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- US Foiled in Attempt to Close UN Biowar
Investigation
- Granma International News [25 November 1997]. Cuba
prevented the United States from blocking the continuation
of investigations into its government's charges
concerning U.S. biological warfare against Cuba. The
U.S. accused of introducing into Cuban territory of Thrips
palmi, which attacks various crops.
- ‘Ethnic-cleansing weapons’ within
10 years: report
- Agence France Presse, 23 January 1999. Advances in genetic
research raise the possibility of biological weapons that
would attack one ethnic group but leave others untouched.
Projects in Israel, Apartheid South Africa, and the U.S.
- U.S. Won't Destroy Its Smallpox
Stocks
- By Jim Lobe, IPS, 25 April 1999. Clinton has decided
against destroying the remaining US stocks of smallpox
virus, claiming that, to do so could harm scientific,
health, and national security interests. The decision
reverses a government pledge in 1996 to destroy the stocks
by June, 1999 as part of a plan by the World Health
Organisation (WHO) to achieve the final elimination of the
smallpox virus.
- In Gamble, U.S. Supports Russian Germ
Warfare Scientists
- By Judith Miller, New York Times, 20 June
2000. The Clinton administration has financed research in
institutes throughout the former Soviet Union by scientists
who only a decade ago manipulated genes to make deadly
viruses and bacteria even hardier and resistant to vaccines
and antibiotics. The research is being directed to public
health and other peaceful ends.
- US Blocks Bioweapons Protocol
- The Sunshine Project press release, 11 May 2001. The
Clinton administration pushed for the massive use of
a genetically-modified fungus in the sprayings of large
areas of the Andes, the Amazon and Orinoco basins and
the Choco Biogeografico, to eradicate coca. However,
they used an agent that kills everything until discouraged
by international opinion.
- Secret US germ tests threat to
treaty
- By Roland Watson, The Times (London), 5
September 2001. The Pentagon has secretly built a germ
factory capable of producing enough deadly bacteria to kill
millions of people. The project is one of a number of covert
biological initiatives pursued by the United States over
recent years. Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary,
confirmed that the Bush Administration planned to proceed
with tests of genetically engineered biological agents.
- Averting Bioterrorism Begins with US
Reforms
- By Edward Hammond, 21 September 2001. Why has the
U.S. government thrown away so many opportunities to work
with other nations to control weapons of mass
destruction? U.S. has declared a war to rid the globe of
biological and chemical weapons. But the U.S. no longer
has the credibility to lead the effort. The shadier side
to the US renunciation of chemical and biological
weapons.
- Bioterrorism Nothing New To Native
Americans
- By Matthew Hay Brown, The Hartford Courant, 1
November 2001. In 1763, as the British Army was trying to
quell Pontiac's Rebellion, a Native American uprising in
the waning days of the French and Indian War, Gen. Jeffrey
Amherst hit on the idea of grinding the scabs of smallpox
pustules into blankets and giving them to the natives.
- US link to SA bio-warfare programme
- By Douglas Bishop, Mail & Guardian, 3
November 2002. A California doctor gave deadly germs to
apartheid South Africa's secret chemical and biological
weapons program. He passed a bag filled with cholera,
typhoid, botulism, anthrax and bubonic plague to a South
African military doctor. He had visited a secret military
installation outside Pretoria and gave a lecture on germ
warfare, including how to lace pornographic magazines with
germs and plant them in rebel army barracks.
- A U.S. Gift to Iraq: Deadly Viruses
- From Austin Kelley, emmasdance list, 1 October 2003. A
1995 letter from the Centers for Disease Control lists all
the biological materials sent to Saddam's scientists
for 10 years. Was Iraq's weapons efforts unwittingly
helped by U.S. scientists? The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control & Prevention admitted that it had supplied
Iraqi scientists with nearly two dozen viral and bacterial
samples in the 1980s.
- USAMRIID Rewrites Offensive Biological
Weapons History, says peration Whitecoat is a Model for the
Future
- The Sunshine Project news release, 3 March 2005. US Army
Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases suggests
that the US Army is preparing to renew experiments to
deliberately infect humans with bioweapons agents. USAMRIID
talks about programs with offensive goals as if their intent
was benign and suggests that deliberately infecting people
with weaponized disease is ethically and legally
acceptable.
- Gov't ‘biodefense’ increases
danger
- By Hillel Cohen, Workers World, 28 April
2005. Live samples of the deadly H2N2 flu virus were
recently sent out accidentally to over 5,000
laboratories. It is believed responsible for up to 4 million
deaths in 1957–1958. U.S. health agencies and
laboratories do not feel obligated to follow the WHO request
to destroy all HTN2 stocks. Spending billions of dollars on
the threat of bioterrorism has created very real threats to
the health and lives of people around the world.