Chlorine, Bathrooms and Cattle (Oh my!)

God am I sick of being told what to be scared of.

What is the significance of this report? To "increase the overall baseline preparedness of all states and cities throughout the country?" The vagueness of that is almost as bad as the ambiguity of raising the terror level to orange. I think this stuff is to cover the goverment\'s ass to say, "see, we told you so" not to mention keeping us fed a healthy dose of our daily fear.

From USA Today:
Article in full @: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-03-16-terror-attacks_x.htm

Security report outlines terror scenarios
WASHINGTON (AP) — An upcoming Homeland Security Department report outlines a dozen frightening if hypothetical scenarios such as a terrorist nuclear attack or spreading plague in airport bathrooms to spur state and local preparedness against security risks.
Over the last year, the department has drafted its National Planning Scenarios plan that poses the possibility of credible and destructive attacks — including by nerve gas, anthrax, pneumonic plague and truck bomb....


...Officials said there was no credible indication that such attacks were being planned...

...The report does not hypothesize where such attacks would take place since, Roehrkasse said, "the overall goal is to increase the overall baseline preparedness of all states and cities throughout the country."

Besides identifying a dozen possible and plausible attacks, Roehrkasse said the report also estimates how many deaths and amount of economic damage the attacks would yield. They include, according to the Times:

• Blowing up a chlorine tank, killing 17,500 people and injuring more than 100,000.

• Spreading pneumonic plague in the bathrooms of an airport, sports arena and train station, killing 2,500 and sickening 8,000 worldwide.

• Infecting cattle with foot and mouth disease in several places, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

But a nuclear bomb, an exploding liquid chlorine tank or a widespread and prolonged aerosol anthrax spray ranked among the most devastating attacks outlined in the report, Roehrkasse said. An estimated 350,000 people could be exposed to an anthrax attack by terrorists spraying the biological weapon from a truck driving through five cities over two weeks, according to the report. An estimated 13,200 people could die.

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why the f**k would they state this anyway? what if the terrorists wasn\'t even thinking about this s**t? the dumbass gov\'t is givin these cats ideas :rolleyes:..damn if you know it\'s a threat take steps to counter it..don\'t put that s**t in the public arena for everybody to know...there are just some things the public doesn\'t need to know... f**kin idiots........