Trash Talking Taliban

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but an AR will kill you… It’s a remarkable combination of psychological warfare, political roundtable and trash-talking. Afghan soldiers and Taliban fighters taunt each other, debate each other and try to persuade each other almost daily over their radios, at times while even shooting at each other. ABC’s [...]

Potential Bioweapon: Q Fever Genome Is Sequenced

By Edward R. Winstead May 2, 2003 Scientists have sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes Q fever, an illness that leaves a person incapacitated for several weeks with a debilitating headache and fever. The pathogen, Coxiella burnetii, is a potential bioweapon because it takes the form of an aerosol and causes flu-like symptoms. [...]