[SolidWood]

Don’t we love it, how the media is spreading these ideas around?

[Darksheare]

Already done.
West Nile virus.

[DieHard the Hunter]

PING: we were talking about that yesterday, except it was the Good Guys dropping Sand Flies on Tehran.

[NordP]

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.

[proxy_user]

Or maybe they’ll disguise themselves as kids and shot poisoned spitballs from straws....

[Myrddin]

West Nile virus started in a marsh near New Jersey. It is now endemic in North America.

[autumnraine]

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.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

They don't have to. With blunders such as the killer bees that our over confident scientists have brought on us, not to mention our lapses in morality (IOW, indiscriminate screwing around) and the predictable increase in SDTs that has resulted, we're doing a fine job of it without the terrorists' help.

[theFIRMbss]

>Terrorists would find it "relatively easy" to launch a devastating attack using swarms of insects to spread a deadly disease

Ah! The real reason Gil left Las Vegas... To help save the whole country!

[the invisib1e hand]

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I think a small terrorist cell could very easily develop an insect-based weapon."

Great. Did you post the schematics on your website, Einstein?

[ronnie raygun]

They will not use thier source of food, they have a very peronal relationship with flies I hear.

[layman]

Governments, he advised, needed to have robust "pest management infrastructure"

WOW!! What a great idea! A new federal government Department of Pest Management. Damn !! Why didn't I think of that ??

[JimSEA]

Why do anything so complicated. Just infect several suicide candidates with Ebola during one of the frequent outbreaks and fly them to the USA or elsewhere targeted.

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).

[Dawn531]

Didn’t they make an x-files movie about this? (I think it was bees that were the weapons.)

[Obamageddon]

If I remember correctly, there are regiments of these little buggers on Paris Island just waiting to be drafted into service.

They have been feeding on Marine recruits for decades and are fit for the fight!

[layman]

Oh yeah? Oh yeah? Well, our insects are tougher than your insects. Unfortunately most of our most disgusting insects have been elected to congress.

[StormEye]

"Terrorists would find it "relatively easy" to launch a devastating attack using swarms of insects to spread a deadly disease, an academic has warned."

Solution: DDT

[Terry Mross]

Wonder what the dems will do if the terrorists use a bug on the endangered species list.

[weegee]

This is nothing new. The Japanese in WWII were harvesting bubonic plague to spread by flea in clay pots (with balloons) to attack America’s Western coast.

Look up Camp 731 (I think).

[Gator113]

“Department of Pest Management”

Cool, will they have their own SWAT team?