EU Charges Microsoft  |   Home  |   Grace Mugabe Attacks Photographer

Plague Strikes al-Qaeda

I admit… this made me smile. 

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.

Posted by Owen at 2000 hrs
Foreign Affairs

1. There is something poetic about a group trapped in the Middle Ages dying like they’re in the Middle Ages.

   Posted by Kevin Binversie on January 18, 2009 at 2036 hrs
   
   
   

2. Most of the terrorists do not have the basic medical supplies needed to treat the disease.

   Do we?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 18, 2009 at 2045 hrs
   
   
   

3. I laughed out loud.  It certainly is poetic.  If I were Buddhist, I’d call it Karmic.

   <giggle>

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 18, 2009 at 2132 hrs
   
   
   

4. Just another dirty trick by the CIA. Oh wait, now that the Messiah is in charge that kind of thing doesn’t happen any more. Just a fortunate coincidence.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 18, 2009 at 2225 hrs
   
   
   

5. Tom, if by CIA dirty trick, you mean a planted story designed to get the bad guys to move around or use their cellphones, I believe you. 

   I don’t believe this story.  Not just yet.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 18, 2009 at 2230 hrs
   
   
   

6. pjr,

   Anyone including the poor, uninsured, or illegal who walks into a hospital who has the plague would be given Streptomycin 30 mg/kg IM twice daily for 7 days, Chloramphenicol 25–30 mg/kg single dose, followed by 12.5–15 mg/kg four times daily, Tetracycline 2 g single dose, followed by 500 mg four times daily for 7–10 days (not suitable for children), Gentamicin 2.5 mg/kg IV or IM twice daily for 7 days, or Doxycycline 100 mg (adults) or 2.2 mg/kg (children) orally twice daily.

   It’s a bacteria so I think we could fight it. 

   Of course if they choose not to take the meds they will die.

   You see what Owen is pointing out here is that the people inflicted by the plague are not only choosing to live a life as Kevin puts it in the Middle ages, but there goal is to bring us all back their with them.

   So all of the liberals out there won’t be able to enjoy the irony of people dying who would rather kill a woman than see her face in public.  The enemy of my enemy is what again?  All they want out of life is to kill Jews and Christians.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 18, 2009 at 2232 hrs
   
   
   

7. Lloyd,

   That’s interesting.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 18, 2009 at 2233 hrs
   
   
   

8. It’s a sign… and the seas shall go down, the planet will cool (already happened), and the name of the O shall cause our enemies to fail.

   Hang on, I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 18, 2009 at 2317 hrs
   
   
   

9. Tom,

   I am with you. Until the AP has a story on this - I don’t believe a word of it.

   Although a brilliant guy like Leon Panetta could have suggested this idea during a transition-team meeting and the old Bushies decided that it had to happen before the hand-off.

   What do you think Tom?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 18, 2009 at 2323 hrs
   
   
   

10. If it isn’t true - what is the benefit of running the story - since you know it’s going to come out one way or the other…

    I would assume that if you are living in a cave - you are going to bump into a few rodents.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 19, 2009 at 1017 hrs
    
    
    

11. If A.Q. tangos would stop taking rats as war brides, they wouldn’t be catching diseases from them.

    Posted by Kristopher on January 19, 2009 at 1246 hrs
    
    
    

12. lets try again…...

    everyone is focussing on fleas,black rats and grubby foreigners who don’t wash much…..try Googling on pneumonic plague…....then think about 2m in the Mall yesterday, now dispersing to the four corners of US…....taking any chance infections they may have picked up with them…....

    yes plague is susceptible to antibiotic treatment - if you dignose correctly in the first few hours…...after that, uh, you’re mostly dead.

    an outbreak of the pneumonic variety took place in the Congo in a mining area - 60 people died. perhaps more significantly, 7,000 people (who didn’t want to die) vacated the region for a spell.

    Stalin said, ‘Kill one man, frighten a hundred’

    ( hmmm…...where’s that immunisation record…...)

    Posted by Cpl Bash on January 22, 2009 at 0720 hrs
    
    
    

Commenting is not available in this channel entry.