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Ethnic
Weapons
We
posted a story on theSigns
page that David Kelly was involved withultra secret work at Israel’s Institute for
Biological Research.
A
report on November 15, 1998 by the Sunday Times suggests that
this Institute
"is
working on a biological weapon that would harm Arabs but not
Jews".
Israel planning 'ethnic' bomb as Saddam
caves in
The
London Times
November 15 1998
ISRAEL
is working on a biological weapon that would harm Arabs but
not Jews, according to Israeli military and western
intelligence sources. The weapon, targeting victims by ethnic
origin, is seen as Israel's response to Iraq's threat of
chemical and biological attacks.
A
scientist there said the task was hugely complicated because
both Arabs and Jews are of Semitic origin. But he added:
"They have, however, succeeded in pinpointing a particular
characteristic in the genetic profile of certain Arab
communities, particularly the Iraqi people."
It
is widely accepted that Israel has the largest stockpile of
nuclear weapons in the region, and it is assumed that this
applies to their stockpiles of biological and chemical
weapons. A quick search on the web turned up a long list of
articles on the subject, including the following:
Report: Secret Israeli chemical tests kill
4, wound 25
Arabic
News.Com
August 21 1998
Tests
carried out by an Israeli secret laboratory recently killed
four persons and other 25 have been reported wounded in Neis
Zayouna district near Tel Aviv, an Israeli daily reported.
Israel
flatly denied the report. "No person has ever been killed in
a work accident at the Biological Institute since its
inception 45 years ago," Prime Minister Netanyahu's media
advisor stated today.
This
just happens to be the Institute cited above. And if these
deaths were due to field tests, they wouldn't be "work
accidents". But it is evidence that something is going on in
Israel that could be related to the development of these
types of weapons. There is also this comment from Ariel
Sharon, while he was still Foreign Minister. His attitude
hasn't changed in the intervening years as his active
sabotage of the so-called "Peace Map" shows.
Report: Israel developing biological
weapons targeting Arabs
Regional-Israel,
Military, 11/16/1998
Last
year the Pentagon warned in a secret report against the
possibility of developing biological elements through genetic
engineering to manufacture new weapons of mass destruction.
Within
the same context, Israeli Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon
reiterated that, "Israel reserves its right to repel any
possible Iraqi attack."
At
the conclusion of his meeting on Sunday with the US secretary
of commerce, Sharon added:"Israel
can defend itself and knows how to prevent being attacked."
A
different type of evidence is found in the following written
by the webmaster atwww.konformist.com
who published a good article on ethnic weapons in 2000 that
we will look at later. He isdiscussing the reader response to the
article:
What
is interesting is that, though I received quite a few Emails
from the Zionist community, none denied the accuracy of the
story. Instead, they brashly admitted it was true, then added
it was necessary because Israel needed to defend itself from
its Arab neighbors. What is most telling is that many letters
included references to Arabs that were derogatory and
dehumanizing. That such a destructive philosophy is accepted
by so many uncritically in Israel explains much of the
vicious thuggery performed against the Palestinians over the
last four months (not to mention the last 33 years).
These
comments are completely in keeping with Sharon's, so we can
put a high probability that Israel is developing something
along these lines.
The
progress on the Human Genome Project now makes it possible to
target specific groups of individuals based upon certain
genetic signatures. This is the logical next step in the
progression of biological weapons. These weapons have been
around for thousands of years. The Romans used to dump dead
animals into the water supply of their enemies to inflict
disease. The American "settlers" used small pox in blankets
to target the Native American populations. The American
Native population is still subjected to this type of attack:
#16 Human Genome Project Opens the Door to
Ethnically Specific Bioweapens
In
this country, continuing a historic policy toward Native
Americans, it has been revealed that the American Indian
Health Service (IHS—funded by the Federal Government, who
employ the doctors and nurses)coerced
Native American men and women into forced sterilizations in
the early to mid 1970s.
The General Accounting Office (GAO) estimated that 3,400
people (mostly women) underwent the treatment, but their
study only covered four of twelve IHS regions for four years.
Activists
put the estimate much higher, at 60,000 to 70,000.
This, coupled with the suspicion raised by the hantavirus
outbreak in the Four Corners region of Arizona/New
Mexico/Colorado/Utah keeps suspicion and fingers pointed at
the federal government and at least some government policies
toward the American Indian population. (Hantavirus
is one of many "new" diseases that have come under suspicion
of having their origins in genetic engineering or biowarfare
labs.)
As
reported in a 1994 Project Censored update, Utah's Dugway
Proving Grounds biowarfare research site was also reopened
despite local residents' protests over fears that the
facility was originally closed because of safety concerns.
Fort Dietrick, the site of the most notorious CIA drug and
army biowarfare research in the United States now houses
major research facilities of the National Cancer Institute,
raising issues of conflict (or collusion) or interest.
But
with the development of the chemical industry, bio-warfare
took a new turn. Greg Bishop, in the article referred to
above, first published at konformist.com, looks at some of
the major points:
Ethnic Weapons For Ethnic
Cleansing
Greg
Bishop
March 2000
[T]his
"theoretical possibility" was recognized over 25 years ago,
if not before. It was originally brought to the attention of
potential customers with the publication of an article in the
Military Review of November 1970.
This
journal for command-level military personnel was published by
the US Army Command and General Staff College in Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. The feature, entitled "Ethnic Weapons,"
authored by Carl A. Larson, outlines the history,
desirability, and possibilities of engineered biological
pathogens which would affect only those races which
historically have no natural defense against certain "enzyme
inhibitors."
Larson
is listed as head of the "Department of Human Genetics at the
Institute of Genetics, Lund, Sweden" as well as a licensed
physician. The Hippocratic oath was apparently not
administered in Sweden when Larson received his
accreditation.
Larson
explains that many of the chemical activities and functions
within the human body are caused by the interactions of
enzymes. One of the more significant activities enabled by
enzyme chemical reactions are the contraction and relaxation
of muscle tissue. If the activities of these enzymes are
blocked, the victim will be paralyzed, even to the point of
death by asphyxiation.
Not
coincidentally, the enzyme-blocking action of compounds
called organophosphates were discovered in Germany in the
1930s when experimental insecticides killed the people
unlucky enough to have used them. This discovery led to the
mass production of a substance named "Trilon," later used to
impressive effect in the extermination of groups of people
the Nazis considered little more than insects. This substance
and others of similar makeup became known as "nerve
gas."
A
concentration of 40 milligrams per cubic meter can kill in
about 10 minutes. Stronger agents were later developed which
can do the job with a single drop on the skin.
[...]
Larson is even more explicit in a way that would probably
never make it into the mainstream press. In a passage that
would make Doctor Strangelove proud, he muses uncontrollably
on the possibilities of genetically-sensitive chemicals to
subdue enemy populations:
"Friendly
forces would discriminatingly use incapacitants in entangled
situations to give friend and foe a short period of enforced
rest to sort them out. By gentle persuasion, aided by
psychochemicals, civilians in enemy cities could be
reeducated. The adversary would use incapacitants to spare
those whom he could use for slaves."
This
was published in a serious, staid professional journal read
by US military strategists. He concludes with the statement
that "the functions of life [now] lie bare to attack."
According
to Charles Piller and Keith Yamamoto in their 1988 book Gene
Wars,Larson's
article was the first time that the subject of ethnically
targeted CBWs was broached publicly, and that in "the
military's private circles it was old news."
The authors further state thatin
1951 the Mechanicsburg, PA Naval Supply Depot was the site of
a classified test using a benign organism delivered to
personnel to mimic the behavior of an actual
bioweapon:
"
According
to documents declassified in the late 1970s, the site was
chosen because 'Within this system there are employed large
numbers of laborers, including many Negroes, whose
incapacitation would seriously affect the operation of the
supply system."
The
black workers in the Depot were supposedly more susceptible
to a strain of Valley Fever than were
whites,
but instead of using the actual virus, a substitute fungal
organism was used. Valley Fever is more often fatal to blacks
than to whites. It was recently revealed that the truth and
reconciliation hearings in South Africa had presented
witnesses who testified that scientists working for the
apartheid regime had pursued efforts along similar lines.
Another
possible example of field testing of ethnic weapons (or at
least an interesting case for study by those interested in
their development) may be the famed"Four
Corners" virus, which seems only to affect Native Americans
living in northern New Mexico and Arizona.
Most reports identified or compared the disease to the
Hantavirus, which killed victims relatively quickly following
the occurrence of a prolonged fever and fluid which rapidly
filled the lungs and asphyxiated the patient. Supposedly
contracted through deer mice droppings, the mystery disease
has claimed at least a dozen victims in the last ten years.
The
most recent outbreak occurred this last summer [1999], coming
on the heels of El Niño, which the major news media blamed
for the renewed threat. Some area residents believe that the
virus may have been released either accidentally or
intentionally from a bioweapons cache at Fort Wingate, an
army facility a few miles east of Gallup. The munitions
storage at Wingate is now officially closed.
We
learn that the work on such weapons was begun in Nazi
Germany. The victims of these weapons were largely Jews. When
Larson published his paper in 1970, "the military's private
circles it was old news." Which means it had been discussed
for a long time by the US military, most likely with the
Nazis brought into the US after World War II via Operation
Paperclip. Tests were carried out as far back as 1951 on
Blacks working at the Mechanicsburg, PA Naval Supply Depot.
For more information on tests carried out by the US
government against its own citizens, refer to
ourtimeline.
An
early form of ethnic specific weapon were the malororants,
developed to control crowds (of people dissenting against the
Bush Reich, perhaps?).
Pentagon Tests Ethnically-Targeted Crowd
Control Weapons
Sunshine-Project
19. February 2002
Almost sixty years ago, the US developed a nauseating
'bathroom odor' chemical for use as a
weapon.But
according to the Army, the old malodorant will not work
outside of the US and Western Europe, because "it was found
that people in many areas of the world do not find 'fecal
odor' to be offensive, since they smell it on a regular
basis."
Therefore, according to the Army, new agents are needed for
overseas missions. These new malodorants are to be
specifically adapted for their victims. According to a 1998
document: "The objective of this work is the development of a
comprehensive set of [malodorants]that
can be applied against any population set around the world to
influence their behavior."
The
documents describe the Army research procedure. A group of
subjects selected "based on a diversity of geographic origins
and cultural heritage" is systematically exposed to candidate
malodorants to develop "culture-response data" based on
ethnic categories. That data is aggregated into "odor
response profiles" that suggest the types and quantities of
malodorants necessary to "elicit a favorable behavioral
response" (i.e. incapacitation, panic, or flight) when used
for crowd control on a particular ethnic group.
[...]
Whether the malodorants work or fail, research on any ethnic
weapon raises serious legal questions and could set a very
dangerous precedent.If
the Pentagon saw any major legal barriers to ethnic weapons
it would not have approved the malodorant research.
The Pentagon's conclusion that ethnic weapons are permissible
must be challenged.
As
horrible as these weapons are in their practice and in what
they reveal about the people developing them, it was the work
on the Human Genome that really opened the door to a new
generation of bioweapons, weapons that could be fine-tuned to
one's genetic make-up. We have been subjected to reams of
paper and hours of air-time discussing the benefits of
genetic research, the ability to target individual genes to
"repair" them. Look at the flip-side:
GE Biological "Ethnic" Weapons Loom on the
Horizon
Date:
Thu, Jan 21, 1999
By Patricia Reaney
Reuters
The
designer weapon works on a similar principle to gene therapy
but instead of replacing faulty genes that don't work it
exploits genetic variations to target its victims.
For
example, micro-organisms could be genetically engineered to
attack known receptor sites on the cell membrane or viruses
could be targeted at specific DNA sequences inside cells.
This
is the technology that Israel is using. But it did not
originate in Israel:
Biowar and the Apartheid
Legacy
By
Salim Muwakkil, In These Times
June 6, 2003
A
two-part story in the Washington Post on April 20 and 21
revealedthat
biological agents developed by the South African government
during its apartheid days have fallen into private
hands.
Written by Post reporters Joby Warrick and John Mintz, the
piece noted that unique,race-specific
strains of biotoxins were available on the world market – for
the right price or the right ideology.
[...]
The top-secret program that Basson directed was called
Project Coast, and it lasted from 1981 to 1993. The South
African National Defense Force created it at a time when the
white-minority regime was under increasing threat by
indigenous black South Africans. Daan Goosen, the former
director of Project Coast's biological research division,
told the Post he was ordered by Basson to develop ways "to
suppress population growth among blacks" and to "search for a
'black bomb,' a biological weapon that would select targets
based on skin color."
[...]
The Washington Post even noted,"Goosen
says many scientists kept copies of organisms and documents
in order to continue work on 'dual-use' projects with
commercial as well as military applications." A May 2002
story on Project Coast in the Wall Street Journal reported
that Goosen said he has been "visited by scores of people
looking for 'stuff to kill the blacks.'" Race-specific
weapons naturally are in hot demand among racists, so it's no
surprise that South Africa's race-specific research is highly
coveted.
[...]Reported
links between Israel's ethnic weapons and South Africa's
Project Coast are tentative; some would say tenuous. But the
possibility of such links is terrifying, and justifies as
much scrutiny as was focused on Iraq's imaginary arsenal.
It
also appears that the anthrax incidents of 2001, in which
five people died and 13 were sickened, may also have a South
African connection.The
Post noted that officials found evidence in a Frederick,
Maryland, pond that may explain how the perpetrators of the
deadly attacks used water to handle the lethal toxin without
infecting themselves or loosing the anthrax spores.
On
May 11, the Post said the water theory is the result of the
FBI's interest in one person, Steven J. Hatfill, a medical
doctor and bioterrorism expert who formerly worked for the
U.S. Army, and who lists South African diplomas in diving and
underwater medicine on his résumé.
A
June 2002 article in the Hartford Courant reported
thatHatfill
also worked with a guerilla unit of the white-supremacist
Rhodesian army from 1978 to 1980, when "an anthrax outbreak
killed hundreds and sickened thousands of villagers."
He also lived in South Africa, "where he completed various
military-medical assignments."
The
Apartheid regime in South Africa. Israel. The United States.
Not the most progressive regimes in the world.
Note
the reference to the Great Anthrax Scare following 9/11, the
ability to manipulate the anthrax virus without getting
infected. And the connection of this to Steven J. Hatfill.
Curious, isn't it, how the anthrax story just died when it
was discovered that the strain used to attack Americans
wasn't from a foreign sourse but came a military base in
Maryland?
Anthrax Attacks Pushed Open an Ominous
Door
22 September, 2002
PURCHASE,
N.Y. -- On this first anniversary of the anthrax attacks, a
number of conclusions can be drawn even without an arrest by
the FBI. First, the strain and properties of the weaponized
anthrax found in the letters show that it originated within
the U.S. biodefense program, where the necessary expertise
and access are found. Government officials recognized that
the anthrax source was domestic less than two weeks after
they learned of the letters, and nothing in their
investigation has led them to say otherwise since.
One
can also conclude that, given the origin of the anthrax and
the warnings contained in the letters, the perpetrator's
motive was not to kill but rather to raise public fear and
thereby spur Congress to increase spending on biodefense. In
this, the attacks have been phenomenally successful.[...]
Although
biodefense has gotten a shot in the arm, it is important to
understand that the goal of defending against bioweapons is
not primarily public protection--which is largely impossible,
as last year's attacks demonstrated.
It
is rather "to allow the military forces of the United States
to survive and successfully complete their operational
missions ... in battlespace environments contaminated with
chemical or biological warfare agents,"
according to the annual report of the Department of Defense's
Chemical and Biological Defense Program. [...]
Two
weeks ago, I attended an informal meeting in Geneva where
diplomats from six continents struggled in the face of U.S.
Intransigence to map out a joint strategy for combating the
global biological threat. The United States had demanded that
a formal Biological Weapons Convention conference, scheduled
to take place during two weeks in November, should instead
disband in one day with only an agreement not to meet again
until 2006.
To
make sure that the American resolve prevails in this setting
where international consensus is de rigueur, the U.S. demand
was accompanied by an overt threat to disrupt any further
proceedings with accusations that would make productive
international action impossible.
At
that Geneva meeting, the assembled diplomats, representing
the political spectrum from our closest allies to declared
enemies, were uniformly frustrated.They
find it hard to comprehend why a country that has just been
the victim of bioterrorism should stand in the way of
peaceful efforts supported by all its allies to deter
bioterrorism.
The
following article suggests that the evidence for a link
between the Israeli program and the South African program is
neither tentative nor tenuous as the above would suggest. It
is the same author writing earlier. Perhaps he found new
info. Perhaps something else happened...
DOUBLE STANDARDS HAUNT AMERICA'S FOREIGN
POLICY
By
Salim Muwakkil.
Published: Monday, November 23, 1998
Goosen's
comments jibe well with conclusions reached by South Africa's
recently concluded Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which
heard testimony that Wouter Basson, the director of the
country's chemical-biological warfare program, conducted
extensive research on weapons that exclusively targeted
blacks.
Incidentally,the
commission's concluding report noted that South Africa's
chemical-biological weapons team received considerable
assistance from their American counterparts during the
apartheid era.
And it's easy to see why: Ethno bombs are a dream weapon on a
planet so preoccupied with ethnic conflicts. Of course,
that's also why such weapons are so remarkably menacing.
[...]The
article noted that the ethno-bomb claims were given further
credibility by a report in "Foreign Report," a publication of
the respected Jane's group, that Israeli scientists used some
of "the South African research in trying to develop an
'ethnic bullet'
. . ."
Once
more the thread comes back to the US: "South Africa's
chemical-biological weapons team received considerable
assistance from their American counterparts during the
apartheid era".
So
let's look more at America's links to the development of
these weapons. We saw above that this started after World War
II. But, in fact, there are links back to the Eugenics
program started in the US at the turn of the century.
#16 Human Genome Project Opens the Door to
Ethnically Specific Bioweapens
The
U.S. has a long history of interest in such genetic
research.The
current home of the Human Genome Project is the Cold Springs
Harbor laboratory on Long Island, NY—the exact site of the
notorious Eugenics Research Office that was started in 1910
by the Harriman family.
The project’s 1910 agenda included governmental imposition of
sanctions on such human rights as reproduction, and on U.S.
immigration, based on the alleged inferiority of particular
ethnic groups.
The
Eugenics Research Project established medical and
psychological conditions that would qualify one for
sterilization or euthanasia. Prominent advocates of the
program such as the Rockefeller family, Henry Ford, and
Margaret Sanger helped smooth the way for the passage of
forcible sterilization laws in 25 states. These laws allowed
the forcible sterilization of tens of thousands of people,
mostly of minority status, during the first half of the 20th
century.
So
we have one policy, begun in the early 20th century, funded
by the Rockefellers, Henry Ford, the Harrimans, many of the
same people who were financing the Nazi Party in Germany
during the thirties. The work goes underground after the
Second World War until it reemerges as part of the new
"genetic research".
Biological Warfare: Genetically-Engineered
Weapons Cannot Be Excluded
By
K.P. Kavanaugh
Journal of the Federation of American Scientists (F.A.S.)
Volume 52, Number 2
March/April 1999
It
has long been rumored that modern biological weapons could be
designed to attack specific vulnerabilities of particular
ethnic groups. Early in the development of the US offensive
biological weapons program Colonel Creasey, Chief of Research
and Engineering of the US Chemical Corps, suggested that
agents may be selected because of known susceptibility of the
target population.
This
shows that the differential susceptibility of different
populations to various diseases had been considered at that
time and, according to scientists at Defense Advance Research
Projects Agency (DARPA), is continuing today.
Indeed
ethnic-specific biological warfare predated the advent of the
biotechnology revolution. Smallpox was almost certainly
deliberately used against the Native Americans centuries ago
and there are other examples. U.S. and British officials
believe an ethnic-specific weapon would be used today if it
became available during a severe conflict between two deeply
antagonistic groups. [...]
Today,
warnings are coming not only from the medical community, but
also from other specially credible sources. There have been
indications, for example, that the US Secretary of Defense is
concerned about the possible development of genetic weapons.
In
June1997,
Jane's Defense Weekly reported that Secretary Cohen "quoted
other reports about what he called 'certain types of
pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could
eliminate certain ethnic groups or races.'" Then after a
later interview with the Defense Secretary in August 1997, it
was stated again in Jane's Defense Weekly
that"he
also continued to insist that the science community is 'very
close' to being able to manufacture 'genetically engineered
pathogens that could be ethnically specific'".
Early
Accounts, Then Silence
In
accounts during the 1980s of the possible development of
genetic weapons, a frequent source of scientific data was a
paper by Carl A. Larson, then head of the Department of Human
Genetics, University of Lund, Sweden, published in the
journal Military Review in November 1970. Larson's paper was
mainly concerned with the possible development of a new range
of chemical weapons, including incapacitants.
Individual
differences in response to chemical agents had been known for
some time, but Larson reviewed what was known of differences
between populations in reaction to drugs and saw the basis of
such population differences as genetic. Larson seems to have
been pointing to possible future developments rather than
near-term practical possibilities. The question is whether,
almost 30 years later: have genetically engineered weapons
become a practical possibility?
There
does not appear to have been subsequent detailed open
publication by reputable scientists of the application of
modern biotechnology to genetically -engineered weapons until
the 1990s. Then in 1992 the journal Defense News carried a
report which noted a scientist arguing that genetic
engineering may enable us to:
...recognize
DNA from different people and attach different things that
will kill only that group of people...You will be able to
determine the difference between blacks and whites and Asians
and Jews and Swedes and Finns and develop an agent that will
kill only a particular group.
Shown
this quotation in February,scientists
within the DOD confirmed that defensive research was being
done specifically in this area.
Thus the threat would appear to slide along the spectrum from
the merely theoretical through the potentially possible to
the patently workable.
Such
arguments have been set out at greater length in an appendix
to the 1993 Stockholm Peace Research Institute's Yearbook .
The most pertinent aspect of the appendix entitled, "Benefits
and threats of developments in biotechnology and genetic
engineering," reads:
While
modern biotechniques are revolutionizing medicine and
agriculture, the possibility exists of their misuse for
political ends, for clandestine production and refinement of
biological weapons (BW), and for future development of
weapons of mass extermination which could be used for
genocide.
Particular
reference is then made to the possible misuse of knowledge
gained from the Human Genome Project and knowledge about
genetic diversity. The element of critical significance here
is contained in the last sub-section of section VI where the
question is clearly stated, "Can't genetic weapons be
developed?" The answer is that if:
investigations
provide sufficient data on ethnic genetic differences between
population groups, it may be possible to use such data to
target suitable micro-organisms to attack known receptor
sites for which differences exist at a cell membrane level or
even target DNA sequences inside cells by viral vectors...
[...]
Flashback:
Scientists' deaths are under the
microscope
So
we have governments financing the development of these
weapons, envisioning them as the Ultimate Weapon in their
battles against their enemies. Or should we say "Final
Solution" because it is racially based. It makes targets of
people because of their genes.
Note:
It is governments that do these things. But when this is
discussed in the press, where are our fears turned? Who are
portrayed as the real villains?
Genetic weapons: a 21st-century
nightmare?
Ethirajan
Anbarasan
Most
of the nearly 30,000 scientists who were involved in
biological research in the USSR during the 1980s are now out
of a job because of the country’s economic difficulties. Last
year, some of them disclosed that they had been approached by
certain countries which have shown particular interest in
learning about microbes that can be used in war to destroy or
protect crops, as well as genetic engineering techniques that
could be used to make deadly germs for which there may be no
antidotes.
One
prospect that alarms arms control experts is that biological
weapons will fall into the hands of terrorist or cult groups.
But
they are already in the hands of the Israelis who have not
ratified a single international treaty allowing inspections
of their nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons. No, what
is important is to vilify the invisible "terrorist", the
"cult", to inculcate in the minds of the readers that the
danger is widespread, invisible, and ready to pounce at any
moment. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Yes.
But be afraid because these governments are prepared to use
them on their enemies...and that may well include their own
citizens.
Mystery pneumonia is being caused by
America's weapons of mass
destruction:
A theory
by
Steve Hesske August 8, 2003
Could America's mainstream media be any more perfidious and
derelict in its so-called reporting of the current so-called
pneumonia epidemic among U.S. service personnel in Iraq and a
few nearby countries?
A
quick, informal survey of this week's coverage of the
pneumonia story by our bastions of truth and enlightenment —
CNN, Fox, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington
Post — shows that while all covered the story, none mentioned
Gulf War Syndrome which befell maybe as much as 20% of the
700,000 Americans who served in the 1991 Persian Gulf War
(PGW) or depleted uranium (DU) a radioactive weapon of mass
destruction (WMD), outlawed by international treaty and world
courts, that was used exclusively and extensively by the
United States during the PGW and that was used by the U.S.
during the recent invasion of Iraq at 10 times its PGW rate.
Here's
what the mainstream press does tell you: Army brass have
dispatched teams to Iraq and to Landstuhl Army Hospital in
Germany to investigate over 100 mysterious cases of pneumonia
that have stricken American troops currently serving in the
Persian Gulf. The puzzling disease has killed two and put
another dozen or so in serious peril. According to the Army,
a common geographical thread can not be established, a common
bacteria can not be isolated.
True
enough. A military spokeswoman goes on to say that those who
have fallen ill have not been exposed to biological or
chemical weapons, a bald-faced lie. DU is a chemical WMD of
the most destructive and virulent kind. The documentation is
in. And the connection between DU and a "mysterious
pneumonia-like disease" was established over 10 years ago.
[...]
The [British] government's
microbiological research establishment at Porton Down spread
bacteria through the London Underground system in the 1960s
are contained in two files released to the public record
office in Kew yesterday.
The
trials, which were revealed in the Guardian last year, show
how a powder compact filled with bacteria was dropped on to
the Northern line and samples taken to see how contamination
spread over the network.
We
again refer you to ourTimeline of Cosmic
COINTELPRO
subversion through the last few centuries to see more of
this.
Given
that these new strands of bioweapons need to be tested, we
might think that the recent outbreak of SARS could be a field
test. The pneumonia from Iraq. But these are not the only
ones. There have been so many of these new strains recently
that the US Government has set up centers to watch for
"Unexplained Deaths" in four US states:
Unexplained Deaths Due to Possibly
Infectious Causes in the United States: Defining the
Problem and Designing Surveillance and Laboratory
Approaches
EID
Volume 2 * Number 1
January-March 1996
Many
new infectious diseases have been identified in the United
States during the last several decades (1). Among these are
AIDS, Legionnaires' disease, toxic-shock syndrome, hepatitis
C, and most recently, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome;
all caused serious illness and death.
In
each instance, the disease was recognized through
investigation of illness for which no cause had been
identified. Retrospective studies of these and other newly
recognized infectious diseases often identified cases that
occurred before the recognition of the new agent; therefore,
a more sensitive detection system may make the earlier
recognition of new infectious agents possible.
[...]A
more systematic public health approach for the early
detection of unknown infectious agents is needed.
This need was acknowledged in Addressing Emerging Infectious
Diseases Threats: A Prevention Strategy for the United
States, a CDC publication about emerging infections (13). CDC
has established an emerging infections program (EIP) network
to conduct special population-based surveillance projects,
develop surveillance methods, pilot and evaluate prevention
strategies, and conduct other epidemiologic and laboratory
studies.
In
late 1994, CDC funded four programs based at state health
departments and academic institutions in California (Alameda,
Contra Costa, Kern, and San Francisco counties), Connecticut,
Minnesota, and Oregon.
Some projects are conducted at all program sites and others,
depending on local interest and expertise, at only one or two
sites.
Surveillance
for unexplained deaths due to possibly infectious causes
(UDPIC) for early detection of new infectious diseases is one
of the core activities being conducted at all sites.
Great
way to track the field tests, is it not?
In
looking over the press reports in the last few years, we see
that Israel is being singled out, especially since the
"suicide" of David Kelly. This is somewhat normal because
much attention has been focused in recent years on the
barbarity of the Israeli actions against the Palestinians.
As
Greg Bishop writes above, the Germans considered the Jews
"insects". Now the Jews turn on the Palestinians in the same
way. So Israel, from the Balfour Declaration through today,
is being set up and portrayed as villains, maneuvered into a
particular situation.
What
they do is odious. But is there something even more odius
behind the curtain?
Relations
Between Israel and the Apartheid Regime in South Africa
We
looked yesterday at the issue of Ethnic Weapons, biological
and chemical weapons that can be built to single out
populations by their genetic characteristics. We saw evidence
that Israel may be building such weapons to be used in their
final solution against the Palestinians.
The
technology for this program came from the apartheid regime of
South Africa, that is, the Boers who ruled over the Blacks
until the last decade of the 20th century.
The
close relations between Israel and the apartheid regime go
back to the mid seventies.
Profile of Bilateral
Relations
State
of Israel
HISTORY OF RELATIONS
Israel
established a Legation in South Africa in 1952
andin
1974 it was upgraded to an Embassy.In
1972 South Africa established a Consulate General in Tel Aviv
which was upgraded to an Embassy in December 1975. Israel
continued to enjoy close relations with the Apartheid
Government in South Africa.
While
many African countries had seen Israel as an ally in the
fifties and early sixties, another country struggling to
survive in a hostile climate, after the wars of 1967 and
1973, their view had changed and Israel was now the
neighborhood bully. For more on this, see the
articleAfrica, Arabia, and Israel: Forty-Five
Years of Relations.
South
Africa had seen two of its neighbors become "Popular
Republics" under Marxist-inspired "People's Armies" after the
fall of the Salazar regime in Portugal in 1974. So both
Israel and South Africa had a siege mentality, believing they
were surrounded by enemies.
Africa, Arabia, and
IsraelForty-Five Years of
Relations
(Originally
published as Sheen-File #053)
[…]
In the wake of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and the
joint forces of Egypt and Syria, almost all of sub-Saharan
Africa broke off diplomatic relations with Israel
completely.And
in 1975, the Arab League states succeeded in passing a motion
on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly, equating
Zionism with racism and South African apartheid.
It passed in large measure to the near-automatic support the
resolution received from the sub-Saharan African states.
Although
there is evidence that several African nations wished to
maintain covert relations with Israel, privately insisting
that its public condemnation of Israel was merely an act for
show, designed to placate the Arab states, to many Israelis,
this hypocrisy was an unimaginable slight that could not
easily be forgiven.It
was said that, in response to this overwhelming rejection,
"Israel pursued its relationship with South Africa with an
element of vindictiveness."
Israel and South
Africa
excerpted
from the book
Israeli
Foreign Policy
by
Jane Hunter
South End Press, 1987
Israel
has also been connected with the mercenary forces deployed by
South Africa against Angola and
Mozambique.In
the 1970s Israel aided the FNLA (Angolan National Liberation
Front) proxy forces organized and trained by the CIA
to forestall the formation of a government led by the MPLA
(Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-now the ruling
party of Angola).
John
Stockwell, who ran the CIA operation against Angola,
recollected three arms shipments Israel made in cooperation
with the CIA: a plane full of 120 mm shells sent via Zaire to
the FNLA and Unita; a shipment of 50 SA-7 missiles (all of
which were duds); a boat-load sent to neighboring Zaire in a
deal that the Israelis had worked out with President Mobutu,
even though the Zairian strong man had broken ties with
Israel two years earlier.
South Africa's Nuclear
Policy
Ruchita
Beri, Research Fellow, IDSA
The
political changes in the Southern African region heightened
the security concerns of South Africa. The end of Portuguese
rule in Africa after the 1974 Lisbon coup and the subsequent
accession to power of Communist regimes in Angola (MPLA) and
Mozambique (Freelimo) enhanced the encirclement by Communist
forces regionally. The mid- 1970s also saw the
intensification of the anti-apartheid struggle within South
Africa-in the apartheid government's perception, sponsored by
the Communist forces.
Thus,
perceiving itself to be encircled by Communist forces, the
South African government promoted a militarist ideology
legitimising the use of force by the state to counter that
threat, codified in the concept "Total National Strategy" to
coordinate its national security planning. This ultimately
involved a nuclear deterrent capability.
The
arrival of Cuban troops in Angola after the establishment of
the MPLA regime provided the final stimulus. Defence Minister
P.W. Botha spelled out the defence requirements to meet this
challenge as "South Africa can establish a balanced defence
force to defend itself against terrorism...and this we are
fully able to do....Secondly, we must have a deterrent to be
able to resist a fairly heavy conventional attack on South
Africa."3 This statement was quite ambiguous; however, one
could reach the conclusion that both conventional and nuclear
capabilities would be pursued by South Africa. Ambiguity
became the trademark of the South African nuclear policy in
the apartheid era.
The
attitudes of the two countries can be summed up by this
comment from Jane Hunter, cited above:
It
has also been said that those arms sales are understandable,
given the striking similarities between the two countries in
their day-to-day abuse and repression of their subject
populations, South African blacks and Palestinians under
Israeli rule; in their operating philosophies of apartheid
and Zionism; and in their similar objective
situations:"the
only two Western nations to have established themselves in a
predominantly nonwhite part of the world," as a South African
Broadcasting Corporation editorial put it.
That understanding, however, is somewhat superficial, and the
focus on similarities of political behavior has somewhat
obscured the view of the breadth and depth of the totality of
Israeli-South African relations and their implications.
As
she suggests, this understanding is "somewhat superficial, as
we will see below.
Another
factor cementing the relationship was the embargo placed on
South Africa following the riots of 1975 and the
international outcry over the death of Stephen Biko.
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