[Nick Danger]

If there is, for example, a "biological 9-11" which kills another five or ten thousand (or many more) Americans, and the trail to the killers leads through the mosques and cultural centers (again) then all bets will be off.

I agree with this. I also think it won't stop at our borders. Whole countries will be nuked, just to lower the odds of it happening again.

I think your estimate of the deaths in a biological attack are low by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude. A simultaneous anthrax attack in ten cities would kill 20 to 30 million. Think about it: this could be done by ten people who are already in the country and who bought their crop dusters five years ago and have them safely stored in hangars, ready to go.

This is very serious, and very dicey.

[Critter]

A lot of people think that the next attack will be in big cities, but there are an awful lot of us that feel mighty secure in our country abodes. I wonder if the next attack might not be one to unsettle those of us a little off the beaten path?

[Thumper1960]

IF the terrorists perform such an act of genocide, calculate the possibility of American nuclear retaliation towards those areas of the world that have sheltered and supported those same terrorists.

6,000 dead have brought this amount of retaliation to the bin-Laden's of the world; 20-30 million would rate middle east annihilation.

[Travis McGee]

I agree with you, my numbers were very optimistic lowballs based on only one or two anthrax attacks, where the terrorists do not optimize the dispersion or the climate and weather factors for their targets.

If OBL already has ten cropdusters ready, and uses them, we will respond with nukes.

I just hope that if this is so, they do not have a default plan where if OBL is killed or captured, say, they launch right away.

And I hope and pray the FBI is doing yeoman's work rounding up these insane death cultists.

[Larousse2]

Don't rule out those innocent looking remote control planes.

[blam]

"Think about it: this could be done by ten people who are already in the country and who bought their crop dusters five years ago and have them safely stored in hangars, ready to go."

I think we should stop obsessing on 'crop-dusters.' There are many ways to spread this 'stuff.'