Posted on 01/20/2009 4:44:31 PM PST by tobyhill
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.
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I appreciate the update, Uncle Ike. I worry that far too many people have become complacent. Blame Bush for that. He kept us safe for eight years. Will Obama do the same? I sure as heck hope so.
Just want to be sure I was clear. What I was trying to say is that people have become complacent because there hasn’t been another attack on our homeland in eight years. We can thank President Bush (or blame him, in lib speak) for that.
Died after just a few hours? Who was there with a stopwatch? Where are we getting our info from? Did the CDC parachute in a go-team? Just wondering....
There might be a LOT more to this story. We might be getting the 10% view, at best.
You are talking about sub humans that do not understand the concept of, or reject outright, the use of, toilet paper. Handling other biological agents is likely to be treated with the same lack of respect as they do with their poo.
Now that I think about it, there’s no down side.
Fog of war.
Really. I'm willing to bet the corpses are on ice somewhere in Maryland by now.
I'm really not all that worried about Y. Pestis myself. Even the pneumonic form can be treated quite easily with proper identification and antibiotics.
I'm far more worried about what happened to the smallpox virus which some genius thought would be a good idea to store in Baghdad....
I haven't ever heard what happened to that.
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I wish I was on the message traffic distribution list for stuff like this.
So I have to make it up in books.
There are no “sub-human” humans.
That line of thinking leads to genocide.
Only a maniac with a grudge against humanity would release smallpox, and the existing stores are hopefully well guarded in Russia and the USA.
Unlike Y. Pestis, which is readily available, and easily modified. Even in it’s natural state, it could be “weaponized” merely by injecting dozens of flea-infested rats in a crowded slum, just before releasing them in a dozen alleys. Any knucklehead could do that, and if it was a third world city with limited medical capability, say, Lagos, it would get out of control very fast.
The ability to treat it with ABx actually makes it more likely to be used. The user might target a certain population, sure that while the target zone would suffer, the outbreak could be contained with a ring of ABx given around the hot zone.
Sounds like about 75% of the islamic world to me....
and the existing stores are hopefully well guarded in Russia and the USA.
You used 'well guarded' and 'Russia' in the same breath. Wanna think about that a bit? From what I remember somehow some UN idiot thought it would be a good idea to have a 3rd storage site for the remaining smallpox virus.
That spot was Baghdad.
Now....you were saying?
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Well, don’t look at ME....LOL.
I just design computer models. You know, climat change, apochryphical scenarios, death of the species, that sort of thing...
(Actually, the most technologically advanced thing I have ever done was find a way to predict the bore temperature in a canon, at the start of rifling, given an infinitely variable firing pattern under any climate coditions. It took me darn near a year, and involved most of the computers at ALL of the national labs. And I wasn’t sure that I could do it, until I did. Resovled it down to 74 simultanious equations - trivial even on a palm pilot).
(Which is why I laugh at climat models. It took ALL THAT to predict the temperature of a hunk of iron.)
(An you write good books.)
Sub human was too kind!
It is amazing the news all around us reported in ways as to hide things and all right under our noses and before our eyes.
No, but there are humans who have, from one cause or another, sunk to the sub-human level. islamists for example.
That line of thinking leads to genocide.
'muslim' is not a race. It's an ideology. Wiping out the adherents of islam therefore cannot be 'genocide'. I'll quite happily let any Christian Arab or Persian continue to share my atmosphere.
Followers of that syphilitic, murdering, caravan raiding pedophile of any race however.....
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The impact of Islam on the cradle of humanity has been noted, with horror.
And yet people are still unwilling to face reality and realize that islam must be destroyed utterly, without mercy or remorse.
Worse yet those people accuse those of us who realize what a lethal danger islam is to civilization of wanting 'genocide'.
You wouldn't know anyone like that, would you?
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There is a wide difference between wanting to disabuse your neighbor of a misguided idea, and wanting to eliminate his entire clan, because he once wrongly espoused it.
I'll tell ya what. Let's say we drop you into West Pakistan and you try to disabuse a few Taliban clans of their 'misguided' notions with nothing but your copy of The Bible.
Let us know that works out for ya.
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Last time I was in that part of the world, I didn’t carry a bible. Had to saign a letter acknowloging that it was a death-penalty offense, to bring one into the country.
What did you do?
We didn't mess with that when I was wearing the uniform of my Country. Reagan just sent us in, so we went. Lots of us took Bibles.
When the islamonazis murdered 240 of my Brothers, he pulled us out. But not before a Navy Chaplain read some relevant passages out of HIS Bible.
Had to saign a letter acknowloging that it was a death-penalty offense, to bring one into the country.
So it didn't bother you to deny Christ then? Wow.
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