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Is the threat of Al Qaeda or a sub state terrorist group acquiring and/or using Chemical weapons very real, and increasing everyday?

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This solution helps with a question involving terrorist and chemical weapons. The posting discusses whether the threat of Al Qaeda or a sub state terrorist group acquiring and/or using chemical weapons is real and increasing everyday. The explanation is given in 330 words with one reference.

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Chemical weapons by terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda are a definite possibility. It is not the means that is important, but the fact that there are groups out there that want to create terror. The accomplished goal for the terrorists is to create terror and fear and panic, the threat of force. Can terrorists get their hands on chemical weapons? Yes. Why they have so far resulted in using primarily explosives and bombs is unknown. As citizens, we are not always privy to what the FBI is ...

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