“Fourteen years ago, U.S. Navy SEALs found a list of pathogens and a schematic in an Afghanistan cave that al-Qaida planned to use to produce bioweapons. In addition to six human pathogens, ten pathogens targeted food, six targeted livestock and poultry, and four targeted crops. Clearly, al-Qaida was considering agroterrorism,” write Tom Daschle and Richard B. Myers in U.S. News and World Report
The Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism produced a series of reports dated 2008-2010 that claimed that a U.S. biological attack was far more likely than a nuclear one. The Commission gave the United States an “F” in bioterrorism readiness.
