Biological Warfare


Did Bush regime attack Peace Rally with Biological Weapons?
Or is it merely planting a false story to send a threat?

www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2005/1221

Bob Fitrakis
Did Bush administration attack peace movement with military grade biological bacteria?
October 4, 2005

What do we make of the Saturday, October 1 Washington Post headline “Poison Found in Air During Anti-War Protest”?
Washington D.C. Public Health Director Greg A. Pane posed the right question in the Post article, “Why that day? That’s what is not explained.” Pane pointed that it was “just this 24-hour period and none since.”
The Post noted that Pane found “. . . it was puzzling that the finding was from a day when the mall was packed with people.”
Puzzling? Indeed. Biohazard sensors detected tularemia bacteria at the mall on Saturday, September 24.
Equally puzzling was an earlier Post report: “Weekend protesters hit travel snags.” The article reported that Amtrak trains from New York City were turned back, cancelled or delayed from heading to the nation’s capitol for the biggest peace demonstration since the Vietnam War era. Also, Metro subway cars coming into the capitol were disrupted by repairs.
Federal officials are still pondering the death of five people on U.S. soil and scores of others who were infected with U.S. military-grade anthrax in the fall of 2001.
The wholly implausible “working hypothesis” put forward by Pane is that the bacteria found in rodents, rabbits and other small animals just happened to occur on the same day the trains failed to run on time and more than quarter of a million people assembled to directly challenge the Bush regime’s illegal war in Iraq.
Coincidence theorists. You gotta love ‘em and their great faith in believing in the statistically improbable occurrence of events, rather than an alternative hypothesis: that friends of Bush (FOBs) planted the tularemia bacteria, just as they most likely sent anthrax to Democratic senators and the media.
Tularemia is one of six major bacterial bioterrorism agents, according to the Sherlock Bioterrorism Library serving the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Ft. Detrick, Maryland.
The BBC notes that tularemia is “one of the most infectious germs known to science,” and that it “takes just 10 microbes to bring on disease in humans.”
Tularemia emerged as a “plague-like disease” during a 1911 outbreak of “rabbit fever” in Tulare Lake in California. The disease progresses rapidly in humans with patients suffering from headache, fatigue, dizziness, muscle pains, loss of appetite and nausea. The disease progresses to inflamed and reddened face and eyes. The disease next attacks lymph nodes and glands, often with life-threatening complications.
Fortunately, tularemia is relatively rare in nature. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health there are generally five or fewer cases that occur each year naturally. The Kansas City Missouri Health Department tells us that most cases that occur naturally are found in “south, central and western states,” not Washington D.C.
Unfortunately, tularemia has been long used as a military biological weapon. We should consider the presence of tularemia a shot across the bow to the peace movement from an administration willing to cheat, steal, torture, lie and kill to further its political agenda. Karl Rove, the president’s brain, brags of his worship of Machiavelli and will do anything to keep his Texas prince in power.
This history of tularemia suggests it is a long-standing weapon used by fascists, militarists and authoritarians.
Japanese germ warfare research units operating in Manchuria between 1932-45 admit to possessing the tularemia bacteria.
The Sunshine Project reported in May 2003 that the German Ministry of Defense “remains engaged in a controversial biodefense research project involving tularemia bacteria that has been genetically engineered to withstand antibiotic treatment.”
Both the United States and the Soviet Union possessed the military strain Francisella tularensis during the Cold War. Dr. Kenneth Alibek (formerly known as Kanatjan Alibekov) the number two man in the former Soviet Union’s biochemical operations describes in great detail in his book “Biohazard” how the Soviets deployed Francisella tularensis against the Nazis in the Battle of Stalingrad.
In another one of those bizarre coincidences, Ken Alibek was also involved in the U.S. anthrax project run by the nonprofit Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. Considered the DIA’s and the CIA’s favorite nonprofit contractor, Battelle has been involved, according to the New York Times and the Columbus Dispatch, with manufacturing the infamous trillion spores per gram Ames (as in Iowa) silica-impregnated anthrax. Officially, the work is done for “defensive” purposes in order to produce a vaccine.
Battelle was in partnership with BioPort of Lansing, Michigan in officially producing the anthrax vaccine for the United States.
The New York Times reported in 1998 that BioPort’s owners included Admiral William Crowe, Jr., a former chair of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and Ambassador to Britain during the Clinton years. One of Crowe’s partners is the mysterious Fuad El-Hibri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent and a reported business associate of the bin Laden family.
BioPort is partly owned by a top-secret British biowarfare consortium Porton International. Laura Rozen pointed out in a salon.com article that El-Hibri, then BioPort’s CEO, “made a fortune” for Porton International from its monopoly on the anthrax vaccine during the first Gulf War.
The New York Times reported that the CIA ran a top secret anthrax project through Battelle code-named “Clear Vision.” There was also another anthrax project at Battelle’s central Ohio West Jefferson labs called “Project Jefferson.”
Alibek has been listed as both a classified consultant with the CIA and Battelle. A 1998 New Yorker article outlines the joint work of Alibek and William C. Patrick, III. Patrick wrote a report on the potential of sending anthrax through the mail.
Unless federal officials are willing to think the unthinkable, but obvious, and have the tularemia samples independently tested, we’ll never know whether a deliberate attack occurred against peaceful U.S. citizens exercising their First Amendment rights, or some freakish and bizarre coincidence occurred.
In another coincidence, it was the Battelle Memorial Institute that “botched” the exit polls in the 2002 election that would have served as protection against the unexplainable defeat of Senator Max Cleland of Georgia who was up 9-12 points in the tracking polls just prior to Election Day.
The Free Press calls for an independent investigation of the tularemia bacteria found on the mall on September 24, not to be conducted by any federal officials in the Bush administration or Battelle. With Minister Louis Farrakhan calling for a Million More March on Washington for October 14-16, it is more important now than ever.
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Bob Fitrakis is the author of The Fitrakis Files: Spooks, Nukes and Nazis. He is editor of the Free Press and freepress.org. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science and a J.D. The story of the 2004 stolen election in Ohio he co-authored with Harvey Wasserman is listed as number three in Project Censored's most censored stories of the year.

 

www.truthout.org/issues_05/101805HA.shtml

Biological Alarm in Washington
By Mark Benjamin
Salon.com
Tuesday 18 October 2005
Did terrorists attack Washington with a deadly pathogen?

On Sept. 24, 2005, tens of thousands of protesters marched past the White House and flooded the National Mall near 17th Street and Constitution Avenue. They had arrived from all over the country for a day of speeches and concerts to protest the war in Iraq. It may have been the biggest antiwar rally since Vietnam. A light rain fell early in the day and most of the afternoon was cool and overcast.
Unknown to the crowd, biological-weapons sensors, scattered for miles across Washington by the Department of Homeland Security, were quietly doing their work. The machines are designed to detect killer pathogens. Sometime between 10 a.m. on Sept. 24 and 10 a.m. on Sept. 25, six of those machines sucked in trace amounts of deadly bacteria called Francisella tularensis. The government fears it is one of six biological weapons most likely to be used against the United States.

 

www.sunshine-project.org
Many biological weapons are rapidly destroyed by bright sunlight. The Sunshine Project works to bring facts about biological weapons to light!
We are an international non-profit organization with offices in Hamburg, Germany and Austin, Texas, USA. We work against the hostile use of biotechnology in the post-Cold War era. We research and publish to strengthen the global consensus against biological warfare and to ensure that international treaties effectively prevent development and use of biological weapons.


www.namebase.org/sources/hA.html

Alibek, Ken with Handelman, Stephen. Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World -- Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It. New York: Delta (Random House), 2000. 319 pages.

In 1992, Kanatjan Alibekov defected to the U.S. and changed his name to Ken Alibek. He had been a biowarfare scientist in the Soviet Union for seventeen years. Between 1988 and 1992, he was first deputy chief of Biopreparat, the state agency whose primary function was to "develop and produce weapons made from the most dangerous viruses, toxins, and bacteria known to man." U.S. intelligence basically had no idea that this was going on until the Cold War was over. The first revelations came from Vladimir Pasechnik's defection to Britain in 1989 -- but as a civilian scientist, Pasechnik had no direct access to military secrets. Alibek, on the other hand, was an army colonel. He said the Soviets had 52 different biological agents that could be used as weapons. They even had new germs unknown in the West, all tested and battle-hardened, with delivery systems ready to go.
Soviet stockpiles have reportedly been mostly destroyed, but detailed recipes for making these weapons still exist. During the early 1990s there were secret agreements between Russia and the U.S. that allowed inspections of facilities. A few years later the truth about the Soviet program started leaking out in books and articles.
ISBN 0-385-33496-6

 

www.fas.org/bwc/   Chemical & Biological Arms Control

www.gulfwarvets.com/anthrax2.html    toxic anthrax vaccine made by Bioport company

www.datafilter.com/mc/   mind control

 

The Japanese biowar attacks on China during World War II
www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,905664,00.html

 

 

 

www.sunshine-project.org/publications/pr/pr070203.html
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US Plans for Use of Gas in Iraq
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(Austin and Hamburg, 7 February 2003) - Top US military planners are
preparing for the US to use incapacitating biochemical weapons in an
invasion of Iraq. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Gen.
Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, revealed the
plans in February 5th testimony before the US House Armed Services
Committee. This is the first official US acknowledgement that it may
use (bio)chemical weapons its crusade to rid other countries of such
weapons. The Sunshine Project and other nonprofits have warned since
late 2001 that the "War on Terrorism" may result the United States
using prohibited biological and chemical armaments, thereby violating
the same treaties it purports to defend. The US announcement creates
grave concerns for the future of arms control agreements,
particularly the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Rumsfeld stated that plans are being made for multiple applications,
including use of gas or aerosols on unarmed Iraqi civilians, in
caves, and on prisoners. Rumsfeld reiterated the confusing, typical
US official language about so-called "non-lethal" biochemical
weapons, which is at odds with the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Rumsfeld described applications of a "riot control agent" that
clearly imply the complete incapacitation of victims, combatant and
non-combatant, in armed conflict - a definition and usages that are
at odds with the CWC. Rumsfeld acknowledged US ratification of the
CWC but expressed "regret" about its restrictions, stating that the
US has "tangled itself up badly" on policy for use of incapacitating
biochemical weapons. Rumsfeld indicated that - in his opinion - if
President Bush signs a waiver of long-standing restrictions on US use
of incapacitating chemicals, that the US will be able to legally
field them in Iraq and elsewhere.
An audio file of the testimony from February 5th is posted with this
news release at the Sunshine Project website.
The focal points for US development of these weapons are the Joint
Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate in Quantico, Virginia, and the US Army
Soldier Biological Chemical Command, located at Edgewood/Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Maryland. Following their capture in Afghanistan and
elsewhere, the US has used incapacitating chemicals on suspected
terrorists "detainees". In October 2002, Russian Special Forces used
a so-called "non-lethal" incapacitating biochemical weapon when
storming the Palace of Culture Theater in Moscow. It resulted in the
deaths of over 100 hostages and was used to facilitate the
extrajudicial execution of as many as 50 Chechen separatists. Before
the War on Terrorism began, British officials stated that they would
not cooperate with the US military in missions where US troops used
incapacitating chemicals.
The Sunshine Project has established an online clearinghouse of
dozens of documents from the US research program on these weapons,
obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. These are available
at the Project's website.