Singlestack
10-09-2014, 15:14
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/ebola-suicide-bombs-experts-concerned-isis-planning-infect-ebola-spread-disease/
This virus is very convenient for ISIS to use at their disposal. God help us if they do try this.
ISIS may already be thinking of using Ebola as a low-tech weapon of bio-terror, says a national security expert, who notes that the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” and terror groups like it wouldn’t even have to weaponize the virus to attempt to wreak strategic global infection.
Such groups could simply use human carriers to intentionally infect themselves in West Africa, then disseminate the deadly virus via the world’s air transportation system. Or so says Capt. Al Shimkus, Ret., a Professor of National Security (http://www.forbes.com/security/) Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College.
“The individual exposed to the Ebola Virus would be the carrier,” Shimkus told Forbes. (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonforb.es%2F1vGs37O&text=%E2%80%9CThe%20individual%20exposed%20to%20th e%20Ebola%20Virus%20would%20be%20the%20carrier%2C% E2%80%9D%20Shimkus%20told%20Forbes.) “In the context of terrorist activity, it doesn’t take much sophistication to go to that next step to use a human being as a carrier.”
And with a significant portion of West Africa now in an open epidemic, it arguably wouldn’t be difficult for a terrorist group to simply waltz in and make off with some infected bodily fluids for use elsewhere at another time.
They wouldn’t even have to “isolate” it, says Shimkus, who teaches a course in chemical and biological warfare. He says that if ISIS wanted to send half a dozen of its operatives into an Ebola outbreak region and intentionally expose themselves to the virus, they very well could. The idea is then once they had intentionally infected themselves, they would try to interact with as many people in their target city or country of choice.
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This scares the heck out of me. Many of the terrorists would jump at the chance of making themselves into suicide bombs. If they could, for example, work at a fast food restaurant, they could infect a large number of people fast. In fact, I think I'm going to cut back on any type of restaurant food for awhile. There are probably many other ways to infect a large number of people fast, like working at a hospital, being EXTREMELY promiscuous, or making physical contact with many people in crowds. Oh, man...
This virus is very convenient for ISIS to use at their disposal. God help us if they do try this.
ISIS may already be thinking of using Ebola as a low-tech weapon of bio-terror, says a national security expert, who notes that the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” and terror groups like it wouldn’t even have to weaponize the virus to attempt to wreak strategic global infection.
Such groups could simply use human carriers to intentionally infect themselves in West Africa, then disseminate the deadly virus via the world’s air transportation system. Or so says Capt. Al Shimkus, Ret., a Professor of National Security (http://www.forbes.com/security/) Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College.
“The individual exposed to the Ebola Virus would be the carrier,” Shimkus told Forbes. (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonforb.es%2F1vGs37O&text=%E2%80%9CThe%20individual%20exposed%20to%20th e%20Ebola%20Virus%20would%20be%20the%20carrier%2C% E2%80%9D%20Shimkus%20told%20Forbes.) “In the context of terrorist activity, it doesn’t take much sophistication to go to that next step to use a human being as a carrier.”
And with a significant portion of West Africa now in an open epidemic, it arguably wouldn’t be difficult for a terrorist group to simply waltz in and make off with some infected bodily fluids for use elsewhere at another time.
They wouldn’t even have to “isolate” it, says Shimkus, who teaches a course in chemical and biological warfare. He says that if ISIS wanted to send half a dozen of its operatives into an Ebola outbreak region and intentionally expose themselves to the virus, they very well could. The idea is then once they had intentionally infected themselves, they would try to interact with as many people in their target city or country of choice.
This article continues on forbes.com
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This scares the heck out of me. Many of the terrorists would jump at the chance of making themselves into suicide bombs. If they could, for example, work at a fast food restaurant, they could infect a large number of people fast. In fact, I think I'm going to cut back on any type of restaurant food for awhile. There are probably many other ways to infect a large number of people fast, like working at a hospital, being EXTREMELY promiscuous, or making physical contact with many people in crowds. Oh, man...