FBI Probes Dozens of WMD Threats Each Year

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:49 AM

By: Ronald Kessler

The FBI gets at least several dozen cases a year involving weapons of mass destruction, Dr. Vahid Majidi, the bureau’s assistant director in charge of the WMD Directorate, tells Newsmax.

They range from a recent case where the deadly poison ricin was found in a Las Vegas hotel room to far bigger cases, still secret, where terrorist plots have been foiled.

As described by Majidi, who was previously the Chemistry Division leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the WMD Directorate was established in 2006 to coordinate all elements of the FBI that deal with WMD cases. Regarding a subject that is full of hype and misinformation, it is rare for an official who is an expert in the field and has access to classified information to talk about it for publication.

“We have developed a national program that deals with state actors, non-state actors, lone wolves, across the entire spectrum,â€