Bioterrorism to hit US as per FBI

Feb. 21, 2011 - PRLog -- In an interview with Newsmax, Dr. Vahid Majidi, the FBI’s assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, said the probability that the U.S. will be hit with a weapons of mass destruction attack at some point is 100 percent.

"Such an attack could be launched by foreign terrorists, lone wolves who are terrorists, or even by criminal elements, Majidi said. It would most likely employ chemical, biological, or radiological weapons rather than a nuclear device."

Of the three, biological weapons are the most dangerous.  In Germs of War, a book the predicted 9/11, details of how biological weapons are made were described, as well as how "designer bugs" or "superbugs" can be made.  These germs can be resistant to antibiotics are other germicidal agents.  In addition, they can be made from bits and pieces of different bacteria or virus, making an accurate identification impossible.   While US agencies concentrate on agents like smallpox and anthrax, the reality is that superbugs can be far more lethal.  Majidi said similarly “You can design an organism de novo that never existed before. While there is no known articulated threat, this is something that we feel is a technology or science that potentially can be misused, either accidentally or on purpose.”

Germs of War, in addition to predicting 9/11, also described efforts by Al Queda to obtain biological weapons.  This was confirmed in the Newsmax interview.  "As it is, Majidi said, American intelligence picks up hundreds of reports each year of foreign terrorists obtaining WMD". When American forces invaded Afghanistan, they found that al-Qaida was working on what Majidi calls a “nascent” weapons of mass destruction effort involving chemical and biological weapons."

So while the NIH and US Army pours money on smallpox, anthrax, and other known pathogens, the real danger of designer superbugs goes un-addressed.

For the Newsmax article, click on http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/zawahiri-weapons-mas....

Germs of War can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Germs-War-Ketan-Desai/dp/1588986268...,  For further information, contact the author, Ketan Desai MD PhD,

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Germs of War was published in 1999 and described an attack by Afghan based terrorists on the US. The only difference between the book and 9/11 was that planes were used instead of superbugs. In view of the unrest in the Arab world, this is especially important