{"id":4463,"date":"2009-01-21T16:22:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T21:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2009-01-21T16:22:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T21:22:57","slug":"the-plague-of-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4463","title":{"rendered":"The Plague of Al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a squishy lefty pacifist, I know I shouldn't smile at this. So I will stop. But, I gotta say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/article2146286.ece\">this smells like karma<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>Now al-Qaeda chiefs fear the plague has been passed to other terror cells \u2014 or Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. One security source said: \"This is the deadliest weapon yet in the war against terror. Most of the terrorists do not have the basic medical supplies needed to treat the disease. It spreads quickly and kills within hours. This will be really worrying al-Qaeda.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/01\/al-qaeda-plague.html\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a squishy lefty pacifist, I know I shouldn't smile at this. So I will stop. But, I gotta say this smells like karma: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}