Posted on 01/18/2009 5:04:40 PM PST by Joiseydude
ANTI-TERROR bosses last night hailed their latest ally in the war on terror — the BLACK DEATH.
At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.
The killer bug, also known as the plague, swept through insurgents training at a forest camp in Algeria, North Africa. It came to light when security forces found a body by a roadside.
The victim was a terrorist in AQLIM (al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb), the largest and most powerful al-Qaeda group outside the Middle East.
It trains Muslim fighters to kill British and US troops.
Now al-Qaeda chiefs fear the plague has been passed to other terror cells — or Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
This is an article snippet from your link in post #139, roses of sharon:
“He said authorities in the first week of January intercepted an urgent communication between the leadership of al Qaeda in the Land of the Maghreb (AQIM) and al Qaeda’s leadership in the tribal region of Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan. The communication suggested that an area sealed to prevent leakage of a biological or chemical substance had been breached, according to the official.
“We don’t know if this is biological or chemical,” the official said.
The story was first reported by the British tabloid the Sun, which said the al Qaeda operatives died after being infected with a strain of bubonic plague, the disease that killed a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century. But the intelligence official dismissed that claim.”
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/index.htm
“CDC Plague Home Page”
SNIPPET: “Introduction: Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis.
People usually get plague from being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an infected animal. Millions of people in Europe died from plague in the Middle Ages, when human homes and places of work were inhabited by flea-infested rats. Today, modern antibiotics are effective against plague, but if an infected person is not treated promptly, the disease is likely to cause illness or death.”
blog:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/01/the_plague_of_alqaeda_is_plagu.html
January 19, 2009
“The Plague of Al-Qaeda is Plagued”
Ralph Alter
SNIPPET: “Here’s where it gets interesting: the terrorists are reported to have scattered to Bejaia and Jijel provinces, hoping they can outrun the plague. The real dilemma rests now with the terrorist cells that have not been infected: do they accept the Algerians into their midst with the possibility of becoming infected themselves? Or do they risk the possibility that defecting members may surrender to obtain the medical treatment they need?
In either case it won’t be pretty.”
I am willing to wager that whatever they were up to it was no good, and whatever it was that took place was not what had been planned.
New article:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2150050.ece
“Al-Qaeda’s plague backfires”
by Alex West
Published January 20, 2009
SNIPPET: “But Dr Igor Khrupinov, of Georgia University, said: “Al-Qaeda is known to experiment with biological weapons. And this group has direct communication with other cells around the world.
“Contagious diseases, like ebola and anthrax, occur in northern Africa. It makes sense that people are trying to use them against Western governments.”
Dr Khrupinov, once arms adviser to Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev, added: “Instead of using bombs, people with infectious diseases could be walking through cities.””
blog:
http://www.bloggernews.net/119444
“The Al Qaeda, the Plague, and Killer Prairie Dogs”
Posted on January 19th, 2009 by Nancy Reyes
SNIPPET: “Luckily, ordinary antibiotics and elimination of vectors would probably stop such a plague today; the big worry is if someone developed an aerosolized (spray powder) of plague that could be released in a public area as a bioweapon, especially if the strain used was resistant to ordinary antibiotics.
Luckily, the technique of developing such an aeorsolized bacteria requires sophisticated knowledge and laboratories to develop, but after the Anthrax epidemic proved that there are ways for lay people to produce such a powder, such worries are very real indeed.”
Note: “Nancy Reyes is a retired physician living in the rural Philippines. Her website is Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket, and she writes medical essays at HeyDoc Xanga Blog.”
How do you give it to you animals? Do you mix it with a gallon jug and just fill their water bowl up periodically?
Blog:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?tag=Algeria&blog_id=7
“Entries from Today In Category: ‘Algeria’”
Adding a thread link to your post:
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2167875/posts
Al Qaeda bungles arms experiment - Biological or chemical weapons
washingtontimes.com ^ | January 19, 2009 | Eli Lake
Posted on January 19, 2009 9:34:25 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
An al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with unconventional weapons went awry, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Monday.
The official, who spoke on the condition he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said he could not confirm press reports that the accident killed at least 40 al Qaeda operatives, but he said the mishap led the militant group to shut down a base in the mountains of Tizi Ouzou province in eastern Algeria.
He said authorities in the first week of January intercepted an urgent communication between the leadership of al Qaeda in the Land of the Maghreb (AQIM) and al Qaeda’s leadership in the tribal region of Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan. The communication suggested that an area sealed to prevent leakage of a biological or chemical substance had been breached, according to the official.
“We don’t know if this is biological or chemical,” the official said.
The story was first reported by the British tabloid the Sun, which said the al Qaeda operatives died after being infected with a strain of bubonic plague, the disease that killed a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century. But the intelligence official dismissed that claim.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Not really. No one's ever died because a kid graffiti-ed their desk.
There is RUMINT that this was a biological weapon gone bad - kinda like a premature detonation of a suicide bomber's belt. Given lack of protective measures, this aspect of the story has some legs.
Yep, a possible work accident.
Yep.
BLOG:
http://www.jihadica.com/aqim-the-plague-and-the-press/
“AQIM, the Plague and the Press”
Hanna Rogan
January 23rd, 2009 | Algeria, WMD, propaganda
#
Related links:
www.jihadica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/01-20-09-aqim-responds-to-plague-rumours.pdf
www.jihadica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/12-23-08-aqim-responds-to-algerian-media-lies.pdf
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Malice and stupidity go hand-in-hand with these moronic malcontents.
Darwin's on call 24/7 to clean up after idiot jihad work accidents. Rats, fleas, jihadists, all the same.
Have they blamed the Joos yet?
www.nefafoundation.org/documents-original.html#aqimgerm0109
www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/nefaaqim0109.pdf
BLOG:
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/01/nefa_foundation_aqim_denies_al.php
“NEFA Foundation: AQIM Denies Alleged Germ Warfare Experiment Gone Wrong”
By Evan Kohlmann
(January 28, 2009)
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/01/al_qaeda_and_the_plague_a_foll.php
“Al Qaeda and the plague: a follow-up”
By Olivier Guitta
(January 30, 12:05 pm)
#
http://www.metimes.com/story/media/image/12330536093074/
http://www.metimes.com/International/2009/01/27/al-qaida_and_the_plague/9143/
“Al-Qaida and the Plague”
By OLIVIER GUITTA
(Middle East Times)
Published: January 27, 2009
SNIPPET: “Whatever the explanation, it seems that there have been unexplained deaths among AQIM operatives. At this point, the developments of this story and its possible implications need to be closely monitored. Indeed a nightmarish scenario could unfold if one of the infected individuals boarded a flight to Paris, London or New York. This person could become de-facto the means of “delivering” the weapon.”
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