Chemical Agents of Opportunity for Terrorism: TICs & TIMs

Chemical Agents of Opportunity for Terrorism
Training Support Package
Participant Guide
Slide 46
Chemical Agents of Opportunity for Terrorism:
TICs & TIMs
“Terrorists can make the 'unlikely' happen. ”
Module One – Toxic Warfare: Looking Beyond Conventional Chemical Weapons
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The premise of today's discussion is that we need to prepare for the unlikely and the
unknown. We need to think outside the box. Today we take crashing planes into
buildings as a threat that we need to plan against. Prior to 9-11, the plan for responding
to hijacked airplanes did not generally focus on this outcome.
Similarly, there have been many anthrax hoaxes delivered through the mail since the
mid 1990s. The likelihood of a true anthrax attack via the mail was thought to be
remote, given the premise that “weaponized” anthrax would not be efficiently
disseminated by mail transport. The events of 2001 and 2002 demonstrated those
beliefs to be wrong.
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