Al Qaeda hit by Black Death fear as medieval plague kills 40 terrorists at training camp

DailyMail ^ | 1/19/09 | DailyMailReporter

[Sammy67]

Al Qaeda terrorists have been left fearing the Black Death plague after it wiped out at least 40 insurgents at an Algerian training camp, it was reported today. The horror disease, which killed 25 million people in medieval Europe, is understood to have been found in a militant’s body dumped at a roadside. Terror group AQLIM (al Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb) was forced to turn its shelter in the Yakouren forests into mass graves and flee, it has been claimed.

Now al Qaeda chiefs are said to fear the plague has been passed into other cells - and possibly Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Many insurgents may choose to surrender for treatment rather than die a horrible death. ‘This is the deadliest weapon yet in the war against terror,’ a security source told The Sun: ‘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.’

[astounded]

That’s some reaally bad karma, I’d say...

But, who give a rats’ ass...?

[GVnana]

This is what happens when you want to return to the 15th Century.

Amen!

[shoutingandpointing]

Yes.

Let us go back in time to the day when Og, fun-loving cave dweller and ever the man-about-the-Karst happened upon the smoldering embers of a lightning-sparked brushfire.

Og stuck a couple of those embers and it hurt, burned him and good, but not before he got back to the cave and built himself a cozy fire. Og thought about the fire as he convalesced for a week: on the one hand, the fire was a good thing, but on the other it caused harm. Soon thereafter, Og fetched a stick and a big green leaf. He scooped up a couple of embers and carried them over to Trog’s grass lean-to, where he flung them onto the dried grass-covered stick roof. Og felt warm inside and out as he watched his enemy's house burn down.

[bannie]

It’s still in the mountains west of Bakersfield. Just don’t play with the rodents.

[peace with honor]

good riddance to bad rubbish

[wtc911]

This is what happens when you want to return to the 15th Century.

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If this is factual then I would give it a 50-50 chance that some SpecOps folks are involved.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I suppose I'm to blame for not spelling things out in exacting detail.

I was not implying that plague comes across an open border.

I was referring to other diseases that were once all-but-conquered in Western civ (TB, smallpox, measles), which are making a comeback because of the open borders and because we eliminated the passing of a health-screening as a basis for immigration approval.

[Ancesthntr]

Yes, but in this case Trog has a bunch of nukes; Og will, indeed, feel warm about burning down Trog’s shack - until about 1/2 hour after Trog figures out who did it.

[Palmetto]

[shoutingandpointing]

Oh, how right you are about that.

That’s why it is REALLY important that old Trog takes care of old Og and anyone he’s sat around the fire with in the past week or so real fast and thorough like. ;)

[Niuhuru]

Of joy and laughter?

[PapaBear3625]

Test Subjects?

The more troubling scenario is that this was a bio-war "work accident".

[calico_thompson]

or Bring out yer dead.

[Lilpug15]

But I’m not dead yet! :)

[rahbert]

we all got plague shots at Ft Ord 1969

[usmcobra]

Gee Ma did someone go Medieval on them?

[444Flyer]

Ping.

[phillyfanatic]

Yeah, and it is probably allowed by the God they don’t believe in. No tears for those thugs. None.

[freema]

You got it.

[justiceseeker93]

Divine intervention?

Certainly there's a parallel between the plagues imposed by G-d on the ancient Egyptians in Exodus and this specific plague now being suffered by the al-Qaeda population. Both the ancient Egyptians and al-Qaeda sought or seek to harm G-d's chosen people.