S Typhimurium: A Case Study

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Moreover, the safe heavens also allows al Qaeda to keep a steady flow of new recruits since it gives al Qaeda an opportunity to interact with the local people who may be at a vulnerable point, which makes them an easy target for al Qaeda to recruit them.
Hypothetical Future Attack Al Qaeda could very well conduct a terrorist attack based on the attack model of the agroterrorism attack that was carried out by the Rajneeshee cult that occurred in 1984 in Dalles, Oregon. During the 1984 terrorist attack, Rajneeshee operatives released S Typhimurium (most commonly known as Salmonella) onto the salad bars of different fast food restaurants as well as on the produce in some supermarket located in the Dalles area (Torok et al., 1997). The objective

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