[Shermy]

Ken Alibek speaking in Kansas City on Monday. Here's an interview:

Threat of anthrax worries author most

[Peach]

Thanks for the ping, Shermy.

[FairOpinion]

Thanks for the ping.

"Isn't that one of the powers of biological weapons, not just to kill but to set off a panic?

Yes. With conventional weapons you have something very spectacular and dramatic. But within minutes or hours it's happened and it's over. If you are alive and uninjured, you know that you have survived. Chemical weapons are the same. But with biological weapons it takes days and days and days and you may not know if you're infected. It causes psychological distress.

You can imagine if the city of New York is attacked. People would stop going to shopping malls, they would try to limit travel, businesses would not be working. People would be too scared to go out. That's one way a biological weapon would continue to attack."

This is exactly why the biological weapons are so dangerous and why the terrorists will use them, if they can.

[PsyOp]

I'm currently reading Alibek's book "Biohazard." I knew a lot of this info and included some of it in my popst on Saddam and WMD's, but he goes into a lot of detail in this book and shows just how fast and loose the Soviets played with deadly germs.