Deadliest weapon against terrorists so far: The Plague

[Little-Acorn]

Death by Bubonic plague is one of the most horrible possible. I wouldn't wish this upon my worst enemy... but these guys come close.

You don't suppose God is trying to tell them something?

Maybe they should take the hint.

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle2146286.ece

Dealiest weapon so far: The Plague

by ALEX WEST
Published: Today

ANTI-TERROR bosses last night hailed their latest ally in the war on terror — the BLACK DEATH.

At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages. The killer bug, also known as the plague, swept through insurgents training at a forest camp in Algeria, North Africa. It came to light when security forces found a body by a roadside.

The victim was a terrorist in AQLIM (al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb), the largest and most powerful al-Qaeda group outside the Middle East. It trains Muslim fighters to kill British and US troops.

Now al-Qaeda chiefs fear the plague has been passed to other terror cells — or Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. One security source said: “This is the deadliest weapon yet in the war against terror. Most of the terrorists do not have the basic medical supplies needed to treat the disease. It spreads quickly and kills within hours. This will be really worrying al-Qaeda.”

Black Death comes in various forms. Bubonic Plague is spread by bites from infected rat fleas. Symptoms include boils in the groin, neck and armpits. In Pneumonic Plague, airborn bacteria spread like flu. It can be in the body for more than a week — highly contagious but not revealing tell-tale symptoms.

The al-Qaeda epidemic began in the cave hideouts of AQLIM in Tizi Ouzou province, 150km east of the capital Algiers. The group, led by wanted terror boss Abdelmalek Droudkal, was forced to turn its shelters in the Yakouren forest into mass graves and flee.

The extremists supporting madman Osama bin Laden went to Bejaia and Jijel provinces — hoping the plague did not go with them. A source said: “The emirs (leaders) fear surviving terrorists will surrender to escape a horrible death.”

AQLIM boss Droudkal claims to command around 1,000 insurgents. Training camps are also based in Morocco, Tunisia and Nigeria. AQLIM bombed the UN headquarters in Algiers in 2007, killing 41. Attacks across Algeria last year killed at least 70 people.

In an interview last July, Droudkal boasted his cell was in constant contact with other al-Qaeda “brothers”.

[My Winter Storm]

I wouldn't wish such a painful death on anyone either, and that goes for these people.

[PostmodernProphet]

the bad news is that, this may be evidence that terrorists are experimenting with biological terrorism.....something that got loose may have killed them.....

[Kathianne]

the bad news is that, this may be evidence that terrorists are experimenting with biological terrorism.....something that got loose may have killed them.....

Our government seems to think bio or chemical, not plague.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ms-experiment/

Al Qaeda bungles arms experiment
Biological or chemical weapons

Eli Lake (Contact)
Originally published 07:43 p.m., January 19, 2009, updated 05:45 a.m., January 20, 2009

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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.

He said authorities in the first week of January intercepted an urgent communication between the leadership of al Qaeda in the Land of the Maghreb (AQIM) and al Qaeda's leadership in the tribal region of Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan. The communication suggested that an area sealed to prevent leakage of a biological or chemical substance had been breached, according to the official.

"We don't know if this is biological or chemical," the official said.

The story was first reported by the British tabloid the Sun, which said the al Qaeda operatives died after being infected with a strain of bubonic plague, the disease that killed a third of Europe's population in the 14th century. But the intelligence official dismissed that claim...

[Noir]

They don't know if it was bio or chemical yet they know it was not the plauge. You'd wonder how they can be both uncertain and certain on such simalar possibilities.

[namvet]

good news. I hope it wipes out the entire middel east.

[Little-Acorn]

the bad news is that, this may be evidence that terrorists are experimenting with biological terrorism.....something that got loose may have killed them.....

The article pointed out that this plague pops up every now and then in various areas of African and the middle East, where medical care is lax or nonexistant due to the lack of prosperity and resources to fight diseases.

Guess it popped up where AQ was hiding, too. I've seen no evidence that it was because they were doing anything special with it. They just tripped over it, as the other places have.

Shit happens when you follow an agenda that opposes basic prosperity and well-being. You leave yourself open to all kinds of nasty things. As I said, perhaps they should take the hint that God seems to be giving them.

[DannyR]

Couldn't happen to nicer folks.