WASHINGTON: Showing anxiety over the latest series of terrorists attacks, a panel has warned of biological attacks by 2013.
A bipartisan commission has reported in a study that the United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear biological weapons in coming years.
The report was tabled before Vice President-elect Joe Biden, Tuesday.
Al-Qaida remains the only terrorist group judged to be actively intent on conducting a nuclear attack against the United States, the report notes.
But, the biological threat said to be the greater than the nuclear; the acquisition of deadly pathogens, and their weaponization and dissemination in aerosol form.
The report warned that, still it is not yet capable of building such a weapon and has yet to obtain one. But things could be changed if a nuclear weapons engineer or scientist were recruited to al-Qaida’s cause.
