January 19, 2009

There is a God

The Black Death returns...

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.

Posted by George Moneo at January 19, 2009 12:19 AM

Comments

"Symptoms include boils in the groin, neck and armpits."

.. my heart weeps.

Posted by: Mike [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 19, 2009 02:06 AM

A.Q.'s got a fever ...

and the Rx is MORE COWBELL!

Die, you filthy maggots!

Hey, wonder if this was a "job site accident" ...

Posted by: drillanwr [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 19, 2009 02:50 AM

Mike: "Symptoms include boils in the groin, neck and armpits."

.. my heart weeps.

Wait ... how can they tell? There's a difference from what they already grow there?

Posted by: drillanwr [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 19, 2009 02:52 AM

Scary as hell!

How did they contact it? This is a desease that was ERADICATED. Is Al-Qaeda working on biological weapons?

Nothing to laugh about during an Obama administration folks.

On the other hand...

Posted by: Firefly [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 19, 2009 06:25 AM

The plague hasn't been eradicated, but it's pretty rare.

Don't forget that the Albert Camus novel The Plague takes place in -- Algeria!

Posted by: Lazaro [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 19, 2009 09:30 AM

Can't help but wondering if it is sexually transmitted.

Posted by: omar [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 19, 2009 09:46 AM

Fleas!!! Son unos "jediondos"!

Posted by: Lori [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 19, 2009 10:01 AM

The most dangerous form of this disease is not the flea borne sort, but the pneumonic variety which is spread through air.

See "The plague consisted of three forms: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. The septicemic and bubonic plague were transmitted with direct contact with fleas, while the pneumonic plague was transmitted through airborne droplets of saliva coughed up by bubonic or septicemic infected humans."

from http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Black-Plague

This form might be used as a biological weapon by suicidal infected fanatics

Posted by: Larry Daley [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 19, 2009 11:12 AM

What leads me to believe these idiots were messing with something forbidden in the cave is that there is no report of any village(s) having cases of the disease.

Yeah, they were 'cooking something up' ...

These aren't even at the level of 'useful idiots'.

Maggie

Posted by: drillanwr [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 19, 2009 03:01 PM


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