Great post!
What really worries me, is if we do get attacked by biological weapons, it could be very hard to identify the attacker. They would be long gone before symptons even occur. How would we retaliate if we don't even know for sure who attacked us? Of course we would have some general ideas on who it was, but there are quite a few terrorist groups and it could be any one of them.
I guess we would just have to attack them all. HARD!
we could be in the process of being attacked. on the saturday before the terrorist attacks two arabs went to a wal-mart in a small town to purchase trout fishing license. the small town is near a rather large lake in southeastern oklahoma. they got irate at having to show identification but one finally did produce a dallas i d. the other said he did not have a passport or i d of any kind. he said never mind he would worry later about license. they left. no one thought a thing about it until a week after the attacks and someone mentioned all the water in the huge lake. I ask the person who had the encounter how many middle easterners he sold license to and he replied none in 6 years. these guys were the first. it was a coulple of days later that someone mentioned someone attacking the water supply before anyone said "we better report this". This is a very slow response to something that might be urgent. guess we better start thinking a little faster.