A significant danger, he said, was that terrorists could obtain nuclear materials or weapons from rogue scientists in places like Russia.

Clearly, if terrorists obtain the technology to launch a missile attack they will not hesitate to use it, those officials contend.

The terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks obtained licenses that allowed them to rent cars and open bank accounts.

Weapons experts said such natural outbreaks were a main way that a terrorist might obtain starter germs, or seed stock.

Hearteningly, the attacks failed because the terrorists couldn't obtain or produce germs of sufficient virulence.

Supposedly a poor political terrorist, her captive can obtain the entire ransom within hours, and he has great power within his organization.

It will escalate once terrorists may obtain nonconventional weapons.

Meanwhile, the terrorists have dispatched their vehicle on a highway and obtained a new means of transport.

The real danger is that terrorists or criminals or irresponsible regimes might obtain nuclear weapons.

The attorney general should use and seek every possible tool to determine whether potential terrorists have been obtaining weapons in the United States.