Seized Islamic State Laptop Shows ISIS Plans to Weaponize the Bubonic Plague

To further their medieval fantasy larping that is bringing terror down upon the people of northern Iraq and eastern Syria, a recently seized ISIS laptop shows that the radical group wants to bring back the black death in a biological weapon attack.  A laptop seized from Tunisian-born Islamic State fighter Muhammed S. Abu Ali show detailed instructions on how to use the bubonic plague as a weapon by using infected animals as a means for dispersal. Experts are quick to note, however, that biological weapons and their deployment takes a level of sophistication often beyond most state apparatuses so it is unlikely that ISIS will successfully deploy biological weapons in its war against modern civilization in the Middle East.

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