by NoOneImportant » Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:58 am
Neither ISIS, nor any other Islamic terrorist organization gives a damn about infecting the terror perpetrator's family, what they do care about is, perhaps, killing themselves inadvertently, along with a boatload of other unintended victims through pathogen mishandling. The question is are they -- the terrorists -- smart enough to see the jeopardy realized by thinking that they are "smarter" than the virus? There is a reason that in the Western World certain pathogens are only securely handled in Biosafety Level 4 (BSL4) facilities. Any attempt to use Ebola by handling the pathogen as a bio-weapon must be considered to be beyond reckless, and even perhaps suicidal. The only effective method of using Ebola as a weapon that occurs to me might be to expose large numbers of people to the pathogen -- corpses would work -- and then move them within two days to poorly educated parts of the densely populated cities in their target nations.
To me, this isn't all that trivial an undertaking. First they have to find the willing volunteers (probably not difficult considering the number of jihadies moving into Iraq and Syria); then they must transport them to one of the "hot zones"; then they must infect them with Ebola to a given level of certainty; then, upon infection, within two days the infected person must be transported to their targeted location. While none of these four steps are, in of themselves, impossible to bring about, being able to bring all four together in the correct time frame is much more difficult, as it requires people, time, money, and facilities in multiple locations.
The temptation for the stupid would be to extract some body fluid from an Ebola victim, and think that it can be safely handled, and transported to the jihadi volunteer in Syria, Iraq, or some third location to infect them. Further they would have to believe that the infected can be "gotten rid" in time to only infect those of the targeted nation - a formula for disaster, as, in the real world nothing ever works according to plan.
Neither ISIS, nor any other Islamic terrorist organization gives a damn about infecting the terror perpetrator's family, what they do care about is, perhaps, killing themselves inadvertently, along with a boatload of other unintended victims through pathogen mishandling. The question is are they -- the terrorists -- smart enough to see the jeopardy realized by thinking that they are "smarter" than the virus? There is a reason that in the Western World certain pathogens are only securely handled in Biosafety Level 4 (BSL4) facilities. Any attempt to use Ebola by handling the pathogen as a bio-weapon must be considered to be beyond reckless, and even perhaps suicidal. The only effective method of using Ebola as a weapon that occurs to me might be to expose large numbers of people to the pathogen -- corpses would work -- and then move them within two days to poorly educated parts of the densely populated cities in their target nations.
To me, this isn't all that trivial an undertaking. First they have to find the willing volunteers (probably not difficult considering the number of jihadies moving into Iraq and Syria); then they must transport them to one of the "hot zones"; then they must infect them with Ebola to a given level of certainty; then, upon infection, within two days the infected person must be transported to their targeted location. While none of these four steps are, in of themselves, impossible to bring about, being able to bring all four together in the correct time frame is much more difficult, as it requires people, time, money, and facilities in multiple locations.
The temptation for the stupid would be to extract some body fluid from an Ebola victim, and think that it can be safely handled, and transported to the jihadi volunteer in Syria, Iraq, or some third location to infect them. Further they would have to believe that the infected can be "gotten rid" in time to only infect those of the targeted nation - a formula for disaster, as, in the real world nothing ever works according to plan.