Was that S'mores or did he say spores?
Posted on 01/19/2009 7:07:22 AM PST by Sammy67
Wrong. I've had apartments empty for a month and still the fleas were vicious and starving. I looked it up and they can survive on skin and hair.
Should read "eating shed skin and hair." I'm not writing a training manual but suitable substitutes are pobably available.
It may have been something other than the Plague. Check out this report from the Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/19/al-qaeda-bungles-arms-experiment/)
“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.”
~~~~~~~~~~snip~~~~~~~
“Al Qaeda is believed by U.S. and Western experts to have been pursuing biological weapons since at least the late 1990s. A 2005 report on unconventional weapons drafted by a commission led by former Sen. Charles Robb, Virginia Democrat, and federal appeals court Judge Laurence Silberman concluded that al Qaeda’s biological weapons program ‘was extensive, well organized and operated two years before the Sept. 11’ terror attacks in the U.S....”
Was that S'mores or did he say spores?
The right skin and hair. Alas, these fleas are on the move so they need a suitible “host” anyway.
That's right, guys. Come on out of your holes, we have a pill for you, right here! 5.56mm, just what the doctor ordered!
OK, so I'm dreaming.
“Bush Lied - Islamic Terrorists Died.”
Sounds just fine to me. ;)
Bump!
Or did the CIA finally get on the stick and do something right?
/wholehearted agreement
Okay, looks like there’s something to your suspicions (those who had ‘em, I’m pinging everyone who replied to me):
Thanks Perdogg (#8) and neverdem (#32) for the pings:
Al Qaeda bungles arms experiment - Biological or chemical weapons
washingtontimes.com | January 19, 2009 | Eli Lake
Posted on 01/19/2009 9:34:25 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167875/posts
[snip] 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... “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. [end]
It doesn't surprise me that they want to use plague as a weapon.
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Hard to believe they were working on bioweapons in some camp hidden in the woods. I doubt it was a very sophisticated or secure lab.
Thanks for the ping and link.
Here is a little more:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024476.php#respond
Apparently the lab was not idiot-proof, of that we can be sure. ;’) The wackos who followed the self-proclaimed Mahdi and took over the Grand Mosque in 1979 believed that the waters of the Zamzam spring inside the courtyard would not only cure anything, but would supply everything they needed (IOW, not even food would be required).
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