http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/bw1103.pdf
This article recently unclassified by the CIA reflects the dramatic
changes
in potential biological attacks.
The shocking ease of release, and amount of human destruction is
un-nerving.
With the numerous terrorist groups, with financial and government support
creates an atmosphere of unease.
Please note that the allies are really not any better. A recent
documentary
has shown the USA used biological weapons in North Korea in the early
1950s.
The would drop infected insects, dead animals and feathers causing much
wide
spread illness.
However, the scale described in the report is certainly much more
catastrophic !
Scientists are telling the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that advances
in
biotechnology could be used to create biological weapons worse than any
disease known to humans.
A CIA report released Friday, entitled "The Darker Bioweapons Future,"
details the fears of respected, independent scientists who met at a
conference in January.
The report says new genetic engineering technology being used to create
cures for disease could also create horrific diseases with no cure. Such
weapons could include a "stealth" virus that would lie dormant in a victim
for a specific amount of time, or until triggered by the introduction of
another, non-lethal substance.
Another biotechnology weapon might only attack people who already have a
common malady, such as arthritis, thus crippling a nation with an
overwhelming medical emergency.
The report says traditional methods for guarding against weapons of mass
destruction may fail against such threats because they could be virtually
impossible to trace to their source.
The report does not say which countries or groups might use such
bioweapons
to threaten the United States.
Supporting Articles:
http://sify.com/news/scienceandmedicine/fullstory.php?id=13309121
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=3826348§ion=news
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20031114_1990.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/993871.asp
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/15/1068674422166.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103144,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3388945,00.html
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