Terrorists could use 'insect-based' biological weapon

Looks like the media is trying hard to get terror attacks going
so the govt can strip more of our rights


seriously, enough of the fearmongering already

Heh, I am amazed at some of the replies here. The ATS *SNIP* are evident. Stick around here for a while and you will learn. You have a lot to fear, and it's not coming from terrorists.

Would someone please explain to me why no terrorist has crossed the border and detonated a dirty bomb yet? Or put a disease into a water supply somewhere? Or blown up key infrastructure targets that could cause serious problems? Or why haven't they paid Mexicans huge sums of money to cross over and do similar things?

I mean at the very least you would expect some Muslim citizen in this country to go bizerk and claim revenge for all the death and destruction NATO forces have wreaked on Iraq, Afghanistan and other places.

WHERE are all these terrorists? WHERE?

Must be because of that tremendous border security we have that lets the Mexican military and thousands of illegal immigrants invade this country each year. Yep, incredible border security we have. So good that they manage to contain just the terrorists, and keep their illegal labor stream flowing like Niagra Falls on steroids.



Yeah right. I want to see someone get 1 million infected mosquitoes into a suitcase and transport them all the way to target. Not only would they probably be infected themselves and not make it, but the damn things would probably die for several reasons.

And who is this scaring? The answer to that is pretty obvious for any "paranoid" ATSer. All the people in all the right places that use our money so wisely to plunge this country into debt the likes of which the world has never seen. I mean these are the same people that justify spending millions not only on extremely excessive police weaponry, but on things so ridiculous a first grader would know better.

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Oh what a good idea, i´ll put that on my list of "things to do".


In fact, its easier than hijacking a plane with box cutters.

reply to post by TrueAmerican

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Flag'd & Star'd!

I like this, TA, whether you believe it or not! Good thread.

Forget the added diseases of diabolical man... insects ARE terrorists!

Been doing tree work most of my life, so I've gotten bitten by lots of different bugs. A Brown Recluse Spider put me down for a couple days, the sinister arachnid snuck up my shirt; the welt was half-tennis-ball sized!!

Another time, I got home from a brutal clearing job, and got undressed to get in the shower... I saw what I thought were oil-splatter specks on both my lower legs (a frequent occurrence when using a chainsaw), but they were TICKS! I immediately applied Vaseline, and waited a few minutes, till they backed out, and tweezered them into a candle flame. Extra crispy!

But the most aweful one I ever suffered, was a long brown mud wasp. THIS evil &$%#@% stung me so hard, it felt like I got hit with a Nun's ruler, with a spike in the end!! Again, a huge welt; then a massive puss ball which erupted days later... and to my horror, hundreds of tiny micro-maggots came out!!! They had to shoot me up with epinepherin at the emergency room, just to calm me down, to clean out the wound!

She is able to sting, WITHOUT landing on you, or grasping (biting) you with her front mandables...(the way all other bees & hornets & wasps have to) and "infestitating" you with her offspring!!! GRUESOME!

Don't know if that's the right term, but it was shere terror for me!

I carry cans of wasp & hornet killer to my jobs now.

The people who say that terrorists are going to spread a virus thru bugs are terrorists themselves. They have absolutely no idea whats involved in getting a bug to transfer said virus to their offspring. It just doesnt work that way.

Those dastardly buggers.... damn their oily hides!

Using insects as a means of spreading disease? I bet out own bio-weapon scientists never thought of that one.

Sounds like another Homeland Security wannabe seeking a large paycheck to study the non-existent threat he just thought up.

Why does it seem like every single week, the media is trying to scare us by saying the terrorists could do this... or do that... or can do this. I mean really, I have heard of dozens of ways the terrorists could strike, and half of them would require the terrorists to be living in the future.

You guys who are believing this need to read the article a little better. Hes talking about rift valley fever which you need to come in contact with blood to get. You arent going to get that from a bug. Someone wrote this for ratings. Its total crap.

Double post.

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reply to post by TrueAmerican

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Yup,

Next up: Terrorists interrupt public services through the diabolical use of expressive dance...

It has already been done. In 2001 (what a coincidental year) the West Nile Virus spread by mosquitos suddenly started to appear in NYC.

This is nothing more than the flip side of all the "news" reports (and threads) saying that the Israelis are using everything from cluster bombs to mustard gas - all only targeted on schools and hospitals, of course.

I guess it is time for me to post the smuggled out plans for the palestinian super insect-based weapon ...




As you can see, it is an incendiary weapon (the match) useful against Israeli houses, schools and hospitals.

[edit on 1/6/2009 by centurion1211]

During the Cold War, the Biological Warfare research programme of all three Tripartite Agreement countries (US, UK, Canada) extensively studied the use of mosquitoes as a BW vector.

While the UK and Canada maintained that their mosquito related BW research was purely 'defensive', which is debatable, the US went a vital step further and managed to 'weaponise' mosquitoes (a clumsy term, but you know what I mean).


The following is a page taken from the 1966 Annual Report of the Microbiological Research Establishment Porton Down (the UK Government's Chemical and Biological Warfare Research Facility).



The relevant extract (para 1) states:

""...and (e) the potential importance of attack by mosquitos. A new unit has just started work on assessment of mosquito problems. The considerable US effort on mosquito weapons has reached a stage which demands detailed analysis by us in terms of UK problems."





zero lift

This is ridiculous! I'd be more worried about getting AIDS from a toilet seat then this crap.

What? You're actually saying that the above plan for the terrorist insect-based incendiary weapon doesn't strike fear into your heart? I can't help but wonder what would ...

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No, lol. This is ridiculous. If it worked you'd bet our own government would have used it.

Oh, mosquitos are going to be used to carry plagues?

Here is the solution. No multi-million dollar study needed. Ready for it?

DDT.

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The US military has had anti-terror-insect projects ready to deploy for some time now:

With apologies to South Park:

"The terrorists have invaded out imaginations, and it seems that our imaginations are now running wild."

Isn't this what's really going on....our government-controlled media is using fear, uncertainty, and doubt to create a paranoid population that will readily give up their rights in exchange for perceived safety?

[edit on 6-1-2009 by keeb333]

Oh yeah. Terrorists could clone raptors from dino bones and release them on the united states. Or they could go to the gas station and take a horribly long time picking lotery tickets making you angry. After that they will go undercover as commedians and join the cast of SNL so it will continue to not be funny. MTV will pick up on this and give them their own reality TV show "Real world Jihad".Really this whole terrorist thing is just this generation's Communist. They could be anyone anywhere at anytime so watch out. The media is just trying to turn you into loyal members of the state and watch your neighbors. So dont buy into it.