A professor from Kuwait, the country liberated from Saddam Hussein’s attack squads by the United States in the first Gulf War, has outlined on Arab television a potential terror attack that would involve smuggling anthrax from Mexico into the U.S. and killing 330,000 people in 60 minutes.

The plan was described by Abdallah Al-Nafisi in a speech that aired on Al-Jazeera television Feb. 2, according to MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute, an independent nonprofit that provides translations and analysis of media reports.

Al-Nafisi, whose school affiliation was not identified, says: “Four pounds of anthrax – in a suitcase this big – carried by a fighter through tunnels from Mexico into the U.S., are guaranteed to kill 330,000 Americans within a single hour, if it is properly spread in population centers there.”

He calls the plan “horrifying,” but says, “9/11 will be small change in comparison. Am I right?”

The plan is simple to carry out, he emphasized.

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Never mind Mars, alien life may be thriving right here on Earth, a major science conference has heard.

Our planet may harbour forms of “weird life” unrelated to life as we know it, according to Professor Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State University.

Could “shadow life” be lurking in the deep ocean?

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Skies all over Europe have been filled with such natural phenomena during the cold snap of recent weeks.

Scientists left baffled as mysterious columns of coloured light appear in the night skies.

Beam me Up

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This video pertains to the missing Florida toddler, Caylee Anthony.

The section of video where what looks like a child appears is between frames :16 and :12.

It’s near the end of the clip. Watch the frame by frame and you will see something very odd in the background.

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UFO enthusiasts at a conference in the UK have described newly released footage as the most convincing evidence of aliens ever filmed.

Although the images are indistinct, Haktan Arkdogan of Turkey’s UFO research center, claims that they have been scientifically analysed and verified.

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