[Travis McGee]

I’d like to think, and would not rule out, that at oh dark thirty, a special forces guy and maybe an ex SF type from the CDC wandered into camp, and set a cooker going full blast, or otherwise released the critters, in such a way that everybody there would die asap and seal the place off.

Good fiction, anyway. And sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.

[Uncle Ike]

hiredhand wrote: “ But there’s more to this than we think “

Travis McGee wrote: “ And sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction “

Given the previous administration’s propensity (abetted by the Media) to downplay these hints of Terrorist uber-capabilities, and the new administration’s “What, me worry?” attitude —

Occam’s Razor would suggest that this is an independent leak, which would probably have been to the NYT, if they would print such a thing....

[hiredhand]

You just had to say it! :-) So I'll write what I was going to say...

I was going to suggest that similar characters to what you've stated released something altogether different that might be a little easier to control after the fact. If this be the case, then I would dispute that Plague is what killed anybody, but rather something else. Not only would this retain a definite strategic advantage on our part, but it constitutes a serious blow to a certain subsection of the enemy's operations, and is also very far reaching in terms of effect gained by psy-ops against AQ.