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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 03:17 AM Original message |
Al-Qaeda cell killed by Black Death 'was developing biological weapons' |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 03:20 AM Response to Original message |
1. Experimenting with bioweapons and wiped out by a disease a little penicillin will clear right up? |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 07:09 AM Response to Reply #1 |
18. Of course anyone experimenting with plague is likely to engineer its resistance to antibiotics |
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cannabis_flower (386 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:58 AM Response to Reply #1 |
30. Actually.. |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 03:20 AM Response to Original message |
2. Ebola occurs in Northern Africa? ...No, it doesn't |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:42 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. If they were using it in an aerosol form, wouldn't that make it pneumonic plague? |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 02:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
35. I was unaware |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 03:34 AM Response to Original message |
3. From Bill Warner |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:26 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Bubonic Plague strain from tainted water reservoir? |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 03:39 AM Response to Original message |
4. Off topic, but we really don't know for sure that bubonic plague= Black Death |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 06:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. I don't think those bear up well under scrutiny. |
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Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 07:49 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. The medieval occurence of Black Death was in a population |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 04:27 AM Response to Reply #20 |
41. Not true. Outbreaks of bubonic plague happened before. |
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juno jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 08:53 AM Response to Reply #4 |
24. I am interested in reading a book about the plague |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 03:44 AM Response to Original message |
5. The Sun as a news source: improved when it gets covered in chip fat |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 04:13 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Re: The Sun story |
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Optical.Catalyst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:56 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Here is an opportunity to don the tinfoil hats |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 06:15 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Yes, it could be a cover story. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:57 PM Response to Reply #15 |
33. Or it could be completely made up: here's an example of a made-up Sun anti-Muslim story |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 04:05 PM Response to Reply #5 |
36. Yeah, but those Page 3 Girls.... |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 03:49 AM Response to Original message |
6. You'd think anyone messing with Yersinia pestis would have a supply of antibiotics around |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 07:43 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. You also assume the dead are not human test subjects. You have to find out how effective it is. |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 03:55 AM Response to Original message |
7. So all they have is speculation and conjecture. |
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Loudmxr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 04:01 AM Response to Original message |
8. The plague is really easy to miss if you don't know what you're looking for. |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 06:25 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. If it's pneumonic or septicemic plague the person has 24 hours |
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bottomtheweaver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 06:13 AM Response to Original message |
14. Let's see, how many billions do Algerian "terrorists" spend annually on weaponzed bio weapons? |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
32. Oh, you too? |
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prodigal_green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 06:24 AM Response to Original message |
16. See kids, this is why studying evolution is important |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
21. Darwin Award ! |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:58 AM Response to Reply #21 |
31. Now There's a Nomination |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
22. Terror weapons |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 08:09 AM Response to Original message |
23. If this story is true |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
25. What a bunch of MORANS! n/t |
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InkAddict (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
26. Sensationalized story could have been the other "Yersinia" |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
27. "Contagious diseases, like ebola and anthrax, occur in northern Africa." |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
28. One of the terrorists, reached for comment said... |
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catnhatnh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:56 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Hello, In-fee-dell....N/T |
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Sheets of Easter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
34. Oh, the irony. |
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SOS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
37. WHO report: |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
38. Or maybe the CIA sprayed this "Al-Qada cell" with plague |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
39. There's a reason that bioweapons are not really good weapons. |
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zonmoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
40. I wonder what really happened. |
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