Sunday, July 17, 2005

More worries about hospital terrorism

...The incident at Newton occurred March 27, Easter Sunday, around 4:45 p.m. when three men of "Middle Eastern appearance" identified themselves as doctors and requested a tour of the hospital and emergency department, which recently had expanded. The individuals also asked questions about the facility's bed capacity, services and hospital directory, speaking fluent English.

A security guard asked them for identification, which they could not produce, according to Sean O'Rourke, chief operating officer for Newton Memorial. The guard instructed the men to call back during business hours and they left...

Incidents similar to the ones in New Jersey have occurred at three hospitals in Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles, from late February to mid-March.

"Everybody's antenna is up and they are watching for stuff," said Stuart Weiss, director of the Center for Healthcare Preparedness for the Saint Barnabas Healthcare System...

A suicide bomber in a hospital would kill many (indeed, recently a woman with a suicide bomb was arrested in Israel, on the way to kill people at a hospital). But there are also worries about stealing Radium and other radioactive elements used to treat cancer to use in a dirty bomb. (the stealing of bacteria is not at issue: You could find more anthrax in a barnyard in Oklahoma than in a New Jersey Lab).

And there has been poorly reported terrorist incidents against medical research facilities

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Poorly reported because animal rights activists are often funded from PETA and other groups dearly beloved by Hollywood elites...

So one must applaud this expose in the Wa Post, which describes not only the attack, but the media manipulation by the attackers, who were given sympathetic press...


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