Posted on 07/07/2010 3:36:55 AM PDT by Uncle Ike
An outbreak of plague, which is considerd a potential bioweapon, among the Syrian military may be raising more questions than answers.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently ordered the shutdown of all Syrian military exercises due to a plague that currently affects a large number of military personnel, according to Examiner.com.
The Syrian president has told Syrian news sources that food and drinking water in military bases, coupled with one of the country’s worst droughts in over 40 years, are responsible for the outbreak of plague.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are experiencing food shortages, nearly 60,000 small livestock owners have lost all their animals and 50,000 others have lost 50 to 60 percent of their cattle.
The infectious bacterium Yersinia pestis causes the infectious disease plague, which is commonly found worldwide in rats and other rodents. Fleas often serve as common vectors of plague. There are three forms of human plague - bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic.
Humans may also be infected by direct contact with an infected animal, through inhalation and, if it is pneumonic plague, by person to person contact.
Drinking water, food and a heat wave are not common causes of plague, Examiner.com says, unless they have increased the contact between humans and plague carriers.
Because of this, the article says, questions should be raised about the true cause of the Syrian army plague.
jssnews.com (in French, of course)
ISID first reported it here:
And, the report of Syrian denial is here:
Just what I was thinking.
Could swear I read a couple of days ago two plague cases in SoCal.
Hmmmm
Isaiah 17:1 — “This message came to me concerning Damascus: ‘Look, Damascus will disappear! It will become a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer will be deserted. Sheep will graze in the streets and lie down unafraid. There will be no one to chase them away. The fortified cities of Israel will also be destroyed, and the power of Damascus will end. The few left in Aram will share the fate of Israel’s departed glory,’ says the Lord Almighty.” Isaiah 17:1-3
Damascus is the oldest, continually inhabited city in the world and to have it suddenly abandoned/destroyed might be from a bio weapon such as the plague.
According to these verses, the cities of Aroer, which are located on the northern bank of the Arnon River just east of the Dead Sea, will also be deserted. However, the passage doesn’t say they will be destroyed in the same manner as Damascus, just that they will be deserted. It may be that people simply flee these cities out of fear of the plague or another bio weapon that will be carried by the winds.
In addition, many of the fortified cities in northern Israel will also be destroyed. Those few who remain in Aram, 38 miles south southeast of Damascus, will share the fate of these northern Israeli cities.
“‘In that day the glory of Israel will be very dim, for poverty will stalk the land. Israel will be abandoned like the grain fields in the valley of Rephaim after the harvest. Only a few of its people will be left, like the stray olives left on the tree after the harvest. Only two or three remain in the highest branches, four or five out on the tips of the limbs. Yes, Israel will be stripped bare of people,’ says the Lord, the God of Israel.” Isaiah 17:4-6
If the bio/chem weapons that were transferred from Iraq to Syria, right before we went in and liberated it, and stored underground are either leaking or are being used for weapons testing by the Syrians what we see starting to happen might continue to spiral out of control forcing Damascus and the area within a certain radius of the city to be evacuated.
Bashar al-Asshat should consult with the Egyptians, they’ve had lots of experience with plagues, like locusts, frogs, etc., had something to do with messin’ with God’s chosen people.
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Lol, love it!!
Well if want to deny logic go ahead
But in your everyday life you call Terrorism — Terrorism
And as far as having a great week -—be honest —You are sarcastically telling me to P-— Off
So man up and say it
Yeah right everybody signs off on their posts telling people to “ have a nice week”
That statement is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand
So lie to yourself about Terrorism and lie to yourself about what you really mean
Whatever Bob.
You must have gotten cut off by some Amish dude in his horse and buggy this morning, yelling ‘speed it up slowpoke!’ lol
As for people signing off with ‘have a nice week’, you’re not the first and you won’t be the last poster I wish that to.
Work on that anger management Bob.
And the other posters you are wishing it to know what you really mean
I have TOO many others use the same tactic so man up
You and the others that do it think you are being clever
Flip the bird it is more honest
Instead of going to Hawaii, I spent 23 days in a hospital.
That stinks....my husband got the smallbox vaccine for a Med Cruise and ended up in quarantine for five days in the bowels of the ship after some strange reaction to the vaccine. Vaccinations aren’t always our friends. Thanks for serving our country, Friend.
May Allah smite them all, yea, for many generations.
You see this?
That said, military living conditions can be conducive to spreading pathogens in the ranks.
Nothing worse than a bunch of radioactive rats carrying fleas with the bubonic plague.
I agree about the military living conditions but leaking or being test subjects are also options.
It’s interesting and should be watched, no matter the cause.
And you are still lying to yourself
And I can tell I have hit a nerve since you now resort and have resorted to attacks on my personal life
Bob, you couldn’t hit a raw nerve if the nerve showed up at your front door with a sticker on it’s lapel saying “HELLO, I AM A NERVE” and invited you to punch it.
What personal attacks? I’ve done nothing of the sort.
For an old goat, you need to grow up, and stop looking for reasons to be offended when no offense was ever intended.
If I wanted to be offensive and insult you, you would not only know it, you would remember it.
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