[SatinDoll]

Sorry Sammy, but this was posted yesterday.

But I’ll answer your query the same way I did everyone else’s yesterday.

No, this wasn’t a bioweapon. These terrorists are living in very remote areas infested with rodents, the carriers of plague.

Every year in this country a half-dozen or so people, usually hunters, get the plague. Rabbits in this country are the wildlife reservoir for plague bacteria. A woman died here in the U.S. last year from plague that wasn’t diagnosed quickly enough.

I did find the news that the terrorists fled Algeria, and hopefully some went to Pakistan and Afghanistan, carrying the disease with them. Takes about a week for symptoms to show up after initial exposure. Nature dealing the war on terror one hell of a boost!

God sure works in mysterious, and not so mysterious, ways.

[Uncle Ike]

” No, this wasn’t a bioweapon. These terrorists are living in very remote areas infested with rodents, the carriers of plague. “

And the source of your inside information is...??

With the amount of information given in yesterday’s Sun article, and/or today’s Guardian rehash (granted - not real good sources, either of ‘em) your pontifications-from-on-high are just as much idle speculation as anyone else’s...

There just isn’t enough information available to draw any conclusions......

[shoutingandpointing]

I share your take on what happened to these cave critters. Nature balancing itself. It is not a case of a tear in the tinfoil helmet, the exhaust from silent black helicopters, the buildabetterburgers, the return of Planet X, and Elvis, who is and always was Wild Bill D. in disguise, running a lone wolf deep cover op in the AfPak borderlands. They choose to live like lower animals rather than join the civilized world, and they suffer accordingly.

However, there is more than justifiable reason for concern. These nasty little pests are known for their ability to make lemonade out of lemons, and in that I see the potential for them to take advantage of the windfall opportunity. . . . I will not elaborate, but it is no longer science or technology but willingness that. . . .

Never mind. ;)