Bad Test Tube?
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 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.
The story was first reported by the British tabloid the Sun, which said the al Qaeda operatives died after being infected with a strain of bubonic plague, the disease that killed a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century. But the intelligence official dismissed that claim.
That’s right, diss the cheesy tabloid that broke the story. I still sense the righteous hand of a vengeful God. More on AQ’s bio-chem history at the link.
* Lake appreciation on the demise of his last newspaper here.
Topics: al qaeda, impending doom!
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:19 am Comments (2) on Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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January 20th, 2009 at 10:18 am
My tax dollars at work?
January 20th, 2009 at 11:10 am
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