ng members to the former Zaire during 1992 to obtain Ebola virus for weapons development (Christopher). Later on, it was found through intelligence officials that the cults' main target was the U.S. Recently, anthrax tainted mail was sent to many media personnel and, most shockingly, to Senator Tom Daschle. The main suspect is a former embittered U.S. scientist from U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID); he is thought to have sent this mail in response to losing his job at USAMRIID. If an alleged loyal U.S scientist would turn to such desperate measures, why not a hate driven terrorist?
             The growth of the terrorist threat spawns from numbers of terrorist groups motivated by religious imperative and which are state sponsored, the proliferation of "amateurs" involved in terrorist acts, and the increasing sophistication and operational competence of professional terrorist (Hoffman). All these elements fit together like a puzzle, making a grand risk of bioterrorism. Anyone with a crazy idea can critically kill thousands even millions of human beings. A terrorist could attack any time, any place, and we would not know until days even weeks later (Franz). This is because diseases take time to incubate, or create symptoms, in a person. A single man can biologically attack the U.S. and throw the country into disarray. This has already been proven with the anthrax mail issue. Former Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre of the Clinton Administration sums it up best in admitting, "We are not currently equipped to handle a widespread terrorist attack that would involve biological weapons" (Anderson). John Hamre's honesty is frightening, revealing that even our "omnipotent" government believes they could not handle a biological terrorist attack. Something has to be done to mend this hole in the United States armor.
             Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union had a bi...