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Posted: August 29 2014 at 4:18pm |
Seized Islamic State Laptop Reveals Research Into Weaponizing the Bubonic Plague
By Danny Gold August 29, 2014 | 11:40 am Anyone who deals with sensitive documents — from spies to journalists to bureaucrats — is often lectured on the importance of password-protecting and encrypting those documents. However, that's apparently not the case for members of the Islamic State. Journalists Harald Doornbos and Jenan Moussa write in Foreign Policy that they were able to access files from a black Dell laptop belonging to a Tunisian man and Islamic State fighter named Muhammed S. Abu Ali, the commander of "a moderate Syrian rebel group" told the journalists that his group recovered the laptop after Islamic State fighters fled a battle in the Northwestern region of Idlib. That was in January, when the Islamic State was still known as ISIS. Though the computer appeared empty at first, a deeper dive revealed more than 35,000 folders. Files included videos of Osama bin Laden, thoughts on the justifications for jihad, training procedures, bomb-making manuals, and instructions on how to use disguises. The most worrisome discovery, however, were files that indicate the owner of the laptop was researching ways to utilize biological weapons, including a "19-page document in Arabic on how to develop biological weapons and how to weaponize the bubonic plague from infected animals." Muhammed S. appeared to have studied chemistry and physics at universities in Tunisia before traveling to Syria and joining the Islamic State, and a staff member at one of the universities listed on an exam found on the computer confirmed to the journalists that Muhammed S. had studied chemistry and physics there. Also on the laptop was a fatwa, or Islamic decree, from a Saudi cleric giving permission for the use of weapons of mass destruction. Doornbos and Moussa write that nothing on the computer indicated that the Islamic State possesses the capabilities to make biological weapons. Additionally, experts stressed that it's incredibly hard to develop and put biological weapons to use. https://news.vice.com/article/seized-islamic-state-laptop-reveals-research-into-weaponizing-the-bubonic-plague If the link doesn't work (I'm on my tablet) feel free to repost or fix it. |
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These guys would be hilarious if they weren't so dangerous to themselves and others. Your link works fine by the way.
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Honestly, how hard would it be for a jihadist or like minded people to
acquire Ebola infected blood, transport it to western Europe and lets
say go restaurant to restaurant mixing small amounts of it into food on a
buffet table right before the dinner rush.
Getting it into the US would be considerably more difficult but drugs make it all the time. |
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they would infect themselves and become a suicide bio-agent,
have sex with a load of call girls
easy as that....... |
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