May 11, 2001, General Clark declared: "And I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice... people I know very well - our president George W. Bush. We need them there."

'John Eldridge, editor of Jane's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence Weekly, told a national newspaper that Dr Kelly's and Dr Langford's deaths were linked, and thought other microbiologists should be concerned for their safety. The Royal Navy expert Mr Eldridge said scientists involved in microbiology were terrorist targets and under close scrutiny from the US and Russia.

Two years after the terrorist attacks prompted tighter security at airports nationwide and the deployment of 50,000 government-paid screeners, congressional investigators found that the Transportation Security Administration has not stopped the flow of lethal weapons through checkpoints. The frequency and types of weapons remain classified. "You wouldn't want to know. ... It's gruesome," said Rep. John Mica (news, bio, voting record), R-Fla., chairman of a House aviation panel.

Whatever the outcome, the case, days after the disclosure of the arrest of a Muslim chaplain at the camp, has shaken the US authorities. It has called into question the security of a remote and supposedly super-safe facility at the heart of President George Bush's "war on terrorism". The episode has raised fears that al-Qa'ida, far from being on the run in the US, may have penetrated the military that is pursuing it.
mr ed - zyria did it. zyria did it.

"Anyway Mena has an airport and it looks from the outside like an ordinary, normal airport. The thing that separates Mena's airport from any other is the fact that there are row upon row of hangars --buildings which house aircraft refitting facilities. Now aircraft refitting is an industry that is in demand by two principal paying customers. One of them is the CIA, and the other one are drug smugglers. " - Mark Swaney, 1991 interview on WBAI, Pacifica radio, New York City