Britain is on high alert after intelligence agents warned that Iraq may try to launch a chemical and biological attack on the country. The warning came after Britain learned that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein may try to smuggle bottles of the deadly biological agent anthrax into the country. Iraqi officials called the allegations “silly and baseless.”
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