It also describes Mr Hussein's elaborate attempts to conceal his weapons programmes, including the development of mobile biological-weapons laboratories.

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Meanwhile, Colorado voters were projected to reject an anti-abortion amendment that would have defined a "person" as "every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being, " according to a CNN analysis of exit poll data.

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In 1972, the U.S. and virtually every other civilized nation signed the Biological Weapons Convention, which prohibits the development, stockpiling and use of biological arms.

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