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Bio-Weapon Gone Wrong Killed Algerian Terrorists?
Riehl World View —
Hmm. The Washington Times cites a national security source who disputes the Sun reportof the plague killing some al Qaeda members in Algeria.
He said authorities in the first week of January intercepted an urgent communication between the leadership of al Qaeda in the Land of the Maghreb (AQIM) and al Qaeda's leadership in the tribal region of Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan. The communication suggested that an area sealed to prevent leakage of a biological or chemical substance had been breached, according to the official. ...
Al Qaeda News
Patterico's Pontifications —
... The good news? An al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria may have bungled a biological or chemical weapons experiment and killed at least 40 of its members. ...
Al-Qaeda black plague shows terrorists experimenting with WMD's
Israel Matzav —
... A Washington Times report from a 'senior US intelligence official' indicates that an outbreak of 'black plague' in an al-Qaeda training camp was the result of a chemical weapons experiment gone awry (Hat Tip: ...
Newspaper Roundup for Jan. 20, 2009
CNSNews.com Headlines —
Home News National CNSNews.com Newspaper Roundup for Jan. 20, 2009 Tuesday, January 20, 2009 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor Politico.com: The GOP's five likeliest Obama backers Washington Times: Al Qaeda bungles arms experiment Experiment with unconventional weapons went awry Los Angeles Times: In-flight confrontations can lead to terrorism charges Politico.com: Texas Republican likely to block today's Clinton vote Jerusalem Post: Kadima party may use negative quotes from Clinton about Likud s Binyamin Netanyahu ...
U.S. Intel: Might Not Have Been The Plague, Per Say, But Al Qaeda Was Fuckin’ With Some Bad Shit In That Cave
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Previous story post.
Washington Times:
Al Qaeda bungles arms experiment: Biological or chemical weapons
by Eli Lake
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.
The official, who spoke on the condition he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said he could not confirm press reports that the accident killed at least 40 al Qaeda operatives, but he said the ...
Al-Qaeda accursed: Not by the plague, but by its own incompetence
Jihad Watch —
The "Al Qaeda gets the bubonic plague" story was actually a story about a biological or chemical weapons experiment that went wrong.
"Al Qaeda bungles arms experiment," by Eli Lake for the Washington Times, January 19:
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.
The official, who spoke on the condition he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said he could not confirm press ...
Bad Test Tube?
Jules Crittenden —
... Intel correspondent Eli Lake* at the Washington Times suggests al Qaeda had one. Reports that the biblical wrath visited upon AQ in Algeria was a bio-chem warfare project gone wrong. An al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with unconventional weapons went awry, a senior US intelligence official said Monday. The official, who spoke on the condition he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said he could not confirm press reports that the accident killed at least 40 al Qaeda operatives, but he said the mishap ...
Al Qaeda Joins The Middle Ages, Time Of Bubonic Plague
Pirate's Cove —
... 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. ...
Al Qaeda Joins The Middle Ages, Time Of Bubonic Plague
Stop The ACLU —
People often say that radical Islamists are stuck back in the Dark Ages, well, no more. Seems they moved forward a bit. Oh, hey, didn’t they also have the Black Death during the beginning of the Little Ice Age, too? 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. The official, who spoke on the condition he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said he could not confirm press reports that the accident killed at least 40 al Qaeda ...
Al Qaeda was developing a bio weapon
COUNTERCOLUMN: All Your Bias Are Belong to Us —
So says at least one source: 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. The official, who spoke on the condition he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said he could not confirm press reports that the accident killed at least 40 al Qaeda operatives, but he said the mishap led the militant group to shut down a base in the mountains of Tizi Ouzou province in eastern Algeria. He said authorities in ...
Were plague deaths the result of botched bioweapons experiments?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... , 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 Time s, 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: ...
When al Qaeda Germ Warfare Goes Terribly Right
The Jawa Report —
... , the plot of which revolved around al Qaeda trying to weaponize the plague. The source of the seed germs? Africa. So, it's not like the plague isn't native to the continent. But this morning I woke up to several e-mails pointing to a Washington Times report which claims that the dead AQIM were in fact killed in a "work related accident". 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. ... He said authorities in the first week of January intercepted ...
The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Cheney will appear at Inauguration in a wheelchair, partly because he pulled a back muscle, and partly because he thinks now that he's lost some weight, it will make his Monty Burns impression more convincing.
"They don't want them laying around so people can use them for improper things."
Only seven percent of the stimulus money will actually make it into the economy to stimulate anything by the end of the budget year.
When Al Qaeda biological weapons experiments go horribly right.
One thing for which ...
Too Good to Believe? (al Qaeda and the Plague)
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
Yesterday I noted, via Memeorandum, a story from The Sun, the British tabloid, caught my eye: Al-Qaeda terrorists killed by Black Death after the killer bug also known as the plague sweeps through a training camp
At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.
Today, WaTi has the following: Al Qaeda bungles arms experiment
An al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with ...
A Plague On Al Qaida?
Newshoggers.com —
... But then along comes veteran wingnut Eli Lake (neocon-in-chief of the dead and forgotten NY Sun), quoting that perrenial favorite, the "senior US intelligence official...who spoke on the condition he not be named because he's making s**t up of the sensitive nature of the issue", to say that the real story is that these AQ folk fled because of some WMD experiment gone wrong (but ...
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Worries about bio terror? This story - surprise, surprise - did not get any play in the US, except via Murdoch, but overseas news shops are talking about Al Qaeda’s attempts to get bio ...
