Posted on 01/20/2009 10:34:10 AM PST by Nachum
THE al-Qaeda cell wiped out by Black Death may have infected ITSELF while developing biological weapons, it emerged last night.
The terrorists planned to wreak havoc on Western targets but fell victims to their own weapon, a leading expert on chemical warfare believes.
The Sun revealed yesterday that Black Death, also called the Plague, killed at least 40 fanatics at a terror training camp in Algeria earlier this month.
It was thought they caught the disease through poor living conditions in their forest hideouts.
But Dr Igor Khrupinov, of Georgia University, said: “Al-Qaeda is known to experiment with biological weapons. And this group has direct communication with other cells around the world.
“Contagious diseases, like ebola and anthrax, occur in northern Africa. It makes sense that people are trying to use them against Western governments.”
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Dr Khrupinov, once arms adviser to Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev, added: “Instead of using bombs, people with infectious diseases could be walking through cities.”
Black Death HAS been researched as a biological weapon before.
And al-Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden’s fanatics were experimenting with anthrax in Afghanistan in 2001.
Last year it was revealed 100 suspected terrorists tried to become students in Britain, giving them access to labs.
In 2006 a plot to poison London’s water was unmasked.
Ian Kearns, of the Institute for Public Policy Research, said: “The biological weapons threat is not going away. We’re not ready for it.”
Enemy kill thyself.
Hoisted on their own petard.
Would this be a silver lining alert or a karma alert?
Experimentation on it’s own kind before the real thing??
While this was a serious threat up to almost 2 hours ago, now the O is in I am sure it will subside rather soon. /s (just in case)
I like to think of this as Mother Nature weeding out the idiot genes.
I like to think of this as Mother Nature weeding out the idiot genes.
... says the guy who double posts. ><
HOIST BY THEIR OWN PETARD!
Or a new kind of suicide “bomber”. Walking hosts infiltrating a society and spreading disease. I hope we manage to get a sample of the bug so we can determine if it is weaponized or not.
Better napalm that terrorist camp just to be safe.
> THE al-Qaeda cell wiped out by Black Death may have infected ITSELF while developing biological weapons, it emerged last night.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that the buggers now know that it works.
Really???
Her track record at that hasn’t been all that great lately.
Hopefully they will continue to experiment on their own kind until....
Thanks - I needed a good laugh!
LOL
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