I just returned from a mandated course on Weapons of Mass Destruction that is required for my NYS EMT recertification. It was a steaming pile of crap.

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Two members of the 92nd Civil Support Team take a sample of a simulated hazardous substance in a Sparks, Nev., shopping mall during training Nov. 25, 2005. The Nevada National Guard’s civil support team was called to assist Las Vegas Metro Police on Feb. 28, 2008, with a suspicious substance that was later identified as [...]

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I’m not sure if this is fighting last year’s war, or is a forward looking step.
DoD
By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
The Defense Department has begun its transition to the next generation of smallpox vaccine.
The new ACAM2000 vaccine first hit the shelves at the Pentagon’s DiLorenzo Clinic last week from the Centers for [...]

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DVIDS
By Spc. Ryan A. Cleary
196th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
Soldiers from the 637th Chemical Company gathered Jan. 12 to display and demonstrate their newest weapon in the fight against terrorism-the Joint Biological Point Detection System.
The JBPDS represents the most advanced biological threat detection and identification system in the world, and officially marks its inception into the [...]

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Army
As of Dec. 10, the Army has safely destroyed 50 percent of the United States’ chemical-agent stockpile since beginning to comply with the Chemical Weapons Convention April 29, 1997.
Officially the “Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction,” the CWC is a treaty among [...]

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It’s been a couple of days short of six years since the murders of September 11, 2001. The West has learned a great deal since then, and so have the terrorists who are our enemies.
They’re not stupid people, these men who wage war on us and all we believe. Some have medical degrees or are [...]

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Here’s an interesting press release from down under.
Sydney NSW Australia
Sydneysiders will be encouraged to prepare themselves and their families for emergencies in an important and emotive public education campaign launched today.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP said Let’s Get Ready Sydney encourages people to think about how a major emergency in the CBD would affect them [...]

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The Canadians have misplaced some gear. We think. The Canadian Press has compiled a database that suggests that 75 or so pieces of equipment containing radioactive materials have gone missing.

Ed Morrissey is concerned. I am, too, because I suspect the same compilation for the United States would show hundreds missing.
Remember that the FBI cannot keep [...]

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MNF-Iraq
Coalition Forces killed two terrorists and detained 10 suspected terrorists in raids targeting an al-Qaeda in Iraq vehicle-borne improvised explosive device network Wednesday morning.
Coalition Forces raided several locations in follow-on operations after a Tuesday raid that killed a senior leader in a Baghdad VBIED cell. When Coalition Forces entered a building in Baghdad, two [...]

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DoD
Anyone who doubts that al Qaeda would use chemical, nuclear or biological weapons need only look at the terror group’s attacks in Iraq, Defense officials said.
Al Qaeda and affiliated groups have used chlorine gas in attacks against civilians, Iraqi forces and coalition forces at least 15 times since October, according to U.S. officials in Baghdad.
“Chlorine [...]

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