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2006-05-02 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by tipper 2006-05-02 18:49|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anyone remember the last person to die from "bioterrorism?"

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-02 19:16|| 2006-05-02 19:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Besoeker, right. OTOH I consider Jihadis a form of parasitical infection spread by biological organisms, so in that sense that would fit.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-05-02 19:28|| 2006-05-02 19:28|| Front Page Top

#3 They can't even define terrorism. File under pointless PR effort. Close them down and throw them out. They can "plan" somewhere else.

Posted by Thrart Snoper7863 2006-05-02 19:32|| 2006-05-02 19:32|| Front Page Top

#4 2x4: I'm a bit weak when it comes to microbiology and the like, but I'll accept "jihadi whackos" as a nasty bugs needing killin, no problem.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-02 19:36|| 2006-05-02 19:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Destined to fail. The Muslim nations will stop it cold.

However, Pakistan, then a member of the UN Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee was able to forestall a UN decision to also designate the group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Lashkar was finally added to the UNs consolidated al Qaeda designation list on May 2, 2005, after Pakistans tenure on the Al Qaeda Committee had ended.

Posted by john 2006-05-02 19:42|| 2006-05-02 19:42|| Front Page Top

#6 "Annan has unveiled... sidestepped the question... lack of progress in building consensus on a convention cannot be a reason for delay..." blah blah blah
Yawn. What a useless bore.

Posted by Darrell 2006-05-02 19:54|| 2006-05-02 19:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Bio-terrorism is way more dangerous than most realize. However, it takes substantial technical expertize to come up with a new killer infectious disease, as opposed to non-infectious agents like Ricin.

On a related note, the UN (predictably) seems to skirt around the issue of state sponsored terrorism which grades into asymetric warfare. It would be quite easy for a state to create a new killer bug and release it on their enemies while using vaccines to protect their own people.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-05-02 20:30|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-02 20:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Anyone remember the last person to die from "bioterrorism?"

Ottilie Lundgren was the last.

Robert Stevens, Kathy Nguyen, Thomas Morris Jr. and Joseph Curseen were the others.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-05-02 20:37|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-05-02 20:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Anyone remember the last person to die from "bioterrorism?"

Or from terrorists using a nuclear weapon?

As technology advances, small groups with modest funding and moderate technical skills will gain access to nuclear and bioweapons. My guess is that will occur within two decades for bioweapons and a decade or two later for nuclear weapons. (Nanotechnology will lead to cheap isotope separation. One could probably extract the necessary isotopes from a large volume of seawater.)

The world has only a couple of decades to prepare for the time when neighborhood gangs can threaten entire cities. Im no fan of the UN and I dont expect anything the UN does to be effective. That does not mean that bioterrorism isnt a real threat.

Economic analysis of Japanese project to extract uranium from seawater.

http://npc.sarov.ru/english/digest/132004/appendix8.html

Posted by Slaviling Glomong9311 2006-05-02 20:46|| 2006-05-02 20:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said the Monday deaths of two postal workers were "likely due to anthrax," and that more than 2,000 other Washington-area postal workers were undergoing an "aggressive and proactive treatment regimen" to ward off the bacterial disease. (Full story)

That was 2001. So I guess people HAVE died from Bioterrorism.
Nevertheless The UN has no plan.

Posted by jim#6 2006-05-02 20:53|| 2006-05-02 20:53|| Front Page Top

#11 What page is "Surrender completely" on?

Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-02 21:01|| 2006-05-02 21:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Pg. 1 of 1

Posted by jim#6 2006-05-02 21:09|| 2006-05-02 21:09|| Front Page Top

#13 They had to break for lunch.

Posted by Flavitle Hupineter2895 2006-05-02 21:11|| 2006-05-02 21:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Spitballs

Posted by Captain America 2006-05-02 22:31|| 2006-05-02 22:31|| Front Page Top

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