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Federal agents have already turned up some worrisome evidence. One discovery that causes shivers: among the belongings of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, sources tell TIME, was a manual showing how to operate crop-dusting equipment that could be used to spray lethal biological, chemical or radiological toxins into the air. On Sept. 16 the government temporarily grounded all crop dusters and warned farmers and pilots to put even their most modest planes under guard...
...have to generate a lethal concentration in the air, which means you need very large quantities." To kill a sizable number of people with sarin, for example, which can be absorbed through the skin as a liquid or inhaled as a vapor, you would need something like a crop-dusting plane--which is why investigators last week were so alarmed to find a manual for operating crop-dusting equipment while searching suspected terrorist hideouts. Still, to attack a city with sarin, you would probably have to fly thousands of pounds back and forth over heavily populated areas--not something easily...
...what Hamas or Islamic Jihad are doing far away in Israel, but on what Al Qaeda cells are doing right here in the U.S. I don’t read about nuclear or biological weapon proliferation in Pakistan, Iraq or North Korea but of terrorists trying to buy crop-dusting planes in Florida or get hazardous materials licenses in Detroit...
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...have to generate a lethal concentration in the air, which means you need very large quantities." To kill a sizable number of people with sarin, for example, which can be absorbed through the skin as a liquid or inhaled as a vapor, you would need something like a crop-dusting plane--which is why investigators last week were so alarmed to find a manual for operating crop-dusting equipment while searching suspected terrorist hideouts. Still, to attack a city with sarin, you would probably have to fly thousands of pounds back and forth over heavily populated areas--not something easily...