terrorism (Page 12)

What happened When We Put LSD in It? – There are new forms of terrorism being planned all the time, but countries (including the US!) were perpetrating vile experiments on their ALLIES as long as 50 years ago.

In the March 11th edition of the Telegraph, Henry Samuel writes about the “cursed bread” mystery of Pont-Saint-Esprit in France, which caused residents to have hallucinations. This mystery has finally been SOLVED: In 1951, the US government spiked the bread in this tiny village in southern France with LSD, killing 5 people.
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Our enemies are figuring out new ways to attack us all the time: There will be new forms of terrorism in the future, and one of these could be a cyberattack, which could knock out both cell phones and computers.

A cyberattack has been simulated recently in order to figure out what defenses need to be put in place, and like earlier simulations, it did not turn out well for us.In Information Week, Elizabeth Montalbano quotes researcher Eileen McMenamin as saying, “You can’t visualize this kind of attack until it happens. The panel agreed we were not sufficiently prepared for an attack of this magnitude. We don’t have the systems to deal with [it].”
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What’s it REALLY all about? – As the face of terrorism changes, one reporter is asking a provocative question: “Who would benefit politically from a major terrorist incident on American soil, ready, willing and able to step into the breach and exploit the catastrophic loss of human life that would follow in its wake?” His answer: the world’s covert agencies, including MI-6 and the CIA. This is reminiscent of charges that the war in Iraq was waged partly (or mainly) to benefit big businesses such as the oil companies and Halliburton. Future wars will not be the same as wars of the past. (They may not even involve human beings).
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In his new novel Critical Mass (which will be given away to everyone who subscribes or renews for at least 6 months through January), Whitley Strieber describes how easy it would be to smuggle a nuclear device into a major city and use this to blackmail a country into adopting Sharia law. Now it turns out that future terrorism may not need a bomb at all: A keyboard will do.

“Carry out all my demands or the entire country’s electricity will be cut off.” Is this a line from a thriller, or is it a possible threat made possible with a computer keyboard? The next step in terrorism is the attempt to cause damage to systems that are operated by computer networks, such as financial systems, power stations, hospitals, television broadcasts, and satellites.
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