The New York Times’ blog about news coverage, The Lede, has a good piece by Patrick J. Lyons about the current Las Vegas ricin incident. “Scary Stuff That Won’t Stay in Vegas” updates the story concisely, and provides some context:After all, nobody is known to have been hurt so far, though seven people — the [...]
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Wikileaks has a report, “U.S. Military Equipment in Iraq (2007),” based on leaked documents, outlining the array and cost of equipment held by United States forces in Iraq: [photopress:M33A1_500_x_193_via_Wikileaks.jpg,full,pp_image] Important points (on our first reading) include: Chemical and biological weapons portable facilities The United States has been caught with at least 2,386 low-grade chemical [...]
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international law,
Iraq,
NBC weapons