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terrorist attack using weapons of mass destruction in a

Western country is inevitable

 

 

 

 

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Bush poised to attack us (again), in order to justify his illegal

spying program and ram the Patriot Act extension down our throats:

Anti[Pro]-terrorism official says WMD attack inevitable 17 Jan 2006 A

terrorist attack using weapons of mass destruction in a Western

country is inevitable, a senior U.S. anti-terrorism official said in

an interview published on Tuesday in The Daily Telegraph.

 

 

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Anti-terrorism official says WMD attack inevitable

Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:39 PM ET

 

LONDON (Reuters) - A terrorist attack using weapons of mass

destruction in a Western country is inevitable, a senior U.S.

anti-terrorism official said in an interview published on Tuesday.

 

Speaking to Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, Henry Crumpton, the

U.S. State Department coordinator for counter-terrorism, said he

feared the threat from biological weapons was rising.

 

" I rate the probability of terror groups using WMD as very high, " he

was quoted as saying. " It is simply a question of time.

 

" It is not just the nuclear threat that bothers me. I think, if

anything, the biological threat is going to grow. "

 

He said a biological attack would pose far greater problems than an

explosion containing radioactive material.

 

" As catastrophic as a nuclear attack would be, it would be

self-contained, " Crumpton told the newspaper. " But if you look at a

worst-case scenario for a biological attack, it would be difficult to

determine whether or not it was a terrorist attack, and it would be

far more difficult to contain. "

 

He said that after the war in Afghanistan, the United States had found

evidence of an al Qaeda plot to develop anthrax for use against the West.

 

He added that U.S. forces and their allies had disrupted al Qaeda and

its leader Osama bin Laden since the September 11, 2001, attacks in

the United States.

 

" They can't communicate with their supporters unless the odd courier

breaks through. They can't get access to money and things like that.

We have made life very difficult for them. "

 

But he said the U.S. campaign against al Qaeda was unfinished and bin

Laden was " in all probability " still alive.