With all this fuss about Iran's nuclear weapons program (excuse me, nuclear power program for a country that's overflowing with oil), everyone seems to have forgotten that terrorism by small groups and not countries is probably our biggest threat. And judging by past behavior, launching a nuclear weapon is not as likely to occur as something else that can be done on a smaller, less expensive scale. The goal of this would not merely be to inflict mass murder, but panic and the potential economic upheavals or collapse that are so valued by the criminal Islamists.
Enter Monkeypox Mohammed.
Bioweapons were tailor made for the terrorist. I'm not talking about the steady stream of genocide bombers coated with rat poison, strychnine or even AIDS that terrorist Arabs use against Israel and any Westerners they can find. These haven't worked because the heat of the explosions usually breaks down the chemicals or disease agents. But think of one man, woman or even child, like a modern-day Typhoid Mary, free to roam the land coughing and sneezing as much as possible inside enclosed buses, crowded subways, congested airport terminals, shopping malls and the like. It is a catastrophe in the making that we, the US, Israel and the rest of the civilized world, as the main targets of the only type of terrorism routinely carried out today -- Islamic terrorism -- have barely addressed.
I first got the idea for this because of a quote from some over-the-top unofficial terrorist who said, "The US would run with blood." For some reason, I associate 'running with blood' with Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever and not with weapons. So it got me to thinking. While Ebola is not a very good bioweapon for a number of reasons, there are many that would be ideal for use by an individual terrorist to wreak havoc. The lone 'Typhoid Terrorist' scenario might lay out this way:
The terrorist or his/her 'handlers' finds and obtains, or exposes him/herself to a disease that can be transmitted through the air and takes at least 36 hours before symptoms appear. This way the terrorist can enter the target country of their choice without being turned back for showing signs of illness (China, for example, takes everyone's temperature before they are allowed to enter the country). The disease must also not be rapidly fatal or disabling, yet be highly contagious. This will allow the terrorist time to disseminate it as widely as possible.
Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russians had a very active bioweapons program. During this time, they weaponized or tried to weaponize such diseases as anthrax, smallpox, plague, tularemia, brucellosis, Marburg, Ebola, camelpox, monkeypox and a host of others. Once the USSR collapsed, unscrupulous Russians then sold their knowledge and even the diseases themselves to rogue nations, groups and individuals. Nor was the Soviet Union the only one with a bioweapons program. To this day, many rogue nations as well as the better-funded terrorist groups continue to work feverishly on better ways to exterminate the civilized world using disease vectors.
What makes the scenario of a 'Monkeypox Mohammed' so frightening is that Islamists aspire to die while murdering innocent people who do not adhere to their fanatical and murderous form of Islam. Unleashing a plague that would also kill themselves and untold numbers of their own is not a deterrence. Infecting themselves or even their children, and thus spreading the disease, is not seen as 'evil', but rather as 'holy work'. The Arabs occupying Israel's land have proven that time and again by teaching their children, through official venues such as schools and mosques, to grow up to be 'martyrs' by killing themselves while attempting to murder and mutilate as many innocent others as possible. And then, of course, there are the 9-11 murderers. Middle- and upper-class Islamists, with all the benefits that a privileged life could offer, gleefully killed themselves while murdering thousands. This means that eradicating poverty as well as ignorance (whether self-imposed or through circumstance), is no remedy to the cancer of Islamism and its Hitlerian genocidal aspirations.
Do I have any answers to address this threat? No. But the question of whether or not there will ever be a Monkeypox Mohammed is not a question. There will be. The big question is how to identify such a person before they can wreak havoc on the civilized world, murdering perhaps thousands, all in the name of that god of peace, Allah.
Enter Monkeypox Mohammed.
Bioweapons were tailor made for the terrorist. I'm not talking about the steady stream of genocide bombers coated with rat poison, strychnine or even AIDS that terrorist Arabs use against Israel and any Westerners they can find. These haven't worked because the heat of the explosions usually breaks down the chemicals or disease agents. But think of one man, woman or even child, like a modern-day Typhoid Mary, free to roam the land coughing and sneezing as much as possible inside enclosed buses, crowded subways, congested airport terminals, shopping malls and the like. It is a catastrophe in the making that we, the US, Israel and the rest of the civilized world, as the main targets of the only type of terrorism routinely carried out today -- Islamic terrorism -- have barely addressed.
I first got the idea for this because of a quote from some over-the-top unofficial terrorist who said, "The US would run with blood." For some reason, I associate 'running with blood' with Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever and not with weapons. So it got me to thinking. While Ebola is not a very good bioweapon for a number of reasons, there are many that would be ideal for use by an individual terrorist to wreak havoc. The lone 'Typhoid Terrorist' scenario might lay out this way:
The terrorist or his/her 'handlers' finds and obtains, or exposes him/herself to a disease that can be transmitted through the air and takes at least 36 hours before symptoms appear. This way the terrorist can enter the target country of their choice without being turned back for showing signs of illness (China, for example, takes everyone's temperature before they are allowed to enter the country). The disease must also not be rapidly fatal or disabling, yet be highly contagious. This will allow the terrorist time to disseminate it as widely as possible.
Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russians had a very active bioweapons program. During this time, they weaponized or tried to weaponize such diseases as anthrax, smallpox, plague, tularemia, brucellosis, Marburg, Ebola, camelpox, monkeypox and a host of others. Once the USSR collapsed, unscrupulous Russians then sold their knowledge and even the diseases themselves to rogue nations, groups and individuals. Nor was the Soviet Union the only one with a bioweapons program. To this day, many rogue nations as well as the better-funded terrorist groups continue to work feverishly on better ways to exterminate the civilized world using disease vectors.
What makes the scenario of a 'Monkeypox Mohammed' so frightening is that Islamists aspire to die while murdering innocent people who do not adhere to their fanatical and murderous form of Islam. Unleashing a plague that would also kill themselves and untold numbers of their own is not a deterrence. Infecting themselves or even their children, and thus spreading the disease, is not seen as 'evil', but rather as 'holy work'. The Arabs occupying Israel's land have proven that time and again by teaching their children, through official venues such as schools and mosques, to grow up to be 'martyrs' by killing themselves while attempting to murder and mutilate as many innocent others as possible. And then, of course, there are the 9-11 murderers. Middle- and upper-class Islamists, with all the benefits that a privileged life could offer, gleefully killed themselves while murdering thousands. This means that eradicating poverty as well as ignorance (whether self-imposed or through circumstance), is no remedy to the cancer of Islamism and its Hitlerian genocidal aspirations.
Do I have any answers to address this threat? No. But the question of whether or not there will ever be a Monkeypox Mohammed is not a question. There will be. The big question is how to identify such a person before they can wreak havoc on the civilized world, murdering perhaps thousands, all in the name of that god of peace, Allah.