As the number of animals in Britain facing slaughter passes the one
million mark, United Press International presents an in-depth, multipart survey on the causes and likely implications of the epidemic, the worst disaster to hit British agriculture in modern times. Here, analyst Claude Salhani, an experienced expert on international terrorism, finds that respected authorities take very seriously the possibility that the epidemic could be the deliberate result of a bio-terrorist attack on Britain and that such an attack could be a “dry run” for an even more devastating future bio-terror assault on the $1 trillion U.S. agricultural industry. Full Story