*Maybe they should have looked some place
besides under the street lamp.
China Apparent Source of Albanian Chemical Weapons http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2005_1_10.html#6E8289F8
ALBANIA FINDS HORDE OF LETHAL CHEMICALS. Albanian Defense Ministry
officials recently found at an undisclosed location 16 tons of
potentially highly lethal yperite (aka mustard), as well as lewisite
and adamsite, which are arsenic-based, stored in hundreds of
canisters containing "millions" of deadly doses, "The Washington
Post" reported on 10 January. Albanian and U.S. experts believe that
the Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha obtained the chemicals from China in the 1970s to use against the invasion he long expected from the West, the Soviet Union, or Yugoslavia. The daily noted that "while the stockpile is small compared with the vast chemical weapons holdings of Russia and the United States, it is worrisome to U.S. officials because of what it represents: one of scores of undocumented or poorly secured weapons caches worldwide that could be exploited by terrorists with deadly effect."
Albanian officials are
now preparing to destroy the chemicals, which appear to have been
forgotten during a decade that witnessed instability and occasional
anarchy at home, as well as the conflict in neighboring Kosova. PM
Botulinum Toxin Missing From Florida Clinics
http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2005_1_10.html#9848F2F8
Where is Homeland Security on this? If you can buy the most lethal toxin known to man over the phone, why hasn't something been done? ... $53,000 worth of this stuff could kill a lot of people. – –Palm Beach County Health Director Jean Malecki, on missing vials of botulinum toxin marketed as an alternative to Botox and sold to 13 customers in South Florida.
