Black Plague?

The Sun reported today that forty (40) Al Qaeda types in Algeria have succumbed to "The Plague." Anti-terrorist experts have expressed a hope that the Algerian brothers may spread the plague to other cells between the Maghreb and Afghanistan.


This is an interesting story. Did the jihadists just pick up the disease from fleas? Will they blame the West of using biological warfare agents? Will they follow the medieval European example and "blame the Jews"?

Or is this story evidence that the jihadists are victims of their own effort to create a bacteriological weapon of their own for use against the West?