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Even the NYPD's later clarification -- that Kelly was not thinking jetliner but a possible anthrax-laden terrorist crop-duster -- was misleading.

Len Levitt: Delusion and Illusion Len Levitt 2011

Even the NYPD's later clarification -- that Kelly was not thinking jetliner but a possible anthrax-laden terrorist crop-duster -- was misleading.

Len Levitt: Delusion and Illusion Len Levitt 2011

But the best way to show how wrong-headed this approach has been is to give a terrorist everything the commission says he needs, then follow along in a crop-duster headed for Washington, often cited as the target of such an attack, calculating fatalities based on available data and scientific studies.

Crying Wolf: The Terrorist Crop-Duster Dr. Lynn C. Klotz 2010

Soon after 9-11, the U.S. began throwing billions of dollars into "growing" hundreds of high biosecurity labs throughout the country to study deadly pathogens in case we might need to defend against them in bio-attack scenarios as improbable as one featuring a lone crop-duster.

Crying Wolf: The Terrorist Crop-Duster Dr. Lynn C. Klotz 2010

We know from published reports that 9-11 ring-leader Mohammed Atta considered a crop-duster attack before alighting on a plan that would seem impossibly harder: Not crop-dusters but jetliners, not one but four.

Crying Wolf: The Terrorist Crop-Duster Dr. Lynn C. Klotz 2010

The more controversial use of chemical dispersants, which are dropped from crop-duster type aircraft and help break up the oil so it can biodegrade, can potentially disperse hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil at a time, the Coast Guard estimates.

Gulf Oil Spill 'Blob' Changes But Never Vanishes, Presents Ongoing Battle For U.S. 2010

Eight years after the horror of 9-11 and the ensuing lethal anthrax-letter mailings, the nation remains so vulnerable to bioterrorists that an attack on a major city by one single crop-duster spraying two to four pounds of anthrax spores could "kill more Americans than died in World War II."

Crying Wolf: The Terrorist Crop-Duster Dr. Lynn C. Klotz 2010

He retreats to his house in the country, bringing a gloom thick as the poisonous cloud of a crop-duster.

Jesse Kornbluth: Philip Roth's The Humbling Is, At 140 Pages, His Best Book In Years 2009

The contenders for the potential contract include propeller planes used by Third World militaries and a converted crop-duster.

The Iron Eagle Doctrine | ATTACKERMAN 2009

Herren claimed that he would be able to spread his wasp across Africa by sowing it, crop-duster fashion, from a plane.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009