Safe or smug?
Given the lack of ability and desire around the world to get to the root of the global conflicts, it was clear to many of us a decade ago that bioterrorism and biological warfare would soon be upon us. Therefore, when Saddam Hussain said during the Iraq-Kuwait conflict in 1991 that he had the final weapon, several of us had predicted that what he referred to were biological weapons. Iraq, which initially denied existance of any such programme, later declared it had 157 aerial bombs and 25 warheads with botulin, anthrax spores and aflatoxin, the first two of which are the most fatal. Therefore, when the us bombing of Afghanistan began on October 7, there were indications of the beginning of a biological warfare. A simple argument to support this was there could be no better strategy than bioterrorism as a follow-up to the September 11 suicide bomber attacks on the us . The subsequent anthrax scare only translated the nighmare into reality.
Biological weapons have often been called the