Responding to the Threat of Agroterrorism: Specific

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Recommendations for the United States Department of

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BACKGROUND

A disease that is introduced deliberately may be indistinguishable from one that is introduced

inadvertently, or from one that arises naturally. An examination of past outbreaks gives some

indication of the level of damage to expect from an agroterrorist attack. Beyond the damage lies

the question of who would carry out such an attack and for what reasons. To address this broad

topic, this section gives an overview of who has developed antiagriculture BW in the past, who has

actually used BW against agriculture, the technical requirements for an agroterrorist attack, and

some potential motivations.