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No. But they are not a bioweapon, either.
Then let's call them really, really small pets. Kinda like Sea Monkeys back in the day, only smaller.
Those folks aren't terrorists - they're criminals who are doing it for profit.
You're aware of a domestic black market in roundworms?
It's certainly possible that these people were deliberately violating the animal import laws so that they could get their roundworms without following proper procedures. That doesn't support the jump to the conclusion that the reason they were doing that was to commit bioterrorism. I note that they weren't charged with any terrorist activity, and while that doesn't preclude charges being added later it really does suggest that these guys are just "ordinary" criminals and that these aren't "bioterror" arrests.
I get that it's fun and all to argue semantics to such a degree that the debate devolves into What The Definition Of Is Is but I think the larger picture around people not smuggling things into the United States that they shouldn't - especially from China - is by far the more interesting thing to discuss.
