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| Iraq |
| Did Islamic State Jihadists Contract Ebola in WMD Plot? |
| 2015-01-03 |
| by Daniel Greenfield [Frontpage] ISIS keeps finding new ways to be nastier. Beheadings. Child beheadings. Sex slaves. Sex slave markets. Now it got tired of Ebola stealing all the headlines and may have decided that, like peanut butter and jelly, ISIS and Ebola would be good together. ...ISIS has been very interested in WMDs. Ebola seems like a good candidate because there were thousands of corpses, poorly attended, making it seem like a no-brainer. Such a plot would be stupid for a number of reasons, trying to use a highly infectious disease in a single country without it backfiring would be a terrible idea, and so would trying to get samples of it over to Iraq. But we already know that they're not particularly bright. The Soviets, who were professionals, messed up their WMD program in frightening ways, including releasing weaponized smallpox, anthrax and a number of others into populated areas. The attempts by Soviet agents to smuggle samples of diseases out of the United States also ended with them getting infected. The same thing may have happened here. The Iraqi government has already denied the report, but it’s about as reliable as the media outlets reporting on this, which is not very. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 OG, it's more likely due to the location of the infected people. If they're trying to weaponize it, they'd be finding those people here, not over there. There's no reason to bring infected people to your own territory unless you mean to play with it in a lab, which isn't really needed with Ebola. You have a limited time window to get infected people to the target area, taking a sidetrip to crapolastan doesn't help. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2015-01-03 19:59 |
| #6 Bill Clinton. Counterattacking is still simpler: take a few people testing positive and drop it at Mecca during the Hadj. Then both them and us will ahve it but the difference is that we have the technology for developping a treatment and all they have is camels for producing camel piss. |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-01-03 18:50 |
| #5 Weaponizing Ebola is not that hard, all you need to do is find a jihadi testing positive for the antibodies and buy him a plane ticket to Washington DC. Or Los Angeles or Chicago or San Francisco. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2015-01-03 14:06 |
| #4 Most likely they just have a nasty case of goat-crotch. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-01-03 11:59 |
| #3 To the above; why is it more likely? |
| Posted by: Omoter Gray9391 2015-01-03 08:04 |
| #2 More likely they imported slaves from Africa who were carrying it. We know ISIS has a voracious appetite for sex slaves, so I think this was a more likely vector than attempts at bio warfare. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2015-01-03 06:24 |
| #1 Time to take a look at Directive 7-12? |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-01-03 04:48 |