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Fars News Agency :: US Intelligence Chief: Iran Not Seeking N. Arms

Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said that Iran has not decided to pursue the production of weapons-grade uranium and the parallel ability to load it onto a ballistic missile, the Washington Post reported.

Obama Extends Sanctions Against Iran for Another Year - First 100 Days of Presidency - Politics FOXNews.com

Citing a continued “unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security,” President Obama on Thursday extended sanctions against Iran for one year in a public notice.

CQ Politics | Winnowing Down the Bio Threats

For much of his administration, Bush and homeland security officials said the threat of rogue scientists or al Qaeda sympathizers cooking up terror bugs like anthrax or plague was as great as that posed by a nuclear attack.

The high-profile case of Bruce Ivins, the government researcher charged with masterminding the 2001 anthrax mailings, only heightened such concerns.

But one outcome of the heightened vigilance is the [government’s list of “select agents” has gotten a bit long. It now includes 80 naturally occurring pathogens, from the potent toxin ricin and the exotic and potentially lethal Ebola virus to the treatable brucella — a parasite that causes livestock disease on three continents.

Danger Room - Wired Blogs:

The rest of the world may be focused on Iran’s nuclear program. But U.S. intelligence agencies, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations just can’t shake the suspicion that Iran may be trying to assemble other weapons of mass destruction, too: an arsenal of chemical and biological arms.

Iran Turns Tables, Threatens Strike on Israel - Middle East Times

In an upping of the tit for tat rhetoric between Tel Aviv and Tehran, several senior Iranian officials have recommended a pre-emptive strike on Israel in order to neutralize any Israeli attempt to bomb the Islamic republic’s alleged nuclear facilities.

Expert says nuclear terrorism is not a major threat (10/20/08) — www.GovernmentExecutive.com

“Brian Michael Jenkins, a longtime terrorism expert with the Rand Corp.,
says that the threat lies more in the realms of Hollywood dramas and
terrorist dreams than in reality.”

Erasing Ahmadinejad from the map - Haaretz - Israel News:

The wager of the year goes something like this: A year from now, which is more likely to remain on the map of the world - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or the state of Israel?

AFP: Indonesian cleric blames CIA for Bali bombing:

An Indonesian Islamic cleric linked to the three extremists awaiting execution for the Bali bombings said Thursday the 2002 attack which killed more than 200 people was the work of the CIA.

Iran has resumed work on constructing highly sophisticated equipment that nuclear experts say is primarily used for building atomic weapons, according to the latest intelligence reports received by Western diplomats.

Bitterly criticizing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), renowned Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan said it is not an international organization but belongs to the Americans and Jews.

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