Posted on 01/19/2009 12:49:13 PM PST by Fred
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.”
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Wow, two previous threads about this story were locked.
I finally get to use my line...... Rove is magnificent, isn’t he?
Do not yet get too delighted - this may actually have been a test, the results of which they wanted. Soon coming to a neighborhood near you.
Oops, my bad. Was another one.
;^P
You beat me to it.
I don’t think I’d celebrate this until we see where it’s going. The plague killed tens of millions (or more) Christians, Jews, and others.
Yep, it’s good vs. evil and God is on our side.
We have antibiotics and they don’t.
It is morphing into strains that are becoming resistant to antibiotics.
Hmmmm, very interesting!
I was going to say Cheney’s parting gift.
It is about time that we used Biological Warfare on this scum...
You got any studies to support that? Or are you making stuff up by extrapolating that since other bacteria common to humans has developed resistance that yersinia pestis must be also.
do a basic search on the net to find the data....I am not your gopher...
“We have antibiotics and they don’t.”
And there’s been at least one case — and probably more — where the plague has resisted most antibiotics. Which is an indication the disease can mutate.
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