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State tackles readiness for biochemical attack
Tribune staff reportersAfter years of incremental preparations for what once seemed the remote chance of an attack with biological or chemical weapons, Illinois emergency agencies have launched urgent efforts to strengthen their plans. Galvanized by the Sept. 11 terrorist...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Northwestern University, Hospitals and Clinics, Springfield, Nuclear Power
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U.S. rejects latest Taliban offer
Washington BureauPresident Bush on Sunday sternly rejected an offer by Afghanistan's Taliban regime to turn over Osama bin Laden to a neutral country, while U.S. jets began a second week of bombing by striking targets near Kabul and the area where Taliban troops are...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Crime, Law and Justice, Pervez Musharraf, Islam, Al-Qaeda
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Tougher bioweapons ban asked
Special to the TribuneDeclaring that the threat posed by germ warfare and terrorism "is real and extremely dangerous," President Bush opened a campaign Thursday to strengthen and expand the provisions of a 1972 treaty banning biological weapons. His proposal would extend many...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health, International Organizations, Biological and Chemical Weapons, United Nations
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Airstrikes hit tanks, Taliban quarters
From Staff And Wire ReportsWASHINGTON - U.S. warplanes pounded the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul yesterday, striking a Taliban tank unit and other military installations, while the Taliban headquarters in Kandahar was hit dozens of times. As the U.S.-led aerial assault...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Wars and Interventions, Teen-agers, Al-Qaeda, United Nations
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FBI's use of bloodhounds in anthrax probe disputed
Sun StaffThree keen-nosed bloodhounds named Lucy, Knight and TinkerBelle, flown in by the FBI from Southern California late last summer to help with the anthrax investigation, are a major reason for agents' focus on former Army bioterrorism expert Dr. Steven J....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Armed Forces, ABC (tv network), Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Juvenile Delinquency
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Iraqi groups agree to help form assembly
From Wire ReportsBAGHDAD, Iraq -- The main Iraqi opposition groups have agreed to help put together a national assembly of more than 350 deputies that would meet this month to name an interim executive council or prime minister to run the country. Representatives of...Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Ayad Allawi, Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture, Saddam Hussein
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Congress returns to work, OKs bioterrorism bill
Washington BureauResuming work on a day of unusual tension on Capitol Hill, the House voted 419-0 Tuesday to make bioterrorism a federal crime. As Congress grappled with anthrax contamination at four sites within the Capitol campus, there was a special sense of urgency...Tags: Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Tom Daschle, Science and Technology, Anthrax
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U.S. rejects alternative anthrax cures
There is no evidence that alternative medicines, including some promoted on the Internet, are effective in treating anthrax or other biological agents, a leading government scientist said Wednesday. Certain natural treatments could interfere with...Tags: Local Government, Health, National Security, Career and Workplace, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Cleanup of anthrax will cost hundreds of millions of dollars
Sun StaffCleaning up the invisible trail of biological poison left by the anthrax letters mailed last year will cost hundreds of millions of dollars by the time the decontamination effort is complete in 2004 or later, government officials say. The cleanup reached...Tags: Travel, Career and Workplace, Regional Authority, Employment Opportunities, Tom Daschle
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Saddam profile
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersSaddam Hussein rules by fear, but he is also ruled by his fears. The Iraqi president spends ever more time in the many bunkers beneath his ornate palaces. He rarely sleeps more than one night in the same place. He receives visitors only after they have...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Diplomacy, Crime, Law and Justice, Armed Forces, Baghdad (Iraq)
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'I'll be safe,' Bush insists
Washington BureauAnthrax has been detected on a machine that opens letters bound for the White House, officials announced Tuesday, bringing the bioterrorism scare closer to another symbol of American power. No one at the White House has tested positive for exposure to...Tags: Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Plastic Surgeons, U.S. Postal Service, Travel
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Doctors placed on alert for infections
Tribune science reporterIn an unusual warning to the nation's doctors, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked them to be on heightened alert for any infectious outbreaks--from food poisoning to smallpox--that could be the result of bioterrorism. The...Tags: Health, Symptoms, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Science and Technology
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