posted on Dec, 3 2008 @ 12:32 AM
The margin of safety in America is "shrinking, not growing", the bipartisan report said, and it urged the US to "move with a sense of urgency" to
improve security.
The report, which will be published on Wednesday, cites US ally Pakistan as a hotspot for danger: "Were one to map terrorism and weapons of mass
destruction today, all roads would intersect in Pakistan."
The Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism report said terrorists are more likely to be able to obtain biological weapons,
with anthrax a particular danger, than nuclear weapons, as nuclear facilities are more carefully guarded.
Civilian laboratories with potentially dangerous pathogens abound, and could easily be compromised, the report said.
While militant groups lack the scientific and technical ability to make weapons out of pathogens or nuclear bombs, the gap could easily be overcome if
terrorists found scientists willing to share or sell their knowledge, the report said.
The report also found that al-Qaeda remains the only terrorist group judged to be actively intent on conducting a nuclear attack against the US.
It is not yet capable of building such a weapon and has yet to obtain one, but that could change if a nuclear weapons engineer or scientist were
recruited to al-Qaeda's cause, the report said.
www.telegraph.co.uk
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