Well, about terrorists and scanners, let me only say that, all considered, we're lucky ..... i don't have any intention to offend anyone, just to make all you think about a very simple pair of facts .....
First one, there's always a possibility that a good chimical worker mix a decent basic alite explosive, and this, at least til now, is not detectable from explosive sniffers (for the simple reason that it don't contain the same chemical substances that the scanners detects
) ..... we're lucky that suicidal terrorists are, usually, not so good at chemistry
..... but, anyway, it's still just a bomb .....
The second reason for which all us are lucky, imho, is that so-called suicidal terrorists don't want to make a massacre, just want to make a show, when they blow-up something ..... a demonstration, something that draw public attention ..... and for this, they choose bombs (and 98% of the explosives can be detected, so there's a possibility to stop them, and this is what i mean about "we're lucky"
) .....
A real suicidal terrorist that want to do a real massacre, don't use bombs or explosives ..... have you already considered that there is more than one virus available on black market ? ..... i just imagine a common aerobic variation of something like Marburg, Ebola, Lassa, Congo, Hanta (just for cite a pair of them
) ..... do you imagine what can happens if, just as example, some terrorists take a colture, self-inject it, then go around all the country ..... no need to use airports, just railways are enough ..... depending of how much peoples the carrier can meet in stations, trains, public places, and so on, and the fact that also the countaged peoples become carriers few time after the countage, and that, being all peoples that travel, more or less, they contribute to diffuse the countage ..... having already done some studies about the diffusion of the viruses, i can easily imagine the results, and THIS can scare me ..... not a terrorist with a bomb .....
A terrorist with a bomb can kill 100 or 200 peoples in a market or in an airplane ..... with a well chosen virus, 4 or 5 terrorists can kill from 15.000 to 40.000 peoples, before the "sanity machine" can isolate the virus, find a vaccine, distribute it, find all the peoples countaged, and cure all them ..... now, say me what terrorist scare you more, the loudy one with the bomb, or the silent ones with the virus ? .....
