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To: Donna Lee Nardo
Here are more frightening possibilities:

U.S. Food Sector May Be Vulnerable to Attack
http://maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=6026

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials worry al Qaeda may be plotting an attack against U.S. agriculture or food supplies, from importing a killer livestock disease to poisoning food products or supermarket produce.

"The food supply is at risk. This is not an idle threat," said Lawrence Dyckman, head of the natural resources and environment section of the U.S. General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress.

"The way we produce things makes it somewhat easy for a terrorist to infiltrate our food supply, whether it's live animals or the manufacturing process. So this is a real issue. This is not a hypothetical situation," he said. He declined to list specific threats because they were classified.
286 posted on 02/24/2004 6:28:28 PM PST by FairOpinion ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." --- G. W. Bush)
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To: FairOpinion
I bet the sheeple are so happy they watch and read the lamestream media so they never ever have to be worried or informed about this stuff! If they only knew....
322 posted on 02/24/2004 7:35:34 PM PST by Donna Lee Nardo
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