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Bio-Terrorism in Israel 
By Stephen Bryen
<a href="http://cryptome.org/bio-terr-il.htm">http://cryptome.org/bio-terr-il.htm>

 
 Dr. Stephen Bryen headed the US <A HREF="http://www.dtsa.osd.mil/">Defense Technology 
Security Administration</A> 
 from 1981 until 1988 and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Jewish 
 Institute for National Security Affairs. 

When Palestinian suicide bombers attacked Zion Square in Jerusalem on 
December 1st, there were three surprises to the horror they caused. The first 
was a new, much stronger type of explosive that probably came from Eastern 
Europe or Russia.  The second was the timing of a second bomb that was 
intended to kill rescue workers. And the third was that the bombs contained 
rat poison, meaning that the attack added a new dimension to Palestinian 
terrorism -- biological warfare. 

Rat poison is an especially nasty bio-terror weapon.  Most rat poisons are 
made up of chemicals called anti-coagulants with trade names like warfarin, 
fumarin, diphacinone and bromadiolone.  Some also contain poisons such as 
strychnine. All work more or less the same way. A small mammal eats the 
poison and soon gets sick and dies from internal hemorrhaging. This happens 
because a mammalian needs to constantly manufacture coagulants to manage 
internal body functions.  When the coagulant is blocked, uncontrolled 
internal bleeding occurs. 

The Palestinian terrorists clearly understood why they packed their bombs 
with rat poison.  These bombs are made up of an explosive charge and are 
packed with nails and metal and glass shards and bits of steel wire. These 
materials are designed to kill or maim the victims of the bomb, spreading 
destruction over a wide area. If the nails, metal and glass are coated with 
rat poison, then anyone wounded by them would be more likely to die from 
hemorrhaging.  Interior Minister Uzi Landau noted that in the December 1st 
attack the explosion itself consumed much of the rat poison.  Had the rat 
poison worked, the bombers might have killed more than a hundred people on 
December 1st. 

The use of bio-terror weapons is being pursued by Palestinian terrorists and 
by Al Quaeda too. In Afghanistan U.S. Special Forces have discovered many 
germ warfare laboratories.  They have found anthrax powder and a poison 
called ricin.  Ricin, which is made from castor beans, is much more deadly 
than rat poison. 

Ricin is known to have been a favorite of the old-KGB and other former Warsaw 
pact intelligence services.  It was used in the murder of Bulgarian dissident 
Georgi Markov by the Bulgarian secret service in November, 1978.  Ricin can b
e put into an aerosol or into a bomb. Ricin, unlike rat poison, is more 
stable in intense heat.  While rat poison kills by making it impossible for 
the blood to clot, ricin works in a different way in the body but with lethal 
results.  Not only Al Quaeda, but also Iraq is producing ricin and may have 
given it to the Palestinians. 

 It is not surprising, given the rising threat, that in every terror attack 
in Israel HAZMAT teams equipped with gas masks and protective suits are part 
of the rescue effort. 
We also know that radioactive materials can be combined with conventional 
explosives and terrorists know how to use such weapons.  The first example of 
this was in a Moscow Park in November 1995 where Chechen terrorists planted a 
radiological weapon. Luckily it was found and disarmed.  Chechen terrorists 
are among the so-called foreign fighters helping Al Quaeda. 

 Al Quaeda also has gotten help from Pakistani nuclear scientists, from Iraq, 
and from smugglers who have transported Cobalt 60, Cesium 137 and Strontium 
90 to Pakistan and on into Afghanistan. Such “dirty” bombs can unleash 
clouds of radioactive dust, causing severe and generally fatal cases of 
radioactive poisoning in the victims. 

Just as Israel, which faces Palestinian terrorism supported by states such as 
Iran, Iraq and Syria, the United States faces terrorism from Islamic groups.  
While the FBI has tended to think the recent anthrax attacks are from 
domestic American sources, it is just as likely, given the Al Quaeda 
revelations, that they came from Bin Laden and his crowd, maybe with the help 
of Iraq or unemployed Russian scientists. 

Combating bioterrorism and radiological weapons by defensive measures alone 
won’t work.  There is no known way to have one hundred percent security 
against such attacks.  Because the profile of the attacks has now changed to 
bioterrorism and nuclear terrorism, the only way to stop terror attacks is to 
destroy the terrorists and their supporters. President Bush, more than any 
world leader, grasps this vital point. 

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