Posted on 01/18/2009 7:29:17 PM PST by null and void
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.
God works in mysterious ways.
I’ve heard that the main reason why Schiklegruber didn’t use gas against Allied troops was because he suspected that they might have crap that was at least as powerful.
Maybe there were not one, but two or more diseases.
a case of the flea biting the rats. GOOD!
ping
Plague Good news.Divine intervention?
<<My thots exactly!
That's why I said "develop" - everything the terrorists make, they learned how to from Western Civ.
In those days the plague was transmitted by fleas. One thing I've recently learned is that fleas *hate* horses. So, it's a little ironic that the Mongols were sitting on the solution to the plague the whole time.
Our c.i.a. at work?
1st they invent aids and spread it amongst black folk.
Now passing the plaque around our enemies.
> This could be a terrorist plan to spread the highly infectious disease throughout the Western nations by having these infected people (who are contagious) infect the populations they are in...
> Ive heard that they were experimenting with that idea...
Not likely. Plague responds to antibiotics very well. I can state from first hand experience that plague is a very painful and nasty thing to experience.
I was hospitalized with plague while in Viet Nam. In 23 days I went from 185# to 115#. The doctors told me that the hardest thing was that none of them had ever see a case of plague and I was being treated for everything but plague. Once they made a proper diagnosis I got better very quickly.
Plague is probably a poor choice as a terror weapon. It isn’t transmitted person-to-person but requires an intermediate host.
> Is there a vaccine?
Yes there is; but since plague is bacterial and not viral, the vaccine is only effective for a short period of time, probably not more than a year ot two.
Don’t worry though, plague responds to common antibiotics.
Not if it’s pneumonic. Pneumonic is airborne and a person can be exposed to it and be dead in hours. Some of our people would die but not many.
Bats can be carriers and they were living in caves, most likely with bats.
Yeah, pneumonic and you can die within hours of exposure but it is treatable with antibiotics, I believe, if caught soon enough. One or two cases of it and everyone around the vectors will be given antibiotics to ward it off, I assume.
Antibiotics.
So how's the 14th century look to you now dolts!
Anyone find corroborating reports?
If true this is a huge problem, where did it come from? There are many stake-holders in this, and each will react differently depending on where they think it came from.
We know here it's Bush's fault (/s), but Pakistan, India, Syria, and the UN as well as others may take action.
I've bee a big fan of the semi-abandoned Bureau of Land Management campsites in the mountains around here, and seeing warning signs about plague is common (don't play with the squirrels!). Only a few get plague here, if it were 40, it would be stunning.
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