Plague killing al Qaeda

The Sun:

At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.

The killer bug, also known as the plague, swept through insurgents training at a forest camp in Algeria, North Africa. It came to light when security forces found a body by a roadside.

The victim was a terrorist in AQLIM (al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb), the largest and most powerful al-Qaeda group outside the Middle East.

It trains Muslim fighters to kill British and US troops.

Now al-Qaeda chiefs fear the plague has been passed to other terror cells — or Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

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There is more. Al Qaeda does not have access to modern medications which treat the plague. At the siege of Khe Sanh in Vietnam the NVA troops outside the wire began coming down with the plague before they withdrew. It made it pretty unique siege. Usually it is the forces inside the perimeter who get the plague.