Posted on 01/10/2006 5:32:55 AM PST by Straight Vermonter
Al-Qaida is recruiting suicide bombers who are infected with the AIDS virus, according to Britain's Sunday Mirror.
The newspaper reported that terror chiefs are also targeting fanatics who suffer other lethal blood diseases such as hepatitis and dengue fever in order to increase their "kill rate" from an explosion. The chilling new threat is revealed in papers distributed to British military camps in Iraq and across Europe.
Under the heading "HIV/Hepatitis" the document states: "There is evidence that terrorists might be deliberately recruiting volunteers with diseases that are spread by blood transference."
Experts have found that bones and other blood-spattered fragments from a suicide bomber could penetrate the skin of a victim more than 50 yards away and infect them.
According to the Mirror, in the papers soldiers are warned to wear special protective clothing when on guard duty or if they have to deal with casualties in the event of an attack.
A British defense spokesman confirmed that bases had been made aware of the new threat.
Um, isn't that how the Black Death was spread? They tossed infected bodies over the walls. Nice bunch of Freedom Fighters.
I guess this qualifies as biological warfare. They are now using WMD????
"I can't believe splashing of their blood is going to increase the kill rate substantially."
It won't. If anything it has marginal propaganda effect. Their goal is to terrorize. Since most people are terrified of AIDS, it works, thanks to stupid articles like this one.
Correct. The idea is to make everyone think "it could happen to me".
The terrorists are militarily insignificant by psychologically powerful.
Excellent point! 2,986 souls died September 11, and it's disrupted our lives completely. 50,000 people die every year on our nation's highways (at least 25,000 in small, fuel-efficient cars) and nobody thinks twice about it.
If this is the best idea that the terrorists have, we've definitely won. (Also, it's in The Mirror!)
So basically, they blow up one true believer so that, perhaps, one or two infidels will wind up with HIV (couldn't be much more effective than that, considering who might survive the blast itself), and maybe die in a decade or so? I think we see the genius thinking that has kept the Muslim world happily in 900 AD.
Its going to be funny having the mullah tell some gay muslim dude...that he can have the 76 virgin girls upon his death, and that being gay isn't a a big deal to Allah. I can just see this conversation...and the Mullah trying not to laugh as he tells the dimwit all of this.
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