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.
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The dairy lobby, with their stooges, Tom Daschel and Jim Jeffords wouldn't stand for it.
A couple of years? we'll all be dead! Only 40 million? Is'nt there 230 million of us?Containment. If they drop the virus on a city you vaccinate the city and surroundings. That isn't 230 million. Its highly unlikely that everyone everywhere could be hit at the same time.
patent
As a precedent from miltary history the start of WWII was caharacterized by a brief period of intense fighting in subjugating Poland then by a "phony war" which ended in a real sense with the invasion of Norway. Still the British, French, Belgians, and Netherlanders were unprepared for the Western Blitzkrieg. The Schlieffen plan was know from the days of the Franco Prissian war and it was still executed by the Wermacht. Hopefully we will be prepared and ready when and where the terrorists launch their next strike. I for one am thinking maybe the Coast Guard should be very much augmented.
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
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