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Press Release: 09:30CST - 13 Nov 1999

Chicago Emergency Institute Issues Worldwide Terrorism Advisory

By Paul Anderson

Chicago, IL (Emergencynet News) -- Clark Staten, Executive Director of the Chicago-based Emergency Response & Research Institute (ERRI), today issued a terrorism threat advisory warning American citizens and those of her allies, world-wide, to be particularly cautious for the remainder of 1999.

Staten, a recent winner of the International Association of Counter-Terrorism and Security Professionals (IACSP) 1999 National Leadership award, said that current world circumstances could result in additional attacks on America, her military bases, embassies, or commercial concerns closely associated with the United States. Additionally, Staten warned that the United Nations (U.N.) and its missions throughout the world, might soon find themselves targeted by militant factions.

"At present, we are particularly concerned about the effect of impending United Nations sanctions that are to soon be imposed on Afghanistan for it's recalcitrance in failing to turn over Usama Bin Laden for trial in the United States in connection with the bombings of American embassies in Africa," Staten said. "We know that the Taleban, who control 90-95% of Afghanistan, are not going to turn Bin Laden over to justice...and we would expect them to either sponsor or condone terrorist acts in retribution for the new U.N. sanctions that are to be implemented on Sunday," he added. "It may just be that the Taleban will 'unleash' Bin Laden and encourage him to take out his already threatened wrath on the United States," Staten continued.

"We know that a number of new 'fatwas' or Muslim religious edicts, that condone and authorize these barbarous terror acts to be carried out against the United States, have been issued in the past few weeks and months by radical clerics in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Egypt," Staten continued. "Violent events, like the mortars launched yesterday in Islamabad, Pakistan would suggest that a new cycle of militant violence may soon be forthcoming," the veteran counter-terrorist analyst added.

"As the year ends, we would anticipate the possibility of multi-dimensional threats, coming from multiple vectors, simultaneously," he continued. "Actually...a number of both domestic and world events and circumstances seem to be converging as we conclude the 20th Century...the combination of these matters may prove extremely troubling for America's military, intelligence, and emergency service agencies in the near term," Staten said.

Staten pointed out that instability and violence in a number of countries, often caused by ethnic or religious separatist elements, can be expected to continue or even increase as the 20th Century draws to an end. He said that ERRI is also presently monitoring possible threats concerning an upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting to be held in Seattle, WA. at the end of November, and the possibility of anti-capitalist street violence and/or computer-related attacks being associated with it. Staten said that it is likely that that several potentially very damaging computer viruses will also proliferate at year's end. And, he said that current ERRI assessments would suggest that "opportunistic" criminal or terrorist attacks, coordinated to take advantage of the so-called Y2K bug, may also occur at the end of this year.

"All in all, we are urging a greater than normal sense of awareness, precaution, and preparedness with regard to this latest set of national security challenges that presently face the United States...certainly there is no reason to panic, but we must respectfully suggest that the U.S. undertake a higher than normal state of alertness and readiness to defend against those that would wish us harm," Staten concluded.

) Copyright, EmergencyNet News Service, 1999. All rights reserved. May be redistributed to military, intelligence, and emergency services agencies without additional permission.

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Vol. 5, No. 1172-The American Reporter-October 5, 1999

DEFENSE AGAINST BIO-WARFARE IS NEAR, SCIENTIST SAYS

by Clark L. Staten American Reporter Correspondent Chicago, Ill.

CHICAGO (ENN) -- Former Soviet Colonel Kanatjan Alibekov, Ph.D. -- known today as Ken Alibek -- was the First Deputy Chief of the secret Soviet germ warfare program, Biopreparat, from 1988 to 1992, when he defected to the United States. Ever since, he has been briefing U.S. military and intelligence officials about biological weapons.

Dr. Alibek is now the co-author of the best-selling book "Biohazard," published by Random House, that tells "inside story" of the development of bio-warfare (BW) agents in the former Soviet Union. According to the New York Times, quoting the former U.S. government bio-war expert who helped debrief him, Dr. Alibek has provided information that is "critical" to America's understanding of the Soviet biological warfare programs.

He was interviewed by American Reporter Correspondent Clark L. Staten, who heads the Chicago-based Emergency Response Research Insttitue and EmergencyNet News service. Staten was formerly Chief Deputy Paramedic for the City of Chicago until his retirement in 1995, and has written extensively on terrorism.

'Highly Probable' Terrorists Have MWDs

AR: What weapons of mass destruction (WMD) -- chemical, biological, or nuclear -- do you see as the greatest threat to U.S. security at this time?

Alibek: Plague, smallpox, anthrax, glanders [an infectious disease of horses communicable to man], melloidosis [a glanders-like disease of rodents transmissible to man], Marburg and Ebola infections, Lassa infection, Machupo infection, many other hemorrhagic fevers and various [forms of] encephalitis and many others.

AR: To your knowledge, did the former Soviet Union work on genetic engineering or altering of the properties of "standard" biological agents used for weapons?

Alibek: The Soviet Union has developed genetically altered antibiotic resistant strains of anthrax, plague, tularemia [a plague-like disease of rodents infectious to man], and glanders. New biological weapons (lab prototypes and pilot-plant techniques) have been developed on a basis of genetically altered plague, anthrax and tularemia. This country was intensively researching way to genetically alter some viruses. For example, for years it was researching the ways to genetically alter variola major [smallpox virus] by inserting some new genes in this virus genome.

AR: To your knowledge, were strains of smallpox/variola exported to former Soviet allies? Other were other biological warfare agents?

Alibek: I'm afraid I don't know anything about the specifics of this.

AR: Do you believe that former Soviet scientists, who went unpaid for many months and familiar with bio-weapon technology, are now working in the so-called "rogue states" -- Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan, Yemen, Africa, etc.?

Alibek: Yes, I do. There is some information about this.

AR: Do you believe that non-state-sponsored terrorists have or may obtain chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union?

Alibek: It is highly probable.

AR: Here's a hypothetical -- if you were a terrorist and wanted to attack the U.S., what chemical/biological/nuclear agent would you chose to hurt the most people?

Alibek: Marburg and Ebola [hemorrhagic fever] infections, plague, smallpox, anthrax and, unfortunately, many others.

AR: If you had to pick one bio-weapon for a terrorist attack on the United States based on former Soviet doctrine, which one would you choose?

Alibek: Smallpox or plague.

AR: Did the former Soviet Union develop effective methods for non-explosive dispersal of biological agents?

Alibek: Yes, it did. It was a spray technique based the use of spray tanks installed on medium range bombers. In the late '80s, this country started to develop a new type of application based on use of "a low flying, high-speed object" for BW application. Clearly, it was [the purpose of such] research work to use "cruise missiles" for BW application.

AR: Theoretically, how would a terrorist operative disperse a bio-agent in a large city? Obviously, they don't have access to medium bombers or cruise missile technology. Could a man-portable system might be used by an individual or small group of persons to spread an agent? If so, how?

Alibek: The most probable situations are these: contamination of food in restaurants', aerosolization in metro-systems [subways], shopping malls, administrative and commercial buildings, etc.

AR: What are potentially the targets most vulnerable to attack by WMD within the continental United States? Which would have been targetted by the former Soviet Union?

Alibek: For a military application of BW, these are cities, sea ports, military bases and so on. For terrorist application, these are mostly shopping malls, commercial and administrative buildings, metro-systems and so on.

AR: What defensive measures would be of the greatest assistance to the United States in order to effective defend against WMD?

Alibek: We need to stop deceiving people that vaccines are the most effective protection and start developing new therapeutic and preventive approaches and means based on a broad-spectrum protection.

AR: How effective do you feel that vaccination or inoculation programs could be against potential WMD attacks on a civilian population within the United States? And vaccinations for military and emergency personnel?

Alibek: It is not a way to solve this problem.

AR: As a follow-up: If vaccines aren't the answer, in your opinion, what is a better approach for protecting civilian populations and emergency personnel from bio-attacks?

Alibek: There are too many biological agents that could be used in biological weapons. It is impossible to imagine how to develop this number of vaccines, and moreover how to vaccinate the entire population against all these diseases. The best approach is to develop a broad spectrum medical defense. It is quite a long research (it can take up to three to five years), but we are coming close to the possible solutions. I am working in this area now and I hope I will succeed.

AR: Given limited federal government training and funding, what steps can local emergency response agencies best take to improve their preparedness for the potential of an attack using bio-agents??

Alibek: What we need to do is to develop a new handbook to train first responders in this area. The problem is that everything we have now is absolutely inapplicable. I have been proposing my help for years, but haven't gotten a positive response. It is possible to accumulate funding from different sources (and different states and federal agencies) to have a contemporary and comprehensive manual for training first responders.

AR: In your view, what is the current level of preparedness in the United States to respond to a Soviet-style attack using weapons of mass destruction?

Alibek: I'm afraid it is very low.

Clark Staten heads the Emergency Response Research Institute in Chicago, and founded the EmergencyNet News online wire service. He has been a contributor to AR since 1995.

Copyright 1999 Joe Shea The American Reporter. All Rights Reserved.

-- Lewis (aslanshow@yahoo.com), November 15, 1999

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And who is Clark Staten?

Clark Staten EMT/P (ret)

Clark Staten is the founder and Executive Director of the Emergency Response & Research Institute (ERRI) in Chicago, IL. He is a former police officer and certified paramedic. Clark retired in 1995 as an Asst. Chief Paramedic and a twenty (20) year veteran of the Chicago Fire Department. He has been a frequent lecturer on the tactics and political implications of domestic and international Terrorism, Street Survival, Hazardous Materials, Chem/Bio Consequence Management, Media Relations, Management & Motivation Methods, Productivity, Mass Casualty/Disaster Management, Computers and Information Systems, Security planning, Crisis Intervention & Critical Incident Stress Management, and several other specialized rescue and security topics.

Clark is a certified DoD Domestic Preparedness Instructor Trainer and has taught at the U.S. Army Chemical school at Ft. McClellan, AL. He has also been employed as a contract counter-terrorism instructor for the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, and a number of law enforcement agencies. In 1998, he was appointed to be the Emergency Management Advisor to the International Association of Counter-Terrorism and Security Professionals (IACSP). Clark has lectured at more at more than 150 national and international conferences. He has also appeared as a subject matter expert on CNN, BBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CBC, FOX, and the Voice of America (VOA) Networks. Clark has published or been interviewed in more than one-hundred and twenty-five (125) articles and is the principal author of the book "Emergency Response Guide To Terrorism (5th Ed.)".

-- Lewis (aslanshow@yahoo.com), November 15, 1999.

And on that happy note:

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Protesters burn U.N. office to the ground in anger over sanctions 2.24 p.m. ET (1934 GMT) November 15, 1999 By Amir Shah, Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)  Protesters angered by U.N. sanctions burned a U.N. office to the ground, set effigies of President Clinton ablaze, and scuffled with Taliban troops guarding the world body's buildings and equipment.

The United Nations accused the religious army of not doing enough to stop the violence, which has gone on daily since the U.N. decided to slap sanctions on the country over its refusal to turn over suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Bin Laden, a Saudi exile who lives in Afghanistan, is accused of masterminding last year's twin U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, killing 224 people.

"The Taliban provided guards and police to U.N. offices, but they proved powerless against such large crowds,'' said Erick de Mul, U.N. coordinator for Afghanistan, in a statement issued in neighboring Pakistan.

At demonstrations throughout Afghanistan, protesters have burned U.S. flags and effigies of Clinton, and stormed U.N. buildings.

In northwestern Farah province, a U.N. office was burned down, but no one was hurt. Other demonstrations have resulted in damaged buildings, vehicles and equipment, said de Mul.

On Monday in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, a mob tried to storm U.N. offices, breaking windows and causing minor damage. A fight between the protesters and Taliban soldiers resulted in minor injuries, according to doctors in Jalalabad.

U.N. offices were closed and U.N. workers confined to their homes on Monday.

The sanctions virtually cut whatever remaining links Afghanistan and its impoverished people had with the outside world.

They order the Taliban's overseas assets frozen and ban flights owned, leased or operated by the Taliban. Exemptions to the flight ban would be permitted for humanitarian reasons or to allow the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.

With the end of the international flights, all mail in or out of Afghanistan comes to a halt. The Taliban say the sanctions will effect people's ability to buy food and will hurt the poor the most.

Meanwhile, the Taliban used the occasion to allow music to return to the airwaves for the first time since they took control of the capital, Kabul, in 1996. The religious army's Radio Shariat played an anti-American tune that warned that Afghan's would get revenge, "even if it takes 100 years.''

Under their strict brand of Islam, the Taliban consider most music against Islam.

De Mul is to meet with Taliban officials Tuesday in Kabul to seek security guarantees for an estimated 40 international U.N. workers in Afghanistan.

The sanctions have canceled the Taliban-run Ariana airline's only international flight  its service to the United Arab Emirates. Afghanistan usually receives food, medicine and electronic goods from the United Arab Emirates.

Mohammed Daoud, an Ariana supervisor, expressed anger at the U.N. decision.

"First it was the Russians who came and we died to save our country, and now it is the United Nations and the United States who are on our head. Why?'' Daoud asked. He called the sanctions a "cruel'' epitaph to the million Afghans killed during the Russian occupation of their homeland.

Earlier this year the United States banned investment in and trade with the Taliban, barred Americans from using Ariana airlines and started seizing the airline's $500 million in U.S. assets.

Impoverished by 20 years of relentless war, Afghans say even limited sanctions will be backbreaking.

The Afghan currency, called the Afghani, weakened in anticipation of the sanctions, dropping from 43,000 Afghanis to the U.S. dollar to 51,000. That has driven the cost of food up  a blow for Afghans, most of whom do not have jobs and make very little money.

The Taliban say they won't turn over bin Laden because Afghan culture and tradition makes it impossible to hand over a guest to his enemies. They also argue they do not have an extradition treaty with the United States.

The Taliban have called the sanctions "unreasonable'' and have urged other Muslim nations to ignore the sanctions, but none have responded.

-- Roland (notelling@nohwere.com), November 15, 1999.

Lewis

I watched a two part special on CBC in Canada about Biological agents and Russia. Very scary stuff. Showed the effects of a leak in one of the towns. Ick! The Russian situation is a true wild card world security wise. I got the impression that many of the Russians themselves had no idea of the scope that Bio weapons have in their arsenal.

-- Brian (imager@home.com), November 15, 1999.

"Alibek: For a military application of BW, these are cities, sea ports, military bases and so on. For terrorist application, these are mostly shopping malls, commercial and administrative buildings, metro-systems and so on. "

Christmas shopping season...

-- helen (sstaten@fullnet.net), November 15, 1999.

Yes, Roland - Sanctions always work well, don't they?

Brian -hadn't heard of that. They seem to have some confusion over their nuclear inventory, too.

Helen-

go to the head of the class.

Anyone for mail-order shopping this season? Never did like malls. All those people jammed together cheek by jowl....

Folks, this is known as a Hint. Our loyal Public Sevants are well and truly freaked about this. When you see weird and wonderful federal behaviour soon, think WMD not Y2K.

-- Lewis (aslanshow@yahoo.com), November 15, 1999.

---with ya, roland. I look at a lot of "hints". wish a lot more people would.......and skip OPRAH. think about it, if everyone who watches the big 0 would spend that exact sane time researching REALITY, how much better we'd all be, as a society. Just reading, that's it, reading. sad, ain't it? zoggus

-- zog (zzoggy@yahoo.com), November 15, 1999.

Thanks Lewis.

;-(

"...and Egypt,"

Uh huh. What recent airline...?

[snip]

"As the year ends, we would anticipate the possibility of multi- dimensional threats, coming from multiple vectors, simultaneously," he continued. "Actually...a number of both domestic and world events and circumstances seem to be converging as we conclude the 20th Century...the combination of these matters may prove extremely troubling for America's military, intelligence, and emergency service agencies in the near term..."

Time for more rice, winter wheat n beans. And holiday shopping... away from malls.

Diane, who could use a laced latte bout now

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 16, 1999.

Anyone else getting a ...network connection was refused by the server... error message this morning?

http:// www.emergency.com/1999/terr1199.htm

???

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 16, 1999.

There's your reason for the chemtrails. They're vaccinating us!

-- Ralph Kramden (and@awaywego.com), November 16, 1999.

Ralph;

Go back and actually READ Alibek. He says in so many words that there is NO POSSIBLE WAY that ANY vaccination program can work. Period. End of story.

THe only solution is a broad spectrum treatment approach.

shudder cringe shiver (And I thought JD Polk was a pessimist!)

chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), November 16, 1999.

Site up again...

The ERRI... The Emergency Response & Research Institute Year2000(Y2K) Resource Page

http:// www.emergency.com/y2kpage.htm

(Roland... link please!)

Make that...

(((BIG SHUDDER!!!))) Chuck.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 16, 1999.

Diane -- if all these rogue nations/terrorists focus on their own country's assets (Egypt Air 990 for example) we won't have a lot to worry about. Somehow I don't think it'll be that simple, though.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), November 16, 1999.

The first time I submitted my last msg., I got that error message or an equivalent --

10 seconds later it went through just fine. Heavy traffic, I'd say. This is lunch time here in the East. (1:03 PM EST just now)

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), November 16, 1999.

Thanks Lewis.

A few days ago I posted a first hand report regarding a conversation I had with a hair lady. Her daughter (a PhD in the Bio/Chem .gov world) received, first hand, warnings much like what has been outlined here. She was begging and pleading with her mom to be out of the city before the rollover. The daughter had arranged shelter in BF Arizona, was prepping, etc.

*BIG SIGH*

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mt4design@aol.com), November 16, 1999.

Chuck, the night driver; Is Alibek the ultimate authority? Is he incapable of being incorrect? As a Soviet defector, I doubt that he has access to the latest classified advances in US bio-warfare research and counter-measures. Perhaps breakthroughs have been made that he's not aware of.The pace of advances in cloning, DNA and gene-splicing have been breathtaking. I can think of about a bizzilion examples in history where recognized authorities have stated absolutes only to be proven wrong.

-- Ralph Kramden (and@awayWeGo .com), November 16, 1999.

For anyone who has both the time and the interest, I highly recommend Alibekov's book:

Biohazard

I read it this spring shortly after it was published. It is, to say the least, a real eye-opener.

-- Arnie Rimmer (Arnie_Rimmer@usa.net), November 16, 1999.

Ralph wrote:

I can think of about a bizzilion examples in history where recognized authorities have stated absolutes only to be proven wrong.

Umm Hmm. That is precisely why we think preparations for Y2K makes sense.

I wouldn't be so quick to condemn Alibekov. Read the book, then you'll know from where he speaks. Do you really think that dog won't hunt?

-- Arnie Rimmer (Arnie_Rimmer@usa.net), November 16, 1999.

Key dates to watch...

THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION'S
THIRD MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

30 November - 3 December 1999

http:// www.wto.org/wto/minist/seatmin.htm

See also thread...

WTO:World Trade Organization or WORLD TAKE OVER?

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 001mhQ

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 17, 1999.

Thanks, Diane. Good links.

I've been thinking, (worrying, actually), about the following equation:

Impact = Severity X Duration

To injure the West in general and the US in particular, Bad Guys don't need to make computer problems more severe, (although clearly that capability exists).

They just need to impede Fix-on-Failure efforts. If they can do that on a wide scale, the overall Impact can be multiplied.

I just wanted to make this observation, but I don't encourage further public discussion. All sorts of folks use the web these days.

And to our fellow GI's who are actual GI's, you probably should taper off on public reporting of any military preps you see. I'm very interested in that angle, too. But it's game time and loose lips really did sink ships.

I'm not trying for censorship here, everyone. Trying to defend the Defenders.

-- Lewis (aslanshow@yahoo.com), November 18, 1999.

Topward bound.

-- (upseyd@isey.oomph), December 09, 1999.

"AT the present time, the United States' national stockpile of smallpox vaccine is a collection of four cardboard boxes that sit on a single pallet behind a chain-link fence inside a walk-in freezer in a warehouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, near the Susquehanna River, at a facility owned by Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. The vaccine is slowly deteriorating. The Food and Drug Administration has put a hold on the smallpox vaccine, and right now no one can use it -- not even emergency personnel or key government leaders."

Richard Preston, from "The Demon in the Freezer", http://cryptome.org/ smallpox-wmd.htm

-- Don Kulha (dkulha@vom.com), December 09, 1999.

What good would smallpox vaccine do against mutated or genetically altered smallpox vaccine. They have been working on antibiotic resistant strains, remember?

-- worrier (worry@wort.com), December 17, 1999.