Break Out The Duct Tape
by BarbinMD
Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 06:59:25 AM PDT
From the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism:
The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden. It suggests the Obama administration bolster efforts to counter and prepare for germ warfare by terrorists.
"Our margin of safety is shrinking, not growing," states the report, obtained by The Associated Press. [...]
...led by former Sens. Bob Graham of Florida and Jim Talent of Missouri, acknowledges that terrorist groups still lack the needed scientific and technical ability to make weapons out of pathogens or nuclear bombs. But it warns that gap can be easily overcome, if terrorists find scientists willing to share or sell their know-how.
Am I dismissing this too easily? Somehow, reporting that terrorists would like to launch a biological or nuclear attack against the United States if they had the weaponry doesn't strike me as breaking news.
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