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• Creosote
  ...temperature treatment of [[beech]] and other woods, or from the [[resin]] of the [[creosote bush]]. ...rvative. It is distilled from crude coke oven tar, and is mainly composed of [[polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons]] (PAHs), but also contains [[phenol]]s
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• National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System
  | Non-profit_logo = <br /><small>Logo of the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System</small> ...add the street address-->[[Fairfax,_VA|Fairfax, Virginia]] <br /> [[United States|U.S.]]
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• Air safety
  ...pplied in the context of campaigns that inform the public as to the safety of [[air travel]]. ===United States===
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• Emergency management
  ...he institutions for [[civil defense]] or within the conventional structure of the [[emergency service]]s. However, emergency management actually starts a ...anagement context. This focuses on the mitigation and preparedness aspects of the emergency cycle (see below).
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• 2003 ricin letters
  ...ion = This envelope was sent to the White House and contained a small vial of ricin powder |target = [[U.S. Department of Transportation]], [[The White House]]
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• Anniston, Alabama
  |subdivision_type = [[List of countries|Country]] |subdivision_name = United States
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• 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
  | caption = Four of the restaurants in The Dalles affected by the attack | location = [[The Dalles, Oregon|The Dalles]], [[Oregon]], United States
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• Counter-terrorism
  ...es, and strategies that [[government]]s, [[military|militaries]], [[police department]]s and [[corporation]]s adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threat The tactic of [[terrorism]] is available to [[insurgency|insurgents]] and governments. No
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• Leaderless resistance
  ...le it lacks a central command, the concept does not necessarily imply lack of cooperation. ...y of the strategy, leaderless resistance has been employed by a wide-range of movements, from [[terrorism|terrorist]] and [[hate group]]s, to the [[anima
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• Terrorism
  ...errorism''' is the systematic use of [[fear|terror]] especially as a means of [[coercion]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Terrorism ...tical or ideological goal, and deliberately target or disregard the safety of [[non-combatant]]s (civilians).{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}
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• Aircraft hijacking
  ...a group. In most cases, the pilot is forced to fly according to the orders of the hijackers. Occasionally, however, the hijackers have flown the aircraft ...ably [[Indian Airlines Flight 814|IC-814]]) to highlighting the grievances of a particular community (notably [[Air France Flight 8969|AF 8969]]). Hijack
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• Al-Qaeda
  |logo = Flag of al-Qaeda in Iraq.svg |opponents = [[United States]], [[Israel]], [[United Nations]], [[United Kingdom]], Afghan National Army, Iraqi Armed Forces, Coalition Forces/Tribe
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• Ken Alibek
  ...Executive Officer of [[AFG Biosolutions Inc.]] (USA) and President and CEO of [[MaxWell Biocorporation, LLC]] (USA)<ref>www.max-well.com</ref>. ...kov in [[Kauchuk]], in the [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic|Kazakh SSR]] of the [[Soviet Union]] (in present day [[Kazakhstan]]) and grew up in [[Almat
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• Anthrax hoaxes
  ...al Inspection Service|U.S. postal inspectors]] have responded to thousands of "white powder events" and targets have included government offices, US emba ...sm Alleging Use of Anthrax and Interim Guidelines for Management -- United States, 1998|journal=MMWR|publisher=CDC|volume=48|issue=4|pages=69–74|url=http:/
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• United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
  |unit_name= U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases |country= [[United States]]
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• National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
  ...trick for the US Army, National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Agriculture. ...United States. Part of the NBACC’s mission is to conduct realistic tests of the pathogens and tactics that might be used in a [[bioterrorism]] attack.
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• 2001 anthrax attacks
  ..., [[NBC News]], ''[[New York Post]]'', ''[[National Enquirer]]'', [[United States Senate|Senators]] [[Tom Daschle]] and [[Patrick Leahy]] ...g investigation became "one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement."<ref>http://www.fbi.gov/anthrax/amerithraxlinks.htm</ref>
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• Timeline of the 2001 anthrax attacks
  ...axletter.jpg|thumb|250px|[[NBC Nightly News|NBC's]] [[Tom Brokaw]] was one of the targets in the first mailing.]] ...nvestigation of the alleged mailer of the lethal letters was performed out of public view, and, as a result it appeared to some that the FBI only identif
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• BioSense
  ...es, hospital systems, ambulatory care sites, health plans, U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans Administration medical treatment facilities, and pharm ...e if the presence of certain symptomatic factors indicates the possibility of the bioterror threat. At this point, the “anomaly” is turned over to l
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• BioWatch
  ...Prevention]] who then pass any significant results to the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]].<ref name=fas/> ...According to the DHS, the BioWatch program helps to provide "early warning of a mass pathogen release."<ref name=fas/> The original 31 city program cost
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