Terrorism Act

Arkansas Resident Charged with Possession of Ricin — Canadian customs officials intercepted a man carrying a stack of currency. A white powder was interspersed between the bills. Suspecting cocaine, customs personnel had the material analyzed and discovered that it was ricin, a strong toxin, and not cocaine. The Arkansas resident was charged with possession of ricin in violation of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989. 

Approaches to Combat Terrorism (ACT) Opportunities for Basic Research, Joint Workshop by The Directorate of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences, NSF and the Intelligence Community, National Science Eoundation (http //www.mitre.org/public/act/ 10 22 fmal.pdf), 2003. 

TFM - concerns force majeures, accidents, catastrophes, terrorism acts, other undesired events, and failures possible within the TOE environment,... 

Military In consideration of potential terror acts with chemical and biological weapons a fast test for different kinds of chemicals and organisms is required. In a single microarray experiment various toxins and biological species can be detected with specific detection probes (generated antibodies). 

Different applications of urban-scale meteorology and wind-flow models to the emergency preparedness systems and issues for city areas can be considered many types of accidental NBC releases in urban or agricultural canopy areas. Possible threats and risks of terror actions in such areas may include 1) radionuclide releases due to accidents at nuclear power plants, dirty bombs , nuclear tests explosions, etc. 2) bioterror actions 3) chemical harmful releases due to different kind of accidents or terror acts. 

Benjamin Rush publishes his Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind, the first American textbook of psychiatry. He declares that terror acts powerfully on the body through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness and that masturbation causes seminal weakness, impotence, dysury, tabes dorsalis, pulmonary consumption, dyspepsia, dimness of sight, vertigo, epilepsy, hypochondriasis, loss of memory, manalgia, fatuity, and death. ... 

Chemical and biological terrorism was not limited to foreign countries. The first conviction under the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 occurred in 1995, when a U.S. citizen was sentenced to 33 months in prison for possession of 0.7 g of ricin. The same year, a nonprofit organization... 

Two tax protesters were convicted in February 1995 of possessing ricin as a biological weapon. This was the first case of prosecution under the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act.17... 

Many terrorist researchers argue that we are facing a new type of terrorism. The perpetrators of the new terrorism act transnational, they operate in loosely organized networks, they are inspired by religion and they intend to physically attack as many people as possible, also by means of weapons of mass destruction. Their victims are not carefully selected but their targeting is indiscriminate (Laqueur, 2003 Trrcker, 2001). 

Committee on the Judiciary, The Biological Weapons Anti Terrorism Act of1989, 101st Congress, first session, 26 July 1989. 

Anti-terrorism, Crime ond Security Act 2001 Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 Terrorism Act 2006... 

Allows detention of terrorist suspects for 48 hours without charge. This could be extended to seven days on the order of a judge (amended and extended by the Terrorism Act 2006). 

The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 is concerned with the establishment of control orders. Breach of a control order is a critninal offence... 

The 2006 Terrorism Act also amends existing legislation, including ... 

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