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2 Mice Carrying Plague Disappear From NJ Lab, FBI Says No Public Health
Risk

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 10:49 PM PST

The frozen remains of two mice injected with the organism that
causes plague have not been accounted for seven weeks after being
discovered missing at a University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

facility in Newark, the university said Friday.

The FBI investigated and determined there was no risk to public health or
any indication of the terrorist link.

It wasn’t the first time plague-infected mice have disappeared from the New Jersey

facility. Four years ago, in September 2005, three live mice infected with
bubonic plague bacteria disappeared from various cages. Officials later said they
believed the rodents had died.

UMDNJ’s Public Health Research Institute issued a four-paragraph

statement about the December incident late Friday saying it believes the red
hazardous waste bag containing the dead mice was sterilized and incinerated

along with another bag.

“Although the mice in the missing bag were used in vaccine experiments involving

the bacteria Yersinia pestis, the organism that causes plague, UMDNJ has no
reason to believe that this situation poses a risk to the safety or health of UMDNJ

staff or the community at large,” the university said in its prepared statement.

University spokesman Jerry Carey said he did not know why UMDNJ waited
seven weeks to disclose the missing mice.

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CIA Warns Obama British Terrorists Biggest Threat To US

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 10:44 PM PST

American spy chiefs have told the President that the CIA has
launched a vast spying operation in the UK to prevent a repeat of the 9/11
attacks being launched from Britain.

They believe that a British-born Pakistani extremist entering
the US under the visa waiver programme is the most likely source of another
terrorist spectacular on American soil.

Intelligence briefings for Mr Obama have detailed a dramatic
escalation in American espionage in Britain, where the CIA has recruited
record numbers of informants in the Pakistani community to monitor the 2,000
terrorist suspects identified by MI5, the British security service.

A British intelligence source revealed that a staggering four
out of 10 CIA operations designed to thwart direct attacks on the US are now
conducted against targets in Britain.

And a former CIA officer who has advised Mr Obama told The
Sunday Telegraph that the CIA has stepped up its efforts in the last month after
the Mumbai massacre laid bare the threat from Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group
behind the attacks, which has an extensive web of supporters in the UK.

The CIA has already spent 18 months developing a network of agents in Britain to

combat al-Qaeda, unprecedented in size within the borders of
such a close ally, according to intelligence sources in both London and
Washington.

Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer who has advised Mr Obama,
told The Sunday Telegraph: “The British Pakistani community is recognised as
probably al-Qaeda’s best mechanism for launching an attack against North
America.

via CIA warns Barack Obama that British terrorists are the biggest threat to the
US - Telegraph.