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Just wait ‘til they get their hands on ebola

The Black Death and other forms of plague are already on Islamic terrorists’ shopping lists

13 September 2014

9:00 AM

13 September 2014

9:00 AM

Here we go again. Remember the global concern in the years after 11 September 2001 about the possibility of terrorists gaining access to biological agents and releasing them upon civilian populations? Now it seems that history is repeating itself and that Islamic State terrorists in Syria and Iraq have produced a manual on how to launch biological attacks utilizing bubonic plague culled from infected animals.

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