Al Qaeda camp struck by outbreak of Plague

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Al Qaeda camp struck by outbreak of Plague
Well this is interesting. Seems the plague is... plaguing al Qaeda training camps , I guess living crammed like sardines into unsanitary conditions and lacking modern medical technology isn't as glamourous as the terrorist recruitment brochures make it sound...


I did think it was peculiar the way the security source was quoted as saying the disease is the "deadliest weapon yet in the war against terror." Weapon? Hmm...

Quote:
Black Death 'kills al-Qaeda operatives in Algeria'

The Black Death has reportedly killed at least 40 al-Qaeda operatives in North Africa.

The disease, which struck Europe in the Middle Ages killing more than 25 million people, has swept through a training camp for insurgents in Algeria. The arrival of the plague was discovered when security forces found the body of a dead terrorist by a roadside, the Sun reports.

A security source told the paper: "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. "It spreads It spreads quickly and kills within hours. This will be really worrying al-Qaeda."

Bubonic Plague is spread by bites from infected rat fleas. Symptoms include painful boils in the groin, neck and armpits. In Pneumonic Plague, airborn bacteria spread like flu. Without medication it can be deadly.

The new epidemic began in the cave hideouts of AQLIM in Tizi Ouzou province, 150km east of the capital Algiers, the Sun reports.

The group, led by wanted terror figure Abdelmalek Droudkal, was forced to turn its shelters in the Yakouren forest into mass graves and flee.

The group now fears the highly-infectious disease could have spread to other al-Qaeda training camps or Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, the paper said. A source said: "The emirs (leaders) fear surviving terrorists will surrender to escape a horrible death."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...n-Algeria.html

hmm...