02 February 2004

get yer WMDs here...

while every news organization on the planet is running this headline: Nuclear Black Market Is Small, Covert...

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The nuclear black market that supplied Iran, Libya and North Korea is small, tight-knit and appears to have been badly hurt by the exposure of its reputed head, the father of Pakistan's nuclear program, diplomats and weapons experts told The Associated Press. They describe the network that circumvented international controls to sell blueprints, hardware and know-how to countries running covert nuclear programs as involving people closely dependent on one another. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who founded Pakistan's nuclear program, is emerging as the head of the ring believed to have been the main supplier through middlemen over three continents. A Pakistani government official revealed Monday that Khan has acknowledged in a written statement transferring nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea.


Initial tests prove positive for ricin at the Dirksen Senate Office building...
Hazardous Substance Found in U.S. Senate Office, ABC News Says
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Workers at a U.S. Senate office in Washington, D.C. were evacuated after preliminary tests showed a substance found in a room was hazardous, ABC News reported, citing police in the city. Two tests were made on powder found in a room in the Dirksen Senate Office building, ABC cited an unidentified government official as saying. One identified it as the poison ricin, the second test was negative, the report said. The sample has been sent for further testing. The powder was found at about 3 p.m. Washington time, ABC cited police as saying. Workers in the south side of the building were called to a conference room and told to stay away from the south side of the fourth floor, ABC reported.

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