Security officials seek lessons from Iraq's chlorine attacks (4/11/07) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

This is an old article that just crossed my horizon. However, it gives some information about what DHS is doing about the chlorine attacks.

Security officials seek lessons from Iraq's chlorine attacks (4/11/07) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com: "Homeland Security Department officials are ramping up their efforts to prevent attacks that involve deadly chemicals, especially because insurgents in Iraq have increased their use of bombs laced with chlorine gas.

'We see the use of chlorine gas and perhaps other lethal chemicals being used in attacks in Iraq [by] insurgents over there,' Bob Stephan, the Homeland Security Department's assistant secretary for infrastructure protection, told members of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council Tuesday.

'We are literally analyzing the living daylights out of these attacks -- the people that are executing them, the agents that are used, the methods that are being used to detonate them and the impacts that they are having,' he added. 'And we are building lessons learned and case studies as these attacks continue to evolve.'

The council, which is comprised of members from private industry, academic institutions and state and local governments, has also made it a priority to complete a study on how the United States can prepare for and respond to chemical, biological or radiological attacks.

The study and associated recommendations are expected to be complete by October, council members said."