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British Prime Minister Tony Blair says that Osama bin Laden will be killed, while US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says that he may never be caught.

Rumsfeld says it would be ?very difficult? to capture or kill him, but he believes that Afghanistan?s Taliban government will be toppled. He says, ?I think there will be a post-Taliban Afghanistan.?

Rumsfeld says of Bin Laden, ?He?s got a lot of money, he’s got a lot of people who support him and I just don?t know whether we?ll be successful. Clearly, it would be highly desirable to find him.? But he says Bin Laden?s terrorist network will carry on without him. ?If he were gone tomorrow, the same problem would exist.?
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It has been discovered that the anthrax spores that contaminated Senator Thomas Daschle?s office were treated with a chemical additive so sophisticated that only three nations are capable of making it. Experts in anthrax weapons say they have no doubt that such an additive was present based on the high dispersal rate from the letter sent to Daschle.

?The evidence is patent on its face,? says Alan Zelicoff, a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories? Center for National Security and Arms Control. ?The amount of energy needed to disperse the spores [by merely opening an envelope] was trivial, which is virtually diagnostic of achieving the appropriate coating.?
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Scientists have created a synthetic compound that disables the toxin that makes anthrax so dangerous. Also, a second research team has discovered a gene that protects some mice against anthrax. Together, these discoveries could lead to an antidote to anthrax.

When someone inhales spores of anthrax, the bacteria unleashes 3 proteins that combine to form a poison that causes a sudden fall in blood pressure and internal bleeding, which can lead to coma and death.
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Bubbles can sink floating objects, which suggests that methane bubbles escaping from methane reserves in the seabed might may be the cause for so many vessels disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle.

In order for an object to float, the density of the liquid has to be greater than the density of the object. If you mix enough bubbles into a liquid to lower its average density, an object floating on its surface will sink. This may be why so many ships sank in that area for no obvious reason.
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