Europe's population. An airborne version, pneumonic plague, is equally deadly.

The details are horrific. The Algerian victims were said to be afflicted with horrible boils in different parts of their bodies, dying in excruciating pain after just a few hours. It's an awful way to die.

Since AQLIM boasts of 1,000 members in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Nigeria, the loss of 40 terrorists will barely scratch the surface of their membership.

What worries us is that if the "accident" was part of a wider program to create a deadly bioweapon to be used against civilians — possibly in the U.S. or Europe — then we are in serious danger.

A bioweapon loosed on a major population center is a terrifying prospect. The last plague outbreak in London in 1665 killed more than 30,000 people in a city much smaller than the one today.

Al-Qaida doesn't lack the will to do this, just the means.

The U.S. faces a terrorist threat that will take advantage of our inattention or our weakness.

Awesome. Heck, all's fair in war. If they are resorting to bioweapons, I think we should give them a taste of that medicine. How about a potion in their falafels that renders all muslims sterile and impotent? How about an electromagnetic beam in all their mosques that when they are all prostrating, pointing their arses West and grinding their stupid foreheads in their dirty rugs, the beam comes out of the hidden location in their minarets and gives them all frontal lobotomies. (but, hey, that might make them smarter than they were to begin with!)

Just some innocent suggetions....

Gee, an earlier report said this, before this spin came:

January 19, 2009
REPORT: U.S. releases Plague into Al-Qaida camp; 40 dead; hundreds more likely infected
Algeria, North Africa -- A report claims that the United States unleashed a biological weapons attack upon an Al-Qaida training camp in North Africa about two weeks ago

Now which of these reports is the truth?