BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS

             The terrorist attacks of September 11 played a crucial role in awakening
             the world to the possibility of advanced warfare. Before this tragedy, the
             world could hardly imagine that our good old airplanes could actually be
             used as missiles to kill ten of hundreds of unsuspecting souls. But
             September 11, proved that terrorists were far ahead of the intelligence
             agencies and the general public when it came to designing and deploying
             sophisticated war tactics. War for a terrorist need not involve the
             military or military tactics of any nature; it is simply a conflict where
             the side with best strategies and most unique weaponry stands a better
             chance of emerging victorious. It appears that United States and the entire
             world was largely unaware of this perspective on war and thus
             underestimated the intelligence of terrorist groups since they merely
             focused on conventional ways of securing the nation that had little or no
             protection to offer against advanced terrorist tactics and strategies.
             However September 11 was a big eye opener, not only did it divert the
             attention of the public and government to the horrific nature of new
             terrorist strategies, it also opened their eyes to the possibility of
             chemical and biological warfare that had hitherto been ignored as nothing
             Biological warfare or terrorism refers to the kind of conflict where one or
             both parties employ biological weapons prepared with natural agents such as
             viruses, fungi and bacteria. Biological conflict is characterized by the
             use of "living organisms, whatever their nature, or infective material
             derived from them, which are intended to cause disease or death in man,
             animals or plants, and which depend for their effects on their ability to
             multiply in the person, animal or plant attacked." (1) In other words, when
             a person or a terrorist group/country aims at killing a large number of
             people through biological weapons, they can r...

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