However, tonight I saw and heard on CBS 60 minutes with Ed Bradley, a CBS replay of excerpts of the video taped message and now I know for certain Zihwari said just what I quoted and as I had remebered it.
Also Sadam Hussein and Bin Laden (who are working together to train 200 AlQaeda terrorists to dissiminate biological and chemical weapons) have openly called for revenge for the deaths of children they claimed were killed in Iraq in the Gulf War and in Afghanistan during the US cruise missile attack. I doubt their claims. Their children were not targeted by the US and very few children were likely even killed by accident. But Bin Laden and Sadam Hussein may be using their false claims as justification, an excuse, to use biological or chemical weapons against America's children.
Children are America's future which Laden and Zihwari want to destroy. The children could be attacked at schools, nurseries, day care centers, Sunday schools, church, on Halloween, on playgrounds, in shopping malls,etc. But a relatively small number of children could be affected unless the terrorists find a way to widely dissiminate a biolocical or chemical weapon that children would be vulerable to.
Small pox could be put on candy wrappers or even sprayed in aerosol form (from crop dusters or helicopters) as a mist. What makes children a serious target for small pox is that most children in the US have not been vaccinated for small pox since the late 1970s or early 1980s and there is only a small supply of vaccine on hand currently in the US. The vaccine can help an infected child recover if given within three days of exposure, otherwise there is no cure and the mortality rate is high, 30-50%. I am not sure if it is also harmful to fetuses even if the mother has immunity.
AlQaeda terrorists who handle and spread small pox would be protected if they have been vaccinated. A world outbreak would be devestating even to Arab nations and their children via contagion, so the terrorists may not use small pox unless their populations are vaccinated.
Small pox is so virulent and contagious that only a few small pox virus particles need to land on a victim for them to be infected. This is what makes small pox an even more effective than anthrax as a bioterror weapon, the fact that it can be sprayed more easily, is contagious and requires a lower concentration for infection. Airborne anthrax may take several thousand spores to enter the lungs before a victim develops the disease. Only a very few small pox virus particles need to come in contact with any mucous membrane for an infection to occur.
Sadly there are also probably other biological and chemical weapons besides small pox which could be used against America's children. And there still is the possibility that the terrorists would use an airplane, a gasoline tanker, a toxic chemical truck,a truck bomb,radioactive waste... to single out large concentrations of children at schools etc.
Stay alert and on guard 24/7 for our children.
Smallpox and food distribution
Hadn't thought about the wildfire spread via the school system and the warning about America's children/America's mothers crying. Excellent post, OKC.