Terrorist WMD attack chances rise

Quit with the Fear propaganda, good Lord, with all these dumb speculations people are scared of their own shadows. If it were such a threat why then has our government left our borders and port wide open? Why are they not checking on those they freely allow into this country? Are they encouraging this to become a reality? Time our government takes logical steps to protect us instead of trying to scare us so they can use Military to patrol our streets and fear to make us scared of our neighbors.

Pull our troops off the Arabian peninsula and treat the Palestinians with basic fairness, and 99 percent of these threats will disappear.

I'm with Tim on that one. We could also refuse to trade with a country in the middle east until they clean up their own country, I suspect they would clean up their act ASAP.

This is intellectual rubbish.

Actually, it is just rubbish, because there is nothing intellectuial about it.

The exact equivalent of Middle Ages Scholastics arguing how many angels fit onto the head of a pin.

I'm surprised at the lack of terrorist attacks on American soil. I'd like to think it is because of America's intelligence services and resolve, but I know better. If some sniveling coward wants to blow himself up with a home made bomb in a crowded subway, is there really a way to stop him? We hear about these suicide bombing almost daily in other parts of the world. Why haven't they happened here?

Ind Voter, get a grip. There is an area that exists between being scared out of your wits and having your head in the sand about terrorist threats, and most Americans live in it. You should join them.

Tim, I always love posts like yours. They presume that terrorists act rationally; as if they would not find some other pretext to commit murder. As if troops in arabia somehow excuses, justifies or explains some dirt bag blowing up himself and a bunch of civilians. As for the Palestinians, I presume you are talking about US action; what do you define as treating them with "basic fairness"? What specifically should the US do?

Let"s try a new thing,Called "DIPLOMACY"...Sometimes I think we are the rogue state.

EVERYBODY PANIC!!!

I knew it was time for a dose of fear to be dispensed...

"Treat the Palestinians with basic fairness," says "Tim1"-- who probably realizes that "basic fairness" as defined by Palestinians requires the elimination of Israel.

But, does anyone truly believe that if Israel were to be destroyed, Islamic terror threats to the rest of the world (e.g., India) would stop?

Or is it at least, maybe, just possible, that jihandists might be seriously emboldened by such a victory?

(Oh, yes, I forgot, terror is just a chimera, and the pictures from Mumbai just crass (Jewish?) propaganda.)

Great...why not plant some ideas in someone's demented brain! Quick, everyone move out of the cities before it's too late....but to where?

I don't believe the group was designed to create fear, only organzation and proper response.. many of you here seem quite blind to that concept by your feedback.. Were you complaining about FEMA's lack of organization during the Hurricanes ? Probably so and much deserved.. I also assume you'll be the loudest mouths when !! not if !! the WMD happens, complaining "How could this Happen"

Well, the good news is there is no such thing as a "suitcase nuke" and biological attacks are much less deadly that they are made out to be. If you are in the "wrong place at the wrong time" (i.e. close proximity) to where an agent is released, it's not a good thing, but it will disipate quite quickly in a "city" due to drafts and winds and is more of a terror weapon than a legitimate mass-killer. Once again, the government scaring us when, in reality, the bark is considerably worse than the bite..........

I agree with Tim1979.

I wonder if the pathogen will be traced back to Ft. Detrick as it was in 2001?

Why don't we take a single little step outside of our controlled reality and look at the 2001 Anthrax attacks;

I would suggest that these mailings did more to contribute to the climate of fear in this country then 9-11 itself. True panic ensued, the national news media propagated one unsubstantiated theory after another from Afghani cavemen to Saddam Hussien.

At the end of the day where does OUR GOVERNMENT (the FBI any way) claim that the anthrax (weapons grade at that) come from?

A US Army Lab at Ft. Detrick Maryland, supposedly smuggled out by a disgruntled scientist who is now conveniently dead by way of suicide.

The shadow government could not deny that the anthrax originated at Ft. Detrick, instead a patsy was found and suicided (after the first patsy Dr. Steven Hatfill didn't work out).

I would wager that 90%+ of the public believes that the initial media hysteria surrounding the attacks reflects reality and that "Al Qaeda" produced and delivered weapons grade anthrax in the US.

Do your own research and for Gods sake wake-up.

It took them 6 months to come up with this ? I think 9 out of 10 Americans could have come to the same conclusion in about 15 minutes ! Our great elected officials, nothing better to do than waste tax payers money on a study that tells us what we already know !

Albigensian ignores the crimes committed against the Palestinians since their land was expropriated in 1946 in the name of Israel. Israel is an artificial state created by UN mandate and it did dispossess many Arab indigenes, as did the numerous conflicts since then. No one had sight enough to see what hatred this dispossession would cause - or if they did, didn't care,

That said, things are what they are in the world and we have to work with them that way. And yet there is much wisdom in advocating for general fairness and avoidance of preference in matters of foreign policy. The Bush years are nearly over with now - thank God: a distinct black mark on our country - and we in the US should follow a much different path from before. We can do that and be fair to all.

Argentina had excellent relations with Iran, they talked all the time. Didn't stop Iran from bombing the AMIA (Jewish community center) in Buenos Aires.
Oh right, they say they had nothing to do with it.

I agree with Tim1979 also.

Is it 2008? Or 2001?

C'mon, Tribune, why not just run releases from Fox "News"?

Have we forgotten 9/11 already?? When reports came out PRIOR to 9/11 that such an attack was possible or immenent did anybody take it seriously?? NO. And look what happened.

Wake up people. Don't become complacent again.

I sure am glad that time is going to end in 2012! Those Aztecs knew what they were talking about.

I thought the two wars we're fighting put a stop to terrorists. Wasn't the mission accomplished?

Makes sense to me that our chances of being attacked are growing rather than shrinking. Bush's policies have served as a rallying point for terrorist recruitment, so they're gaining adherents. Bush has been AlQuaeda's best friend for years, whether he's realized it or not. For all the talk about "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here," we haven't done SQUAT to actually prevent them from COMING OVER HERE. We've just been lucky they haven't done anything yet.