Comments on: Too good to check: Jihadis dying of the Black Plague http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/ The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Tue, 29 May 2012 21:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Fausta’s Blog » Blog Archive » While the celebrities pledge, Al Qaeda bungles an arms experiment http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-2212267 Fausta’s Blog » Blog Archive » While the celebrities pledge, Al Qaeda bungles an arms experiment Fri, 15 May 2009 21:10:15 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-2212267 [...] Is the Sun’s article a false report meant to scare Al Qaeda out into the open? [...] [...] Is the Sun’s article a false report meant to scare Al Qaeda out into the open? [...]

]]> By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Were plague deaths the result of botched bioweapons experiments? http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1795194 Hot Air » Blog Archive » Were plague deaths the result of botched bioweapons experiments? Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:10:44 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1795194 [...] Yesterday, I cautioned readers to take the report from The Sun about plague deaths among al-Qaeda terrorists with considerable skepticism, both because of the source and the rare nature of the disease.  The Washington Times, with considerably more credibility, picks up the thread and posits a plausible explanation — that AQ attempted to create a biological weapon that infected its own crew by mistake: An al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with unconventional weapons went awry, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Monday. [...] [...] Yesterday, I cautioned readers to take the report from The Sun about plague deaths among al-Qaeda terrorists with considerable skepticism, both because of the source and the rare nature of the disease.  The Washington Times, with considerably more credibility, picks up the thread and posits a plausible explanation — that AQ attempted to create a biological weapon that infected its own crew by mistake: An al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with unconventional weapons went awry, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Monday. [...]

]]> By: grapeknutz http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1795088 grapeknutz Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:33:45 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1795088 Jihadis health care! Jihadis health care!

]]> By: The Strata-Sphere » al Qaeda May Have Succumbed To Its Own Biological WMD http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1794904 The Strata-Sphere » al Qaeda May Have Succumbed To Its Own Biological WMD Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:44:01 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1794904 [...] all pray this story disappears and has no legs. I also prefer Ed Morrisey’s take on this story, as a false report meant to spook al Qaeda and scare them out into the open. [...] [...] all pray this story disappears and has no legs. I also prefer Ed Morrisey’s take on this story, as a false report meant to spook al Qaeda and scare them out into the open. [...]

]]> By: BreezeCJ http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1794823 BreezeCJ Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:51:25 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1794823 I wonder if this story from back in October is related? <a href="http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2008/10/01/somalian-pirates-dying-of-mysterious-illness-that-sounds-strangely-like-radiation-sickness/" rel="nofollow">Somalian pirates dying of mysterious illness</a> I wonder if this story from back in October is related?

Somalian pirates dying of mysterious illness

]]> By: Public Secrets http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1794774 Public Secrets Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:31:43 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1794774 <strong>An al-Qaeda work accident?...</strong> Did an al-Qaeda WMD experiment blow up in their faces? Me: Did the brave, brave jihadis unleash plague on themselves? Awwwww..... LINKS: Ed Morrissey is thrilled, but skeptical. Technorati tags: black plague, bubonic plague, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mag... An al-Qaeda work accident?…

Did an al-Qaeda WMD experiment blow up in their faces? Me: Did the brave, brave jihadis unleash plague on themselves? Awwwww….. LINKS: Ed Morrissey is thrilled, but skeptical. Technorati tags: black plague, bubonic plague, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mag…

]]> By: Jules Crittenden » Yea, Verily … http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1794490 Jules Crittenden » Yea, Verily … Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:10:02 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1794490 [...] Hot Air cocks a wary eye at the cheesy tabloid’s report. O ye of little faith.  [...] [...] Hot Air cocks a wary eye at the cheesy tabloid’s report. O ye of little faith.  [...]

]]> By: smagar http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1794222 smagar Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:02:50 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1794222 <blockquote>Terrorists would have to surrender to get treatment, and that might be the point of the story — to frighten terrorists into surrendering and then getting intel on their leadership.</blockquote> If that HAD been the point of the story, consider the Taliban to be tipped off.

Terrorists would have to surrender to get treatment, and that might be the point of the story — to frighten terrorists into surrendering and then getting intel on their leadership.

If that HAD been the point of the story, consider the Taliban to be tipped off.

]]> By: Pythagoras http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1793946 Pythagoras Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:43:44 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1793946 Kinda reminds me of the War of the Worlds. Kinda reminds me of the War of the Worlds.

]]> By: Hog Wild http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1793786 Hog Wild Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:50:32 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1793786 Too hilarious if this is the case. The black plauge part duex.... Too hilarious if this is the case. The black plauge part duex….

]]> By: Tanya http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1793582 Tanya Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:54:26 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1793582 <blockquote>While the west travels to the stars, the middle east is trapped in the 14th century. kurtzz3 on January 19, 2009 at 10:59 AM</blockquote> I hope you're counting Israel among the "west" and not the "middle east," since one of theirs died with ours on the Columbia.

While the west travels to the stars, the middle east is trapped in the 14th century.

kurtzz3 on January 19, 2009 at 10:59 AM

I hope you’re counting Israel among the “west” and not the “middle east,” since one of theirs died with ours on the Columbia.

]]> By: Dr Evil http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1793550 Dr Evil Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:48:04 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1793550 Australia has a traveler advisory for Algeria. http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/Algeria <a href="http://algeria.embassyhomepage.com/algeria_map_algiers_map_hotel_setif_tourist_map_algeria_road_map_annaba_tourist_map_m%27sila_holiday_map.htm" rel="nofollow">Map Algeria borders Tunisia</a> The al-Qaeda epidemic is said to have begun 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. http://i-cias.com/e.o/tiziouzou.htm Australia has a traveler advisory for Algeria.

http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/Algeria

Map Algeria borders Tunisia

The al-Qaeda epidemic is said to have begun 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.

http://i-cias.com/e.o/tiziouzou.htm

]]> By: HardRight http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1793492 HardRight Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:32:36 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1793492 <blockquote>If the the black plague did return, would WHO have the tools to stop it?</blockquote> Why ? Not till it spreads past the border KARMA is finally kicking in LOL Plus all the Jihadi's that die without taking a Jew or Infidel don't get thier 72 virgins LOL

If the the black plague did return, would WHO have the tools to stop it?

Why ?
Not till it spreads past the border
KARMA is finally kicking in
LOL
Plus all the Jihadi’s that die without taking a Jew or Infidel don’t get thier 72 virgins
LOL

]]> By: hawksruleva http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1793421 hawksruleva Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:11:57 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1793421 If the the black plague did return, would WHO have the tools to stop it? If the the black plague did return, would WHO have the tools to stop it?

]]> By: moxie_neanderthal http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1793373 moxie_neanderthal Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:55:04 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1793373 May I suggest the economy sized, 20,000 lb disinfectant. May I suggest the economy sized, 20,000 lb disinfectant.

]]> By: KW64 http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1793330 KW64 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:42:30 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1793330 (Sung to the tune of the Candy Man Can) What kind of cruel people Fill the world with gloom Then go hide in caves cause they know that they are doomed The Taliban The Taliban, Oh the Taliban Can The Taliban can cause they fill the world with fear and think that's something good. Who can make a missile Launch it with a scream And create a Lake where Waziristan had been The USA The USA, Oh the USA can The USA can cause its schools teach math and physics not just the Koran (Sung to the tune of the Candy Man Can)

What kind of cruel people
Fill the world with gloom
Then go hide in caves cause they know that they are doomed
The Taliban
The Taliban, Oh the Taliban Can
The Taliban can cause they fill the world with fear and think that’s something good.

Who can make a missile
Launch it with a scream
And create a Lake where Waziristan had been
The USA
The USA, Oh the USA can
The USA can cause its schools teach math and physics not just the Koran

]]> By: KW64 http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1793280 KW64 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:30:09 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1793280 As Al Queda takes the areas they control backward, they will be become repositories of more than just plague. They have fought the imunization of children for polio with the result that its eradication may be prevented. Their indifference to sanitation systems and water control projects break down societies' protections against water borne diseases like cholera and dysentary. Their destruction of the water systems in Afghanistan led to crop failures and would have resulted in widespread starvation had the US invasion not come when it did and reversed the problem. Their insistance on ignorance rather than education will have other long term ill effects. (They blow up schools for girls and teach only the Koran to boys.) Civilization has brought many more blessings than it has ills. Those who condemn it, are doomed to see why humans have craved to rise above the natural state. As Al Queda takes the areas they control backward, they will be become repositories of more than just plague. They have fought the imunization of children for polio with the result that its eradication may be prevented. Their indifference to sanitation systems and water control projects break down societies’ protections against water borne diseases like cholera and dysentary. Their destruction of the water systems in Afghanistan led to crop failures and would have resulted in widespread starvation had the US invasion not come when it did and reversed the problem. Their insistance on ignorance rather than education will have other long term ill effects. (They blow up schools for girls and teach only the Koran to boys.)

Civilization has brought many more blessings than it has ills. Those who condemn it, are doomed to see why humans have craved to rise above the natural state.

]]> By: tribe.net: hotair.com http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-2/#comment-1793127 tribe.net: hotair.com Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:45:45 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1793127 <strong>Jihadis dying of the Black Plague...</strong> I wanted to bring this here for medical discussion purposes pertaining to the...... Jihadis dying of the Black Plague…

I wanted to bring this here for medical discussion purposes pertaining to the……

]]> By: Dr Evil http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-1/#comment-1793078 Dr Evil Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:34:08 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1793078 http://www.cleveland.com/plague/ The Butler story. http://www.cleveland.com/plague/

The Butler story.

]]> By: jerryofva http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-1/#comment-1793001 jerryofva Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:14:17 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1793001 After scanning the posts I see that most posters don't know how the plague is spread. The bubonic variety is spread through flea bites. If the camp was sitting on top of some rodent burrows and the little critters had an outbreak then I can see how 40 people can come down with it in a short time. However, unless it is the pneumonic form it isn't going anywhere. The incubation period is so short and the disease so debilitating that Jihadis aren't going to make it to Pakistan before they die. If the story is true it would either have to be cause by a bubonic case that turned pneumonic and spread to others or an experiment gone wrong. I would not doubt that if they were playing with it that the bozos would screw it up and infect themselves. After scanning the posts I see that most posters don’t know how the plague is spread. The bubonic variety is spread through flea bites. If the camp was sitting on top of some rodent burrows and the little critters had an outbreak then I can see how 40 people can come down with it in a short time. However, unless it is the pneumonic form it isn’t going anywhere. The incubation period is so short and the disease so debilitating that Jihadis aren’t going to make it to Pakistan before they die. If the story is true it would either have to be cause by a bubonic case that turned pneumonic and spread to others or an experiment gone wrong. I would not doubt that if they were playing with it that the bozos would screw it up and infect themselves.

]]> By: Dr Evil http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-1/#comment-1792953 Dr Evil Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:03:48 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1792953 ’’Tanzania has increasingly become the focus of attention for terrorists because of the country’s strong relationship with the West, particularly the United States, which culminated in (US) President George Bush making a historic visit to Tanzania in February this year,’’ said a source familiar with the reports. In his visit to Tanzania, President Bush signed the largest US financial support to the country, targeting infectious diseases and economic development projects in the sub-Saharan single nation. http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/4561.html What am I supposed to be paying attention to right now? Pomp and Circumstance? That's the News Cycle? ’’Tanzania has increasingly become the focus of attention for terrorists because of the country’s strong relationship with the West, particularly the United States, which culminated in (US) President George Bush making a historic visit to Tanzania in February this year,’’ said a source familiar with the reports.

In his visit to Tanzania, President Bush signed the largest US financial support to the country, targeting infectious diseases and economic development projects in the sub-Saharan single nation.

http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/4561.html

What am I supposed to be paying attention to right now? Pomp and Circumstance? That’s the News Cycle?

]]> By: Liberty or Death http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-1/#comment-1792944 Liberty or Death Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:00:48 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1792944 <blockquote>Do we have a system in place to contain it? RedWinged Blackbird on January 19, 2009 at 12:47 PM</blockquote> The CDC website is a good place to start, the CDC works with several organizations including organizations whose main function is emergency response and containment to disease outbreaks. <a href="http://emergency.cdc.gov/" rel="nofollow">CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response</a>

Do we have a system in place to contain it?

RedWinged Blackbird on January 19, 2009 at 12:47 PM

The CDC website is a good place to start, the CDC works with several organizations including organizations whose main function is emergency response and containment to disease outbreaks.

CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response

]]> By: Dr Evil http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-1/#comment-1792943 Dr Evil Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:00:47 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1792943 Tanzania the AQ connection. http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/4561.html Tanzania the AQ connection.

http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/4561.html

]]> By: Dr Evil http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-1/#comment-1792933 Dr Evil Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:57:51 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1792933 <strong>Looking around his lab, Butler noticed something was amiss. Since his return from Tanzania, he'd cultivated an ample supply of plague bacteria. He'd delivered 30 of his 210 slants to the CDC testing lab in Colorado a few months ago, leaving 180 for himself. But this morning, he could only find 150. One of the wire racks that should have been full of plague slants was missing 30 vials. </strong> http://www.cleveland.com/plague/plaindealer/index.ssf?/plague/more/114331771533990.html Scroll down in the article to the heading about the missing viles "30" Looking around his lab, Butler noticed something was amiss. Since his return from Tanzania, he’d cultivated an ample supply of plague bacteria. He’d delivered 30 of his 210 slants to the CDC testing lab in Colorado a few months ago, leaving 180 for himself. But this morning, he could only find 150. One of the wire racks that should have been full of plague slants was missing 30 vials.

http://www.cleveland.com/plague/plaindealer/index.ssf?/plague/more/114331771533990.html

Scroll down in the article to the heading about the missing viles “30″

]]> By: BobMbx http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/19/too-good-to-check-jihadis-dying-of-the-black-plague/comment-page-1/#comment-1792906 BobMbx Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:49:35 +0000 http://hotair.com/?p=40956#comment-1792906 I smell USAMRID at work here......this is, after all, <em>the reason</em> that agency exists..... I smell USAMRID at work here……this is, after all, the reason that agency exists…..

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