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To: SpoofChicken
IMHO, Smallpox would be nasty, but manageable for the Industrialized World. The sad fact is that it would completely ravage the Third World. Hopefully the Jihadists uderstand this and have given up on the idea of going down that particular 'slippery slope'.
13,597 posted on 01/22/2004 9:18:13 AM PST by LayoutGuru2 (Hi Daleel, EOM and Andreas Whackered)
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To: LayoutGuru2
Hopefully the Jihadists uderstand this and have given up on the idea of going down that particular 'slippery slope'.

Smallpox and some of the other potential diseases could indeed be very nasty even for the industrialized world but in all probability they could eventually be brought under control.

You're right that it would ravage the Third World, which is where a lot of these people come from after all. Even in many of their oil-rich countries the wealth is extremely concentrated, with relatively little trickling down to the non-oil infrastructure or to the common man on the street. Almost always when the ruling classes want top-rate medical care they find some place in the West because there's nothing in their own countries.

I wouldn't give the Jihadis too much credit for understanding all this however. Many of them know about the Koran and terrorism and not much else; even of those who do, there are often amazing gaps in their knowledge. For example, although the 9/11 hijackers don't seem to have broadcast much (if any) of their operational plans, they took some huge risks that revealed startling gaps in their knowledge of covert tradecraft. Since they were coached by the people back in Afganistan that means that this lack of knowledge must be organization-wide, not just one or two of the peons. Presumably many of these deficiencies have now been corrected, but these people aren't necessarily the sharpest knives in the drawer if you catch my drift. They're just armed and very motivated.

13,599 posted on 01/22/2004 9:34:49 AM PST by brucecw
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To: LayoutGuru2
Hopefully the Jihadists uderstand this and have given up on the idea of going down that particular 'slippery slope'.

....... and there's also the question of whether they'd care if they did understand. If they think that it will bring down the US they'd probably think losing half or 3/4 of their own people would be a fair trade.

Seriously. These guys play for keeps.

13,600 posted on 01/22/2004 9:42:37 AM PST by brucecw
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To: LayoutGuru2
re: 13,597 - Smallpox

There was a report from Promed a few weeks ago, that said the scientists had recovered scabs from long dead patients.

There was also a move to dig up an 1918 corpse and see if they could get a sample of the killer influenza.

Add the above to other escaped "tests", such as anthrax,
LSD, Aids, Noravirus, SARS and ?

Maybe the Indians were correct, they burned the bodies, that is until the politicians stopped them and made them bury the bodies.

For the truth on where/how disease started, many centuries ago, see:

Origin of Disease and Medicine
"How Disease was Created" (includes PMS)

http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/cher/motc/motc004.htm

I need to back and see what else is there, found it by accident.

Ruth
13,646 posted on 01/22/2004 12:54:08 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Hugs and Prayers for your health and safety, love, granny)
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