Word: panic
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American Legion conventioneers in Philadelphia were dying of a mysterious illness. Eventually, DISEASE DETECTIVES would discover the cause to be a bacterium spread through air-conditioning systems, but until then, near panic took hold...
...left to make up their own minds about how to react to government warnings. But with no solid information to divulge about the terrorists' possible methods, targets or timing, Washington risked either crying wolf one time too many or sending a nation from low-grade anxiety into full-blown panic. As a retired FBI counterterrorism official put it, "If you start warning about everything you hear, you become part of the terror, as opposed to part of the solution...
...compared with the prospect of rogue nukes. Just what bin Laden has in his stockpiles, what he plans to do with it and what can be done to stop him are rapidly becoming the most pressing questions in the anti-terror wars. "The goal of terrorism is to spread panic," says Dr. Jerrold Post, a physician and professor at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, who believes that al-Qaeda would try a nuclear or radiological attack if it had the capacity. "Psychologically, there are no constraints...
Finger on the Panic Button...
...four envelopes will prove faulty, which has happened with anthrax scares in the U.S. and elsewhere: hoax letters have been found in Pakistan in the past few weeks. Nonetheless, says Sardar Abdul Majeed Dasti, Karachi's Superintendent of Police, "This is definitely terrorism. It is aimed to create panic." The word jang does, in fact, mean war, but no one expected the newsroom to become a new front line...