Okay Henry, speaking of bioterrorism, which I wasn't, but you made me think about it, what if Islamic Jihad goes for a bio-box-cutter attack using H5N1?
Suppose I got hold of some chicken flu viruses, which shouldn't be too difficult judging from how many are out and about in the bird world [and tiger, pig and other animals]. Then I get hold of some human flu, which should be even easier to do because there must be hundreds if not thousands of Islamic Jihadists suffering influenza at any particular time. Or, if they aren't, I could soon find somebody who has got influenza then contrive to kiss them or something to get the infection.
Then, I find a few volunteers to be infected with both the flu and H5N1. The flu and H5N1 would cook for a week or two and the spray could be used to infect the next martyr and so on until "Hey presto!" a drifted/shifted/recombinomicked/reassorted/resequenced/turbo-charged/fuel-injected/multivalve H5N1/Humanized Influenza is produced.
Once I've got the right brew, I get 19 martyrs to kiss each other, and head for Washington/Los Angeles/New York/San Francisco/Chicago/Tokyo/Shanghai/Beijing/Moscow/London/Berlin/Paris/Madrid/Toronto/Mumbai/Rome. There they take the subways and other rush-hour public transport for the next week, sneezing into carriages and crowds, smearing films of saliva on handrails and other commonly-touched places using a moist handkerchief [by discretely moistening a hand, putting handkerchief in other hand, then holding onto said handrails].
A week later, all hell breaks loose as a chain reaction will have spread across umpty million immune-naive people in crowded northern hemisphere winter conditions.
Since Moslems for the most part live near the equator, they are far less prone to catching influenza and the chain reaction will be happening well away from them in the cold places.
Even when the disease does make it to the Moslem world, there might be a vaccine developed. Even if the worst comes to the worst, there are only 1 billion Moslems and 5 billion infidels so the kill ratio will be at least 5 Infidels to 1 Moslem meaning the Moslems win. The kill ratio would be more likely to be 10 Infidels to 1 Moslem, so they'd be on a winner.
Wouldn't it be that simple to get this going?
Taking off shoes at airports wouldn't find them. X-rays of their hand luggage wouldn't find them. Air Marshals armed with machine guns and zappers wouldn't stop them. Since they would barely be infected, they wouldn't even be sniffling too seriously when entering the enemy lands.
I recommend Newt Gingrich be taken seriously and Homeland Security consider the real risks.
How many martyrs would you say would be needed before they'd come up with a recombinomics-style H5N1/Influenza Infidel-grade bug?
If it's hundreds, it probably means H5N1/Human Influenza is unlikely to develop in the wild and Islamic Jihad would run out of volunteers before they got the goods.
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