Posted on 09/22/2001 11:51:29 PM PDT by knak
TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States has warned its allies of a possible second round of attacks by the end of this week following the deadly recent strikes against New York and Washington, Jiji news agency quoted Japanese government sources as saying.
The next round of attacks, if really launched, would be on an even greater scale than those on September 11, which killed more than 6,000 people, according to information provided to Japan by the United States, Jiji said.
The news agency quoted the sources as saying on Saturday that the "means of terrorism" would be "more cruel and shocking" than in the September 11 carnage, when hijackers flew airliners into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington.
The targets of the possible attacks were unknown but possibilities included members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Pakistan, Jiji said.
The government sources said attacks on Japan could not be ruled out since Tokyo has expressed support for U.S. retaliation against the September 11 strikes.
The United States has judged that a second round of attacks, if carried out, is likely by the end of this week at the latest, the sources said.
Japan's public security authorities have gone on heightened alert since receiving the information from the United States.
Washington suspects that a group led by fugitive Saudi-born millionaire Osama bin Laden has been contemplating attacks using biological and chemical weapons, such as sarin nerve gas, for years, according to the sources.
The United States has information that the group has already acquired small airplanes to spray bacteria causing smallpox or anthrax from the air, Jiji quoted the sources as saying.
Time magazine reported on Saturday that investigators had found a crop-dusting manual during a search for those responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington, triggering concern that crop-dusting planes might be used for chemical or biological assaults.
The FBI in Washington said it had not seen the report and had no comment on it.
1) Vaccination protection lasts, at best, 25 years. As the last vaccinations were given in IIRC the mid- to late-70's, no one is currently protected. (Except CDC researchers who work with the virus.)
2) There are two forms of the variola (smallpox) virus. One is mild, causing scarring but seldom death. The other is the hideous plague that has killed uncounted thousands throughout history. I believe only the killer form is covered by the standard vaccination.
3) Either form could be "weaponized" using genetic engineering. It would depend on the results desired. As weaponization could affect any number of factors, standard vaccine probably would not be very effective.
4) Variola has multiple infection vectors, and remains viable long after many (most?) viruses have been destroyed by environmental exposure. (Ebola, otoh, requires blood or mucus membrane contact, is rather fragile, and so is unlikely to be used as a weapon.)
I'd tend to agree. Any nuke or bio, and all bets are off.
I think it would be time to ask the Russians how they'd feel about half ownership in all the oil in the MidEast...
I believe they triggered and will be triggering various intensities, mostly dreadfully awful of different types and they and Russia and China will analyze our responses very carefully to better calibrate Russia invading on the east coast and China on the west coast in the coming WWIII--then the terrorists will soften us up with nukes along with a few "accidental" ones from a Russkie sub off the east coast.
At least that's the very convincing sort of scenario 100's of people have dreamed and had unsought visions of over the last several years.
And THEY are being manipulated to do that in order to insure that the clammer for peace at any price global gov is intensely emphatic for an extended time--as well as insuring 1/3-2/3 less people in the world--all the easier to manage.
However, in that sentence, regarding intuition, it appears that most women and others with highly intuitive ways of taking in and evaluating information tend to do it holistically instead of linearly. i.e. at an unconscious level, their whole range of senses scans the environement and registers data very unconsciously in an evidently--multidimensional, whole sort of way--like a hologram or some such--holistically.. . . . entire at once in some respects. . . . not so much step by step 1, 2, 3, or a, b, c.
Saudi Arabia? Ahhh... you mean the country where we have several thousand troops stationed. The country that has been our ally in the area for at least the past decade.
Interesting target, Osinki. How about we nuke Boston, after that? I understand bin Laden has a relative there, too.
To arms, to arms, the terrorists are coming!
America's Militia wants YOU!
Nine out of ten Americans will fight to keep George W. Bush in the white house, and Osama bin Laden out!
Bible quotes in favor of annihilating jihadists
Poll: bin Laden's skull can be best used as an ....
Yup. There was a biplane lazily playing in the sky over the west side of Mobile Bay yesterday.....and then the mosquito spraying truck went by. Geez....
Time was when I would have considered such things as imaginations run amok. How things change.
At least help could be hastened sooner than has occurred too many times.
Anyway--THANKS MUCH SILVERDRAKE. RIGHT YOU ARE. WELL SAID. Better said than I did. . . . together I think we covered it.
And sometimes a child's prayer is the most powerful. No beating that child-like faith.
THAT'S THE IDEA--PREVENTED. If not, mitigated. If not that, quicker help to the casualties.
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