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2009-01-19 Africa North

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".

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#1 Someone making some home-brew bio-terror forget to wash their hands?

Posted by SteveS 2009-01-19 00:32|| 2009-01-19 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh please oh please oh please . . . let The Sun be right on this one.

Posted by gorb 2009-01-19 01:59|| 2009-01-19 01:59|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Fat Ass Rag Head">Fat Ass Rag Head 2009-01-19 02:37|| 2009-01-19 02:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Grom?

Posted by .5MT 2009-01-19 04:25|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-01-19 04:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Not with Gawd and Bastids and Slurpin. Keith Giffen, maybe?

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-01-19 04:34|| 2009-01-19 04:34|| Front Page Top

#6 I've got to admit that news of the AQ plague outbreak has warmed the cockles of my terrorist hating heart.

Callous? Perhaps, but seven and a half years of watching the AQ rats and their media shills in action, sometimes in person, will do that.

Like H.G. Wells's Martians, the AQ vermin have fallen victim to the "littlest things that God in his wisdom had put on the Earth,"

In another way, though, it is we who are like the Martians:

"The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. ..."

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-01-19 05:58|| 2009-01-19 05:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I blame the gummit cheese and UN peanut butter.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-19 07:54|| 2009-01-19 07:54|| Front Page Top

#8 How can the skin of rat or mouse hold
Anything more than a harmless flea?. . .

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-01-19 08:27|| 2009-01-19 08:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh, the irony is so hard and dense that it can be polished until it glitters - a medieval ideology ... felled by a medieval disease!

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2009-01-19 09:05|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2009-01-19 09:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Google Black Death and New Mexico. We get about a half a dozen cases a year [and more in the CDC counts as neighboring states ship their victims in their last 'too late' days to NM for treatment]. One unofficial state motto is 'land of the flea, home of the plague'. Wear long pants outside of the urban areas and stay away from dead animal carcasses and you're generally fine. Roaming pets are another problem, particularly cats. We have a modern medical infrastructure and personnel who recognize and can treat it in its earlier stages. Those who live in the 9th Century, not so blessed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-01-19 09:07|| 2009-01-19 09:07|| Front Page Top

#11 It would be "simply awful" if a few more cases were to spring up in say AlQ camps in Pakland.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-01-19 09:15|| 2009-01-19 09:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey, Islamist nutballs, the Will of Allah is a bitch sometimes, eh?

Posted by William Marcy Tweed 2009-01-19 09:35|| 2009-01-19 09:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Don't take the antidote, guys. It'll make your dinkys shrivel up and fall off.
Mo told me...

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-19 09:38|| 2009-01-19 09:38|| Front Page Top

#14 Not only that, tu, it was made by the Juice!!

(Or it's made outta pork products. I forget sometimes. But anyway, it's not halal. I'm sure of that, ask Al-Aska Paul.)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-01-19 09:48|| 2009-01-19 09:48|| Front Page Top

#15 God is good.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-01-19 10:26|| 2009-01-19 10:26|| Front Page Top

#16 This is thwe first time in a long time I heard AQ news and smiled.... I hope they suffered.

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-01-19 10:29|| 2009-01-19 10:29|| Front Page Top

#17 waiting for the MSM to declare that "disproportionate contagion" is bad and needs to be spread to coalition forces.

Posted by HammerHead 2009-01-19 10:31|| 2009-01-19 10:31|| Front Page Top

#18 Plagues are torture. Our administration will not condone torture, famine, pestilence, HIV, rabbit ear TV, etc.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-19 10:42|| 2009-01-19 10:42|| Front Page Top

#19 Besides not bathing, cleaning your ass with your hand, no sanitation... why on earth would such a disease strike such a holy people?

Maybe God does hate your asses.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-19 10:58|| 2009-01-19 10:58|| Front Page Top

#20 Inshallah pestilence.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2009-01-19 11:07|| 2009-01-19 11:07|| Front Page Top

#21 I hate to be cynical, but what if this variant was lab hatched??

Posted by illeagle 2009-01-19 11:21|| 2009-01-19 11:21|| Front Page Top

#22 Rabbit Ear TeeVee? WTF? No one said anything about Rabbit Ear TeeVee. Reinstate the draft.

Posted by .5MT 2009-01-19 11:47|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-01-19 11:47|| Front Page Top

#23 No doubt to soon to spread through the NYT, CNN and MSNBC....hopefully.....

The image of Keith Olberman going "gaaaack" and falling over is way too pleasant. Maybe I should get help......

Posted by Uncle Phester 2009-01-19 11:50|| 2009-01-19 11:50|| Front Page Top

#24 ahhh... dem AQ deaths warm my fuzzy cockles and carry me away!!

/so sorry Mods.. no harm ment..

:)

Posted by Red Dawg 2009-01-19 14:15|| 2009-01-19 14:15|| Front Page Top

#25 Accident? Maybe - but there is the chance that this was an AQ weapon that got away from them. Also a chance that is was our weapon that we turned on them.

I'd like to see a reprise of this in the NWFP of Waki-land. The place could benefit from a good cull.

Posted by Rob06 2009-01-19 14:43|| 2009-01-19 14:43|| Front Page Top

#26 Look for the UN to send in Medical Relief.........

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-01-19 15:13|| 2009-01-19 15:13|| Front Page Top

#27 New Mexico. We get about

You live in the Land of Enchantment, P2K?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-01-19 17:15|| 2009-01-19 17:15|| Front Page Top

#28 Unfortunately, the Plague is still "the Plague" no matter whom is infected - AQ may be facing a situation = scenario where their Org [+ local Govts] could have to ask the UNO + US-West for medical help in isolating or stopping its spread????

Ironic.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-01-19 18:46|| 2009-01-19 18:46|| Front Page Top

#29 It's all caused by keeping your goat or sheep indoors too much. Ya just gotta make a sacrifice sometimes...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-01-19 19:39|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-01-19 19:39|| Front Page Top

#30 You live in the Land of Enchantment, P2K?

Don't buy the PR [we really don't want to entice the fleeing Californistas], but I do reside within its borders.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-01-19 21:22|| 2009-01-19 21:22|| Front Page Top

#31 The Black Plague: Sometimes a feature, not a bug.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-01-19 21:37|| 2009-01-19 21:37|| Front Page Top

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