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Posted on 01/05/2009 4:03:08 PM PST by traumer
Terrorists would find it "relatively easy" to launch a devastating attack using swarms of insects to spread a deadly disease, an academic has warned.
Jeffrey Lockwood, professor of entomology at Wyoming University and author of Six-legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War, said such Rift Valley Fever or other diseases could be transported into a country by a terrorist with a suitcase.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I think a small terrorist cell could very easily develop an insect-based weapon."
He said it would "probably be much easier" than developing a nuclear or chemical weapon, arguing: "The raw material is in the back yard."
He continued: "It would be a relatively easy and simple process.
"A few hundred dollars and a plane ticket and you could have a pretty good stab at it."
Governments, he advised, needed to have robust "pest management infrastructure that's able to absorb and respond to an introduction" of infected insects, he said.
Trying to stop everything coming in at the border would not work, he said.
Rift Valley Fever is an east African disease which "can cause severe disease in both animals and humans, leading to high rates of disease and death" according to the World Health Organisation.
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Don’t we love it, how the media is spreading these ideas around?
Already done.
West Nile virus.
PING: we were talking about that yesterday, except it was the Good Guys dropping Sand Flies on Tehran.
Yo terrorists...you have to eat too. The wind has a way of blowing and you won’t be able to protect yourself from whatever you inflict on another...DUH.
Or maybe they’ll disguise themselves as kids and shot poisoned spitballs from straws....
Did they offer the perfect climate and exactly how to spread the disease to the terrorists who might happen to read this as well?
In case they have some sort of bug phobia, they could include the blueprints to a crude nuclear bomb while their at it.
Um, they blow themselves up. Do you really think self preservation is top priority for these guys?
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Ah! The real reason Gil left Las Vegas... To help save the whole country! |
Great. Did you post the schematics on your website, Einstein?
Don't forget AIDS -- done by the White Man.
They will not use thier source of food, they have a very peronal relationship with flies I hear.
WOW!! What a great idea! A new federal government Department of Pest Management. Damn !! Why didn't I think of that ??
“Yo terrorists...you have to eat too.”
No they don’t — you seem to forget that they are willing, and some are even eager, to die for their satanic cause.
Department of Pest Management = FBI
Getting things too complicated isn't wise. Even a few deaths from a terrorist attack would have ripples through the economy we couldn't take just now.
Why they haven't done this yet suggests they don't want to unleash something they can't control (that is a good thing).
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