Update On al Qaeda’s Biological Weapon Mishap In Algeria

Plague Allegedly Killed Al Qaeda In The Islamic Maghreb Terrorists -- Counter Terrorism Blog

On Monday, the Sun ran a story reporting that 40 terrorists from AQIM had died of plague in a terrorist training camp in Tizi Ouzou. Yesterday, Eli Lake from the Washington Times confirmed through one of his source in the U.S. intelligence community that an incident had taken place at a training camp that had to be shut down as a result. The deaths were not confirmed though.

A few observations at this point that give credence to this story, which has not received the coverage it deserves:
1- There has been a total black out from the Algerian media that has not even mentioned one line about this story.

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More News On Al Qaeda And the Plague

Rebels Ravaged By Rumors -- Strategy Page
Al-Qaeda and The Plague -- Human Events
Update On al Qaeda’s Biological Weapon Mishap In Algeria -- Strata-Sphere
Plagues upon the land? -- Foreign Policy Blog
Who's watching Al Qaeda in the Maghreb? -- Examiner.com
Is plague still a killer? -- BBC

Bio-terror Threat Real, Bush Advisor, Ex-CIA WMD Terrorist Hunter Say

From Homeland Security Today:

'Nearly every time we kicked down a door ... we found laptops with WMD materials'

Speaking at a Washington Institute Special Policy Forum Wednesday, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Ken Wainstein stressed that the gravest terrorism threat right now is from “terrorist organizations [acquiring] weapons of mass destruction and [using] them against us, our homeland, or our allies.”

This reality, he said, was made clear when "we went into Afghanistan and learned that Al Qaeda had been developing a program to cultivate and weaponize anthrax that could be used to kill by the hundreds or thousands … And it has been made even clearer with events in the years since …”

“Biological weapons are the most likely” terrorist WMD threat right now,” agreed Charles "Sam" Faddis, a 20-year veteran CIA officer who was a Counterterrorist Center department chief overseeing “worldwide operations against the terrorist WMD target” when he retired from the clandestine services last May.

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My Comment: My brother is in the bio-tech field. His specialty is converting R&D pharmaceuticals into drugs that can be manufactured profitable.

I asked him once on how hard would it be to manufacture dangerous biological agents. His answer ..... a $1 million dollar lab and a few months.

I am sure that Al Qaeda knows this .... and they and their minions are looking at this closely. Will they manufacture this themselves .... I say why should they when they have access to many products and weapons from Pakistan's ISI Agency. Biological agents being one of them.

If the U.S. experiences a WMD attack .... it will be one of these biological agents. A chemical or a dirty bomb explosion could happen .... but for lethalness .... nothing beats using biological agents.