The blast-proof bus has armour-plated glass and was thought to offer protection from chemical attack.
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The BBC has been shown evidence apparently corroborating reports of a chemical attack in Syria last month.
Should such a treaty be concluded, this country will assuredly lose its ability to retaliate in kind against chemical attack.
The other difference is that there is no mistaking a chemical attack when it happens, because its victims die almost instantly.
Syria's state-run news agency said 25 people were killed in a chemical attack on the Khan al-Assad village in northern Aleppo province.
Three times a day they hear a siren, broadcast on local television, followed by advice on how to cope with a chemical attack.
Several Moroccans were arrested, bringing the total to nine, on suspicion of planning a chemical attack on the American embassy in the city.
Last month the Home Office issued a warning that a nuclear or chemical attack by terrorists was likely, but then toned it down within hours.
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Instead, it will simply deny this country the right to an in-kind deterrent capability while further diminishing the perceived need to prepare defenses against chemical attack.
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Last September, hundreds of emergency personnel were involved in a rescue operation during a simulated chemical attack at Bank Tube station in the City of London.
For example, Cabinet ministers in Jerusalem have been publicly squabbling over whether to issue protective masks and other equipment at once or only when a chemical attack is underway.
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The next stage, currently still in the laboratory, is to develop coatings that change colour when they absorb toxic chemicals, thus alerting soldiers that they are under chemical attack.
"I saw a warning-and-response system that will supply first-responders with timely and life-saving information in the event of a chemical attack on a subway or any other enclosed space, " Bush said.
For example, on April 26, ABC News aired part of a videotaped confession by suspected al Qaeda terrorist Azmi al-Jayousi, who was captured before he could unleash a devastating chemical attack in Jordan.
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Virtually unremarked in the extensive coverage accorded these controversies, however, is the quantum difference between the choices facing Israelis and those that would be available to the American public if confronted with a similar danger of chemical attack.
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First, the security of U.S. citizens and military personnel will, in all likelihood, be jeopardized later, if not sooner if this country is denied the right and the ability to deter chemical attack by the credible threat of in-kind retaliation.
First, the security of U.S. citizens and military personnel will, in all likelihood, be jeopardized -- later, if not sooner -- if this country is denied the right and the ability to deter chemical attack by the credible threat of in-kind retaliation.
The Center believes that President Bush and his Administration simply cannot have it both ways: They must choose between preserving a small but effective chemical deterrent and pursuing a treaty that every responsible expert knows can neither be verified nor counted upon to eliminate the threat of chemical attack.
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Still, both have a responsibility to understand that any hope this country has of deterring and, if necessary, of defeating chemical attack will lie not in wishing the threat away but in remaining prepared to deal with it both through defensive measures and through the credible threat to respond in kind.
Still, both have a responsibility to understand that any hope this country has of deterring and, if necessary, of defeating chemical attack will lie not in wishing the threat away but in remaining prepared to deal with it -- both through defensive measures and through the credible threat to respond in kind.
Rebels, meanwhile, accused government forces of a chemical weapons attack on the rural Damascus suburb of Ateibeh.
Last week, Syrian rebel spokesman Louay al Mokdad claimed opposition fighters had captured an unexploded canister from an alleged chemical weapons attack.
Kurds in northern Iraq have been commemorating the 25th anniversary of the chemical weapons attack on the town of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's forces.
This week the French announced the arrest of what appears to be an al-Qaida cell whose members were planning a chemical weapons attack on the Paris subway.
Not long ago, the Bush administration quietly asserted that it might use nuclear weapons in a conflict first if the US suffers a biological or chemical weapons attack.
Anthony Loyd, a journalist for the Times newspaper, told the BBC about the aftermath of one suspected chemical weapons attack earlier this month in the northern city of Aleppo.
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But images posted by Syrian state-run media of the aftermath of the Aleppo incident, which the government blamed on rebels, aren't consistent with a chemical weapon attack, some observers said.
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