any real punch to the US? They are too slow.
It's called terror for a reason.
It's the same reason that they target children and women.
The tool they hope to use is fear .
If they can put that fear in the minds of the general population, then public opinion may be effected.
Look around you ... there are a lot of people who would trade their freedom for safty.
http://www.biohazardnews.net/binladen.shtml
Biological and Chemical Weapons Bin Laden's Next Move?
In a recent article in Jane's Intelligence Review, Rand corporation expert Dr. Peter Chalk estimates that the capability to produce biological weapons has spread to at least 17 countries, citing indications that "sub-state terrorist organizations, including Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, have an active interest in developing BT (bio-terrorism) capability."
U.S. administration officials who monitor bin Laden's activities warn that his terrorist organization is already working with weapons of mass destruction. Satellite pictures of dead animals on test ranges suggest that the terrorists have experimented with chemical or biological weapons at a training camp in eastern Afghanistan.
Testimony in a 1999 Egyptian trial of 107 suspected terrorists suggest that the al-Qaeda network might have negotiated to purchase biological weapons such as anthrax and the Ebola virus. A leading terrorist, associated with al Qaeda, said to a reporter during the trial that Osama bin Laden and his top aide, Islamic Jihad leader Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, had bought both biological and chemical agents and made a list of 100 U.S. and Israeli targets for such attacks.
The court was told that suspected terrorists connected to bin Laden had admitted to buying germ agents by mail for $3,865. Samples of the Ebola virus and salmonella bacteria were offered for sale to the bin Laden associates by factories in Eastern Europe. Another supplier in Southeast Asia made an agreement with the terrorists to sell "samples of anthrax", while a lab in the Czech Republic agreed to sell botulinum toxin for $7,500.