by Daniel Greenfield
[Frontpage] ISIS keeps finding new ways to be nastier. Beheadings. Child beheadings. Sex slaves. Sex slave markets. Now it got tired of Ebola stealing all the headlines and
may have
decided that, like peanut butter and jelly, ISIS and Ebola would be good together.
...ISIS has been very interested in WMDs. Ebola seems like a good candidate because there were thousands of corpses, poorly attended, making it seem like a no-brainer. Such a plot would be stupid for a number of reasons, trying to use a highly infectious disease in a single country without it backfiring would be a terrible idea, and so would trying to get samples of it over to Iraq.
But we already know that they're not particularly bright.
The Soviets, who were professionals, messed up their WMD program in frightening ways, including releasing weaponized smallpox, anthrax and a number of others into populated areas. The attempts by Soviet agents to smuggle samples of diseases out of the United States also ended with them getting infected. The same thing may have happened here.
The Iraqi government has already denied the report, but it’s about as reliable as the media outlets reporting on this, which is not very. |