On the 18th the Sun reported that 40 Al-Qaeda, in an Algerian training camp, had been killed by Bubonic Plague.
The world rejoiced.
Today the Washington Times is reporting that it wasn't the Plague, but a WMD experiment gone wrong that killed the 40.
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 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.
"We don't know if this is biological or chemical," the official said.
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The way I look at it, if they have gotten to the point that they have created a germ or a chemical weapon that is weaponized enough to kill 40 of their own they are probably pretty close to being able to make something that will kill a bazillion Americans. If nothing else they can infect their own people and send them into the US on a plane. Tell me that wouldn't cause a little panic 6 months into a new administration.
h/t Ace
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