Ebola Confirmed in West Africa: ‘An outbreak of fever in the west African nation of Gabon has been confirmed as the deadly disease Ebola, the World Health Organization said Sunday.

It is the world’s first documented outbreak of Ebola since last year in Uganda, where 224 people – including health workers – died from the virus. Ebola is one of the most virulent viral diseases known to humankind, causing death in 50 to 90 percent of all clinically ill cases.’ AP

This is ill-timed indeed. What would stop terrorists of financial means from quickly rounding up some infected, or exposed, individuals and promising to pay their survivors beyond their wildest dreams if they’ll get on a plane to an American or European city to spread the outbreak there before they die? Or if recruits deliberately infect themselves for the same purpose to die as martyrs to the cause? Could al Qaeda have sleeper cells in West Africa waiting for this next outbreak?