This article is not meant to reflect any news story, present or past and is only meant to highlight the importance of vigilance and attention to security issues. As the last three articles have portrayed, the world is extremely susceptible to chemical and biological attacks on civilian populations. This susceptibility is even worse in open socieities like the U.S. where freedom of movement and freedom of travel are fundamental and expressly protected by the Constitution. While the World Trade Center bombing may have shaken some of the invincibility from the American psyche, the fundamendal problems remain.
Terrorists continue to get more sophisticated with the types of bombs and devises they use.
Some countries are known to support and aid terrorist activities as an extension of their national policy. Terrorism could even be argued to be Apolitics by other means, just as war was once thought to be. Attacks like the ones I described are not so farfetched. A cult group in Japan was able to utilize Sarin with horrible results in the Toyko subways where almost 5000 were injured and about a dozen were killed several years back. The World Trade Center bombing killed five and wounded almost two thousand with bomb materials that could be purchased from any home improvement center.