Dr. Evil wrote:
There is no counter-countermeasure necessary. The goal of the terrorists isn't to take down America by killing Americans. The goal of anthrax is to spread hysteria and terror, and it is doing that with great efficacy.
The Wall Street Journal of October 18 quoted portions of Congressional testimony by Ken Alibek, former top Russian biowar researcher, as saying that of the five main purposes for developing anthrax as a weapon, the least importnat purpose was injuring or killing people. The most important purpose was to create terror and panic. Alibek was reported to have said that anthrax was not that dangerous, that it took a substantial dose to cause injury and more to kill, that even crop-dusting Washington DC with weapons grade stuff would not kill the huge numbers alleged. But that lack of effectiveness was not what was to be publicized, he said, instead development of the anthrax attack system included massive disinformation about its lethality before all else. In short, anthrax is primarily psywar (as is most NBCI WMD). Richard Preston is his two New Yorker articles* a while back heavily relied upon Alibek for his terrifying bio-WMD scenarios. I don't recall Alibek being so whipsaw disinformational in those articles as he allegedly was in briefing Congress how to whipsaw the public. Still, there is the smallpox campaign just getting underway to escalate the horrendous, shocking, information Pearl Harbor attack. ----- * http://cryptome.org/smallpox-wmd.htm http://cryptome.org/bioweap.htm