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Article: The new terrorism: coming soon to a city near you.(Cover Story)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 15, 1998
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The bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania may look like an all-too-conventional form of attack. But they may well form part of a new, even more frightening type of terrorism
A CLOUD of anthrax germs, designed to inflict a horrible death within five days on anyone who breathes it, is unleashed in the main shopping mall of a small American town. At first, the 500 or so victims think they have mild influenza, which recedes after a day or two; only when their symptoms return, and their lungs start filling with fluid, does anyone realise that a terrorist attack has occurred. For every actual sufferer, at least ten panic-stricken people-many with acute but ...