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Analysis: Bioterror book warns of hazards
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By CLAUDE SALHANI
UPI Contributing Editor
The threat of terrorists using biological agents to attack the United States has preoccupied Barry Kellman, a professor of international law and director of the International Weapons Control Center at the DePaul University College of Law for the past decade. Kellman, an adviser to Interpol on bio-crimes, sees the possibility of terrorists using biological agents — “as a threat without borders to the human species.”
Kellman’s research and trepidation can be found in his newly released book, “Bioviolence: Preventing Biological Terror and Crime.”
Kellman rates the risks of bio-violence — violence resulting from terrorists using biological agents to inflict the greatest harm possible — “as a very serious threat.” He says: “In a major biological attack in the foreseeable future, even if the attack is of lower intensity, it has the capacity of producing millions of casualties.”
He worries that while much of the counter-terrorism efforts has been geared towards preventing a nuclear device or plutonium to produce a dirty bomb falling into the hands of Islamist terrorists, not enough effort has gone towards fighting bio-terrorism.
