godzillatemple
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posted on October 14, 2001 02:20:07 PM new
US sees anthrax as terrorism but blame unclear
Tidbits:
WASHINGTON, -- Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson Sunday described the spate of anthrax-contaminated mail in the United States as bio-terrorism but said it was too early to blame Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
"There's no question it's bio-terrorism," Thompson said on a television talk show.
"It's a biological agent. It's terrorism, it's a crime... But whether or not it's connected to al Qaeda, we can't say conclusively," he told CNN's "Late Edition", referring to the group blamed for the Sept. 11 suicide-hijack attacks on America that killed nearly 5,400 people.
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plsmith
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posted on October 14, 2001 02:21:49 PM new
Let me be the first to say, "Duh."
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Hepburn
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posted on October 14, 2001 02:22:47 PM new
Any American busted for sprinking powdery substances that is not anthrax but want to use it as a scare tactic as a copy cat crime should be treated just like McVeigh. Terrorism is terrorism.
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gravid
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posted on October 14, 2001 02:37:35 PM new
Trouble is that if they acknowedge the tie to the other attack then they are under a lot of pressure to respond even more forcefully. They already have a lot of people eager to nuke the whole region into uninhabitable ruin and if they are using bio - weapons they are "weapons of mass destruction" They can hardly give points to them for not applying them with more skill anymore than they could say that don't count if they tried to nuke us and it was a dud.
The other side using nuke/bio/chemical weapons has always pretty much been the criteria for the US to release their weapons...
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donny
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posted on October 14, 2001 03:20:04 PM new
The only question is, which place we should nuke into oblivion first, Trenton or St. Petersburg. My vote goes for Trenton.
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plsmith
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posted on October 14, 2001 03:25:32 PM new
Where are you again, Donny?
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Microbes
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posted on October 14, 2001 04:38:38 PM new
Yeah, Trenton... I live a little to close to St Pete. 
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krs
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posted on October 14, 2001 04:43:39 PM new
Since the whole thing began in Boston......
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chum
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posted on October 14, 2001 04:54:03 PM new
If the people behind this are from over there like the airline hijackers I wonder if the amount of hate crimes will rise? All I hear from people in public is deport all islams or we will never be normal again. Has anyone heard the same from people? Gun sales here are up 500% too. If this keeps up we may have a race war in this country.
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uaru
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posted on October 14, 2001 04:55:48 PM new
The only question is, which place we should nuke into oblivion first, Trenton or St. Petersburg. My vote goes for Trenton.
I say wait till a suspect is identified and then the first city that refuses to turn over the suspect gets nuclear technology.
I prefer the 'worryism' phrase coined earlier by Barry, instead of 'terrorism'. 
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dman3
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posted on October 14, 2001 04:59:07 PM new
Yupp I have been hearing both these thing more and more here where I live in NY.
There is a big worry right now that many who are buying guns for safty need to learn how to use them this would make them safer then actually owning one !!!!
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outoftheblue
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posted on October 14, 2001 08:32:22 PM new
>>I prefer the 'worryism' phrase coined earlier by Barry, instead of 'terrorism'.<<
We need to take the terror out of terrorism. If you are not terrified they have no power. I for one am not and never have been scared of them.
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