-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Bioweapons Expert Smugglers Anthrax Inside Rayburn Office Building Most of congress is now dead A leading U.S. expert on biological warfare walked through security at the Rayburn House Office Building yesterday carrying 7 1/2 grams of powdered anthrax in a small plastic bottle, proceeding directly to a hearing before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and displaying his deadly sample. The expert, William C. Patrick III, said he was trying to show how a hostile state could smuggle powdered anthrax into the United States in a secure diplomatic pouch and attack major federal government installations almost at will. "I've been through all the major airports, and the security systems of the State Department, the Pentagon, even the CIA, and nobody has stopped me," Patrick told the committee. "Seven and a half grams would take care of the Rayburn Building and all the people in it." Patrick's testimony on biological warfare and its most frightening mutant, bioterrorism, was given during one of the intelligence panel's rare open sessions as Congress and the administration focus increasing attention and vast new resources on counterterrorism. Committee Chairman Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) said he called the unusual open session to help educate the public on what he called "a national security concern of the highest priority." President Clinton has made defending the country against biological and chemical attacks among the highest priorities of his administration. In January, he proposed a $10 billion counterterrorism budget for the coming fiscal year that includes $1.4 billion for enhancing domestic readiness in the event of a chemical or biological terrorist attack. In his testimony, Patrick revealed that he toted a number of other chilling samples through Rayburn security "like Sherman went through Georgia," including a small canister of 25,000 dormant mosquito eggs that he said could easily have been infected with encephalitis and loosed on the population at large. John A. Lauder, director of the CIA's Nonproliferation Center, told the committee that a dozen countries, including Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Syria, "now either possess or are actively pursuing offensive biological weapons capabilities for use against their perceived enemies, whether internal or external." Countries with biological weapons technology include the United States and some of its closest allies but also, as Lauder pointed out, hostile powers such as Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea. Weaponizing biological agents is much more difficult for small rogue states and terrorists "than some popular literature seems to suggest," Lauder said. But biological weapons remain a highly dangerous threat because they are cheap and relatively easy to make, he said, and could become far more threatening with rapid advances in biotechnology. The Washington Post, March 4, 1999 Money Laundering Britain Cracks Down on the Colonies Time to throw the regulations into the harbor? Some of the UK's last colonial outposts will later this month be instructed to take fresh action to combat money laundering. The government will also ask some of the 13 territories, which represent the last remnants of the former British empire, to implement human rights legislation. A UK government policy paper on the territories will make clear the UK retains the option of imposing legislation to improve human rights and the regulation of offshore financial services. However, Robin Cook, foreign secretary, is hoping the territories will implement the measures voluntarily through their assemblies. The Caribbean territories, led by the Cayman islands and the British Virgin islands, have a significant financial services sector that in the past was blighted by money laundering. Steps have been taken to remedy the problem. The Cayman islands, which has no direct taxation, last year removed a fiscal exemption clause from its anti-money laundering legislation. A UK government official said more legislation was needed in the territories to combat money laundering, regulate companies and secure co-operation with international financial services investigators. "Investors are more likely to put their money in jurisdictions which are clean, and are seen to be clean," the official said. "Many of the overseas territories have been pursuing this agenda already. But the financial services industry is not static." Bermuda has yet to implement measures that will create tax offences as part of its anti-money laundering legislation. The Turks and Caicos islands have not completed legislation to regulate the formation of companies, and the British Virgin islands are behind with the auditing of government accounts. The Foreign Office has a wider concern about the adequacy of financial services regulation in the territories. The House of Commons public accounts committee was told last year that the British Virgin islands derived 47 per cent of its revenue from the financial services sector, but only 3 per cent was spent regulating it. The committee also heard that in the Turks and Caicos islands seven people were responsible for the supervising of almost 13,000 companies and banks. The Financial Times, March 5, 1999 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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