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The booming illicit fentanyl trade has made deadly opioid ingredients far more accessible around the globe, greatly increasing the risk that a terror group or rogue state actor will one day try to aerosolize the drug to create mass casualties, a former top Department of War official told Just the News.
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction David F. Lasseter, praised President Donald Trump's declaration this month of fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, saying it would create powerful new tools to fight the current drug cartels' scourge that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and would equip U.S. security agencies to counter future efforts to create an aerosolized fentanyl weapon that could kill millions.
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Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction David F. Lasseter, praised President Donald Trump's declaration this month of fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, saying it would create powerful new tools to fight the current drug cartels' scourge that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and would equip U.S. security agencies to counter future efforts to create an aerosolized fentanyl weapon that could kill millions.
Weaponizing fentanyl
"Look, this is a scourge on American society, but it also has really significant impacts if it is weaponized," Lasseter said in a wide-ranging interview Tuesday night on the Just the News, No Noise television show. "And the chemicals in illicit fentanyl and its precursors have wreaked havoc, as we've talked about on the health side. But there's really some significant concerns about what it could do if it weaponized."
Ex-War Department official warns terrorists may one day aerosolize fentanyl, praises Trump move
Former WMD official David Lasseter noted that Russian security forces in 2002 accidentally killed 130 hostages during a Chechen terrorism incident when they pumped a gaseous form of fentanyl into a theater hoping to anesthetize the terrorists. The formula was too strong and was lethal to many.
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