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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Ok, does it scare anyone else that they actually HAVE the plague to screw up with???
Well.. that's a start.
DOES it actually SCARE folks that now we are in the hands of ZERO?
OMG!! We are probably doomed!
Yeah, that is my thought.
They HAVE it. Successful test.
Of course, we wouldn’t want to roughly interrogate anyone about it if it comes up.
Hmmmm...is this the bio weapon Black Plague thingy?
Yeah it worries me but it doesn’t sound like it makes a great weapon.
The plague itself is not problem in the 21st century. However, it is obvious that Al Qaeda has made a weaponized version of it.
If they were handling significant quantities of a biological weapon most of them would have been immunized or had preventative measures like antibiotics available one would think. Maybe they got their hands on some that super potent Cold War rooskie stuff. Or they could just be generally incompetent.
combined with another organism, modern medicine may not be able to work.
Y.Pestis, Ricin, even Antrax just haven't seemed to cut it as WMD vectors. Now, if they got ahold of some of that old Soviet smallpox virus, OK, that's the time to hit the panic button.
Sure feel better now that 0bama's in charge of protecting the country.
The only thing that slows 'em down is their general incompetence.
There’s just not enough info I’ve seen yet. I sure would like to know if this was a lab facility or just a bunch of jihadi yahoos with vials of plague to play with.
If its the latter, its a lot worse than I thought.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that they have biological weapons though. I’m sure that’s one of the reasons for GWB’s gray hair.
I wonder what else they have?
But no need to worry.
The great 0 is here, and we're going to have a newly special warm and friendly relationship with Islamic fanatics from now on. He's going to “reach out.”
Hope and change. Hope and change.
Posted yesterday and discussed by the fine folks at jihadwatch...here...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024476.php#respond
Don’t assume that’s all that they have and don’t assume that it’s not some altered version of the Black Plague that is harder to treat.
How does a fleas-on-rats disease get weaponized? Aerosol? Infect suicide-bomber types and have them infect others?
I almost wonder if these jihadis weren’t sacrificed to send a message. Given the ease of world travel these days it would be hard to limit it to one target and if it killed many people in very many countries it would lead to some serious reprecussions for the muslim world.
It’s also possible that they sleep with plague infected rats.
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