reply to post by mkross1983
Guilty of being a Muslim who happened to know some other Muslim who is suspected.
Anyway here's wikipedia definition of WMDs:
A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a weapon that can kill large numbers of humans and/or cause great damage to man-made structures (e.g.
buildings), natural structures (e.g. mountains), or the biosphere in general.
The term is often used to cover several weapon types, including nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) and radiological weapons. Additional terms used in
a military context include atomic, biological, and chemical warfare (ABC) and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN)
warfare.
Hydrogen Peroxide like was used in the London bombings in 2005, are no more a WMD than an Al qaeda truck bombing in Pakistan or the IRA bombings. I
wish the term WMD wouldn't get thrown around unless it's actually a WMD.
Soon any gun or rifle will be called a WMD cos' one gun can kill many hundreds if they have enough ammunition.
Unless the original news story was inferring that the terrorist was actually conspiring to use bio/chem/nuke weapons. I would hope not!
Either way, it's still serious to overplay a threat, or re-define a potential threat, unless it's just blatent poor & ignorant journalism.
[edit on 24-9-2009 by john124]
