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To: freebilly
At 30% mortality rate, smallpox in the US also translates into 300 million dead Muslims worldwide.

Agreed. Smallpox (or any communicable disease) would quickly become a global epidemic, and it would hit most effectively in third-world countries (e.g., the Middle East, South Asia, Indonesia).

It's not even the kind of gamble an Islamic terrorist would entertain, it's absolutely inevitable.

238 posted on 11/06/2001 9:45:03 AM PST by angkor
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To: angkor
Smallpox (or any communicable disease) would quickly become a global epidemic, and it would hit most effectively in third-world countries (e.g., the Middle East, South Asia, Indonesia).

It's not even the kind of gamble an Islamic terrorist would entertain, it's absolutely inevitable.

Yes, but the thought does occur to me that we, as rational humans, quickly see the fallacy of terrorists releasing smallpox into the world. The terrorists, being madmen with an insane agenda, might see the death of millions (including Muslims) as a means of moving Islam's clash with the West forward.

262 posted on 11/06/2001 6:56:45 PM PST by freebilly
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