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My first thoughts were as a carrier of some horrific disease. The scenario is laughingly simple and undetectable. Some heaven-bent terrorist infects himself with a devastating disease such as Ebola, Smallpox, or Bubonic Plague.

Heck, back during the Gulf war Art Bell had some guy on that brought up this scenario. He said it would be very easy to infect someone willingly or not, say a lady and a child, and send them cris-crossing the world on a plane when they are at their most likely to infect others. Multiply those two people by 50 and you could have real problems. The guest brought it up because Saddam was threatening the US and the west in general at the time.

Anyhow, someone with a devious mind and spare time on their hands along with a free pack of matches from the drug store could tie you in knots too if they did it right.

The one thing wrong with this analysis is the emotional nature of a suicidalist: highly dramatic, and also (have to be) fearful. Going out in one big painless bang is one thing. Going out over a course of weeks as your extremities rot off is quite another.

Fortunately, smallpox is not contagious until the spreader has already started to breakout himself and also he will be very sick while he is walking all over New York. Now, about the other diseases, I don't know.