9/11 changed everything, and by everything, I especially mean our buffet line foods. Now you can add salad bars and buffets to the list of places where terrorists may strike next.
Citing a “key Intelligence source,” CBS News reports that the federal government uncovered an al Qaeda plot earlier this year to poison salad bars and buffets at a variety of undisclosed locations. The report quotes from an al Qaeda website where terror leaders call for
“…attacking the enemy with smaller but more frequent operations” to “add a heavy economic burden to an already faltering economy.”
Specifically, terrorists have proposed using the poisons ricin and cyanide, both of which can be fatal in small doses.
Intelligence officials say that they don’t want to alarm the public, though they have briefed security officers at several restaurant and hotel chains. Intelligence officials, for all their titles may suggest, clearly aren’t aware of just how important places like Golden Corral and Old Country Buffet are to our American lifeblood.
We’re gonna need stronger sneeze guards.