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    LATEST: Deadly al-Qaeda strike using bio agents or diseases 'inevitable',

    Bio-terror strike 'is inevitable'

    From The Beeb

    The world must face the inevitability of a bio-terror attack by al-Qaeda, the head of Interpol has warned.

    Police and health authorities around the world were underprepared for such an attack, Ron Noble told a bio-terror conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

    An attack could see smallpox, anthrax, botulism or Ebola-style viruses released into Western cities.

    The Cape Town event is the first of three sessions to train medics and police how to deal with attacks.

    Further sessions will be held in Chile and Singapore during 2006.

    Patient but deadly

    Addressing delegates from 41 African nations, Mr Noble said al-Qaeda's track record of deadly, unexpected terror attacks put the threat into focus.

    Evidence collected from sympathetic websites also pointed to an avowed intention to stage bio-terror attacks if operatives gained the capability, he added.

    "Al-Qaeda has openly claimed the right to kill four million people using biological and chemical weapons," he said.

    "Al-Qaeda is willing, able and patient enough to plan and prepare to execute terrorists acts that [once] would have been considered unrealistic or fantasy."


    Interpol says several pathogens and viruses most likely to be used in any bio-terror attack, Mr Noble told delegates.

    'Suicide bio-weapon'

    Tactics could vary - as well as a traditional detonation, attackers could turn themselves into a "suicide bio-weapon", Mr Noble said, travelling around while highly infectious.

    Postal services could also be used to spread disease as shown by anthrax attacks in the US in 2001.

    "The potential consequences of such an attack could be so far-reaching that a lack of action in preventing bio-terrorism poses an unacceptable risk to the safety of societies around the world," he said.

    The Cape Town meeting follows a conference in Lyons, France, in March, in which Interpol urged governments to back a drive against bio-terror.

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    When will the tree huggers and the terrorist appeasers get the message? Al Qaeda want to kill you, your family, your boss , everyone just indiscriminate killing - choice is simple convert to Islam or die. Wake up and smell the coffee!!
    Sola gratia

    Sola fide

    Soli Deo gloria

    #2
    Death and tax's are also inevitable but guess headlines about them don't sell papers

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      #3
      Ok So what weird and wonderful method have they thought of now to part us from our ancient rights?

      Does anyone believe this balderdash!

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        #4
        Originally posted by Not So Wise
        Death and tax's are also inevitable but guess headlines about them don't sell papers
        Death and taxes?, what an odd pairing...

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          #5
          Originally posted by Joe Black
          Death and taxes?, what an odd pairing...
          Death is better, it only happens once and then stops, unlike taxes which carry on after you die.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Chico
            When will the tree huggers and the terrorist appeasers get the message? ... Wake up and smell the coffee!!
            You may as well go back to sleep Chico, 'cos you're no damn use awake anyway.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Chico
              When will the tree huggers and the terrorist appeasers get the message? Al Qaeda want to kill you, your family, your boss , everyone just indiscriminate killing - choice is simple convert to Islam or die. Wake up and smell the coffee!!
              Chico what are you on about? Are you stoned?

              My personal view is that it was a mistake to get rid of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. He was most definitely not a tree hugger, he kept all those nutters occupied, and was far more ruthless against al Qaeda than we could ever be.

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                #8
                My guess is that the big attack is coming... think about it, Al-Queda have a history of using sleeper cells, inflitration, attacking economic targets, and using people who seem to have no obvious connection with them...

                Thats right.

                The Inland Revenue is now run by Al-Queda.
                Vieze Oude Man

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by wendigo100
                  Chico what are you on about? Are you stoned?

                  My personal view is that it was a mistake to get rid of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. He was most definitely not a tree hugger, he kept all those nutters occupied, and was far more ruthless against al Qaeda than we could ever be.
                  Evil exists when good men do nothing. The flaw in the tree huggers logic is this - they argue that had there been no wars in Afghanistan and Iraq then the jihadists would have been going about their lawful business, raising their families, educating their daughters and looking for their fourth wife. No these terrorists always intend to bomb the infidels into Islam. Islam means submission. Submit to it, follow Mohammed or die. When Bill Clinton was busy working for Middle East peace what were Al Qaeda planning? Attacks on the Los Angeles (foiled) and 9/11. Lets not forget the first World Trade bombings, attacks on the US embassies in Africa. The tree huggers would then say ahhh the jihadists were just targeting the Yanks - oh really we are all infidels and we are all under attack.
                  Sola gratia

                  Sola fide

                  Soli Deo gloria

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                    #10
                    wendigo,

                    nicely put....

                    "My personal view is that it was a mistake to get rid of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. He was most definitely not a tree hugger, he kept all those nutters occupied, and was far more ruthless against al Qaeda than we could ever be.",


                    Milan.

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