Terrorists likely to use biological weapons against U.S., report says

[ps1074]

WASHINGTON - Terrorist organizations resembling al-Qaida, but more decentralized and increasingly sophisticated, are likely to employ biological agents such as anthrax and smallpox against the United States and other perceived enemies over the next 15 years, according to a sweeping intelligence report released yesterday.

"The bioterrorist's laboratory could well be the size of a household kitchen, and the weapon built there could be smaller than a toaster," said the report by the National Intelligence Council, which advises the director of central intelligence and is based at CIA headquarters outside Washington. "Terrorist use of biological agents is therefore likely, and the range of options will grow."

The council said terrorists are trying to procure chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. "Our greatest concern is that terrorists might acquire biological agents or, less likely, a nuclear device."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/bal-te.cia14jan14,0,3160971.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

In the next 15 years? Nice job... I have the feeling they pulled this out of their asses...

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. The good news is that we have known this since right after 9/11

and Bush has had ample time to order vaccines for everyone. Right?

[underpants]

3. Which of the NINE counter terrorism "czar"s was supposedto place the order

Just wondering

[ps1074]

4. I could have probably published such a report too

I mean... 15 years? And probably?

What they basicly say is look, we had to pull this out of our asses, but it is because you have to be very affraid of terrorists

[neweurope]

13. Yes. "They could", "it is likely"... have fear. Obey.

Forgotten where that Anthrax came from? My goodness. And how many millions of people believe this crap?



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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Donkeyboy75]

22. You're bang on there.

This shit isn't easy to do. At all. Bunch of dumbfucks who don't know what they're talking about. This is a total boogeyman report.

[havocmom]

2. How many microbiologists have met violent end in the past 2 years or so?

And who is it so subtly telling them 'you're either with us or you are the enemy'?

[HereSince1628]

5. Of course the absence of any evidence is evidence that the plot

is very deeply hidden.

[bemildred]

6. Giant cargo containers full of smallpox infected blankets? nt

[progressiveBadger]

7. Hey, if it worked for Columbus... :) n/t

[radwriter0555]

8. What terrorists??? The European countries have netted virtually all the

known terrorists operating on the planet.

There aren't that many to begin with, just a couple dozen.

Bush however, doesn't have one single terrorist in US custody, in spite of his multi-gazillion dollar war on terror.

Go figure.

[Bono71]

9. I hate Bush, but I think we netted at least one terrorist in the

last couple years...Ramzi Bihn Al Shibh is one that comes to mind along with the Ron Jeremy look alike.

[radwriter0555]

14. WE didn't catch him. The Pakistanis did.

Then turned him over to us.

Bush's war on terror remains a complete failure.

[spotbird]

10. Haven't terrorists already used biological weapons?

The anthrax attack is forgotten, I suppose.

I've thought for a long time that the reason Chimp spends most of his time away from the White House is that Washington is in peril of some sort of attack.

[radwriter0555]

16. The anthrax attack wasn't actually terrorist in nature, per se... that was

a GOP engineered attack... at that time, they weren't really considered terrorists...

and since no one ever took credit for it, again, it wasn't really a terrorist attack, since terrorism by its nature is an endeavor to make a political statement.

In the anthrax attacks, they were just killing specific targets and some innocents to throw investigators off the track.

[neweurope]

19. And all the Anthrax used could be traced to American sources...

Depends all on WHO is defining who is a terrorist.


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Bush to The Hague!

[louis-t]

20. I've always suspected...

the anthrax attacks were committed by a sympathetic Limbaugh/Hannity listener. I have said for many years that sooner or later, some whacko will commit a heinous crime to try to impress his right-wing heroes. I believe this administration knows who did it and are protecting the criminals. Only Democrats were specifically targeted, along with the hated 'librul' media.

[Ganja Ninja]

11. Too late the Bush administration beat them to it.

Hatfill my ass.

[NuttyFluffers]

12. New and ImprovedTerror Alert! Orange Plus!

now with more vitamin Boo!

:+

[NYC]

25. Don't start with the orange now. It will have faded

to pale peach by the time we reach the year 2020.

[NuttyFluffers]

33. we'll just call that Diet Orange Plus

and it'll be Caffeine Free too

:+

[txaslftist]

15. NBC is getting us ready!

In order to further instill the paranoia that causes so many folks in Red State Murka to vote Republican, NBC is running two hours of paranoid fun for your viewing entertainment.

First of all, on THIRD WATCH, they will be running an episode called "Dirty Bomb" in which terra-ists (presumably of the brown-skin camel herding variety) plant a "dirty bomb" and detonate it in the middle of Third Watch territory.

Secondy, on some other damn paranoid show, I think "Medical Investigators" or "Medical CSI" or "CSI Medical" or some such, they will be running a "SMALL POX" episode. Says the lead doctor on the show: "You asked me what my greatest fear was. You just saw it!"

(Nevermind that we had smallpox for centuries and successfully defeated it finally in this one; nevermind that it was probably the greatest success story of vaccination in our time, along with Polio)

The "liberal media" is a myth. Call it GOP agitprop, now.

Now the pukes will be able to say, "See, I tole you small pox was real! I seen it on the Tee Vee! We need to fite them terra-ists."

[Viva_La_Revolution]

21. Don't forget "Smallpox" on FX...

CRAPPY movie replayed over and over the past few weeks. Fiction, but filmed in the style of a documentary. "news" reports of the spread of pox, bodies in the streets, suffering and blah, blah,. be afraid! this could happen!
oh please! uggh.

[Mithras61]

17. Smallpox?

Where would terrorists get weaponized smallpox?

I thought the good ol' US of A was the last holder of weaponized smallpox (for research purposes, naturally!), and that even the USSR's stocks were destroyed after the break-up...

[txaslftist]

28. You just answered your own question...

Where WOULD the terra-ists get weaoponized smallpox if the only country that had it was the US?

Hmmmmmmm.

[Strelnikov_]

29. In Addition, Use Of Smallpox Would Have Much Greater Impact On Undeveloped

countries. It is only contagious after symptom's, particularly the pustules, appear. Therefore, countries with modern medical systems should be able to keep any outbreak contained.

Anthrax? The 'weaponized' anthrax of 2001 is a highly bio-engineered product that I seriously doubt could be developed in a 'kitchen'. It was most likely stolen from a U.S. weapons lab. It is also not contagious, so mass casualties are unlikely.

The only weapon that scares me is a nuke (a real one, not a 'dirty bomb'). And it appears the report says that is unlikely. Good news!!!

Guess they figured Faux viewers needed another Terra scare.

[Straight Shooter]

18. More people will die in fatal car accidents and domestic violence.

It's high time America puts its fear in perspective. Whatever the bush administration wants to focus on, all the little bushbots act like they're in a long-running game of Simple Simon.

Simple Simon says, "Be afraid of Saddam's WMD!" All the bushbots become afraid of Saddam's WMD.

Simple Simon says, "Be afraid of terrorist with nuclear weapons in our cities and vote for me to keep you safe!" All the bushbots vote for bush to keep them safe.

Simple Simon says, "Be afraid of smallpox and other biological weapons and let my Big Pharma cronies sell you inoculations!" All the bushbots continue to live in fear and line up for inoculations, some of whom will have nasty reactions and die. But they can't sue Big Pharma in a class action suit if bush has his way.

It's like watching a very very sick movie.

[TahitiNut]

24. Don't forget the 100,000 to 200,000 that die every year due to ...

... stupid, avoidable mistakes in our nation's hospitals. How do we deal with that 'terrorism'? We disarm ourselves! (Fucking ridiculous!)

[NYC]

26. Don't forget the flu.

What's the average annual death rate? 36,000?

[sweetheart]

23. thanks for this week's "terrorists might do" thread

Be afraid... ooh!!! ;-)

[aden_nak]

27. "Terrorists likely to eat soup over teh next 15 years!" report says.

Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Submit. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Don't think. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Buy stuff. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror. Terror.

[F.Gordon]

30. While I think this article it total bullshit.......

Gary Hart, who I respect in these matters, essentially said kinda' the same thing.

In an interview last summer I listened to he said the same thing but had a much shorter time table for such an event. He also specifically identified Cleveland, Dallas, and Denver as the high risk cities in this country for such an attack. (bio, chem) If you check out the gov HSD these particular cities have had their "risk" factor lowered recently.

Let's see.... no one in our pretend government has or will listen to Gary Hart .... the cities Hart picks have their threat level lowered .... Cleveland and Denver are in "swing states". Sounds like another perfect LIHOP scenario in the making to me....

:scared:

[keopeli]

31. ALERT: Kool-Aid!

[Barkley]

32. WMD have been available to terrorists for decades but

its state governments (like ours) that have used and produced them the most.

We helped Saddam get his WMD.

It was Rumsfeld and Shultz who told Hussein and his emissaries that US statements generally condemning the use of chemical weapons would not interfere with relations between secular Iraq and the Reagan Administration, which took Iraq off the terrorist-nations list and embraced Hussein as a bulwark against fundamentalist Iran. Ironically, the United States supported Iraq when it possessed and used weapons of mass destruction and invaded it when it didn't.
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