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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (72188)	2/7/2003 5:15:29 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

>>Activated charcoal in water filters would strip it out.<< Probably true. Relatively inexpensive to guard against, too. But the method of dispensing into a municipal water supply seems too high tech to me. It seems to me that the really smart Al Qaeda grunts were used up in the 9/11 attacks, and now they are forced to use the "B" team. If Richard Reid is anything to go by, the "B" team is rather pathetic. Reid couldn't light his shoe bomb because he was sweating so much he couldn't light the match. Another indication that they aren't able to field a really high quality team - Zarqawi being traced due to a tapped and intercepted phone call by one of his operatives, bragging about pulling off the hit on the US ambassador to Jordan! nytimes.com So low tech seems more likely to succeed. Still, charcoal water filters are probably a good investment, cost-benefit wise and would improve the taste of tap water, as well.