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Al Qaeda hit by Black Death fear as medieval plague kills 40 terrorists at training camp
DailyMail ^ | 1/19/09 | DailyMailReporter

Posted on 01/19/2009 7:07:22 AM PST by 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.’

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: lakeman

“...But I’m feeling better...”

[clunk]

“See you next Tuesday!”


161 posted on 01/19/2009 4:21:01 PM PST by stevie_d_64
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To: Sammy67

God’s will


162 posted on 01/19/2009 4:23:49 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The original point of America was not to be Europe)
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To: Sammy67

interesting! did an expert that listened to the last bin laden tape say he sounded sick? :D


163 posted on 01/19/2009 4:37:47 PM PST by ferri (Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. - Philip K. Dick)
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To: Ancesthntr

Being retired from the medical field9 post mil) I’m sure this “plague has something to do withing the family of “cranialrectitis.” If we do not supply more left hands, toilet paper and have,(laves las manos)them quit eating the cr*p their books and Imam’s feed them there WILL be a cure. Ah, but they’re a stubborn lot.


164 posted on 01/19/2009 4:38:27 PM PST by Karliner (Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. DDE)
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To: Ancesthntr

Being retired from the medical field9 post mil) I’m sure this “plague has something to do withing the family of “cranialrectitis.” If we do not supply more left hands, toilet paper and have,(laves las manos)them quit eating the cr*p their books and Imam’s feed them there WILL be a cure. Ah, but they’re a stubborn lot.


165 posted on 01/19/2009 4:38:41 PM PST by Karliner (Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. DDE)
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To: lakeman

It’s Captain Tripps.


166 posted on 01/19/2009 4:56:44 PM PST by Redcitizen (This tagline is 100% recycled from other taglines. It's "green")
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To: Redcitizen
It’s Captain Tripps.

DC is Las Vegas. Sarah is Mother Abigail.

167 posted on 01/19/2009 5:03:03 PM PST by Starfleet Command
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To: SunkenCiv; LonePalm; Grampa Dave
Don't think it's a weapon either. It's winter time and vermin ain't dumb. They will infest dwellings, tents, caves....whatever.....for shelter and food.

If I'm not mistaken, one of the first signs of plague is dead rats, then the fleas abandon the hosts and seek new ones.
168 posted on 01/19/2009 5:17:30 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: lakeman

I’m not dead yet. Don’t put me on the cart.


169 posted on 01/19/2009 5:19:14 PM PST by Bookwoman ("...and I am unanimous in this..")
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To: mrs tiggywinkle

Maybe someone “gave” it to them.


170 posted on 01/19/2009 5:28:33 PM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: SunkenCiv
They were preparing a bio-weapon and it got away from them.
171 posted on 01/19/2009 6:02:54 PM PST by BenLurkin (Mornie utulie. Mornie alantie.)
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To: Sammy67
The Black Death usually comes from fleas off of rodents. Some suspect it came from this area in the last big go around.

The military has forced these guys into very primitive conditions, and it doesn't surprise me this is starting to show up. What is concerning is that there is the possibility of it spreading well beyond the Middle East very quickly.

172 posted on 01/19/2009 6:11:59 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: freema

A lot of kidding gone on. But if these people have access to to various strains of these stuff it is not good obviously.


173 posted on 01/19/2009 6:15:57 PM PST by Marine_Uncle
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

You’re of course absolutely correct. When I moved to Colorado about 10 years ago, and first read the Public Health warning about the Plague being found in Prairie Dogs only blocks from our home I thought it was, at first, a joke, and then thought it may just be some “scare tactics” or something (lots of fighting going on at the time about these prairie dogs habitats and such...). Anyway, when I realized they weren’t joking, or being sensationalists it was quite a shock. I had had no CLUE that this disease is still a factor for humanity - all it takes is one idiot getting bitten by a rat, or prairie dog, etc... for it to become a BIG problem.

Looks like Al Qaeda has found this out the hard way (not that I’m shedding tears for THEM). However, this could be a VERY big problem because if these folks were exposed and then “ran away” they only brought the disease to another population and have exposed them...

I don’t want to give them ideas, but combining this with a suicide attack could be a VERY bad thing — like a human biological weapon, really...


174 posted on 01/19/2009 7:01:11 PM PST by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ Pro-Palin & NObama Gear : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Uncle Ike

bttt


175 posted on 01/19/2009 7:22:36 PM PST by Uncle Ike (Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I jus' sets.........)
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To: Starfleet Command

Well the forces of good win in the end.


176 posted on 01/19/2009 8:10:21 PM PST by Redcitizen (This tagline is 100% recycled from other taglines. It's "green")
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To: SunkenCiv

God bless the rat fleas. eom


177 posted on 01/19/2009 8:35:36 PM PST by Pelham (Mexifornia. It's your future.)
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To: SunkenCiv

This is truly scary.


178 posted on 01/19/2009 9:53:54 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: Sammy67

Yikes!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2167881/posts


179 posted on 01/19/2009 10:06:40 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: LibertyRocks

I don’t think you can catch the plague from a bite from the infected rodent. It is typically spread by being bitten by a flea that has sucked the infected blood from a host organism.

I’m not sure what happened with the islamofascists, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were trying to contaminate carriers (fleas) to be deployed in a major city.


180 posted on 01/19/2009 10:13:12 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (The people who cheered when OJ was acquitted are the same ones cheering now.)
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