This sounds like some sort of circa-2002 bullcrap — or the worst Bond Villain plot ever — but anyone who read Lawrence Wright’s ‘The Looming Tower’ can fathom this is possible, but not very likely to have been pulled off:
The al Qaeda group that built two toner-cartridge bombs in an unsuccessful attempt to blow up planes in October also has contemplated spreading poison on salad bars and buffets at U.S. hotels and restaurants, U.S. officials told CNN Tuesday.
I imagine this story will set Gretchen Carlson’s little “googlin’ and cipherin’ fingers” afire on Fox & Friends.
Of course, we all know other terrorists groups have already successfully carried out this mission.
Next up, Al Qaeda’s secret plot to poison eggs.
Better get ready to invade another country…




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Bobo may never go to Applebee’s again.
Imagine how al qaeda felt when they found out that the salad bars were already infected with every known pathogen.
Gollygeewow, I saw some one yesterday in middle eastern dress at the supermarket, and I’m reallllly scared. Must order the survivalist food supply from now on. Then, thank Xtian heavens, I’ll only die of malnutrition and rot.
They kill, they maim and they call information for numbers they could easily look up in the book.
Obama’s mission is accomplished–the elite and the Republicans are back on their feet and the Bill of Rights is in tatters.
Prepare yourself for an endless phantasmagoria of witchhunts, conspiracies, loyalty tests, hearings, accusations, and investigations. In the coming years, everyone and his brother will be a suspected terrorist; no one will be safe; and anyone right of Darth Vader will be accused, over and over again, of aiding and abetting the terrorists. This while we weather the Tea Party Depression.
Thank God for the internet. No, wait…
Eat the Elite
I do believe when the internet is sold we will be left with books and lot’s of time.
Does make one wonder just what nefarious thing the gummint is trying to pull off now. The object is, of course, to keep us afraid, very afraid, so that we will not look too closely at what the bastards are really up to.
I do wonder if they are a tad worried about the pending Wikileaks info re. the banks/Øbummah sweet deals.
OMG stuff you can’t make up
You are of course assuming that the functionaries in the government can think for themselves at all. We may see things come up from Wiki about BoA but i wont hold it as gospel. All things need some vetting at this point.
Thanks for the post Attaturk.
Good morning all.
Hope all have read the incredible diary by Margaret. Truly a must read.
Off to work.
True but I am far more inclined to believe the Wikileak truths than the gummint “truths”.
The rest of the world is fully aware of the dirty tricks and dirty acts of this country, it is only the ‘mercun people that are kept in the dark by a complicit news media printing and broadcasting the gummint ordered propaganda.
Good morning, pups. Ms. Collins is flying solo because Mr. Kristof is off today. In “Lame Ducks Triumphant” she says good work, Government! From arms control to unemployment benefits to health care for 9/11’s first responders, Congress got a lot done.
Here she is.
The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got waffles with warm maple syrup for breakfast. I think I’m finally ready for Christmas, but I guess it will get here whether I am or not… Have a great day.
Thanks, Marion, Countdown did a list of the goodies in the lame duck session, then showed Sessions declaring it a ‘disaster’.
Are you ready for the ‘family dinner’ part of the holidays? I’ve got a post on it to go up on the 25th, for giggles.
Thank you for pointing the way to Margaret’s diary. It is definitely well worth a read.
The book shipment, from Barnes and Noble this year because of the boycott, arrived yesterday while my wonderful wife was at work so all her stuff is now wrapped. It snowed last night so we are in a winter wonderland, the cats are running to and fro and playing (chase, catch and roll) together in the snow. We are ready for greedmas.
Our dinner will be just four of us, which is about all my small house can handle. But it should be festive — beef rib roast, potatoes and onions roasted in the pan, and acorn squash filled with peas. For dessert I’ve got 2 pies and tons of cookies and fudge. I doubt we’ll go hungry!
i’d worry more about the factory farms down in mexico (just where did the swine flu come from?)
as pogo said: We have met the enemy and he is us.
My shopping is all finished, but I haven’t started wrapping yet. Actually, all I really have to do by Saturday are the gifts for the Christmas dinner guests. We exchange our gifts on Epiphany, so I’ve got some breathing room there! We seem to be out of our cold snap, so it won’t really feel like a northern Christmas, and we may get rain, but that’s pretty usual for down here.
Now you’ve done it, breakfast is calling me. I see that you do gifting on Jan. 6, I know that as Spanish Xmas – symbolizing the wise men’s offering.
Greedmas. The best. Thank you Thank you Thank you. Sometimes i am lost for words.
Epiphany, Little Christmas, Three Kings Day… Lots of names!
Don’t forget Julian Christmas (for our Orthodox brethren and sisteren) — January 8th this year.
Jan. 8 is also supposed to be Manhattanhenge this winter solstice;
The two corresponding mornings of sunrise right on the center lines of the Manhattan grid are approximately December 5 and January 8 (spaced evenly around Winter Solstice).
Good morning all.
Geez, why did it take ‘them’ so long to blame AQ for food poisoning episodes. Really, ‘they’ are so stoopid and unimaginative.
When the salad-bar utensils are pried from my cold, dead hands, then we can surely say that the terrists have won.
My wife’s relatives are German so we do the gifty thing on greedmas eve. We also decorate a tree and light the, real candles.
I do miss going around the neighbourhood singing carols, a tradition that has been somehow lost. As kids in England/Ireland it was basically all we did as we could not afford presents or any of that stuff. My mother always managed to make a steamed pudding though how she managed to afford it I will never know.
It was a fight with the farmers, for dear life. But corporate welfare won (fought dirty).
now off to breakfast
I spent one Christmas in Germany with the first husband when he was in the Army. We arrived on December 27 to find that our landlords had put up a Christmas tree for us, complete with real candles. We lit them, and it was absolutely magical. Dangerous as all get out, but magical.
Aha, they have to space out the corp welfare, like frog boil, so that we won’t notice it as much.
Just went out to check on my greenhouse, no AQ there so I am fine for salad this evening. I do worry that they might sneak in at the dead of night….I guess I had better put up security lights or maybe hire Xe Services to protect my lettuce. Life gets very complicated.
No probs with the bee hives, though. The bears will guard those.
Not really dangerous as we only light the candles when we are in the room with the tree….no chance of an electrical fire when we are out of the house. Kids absolutely love them. Seeing their eyes wide with astonishment when the candles are lighted is priceless.
Aha, that is a good idea. I am going to have to find a life sized stuffed bear…that will frighten the heck out of those terrorrrisstss.
Xe Services can now pick the lettuce — at $50.00 an hour. Grampy McSaim is a prophet.
My hunter friend has a collection of styrofoam critters: turkey, deer, I can’t remember what else. I think he uses them for target practice. I’ll ask him if they make a bear. Would frighten the bejeezus out of my bee keeper, who is paranoid about bears getting in the hives.
Only if they can speak Latin.
America has already survived the poisoning of the salad bar. Back in 1984 the Rajneeshee guys did it in the Dalles, Oregon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_attack
Applebees??!! Have you ever been to Old Country Buffet?? Now there’s a place I think they have already been at. Only thing is that with all the white flour gravey and chemicals in the fried meat things that the poisons don’t seem to work. they just make people fat.