Pakistanis view damage of a blast that occurred in a village. An anonymous source 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.From The Washington Times:
An al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with unconventional weapons went awry, a senior U.S. 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.
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My Comment: I never bought the Bubonic plague line from the media when this was first reported a few days ago. Clearly something went terribly wrong to kill so many people so quickly. This had to be chemical .... and/or a very active and fast working biological agent at work in this Al Qaeda affiliated camp. An Anthrax agent is the first thing that came to my mind when I first read the story.
Either way ..... this is a very ominous development.It clearly reveals Al Qaeda's determination to develop WMDs (weapons of mass destruction).
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