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To: dirtboy
IMO the most deadly way for terrorists to attack a major American city would be a dirty bomb or large chemical or bio weapon on a ship-borne container.

I've got news for you. A terrorist who uses a dirty bomb or large chemical or biological weapon to attack a major U.S. city is far more likely to develop such a weapon right here in the United States.

Maybe I missed the part of that story about the "Abu Dhabi, UAE" postmark on those anthrax letters.

385 posted on 02/21/2006 1:08:19 PM PST by Alberta's Child (Leave a message with the rain . . . you can find me where the wind blows.)
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To: Alberta's Child
I've got news for you. A terrorist who uses a dirty bomb or large chemical or biological weapon to attack a major U.S. city is far more likely to develop such a weapon right here in the United States.

Maybe I missed the part of that story about the "Abu Dhabi, UAE" postmark on those anthrax letters.

Maybe you failed to show that the anthrax in question was of domestic manufacture and not from a foreign lab.

Oh, and the anthrax attacks were very small. And what is the best way to bring in a large weapon?

Ships.

It will be far easier for terrorists to get completed materials abroad on the black market, asssemble the device and ship it here. And all it would take would be a couple of sympathizers in management telling them where the security holes are.

430 posted on 02/21/2006 1:12:55 PM PST by dirtboy (I'm fat, I sleep most of the winter and I saw my shadow yesterday. Does that make me a groundhog?)
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To: Alberta's Child
"I've got news for you. A terrorist who uses a dirty bomb or large chemical or biological weapon to attack a major U.S. city is far more likely to develop such a weapon right here in the United States."

Yeah, screw port security. Why should we care about port security being turned over to an Arab muslim state when they can just make their stuff right here in America?


1,144 posted on 02/21/2006 3:14:20 PM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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