Assessment Highlights Syrian Nuclear Ambitions
Nov. 11, 2003WASHINGTON — In a marked shift from previous assessments, the CIA said in a report released today that it is monitoring Syrian nuclear intentions with “growing concern” (see GSN, Nov. 5)
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U.S. Scientists Warn CIA of New “Designer” Biological Agents
Nov. 17, 2003A panel of U.S. scientists has warned that advances in genetic engineering could lead to the creation of “designer” biological weapons, according to a CIA report described by Agence France-Presse today (see GSN, Oct. 27).
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Cuban Officials Say Biotechnology Program Successfully Creates New Medical Products
Nov. 19, 2003Disputing U.S. charges that Havana is conducting a biological weapons program, Cuban officials have said their biotechnology program has resulted in the creation of new treatments against a wide range of diseases, the Dallas Morning News reported today (see GSN, Nov. 3).
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Eight Iraqi Scientists Remain In U.S. Custody
Dec. 9, 2003Eight Iraqi scientists who were previously involved in Iraqi WMD efforts remain in U.S. custody, with a large number of Iraqi scientists having been released, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Dec. 1).
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Iraq Conducted WMD Research After First Gulf War, but Made Little Progress
Jan. 7, 2004U.S. and British weapons inspectors working in Iraq have found evidence of hidden WMD research by the former regime of President Saddam Hussein, but little evidence that such research was used to build new or advanced WMD programs, the Washington Post reported today (see GSN, Dec. 31, 2003).
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U.S. Action Halted Al-Qaeda WMD Effort in Afghanistan, Officials Say
Jan. 27, 2004U.S. and Malaysian security officials have said that an al-Qaeda program to develop chemical and biological weapons was in its “conceptual stages” when it was disrupted by the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the Associated Press reported yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 18, 2003).
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Libya Had WMD Materials, But Did Not Produce Weapons, Official Says
Feb. 11, 2004Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgam said yesterday that his country had all the materials needed to develop weapons of mass destruction, but did not actually do so (see GSN, Feb. 9).
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U.S. Intelligence Never Met With Source of Iraqi Mobile Laboratory Claim
March 5, 2004The Bush administration’s claim that prewar Iraq had developed mobile biological weapons laboratories was mainly based on information from an Iraqi defector who was never questioned directly by U.S. intelligence agents, the Washington Post reported today (see GSN, Feb. 25).
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Iraqi Defector Provided Now-Discredited Information on Alleged Iraqi Mobile Biological Facilities
March 29, 2004The U.S. case for Iraq’s development of mobile biological weapons facilities was based largely on information from an Iraqi defector who has since been called an “out-and-out fabricator,” the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday (see GSN, March 24).
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Cuba Poses Biological Threat to U.S., Bolton Says
April 1, 2004The Bush administration reaffirmed this week its assessment that Cuba could be using its biotechnology industry to research and develop biological weapons (see GSN, Nov. 19, 2003).
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Group Calls for BWC Monitoring Panel
April 19, 2004WASHINGTON — A panel of scientists is needed to monitor development of biological agents that could be used as weapons, Britain’s Royal Society states in a paper to be submitted today at a U.N. Foundation conference (see GSN, April 13).
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French Police Arrest Two in Terror Investigation
May 17, 2004Two Algerian men were arrested Friday in France as part of an ongoing investigation of an Islamic terrorist cell suspected of working to develop chemical and biological weapons, the New York Times reported (see GSN, May 5).
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