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Despite all the attention being given crop dusters, using one to spread germs is not as easy as it sounds. The planes are designed to spray pesticides in heavy, concentrated streams, whereas bioweapons are ideally scattered in a fine mist over as large an area as possible. The nozzles in crop dusters are best suited to discharging relatively large particles--100 microns in diameter--not tiny 1-micron specks of bacteria...
...closed-door briefing for President Clinton and 400 officials from the U.S., Canada, Britain and Japan by Bill Patrick, former chief of the Army's bioweapons-development program. Patrick described how terrorists--armed with blenders, cheesecloth, garden sprayers and starter bugs mail-ordered from a U.S. germ bank--could spray enough deadly bacteria in the air intakes of the World Trade Center to infect 25,000 people. If that didn't scare anybody then, it will...
...current President of Indonesia and widow of a former President, Dewi is a TV celebrity in Japan, her native country. Glamorous at 61, Dewi is frequently asked her opinion on everything from political issues to the foibles of the famous. She's also not above promoting cockroach spray. Dewi does not appear to need the money--she has homes in New York City, Paris and Indonesia--but she clearly enjoys the attention...
...worse, the car runs out of gas! Just when the characters thought they were safe, a telephone rings and the slow voice of the trucker, who goes by the name “Rusty Nail,” is heard on the other end! Threatening messages are found spray-painted on interstate signs in an I Know What You Did Last Summer fashion! Unfortunately, all this has been done before, and the audience knows...
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...