March 28, 2006
Interpol Warns of Al Qaeda Biological Attack
(Singapore) According to Ronald Noble, Secretary-General of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), al Qaeda terrorists are preparing to engage in biological warfare. Countries are being urged to pass laws to allow police to investigate scientific activity that leads to manufacture of biological weapons.
From KhaleejTimes.com:
There is enough evidence to show that Al Qaeda is preparing to engage in biological warfare, Noble said.
"It can't be that we as a world community have to wait for a September 11 type of attack in bio-terrorism before we prepare," Noble told government officials, police and health experts attending the Asian Terrorism Workshop.
Representatives of 26 Asian nations were encouraged to implement law enforcement measures to prevent biological attacks.
"Unlike other forms of terrorist acts where the impact can be felt almost instantaneously in the aftermath, we may not realize that a biological attack has occurred until perhaps days or even weeks later," said Ho Peng Kee, Singapore's senior minister of state for law and home affairs.
"By that time, the terrorist may already have fled the country or succumbed to the biological agent, and all the valuable investigative leads may have disappeared," Ho noted in a keynote address.
I'd interpret the overall message from the conference as, "Listen up, people. It's time to quit sitting on your thumbs."
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This article is right on target. Consider this... yesterday on cnn online it was reported that Government investigators posing as terrorists (and with fake documents) were able to smuggle enough radioactive material into the U.S. to make two dirty bombs.
The article that you posted regarding biological bombs underscores the same idea, but it is even more terrible because the attacker has the invisible cloak of the biological agent.
Potentially, a terrorist could strike and be gone before we would even know what hit us... furthermore, with our security unable to detect people trying to enter the country with fake id's??? Well, you get the idea.
Posted by: Teething problems in Kabul at March 28, 2006 08:41 AM (PhGSN)
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Biological is much less expensive and technically within the reach of most PHDs.
Posted by: john Ryan at March 28, 2006 12:32 PM (GzwSF)
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Well, the religion of peace would not do such a thing. Therefore, there is nothing to worry about.
Posted by: Leatherneck at March 28, 2006 03:24 PM (D2g/j)
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The only thing that stands between mankind and a bioterrorist pandemic is the social responsibility of individual biologists.
On the other hand, Mother Nature is a proven bioterrorist, and the H5N1 avian virus is improving to increase it's host range as fast as it is spreading around the world.
Posted by: Brad Arnold at March 29, 2006 01:34 AM (y6n8O)
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