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To: Condor who wrote (48872)	10/2/2002 11:46:48 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

those are terrorist activities; not limited to Iraqis or Iraq. So would ebola introduced into the water supply be viable enough to kill many folks? I don't know that answer.

To: Condor who wrote (48872)	10/2/2002 6:51:56 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Condor; Re: "Perhaps send one fellow over and introduce e-Bola virus into the San Francisco water supply or purchase a tanker truck full of gasoline and drain it into any orifice and let 'er rip or ........never mind........just too many easy possibilities." I doubt that Ebola is a serious threat in the United States. You could kill a few people, but not that many. Pouring gasoline into the sewer system (I assume one would provide something that would light it after the fumes permeated the city) would be dangerous as hell, but again it's not going to be on the scale of the WTC attack. But all this gets back to the same issue. Dumping gasoline into the sewers is a low-tech inexpensive act of terror. This is not the kind of action that a carrier group or a division of Army tanks is capable of stopping. To reduce that sort of terrorism (it is impossible to eliminate terrorism, it has been present in the country for over 100 years already) the only successful technique is to maintain friendly relations with as large a percentage of the planet as is possible. That means not doing stuff that makes close allies like the Germans compare our President to Hitler. -- Carl