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ISIS May Be Weaponizing Ebola, Spanish Government Warns

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In a somewhat stunning announcement, Spain’s State Secretary for Security, Francisco Martinez, said in an address to the parliament, that extremists connected to the Islamic State (the terrorist organization formerly known as ISIS) have been considering using Ebola as a weapon against the West. As RT reports, Martinez notes a close eye is being kept on online chat rooms, where such attacks are reportedly discussed among jihadist groups where “The use of Ebola as a poisonous weapon against the United States” was the topic of conversation. So far US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson denied these allegations citing "no specific credible intelligence."


As RT reports,

The Spanish government said it is concerned that terrorists could use the Ebola virus as a biological weapon against the West. A close eye is being kept on online chat rooms, where such attacks are reportedly discussed among jihadist groups.

 

Extremists connected to the Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS) have been considering using Ebola as a weapon against the West, Spain’s State Secretary for Security, Francisco Martinez, said in an address to the parliament.

 

Martinez stated that this type of activity serves as further proof that the internet is an “an extension of the battlefield” for the Islamic State, which uses cyberspace for “threatening enemies through propaganda, preparing operations, exchanging information, ideological training, recruiting new members and acquiring finance.”

Furthermore, Mr Martinez, the second in command in Spain’s interior ministry, said investigators had identified ‘many examples’ of threats to use Ebola as a chemical weapon.

He pointed out three specific cases in which aspiring jihadis ‘linked to ISIS’ had used internet chat rooms to seriously discuss the viability of harnessing the deadly virus and other toxins as part of a new terrorism offensive, according to Spain’s RTVE media company.

 

One conversation, identified as having taken place between ISIS sympathisers in mid-September, referred to ‘the use of Ebola as a poisonous weapon against the United States,’ he claimed.

 

Another conversation reportedly saw militants working out how best to employ ‘deadly chemical products’ they had stolen from laboratories.

 

Mr Martinez went on to say that a spokesman for the terror group had also taken to the internet to urge supporters to kill Westerners by any means possible – adding that he had suggested ‘poisonous injections’ as a possible method.

Despite increasing evidence of biological attacks on the West, US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson denied allegations of the Islamic State’s plans to use biological weapons. “We've seen no specific credible intelligence that [the Islamic State] is attempting to use any sort of disease or virus to attack our homeland,” Johnson said earlier in October.

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Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:10 | 5402639 Rememberweimar
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Spaniards are Jews too...

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 03:13 | 5403317 Victory_Garden
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"Spaniards are Jews too..."

Excusa porfavor...no Senor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6RjP7MlXk

Will return..will return..will return....

 

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:07 | 5402627 NOZZLE
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Remember that old canard "obama is a good man who cares about your family because he loves his two mistake nigglettes and wookie".

Jeh johnson is named after a bone thru his nose LieBerian tribal chief.  

obama Mama (Ann DirtBag) spread her infected ovaries for some animal who was born in a hut made of compacted animal shit and weaponized stupidity in her womb for nine months to produce the mistake of a president who went on to get his ass kicked by Putin. 

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:08 | 5403048 El Gringo
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Lol. 

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:09 | 5402635 thewayitis
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 Ya right.  And if their NOT considering it, they WILL now. You frigin IDIOTS............

 

 

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:17 | 5402809 shovelhead
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(On a computer deep in the bowels of Fort Detrick Md.)

"Hey Louie, we got another great idea from those wackos at ZeroHedge.

We go spike all those high colonic enema spas in California with Ebola.

Once it hits Starbucks and Jama Juice, it's Goodnight Irene."

"Fuckin' A. Let's do it."

 

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:16 | 5402659 loveyajimbo
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Jeh Johnson denied allegations citing that he himself had any intelligence at all...  besides... they tried to weaponize a transvestite's body odor and it only sort of worked... (Mooch).

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:25 | 5402681 HowardBeale
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Imagine 50 ISIS members, one to a major city in each state, each with a gallon of Ebola blood, slathering ATMS, gas station keypads, and shopping carts with a light coat...

Game over.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:16 | 5402804 Hurdy Gurdy Man
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eh... it only lives about 2.5 h in 72 degrees with 50% humidity... so... 

 

a) atms and gas stations: only if your fingerpads have cuts on them

b) shopping carts: same thing

I don't think I'd use one with a light brown smear on one anyway, and I think people would see that.  

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:07 | 5403041 Calmyourself
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Cuz you never touch your eyes, mouth or wifes cootchie right?? BTW saliva would work just as well once viral load gets high enough.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:31 | 5402844 shovelhead
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Bah.

What kind of made for TV movie would that make?

Redo Bloody Sunday with the blood-bomb on the Goodyear blimp at the Superbowl that the President and most the Cabinet are attending.

Casting Laura Dern as the intrepid reporter who hopes to stop the plot she uncovers would be a twist on the original because her dad was the bad guy.

Unfortunately, Obama has his big mouth open telling his usual lies when the blast that sprays the blood everywhere goes in his face.

I love a movie with a happy ending.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:29 | 5402691 TVP
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So two scary boogeymen, both created by the USFG, have now been merged into a single threat.

Next thing you know, the flying spaghetti-monster will be coming to kill us all, and it will be responsible for school shootings, bombing public events, demolishing buildings...

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 03:22 | 5403323 Victory_Garden
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"Next thing you know, the flying spaghetti-monster will be coming to kill us all, and it will be responsible for school shootings, bombing public events, demolishing buildings..."

Peace in a troubled land?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4MxrWRW4Is

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 20:31 | 5402696 Rootin' for Putin
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I expected this a month ago, either the muzzies have been too busy at a goat gangbang or this is old news.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:06 | 5402773 Ms No
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Yellow Cake !!!!!!  Not sure which is worse, Ebola or looking forward to every mouth breathing, CNN or FOX news watching idiot bitch about the grave threat of ISIS.  Anyone who buys this ISIS narrative needs a brain translplant, they are insufferably stupid. 

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:06 | 5403040 MsCreant
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The whole ISIS thing does strike me as quite a "production."

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:14 | 5402798 Hurdy Gurdy Man
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It's alrady weaponized, bitchez.  It's already transmissible by contact, by droplet, by aerosol, and by airborne, and all those terms themselves are wrong.  It's "aersolized transmissible" simultaneously, and that's the new phrase if you want to indicate your science is older than 1970.

It's already transferred without contact.  It's already transferred in close contact.

Interesting that as the number of cases rises the mortality rate drops.  What's up with that?

 

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:27 | 5402828 Stumpy4516
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This is just a cover story for when a few independent experts show the current strain is not a natural occuring strain but a weaponized virus.  This also may indicate they are going to release the virus in a wider pattern  When it starts infecting large numbers they can hide behind their ISIS claims to say their assurances that there was little to worry about tranmission was difficult were only wrong due to ISIS spreading a weaponized version.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:27 | 5402831 NoWayJose
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ISIS can do this in one of two ways - if they can stabilize Ebola outside a host they can transport it and spread it. Otherwise, they find martyrs willing to become infected and fly to the US. These would be martyrs who do not show travel to West Africa. Then go around the US and let Ebola do its thing.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:43 | 5402872 shovelhead
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Well it's a damn safe bet they won't announce that they came in from Mexico.

We'll probably see a pristine false CDC ID at the infection site.

"ISIS is driving a stolen Winnebago and putting monkey meat in Burger Kings."

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:54 | 5402902 HowardBeale
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You nailed it. That is how it is going to happen. If ISIS really exists, they have absolutely NO REASON not to use that tactic. Is is coming to a public space near you--and me!

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:40 | 5402868 don in maine
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Ebola is a military operation..think about who's  best equiped for base lockdowns, etc...Our MIC are the ultimate preppers.  Between the bankster mess in the EU and Ukraine, and total political stalemate in the US, the  military decided it's time for a clean sweep. The banksters and the pols go with us.  Hagel is just doing as he wants with complete disregard of anything the whitehouse says.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 21:58 | 5402912 americanspirit
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Anyone delusional enough to think that ISIS is the only group weaponizing Ebola, or that Ebola is the only bioweapon being readied for use against the US ( and Europe) is so far out of touch with reality that they should just go dig a deep hole and jump in. It is not a matter of if, but when. If I were a person of means ( such as a Saudi prince or a Russian oligarch) and if I took note of the pathetic "response" of the US and EU authorities to the current level of Ebola threat, I would see a golden opportunity. "Wide-open" is the word that seems to apply.

But hey -IMO  the world would be a lot better off with 10% of its current population and knocked back to the pre-industrial age..

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:05 | 5402923 BORT
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I hope you all realize that Tom Clancy wrote this book.  It was called Executive Orders.  Russians worked on this in80's at Vektor.  This is by no way a new idea

 

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:13 | 5402927 Fuku Ben
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Spain's economy is a weaponized terrorist virus

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:39 | 5402980 tony wilson
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ISIS May Be Weaponizing Ebola, Spanish Government Warns

 

 

this is not an israeli matter

they are innocent

always

thank satan those who rule us in washington the empire of the city of london and tel aviv are immune from this distemper.

i mean if they died how could folks like soros, rothschild and bill gates buy stuff for pennies on the dollar.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 02:02 | 5403267 TeethVillage88s
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Look, you have a lot to answer for.

I'm watching Anger Management. Charlie Sheen just watched his nieces horse Sam die.

It is your fault, Tony.

USA has passionate interest in our TV Heroes and their fictional pets. Damn it.

You need to pay attention to the people you hurt with your facts. There is a lot of fictional stuff that we take seriously. WTF? Maybe you are military trained and don't understand that TV is Reality. S/

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:44 | 5402992 Iwanttoknow
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Sadly more than half of my fellow contry men will believe This.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:45 | 5402996 WTFUD
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The ONLY thing i wanna hear coming from MuppetLand ( SPAIN) is the whereabouts of Juan & Carlos the air traffic controllers and first hand witnesses to the Plane over Ukraine.

Sat, 11/01/2014 - 22:51 | 5403014 Otto Zitte
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OMFG They're weaponizing the flu! AAAIIIEEE!!!!

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 00:12 | 5403141 Schmuck Raker
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OH YEAH?!?!

WEAPONIZE THIS!.... BITCH!!!!!

It's all I got. It's late. I'm bored. The entire conversation is only for dullards. I'm off to bed. You're welcome.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 00:16 | 5403147 Schmuck Raker
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Just before I passed out I gave myself an UP arrow. If you don't like it go ge.......

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 00:30 | 5403167 Amerikan Patriot
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I hope Ebola won't be as deadly as SARS, swine flu, avian flu and Y2K.

Those diseases decimated my family!

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 00:32 | 5403168 WTFUD
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I'm confused are IS the moderate ones? Fool me once shame wont be fooled on you again next time!!

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 00:40 | 5403180 JoJoJo
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Obama administration will not be aware of this until they read it in the NY Times.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 01:07 | 5403215 enloe creek
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Peak ineffective social order. There is no effective organization apparently anywhere.  Government is only a vehicle for the elites and special interests to arrange for themselves the most rewarding situation possible.  Churches are whatever they have always been. IDK what they are really.  Corporations and business groups are pretty much support systems for wealthy elites. So there is nothing much anyone can do about anything. Might as well say screw it live for today cause tomorrow might be too late. Sorry kids gramps was a hard worker and provided for his family but you are on your own he spent every dime on blow and hookers.  

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 01:53 | 5403258 TeethVillage88s
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Sun, 11/02/2014 - 02:21 | 5403278 Jano
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Spanish Government

is in a free fall
just wondering, what is the message.
they go bust next quarter anyhow. Or maybe they start another civil war, this time in Catalunia.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 02:40 | 5403295 f16hoser
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I see the Liberal Zerohedge Troll has gone thru every comment and left his/her negative reply. Too fucking funny...

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 02:50 | 5403306 TeethVillage88s
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Sun, 11/02/2014 - 12:07 | 5403949 Amerikan Patriot
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Incoherent?

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 02:55 | 5403310 El Vaquero
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Just a little FYI on weaponizing viruses, it wouldn't take a fancy lab to weaponize even the flu.  You take strains that are known to affect both pigs and humans in about the same way, and you put the different strains into different hog populations, and take samples from the hog populations that were the hardest hit, and repeat the process over and over.  Eventually you have a weaponized strain of the flu with nothing more than a bunch of dead bacon.

 

Now apply that to any group that is willing to breed the virus in segregated and controlled human populations.  That's what it would take for a group like ISIS to get a weaponized ebola virus - i.e. one that is far more contagious than the current strain - and to use it on other countries.  This would likely blow up in their faces, however.

 

Anybody who messses around with biowarfare shit for any purpose other than figuring out how to defend themselves from it deserves to be strangled with their own intestines.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 05:43 | 5403427 craus
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One more reason to stand on a public toilet whilst sh|tting.

You never know when the last time ISIS licked the toilet seat.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 06:06 | 5403444 huggy_in_london
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First it was al queda, then the talliban, now isis.... don't you people know that we are at war with eurasia... we have always been at war with eurasia......

What a bunch of scaremongering....

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 09:51 | 5403649 d edwards
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huggie in London: you can be in denial until you want. Remember the London "Tube" bombing?

 

Or you could be a muslim in Londonistan spreading disinformation.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:19 | 5403729 smacker
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Are you referring to the 7/7 London Tube bombing that coincidentally happened on the very same day at the very same three tube stations as a pre-planned security exercise was going on, involving a private security firm, initiated and under full control of the British Government? hhmmm.

About which much has been written and speculated...

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 08:02 | 5403513 Lea
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Meanwhile, the ones in charge don't look that scared to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-d5V3pzdcI

 

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 08:30 | 5403547 Hobbleknee
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What happened to the nurse in Spain with Ebola?  You know, the one who was quarantined behind tape.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 09:19 | 5403605 NunNun
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"Weaponizing" has a specific meaning relative to Ebola.  ISIS wants to use it as a weapon.  That is not the same thing, so this headline is misleading.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 09:49 | 5403644 d edwards
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All it would take is for one or probably more islamic nutjob jihadis to go and be exposed to an ebola patient, lie about where they'd been and flying into the targeted country(s) as biological suicide bombers.

Hell, fly into Mexico and then walk across the US border uninhibited.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 11:20 | 5403852 El Vaquero
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Why even cross the US border?  Have a couple go to Juarez and a couple go to Tijuana and infect as many Mexicans as possible.  The Mexicans would then do the rest.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 11:28 | 5403876 Uncle Remus
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Get off my lawn!

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:03 | 5403682 chasman
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Damn good thing per BO this is only a JV terrorist group and Al-Qaeda is on the run, otherwise I would be worried....

 

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:13 | 5403714 smacker
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Talking of ISIS:

RT.com carried an interview with a high ranking ISIS warrior yesterday in which he said quite clearly that "we don't kill journalists, we see them as messengers...others who claim to be ISIS are the problem..."

Am I to take that as ISIS denying they carried out the beheadings?

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:34 | 5403758 yellowsub
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Why do they need journalist when they have twitter...

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 12:34 | 5404029 smacker
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Good point. Dunno the answer.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:32 | 5403754 yellowsub
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So I guess this is the next air drop of weapons shipment to them...

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 10:59 | 5403806 Uncle Remus
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When the going gets tough, go caricature.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 11:00 | 5403809 Emergency Ward
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The aerosol in Spain stays mainly in the plane.

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 12:59 | 5404096 1Inthebeginning
Sun, 11/02/2014 - 19:10 | 5404963 HardlyZero
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Kaci Hickox’s Roommate In Africa Has Ebola

 

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/31/report-kaci-hickoxs-roommate-in-africa...

Sun, 11/02/2014 - 20:11 | 5405113 Spungo
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lol blaming ISIS for ebola. ISIS is not USA, it's not Russia, it's not France. They don't have hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of scientists working on such things.

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