IP: International Terrorism Update

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 12:29:44 -0400
> To: TERRORISM () MEDICCOM ORG
> From: John Young <jya () pipeline com>
>
> The 1998 Patterns of Global Terrorism:
>
>    http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/1998Report/1998index.html
>
> Statements by Department of State on the report and congressional 
> testimony this week by FBI and CIA:
>
>    http://jya.com/terrorism7.htm
>
>    http://jya.com/fbi-wmd.htm
>
>    http://jya.com/cia-wmd.htm
>
> The FBI testified on April 29:
>
> Examining the increased number of WMD criminal cases the FBI has
> opened over the past several years highlights the potential threat of
> use we face. WMD criminal cases are those cases primarily dealing with
> the use, threatened use, or procurement of chemical and biological
> materials with intent to harm within the United States. These criminal
> cases have shown a steady increase since 1995, rising from 37 in 1996
> to 74 in 1997, 181 in 1998, and 114 to date for 1999, with
> three-quarters of these cases threatening a biological release. The
> biological agent most often cited in 1998 and 1999 was anthrax.
>
> Despite the increase in fabricated threats, the WMD threat remains.
> Since the early 1990s the FBI has investigated a number of domestic
> extremist groups and associated individuals interested in procuring or
> ready to employ chemical or biological agents against innocent
> civilians. In February 1999, members of a right-wing splinter group
> were sentenced to 292 months (over 24 years) in prison for threatening
> to use a weapon of mass destruction against federal officials. These
> individuals intended to modify a cigarette lighter in order to shoot
> cactus quills tainted with HIV-blood or rabies.
>
> -----
>
> This last example stretches WMD-terrorism into Saturday Night Live,
> but what the hell, budgets got to be defended against terrifying cutbacks.
>
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