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December 3, 2007 at 22:16:27
Pentagon Appears Poised To Resume Open-Air Testing of Biological Weapons by Sherwood Ross Page 1 of 2 page(s) |
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The Pentagon has denied President Bush issued a directive for it to resume open-air testing of chemical and biological warfare(CBW) agents that were halted by President Richard Nixon in 1969. Yet, the Pentagon’s stated preparations make it appear it is poised to do just that. Spokesperson Chris Isleib did not respond to a request for comment on a passage from the Defense Department’s annual report sent to Congress last April that suggests the Pentagon is gearing up to resume the tests. Resumption of open-air testing would reverse a long-standing moratorium adopted after a public outcry against them following accidents in the Sixties. The Pentagon’s annual report apparently calls for both the developmental and operational “field testing of (CBW) full systems,” not just simulations. 
The Pentagon’s report to Congress contains the following passage: “More than thirty years have passed since outdoor live-agent chemical tests were banned in the United States, and the last outdoor test with live chemical agent was performed, so much of the infrastructure for the field testing of chemical detectors no longer exists or is seriously outdated. The currently budgeted improvements in the T&E infrastructure will greatly enhance both the developmental and operational field testing of full systems, with better simulated representation of threats and characterization of system response.” “T&E” is an acronym for testing and evaluation.
“Either the military has resumed open-air testing already or they are preparing to do so,” said Francis Boyle, a University of Illinois Professor of International Law who authored the implementing legislation for the U.S. Biological Weapons Convention signed into law by President George Bush Sr. and who has tracked subsequent developments closely.
“I am stunned by the nature of this development,” Boyle said. “This is a major reversal of policy.” The 1972 treaty against germ warfare, which the U.S. signed, forbids developing weapons that spread disease, such as anthrax, a pathogen that is regarded by the military as “ideal” for conducting germ warfare.
“The Pentagon is fully prepared to launch biological warfare by means of anthrax,” Boyle charged. “All the equipment has been acquired and all the training conducted and most combat-ready members of U.S. armed forces have been given protective equipment and vaccines that allegedly would protect them from that agent.”
Open-air testing takes research into deadly agents out of the laboratories in order to study their effectiveness, including their aerial dispersion patterns, and whether they actually infect and kill in field trials.
Since the anthrax attacks on Congress in October, 2001, the Bush administration has funded a vast biological research expansion at hundreds of private and university laboratories in the U.S. and abroad involving anthrax and other deadly pathogens. The anthrax attacks killed five people, including two postal workers, injured 17 others and temporarily shut down the operations of the U.S. Congress, Supreme Court, and other Federal entities.
Although a Federal statute permits the president to authorize open-air testing of CBW agents, Boyle said this “does not solve the compliance problem that it might violate the international Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention as well as their related domestic implementing legislation making such violations crimes.”
Boyle charged the U.S. is already “in breach” of both conventions and also of U.S. domestic criminal law implementing them. In February, 2003, for example, the U.S. granted itself a patent on an illegal, long-range biological-weapons grenade, evidently for offensive purposes.
Boyle said the development of anthrax for possible offensive purposes is underscored by the government’s efforts “to try to stockpile anthrax vaccines and antibiotics for 25-million plus Americans to protect the civilian population in the event there is any ‘blowback’ from the use of anthrax in biowarfare abroad by the Pentagon.”
“In theory,” Boyle added, “you cannot wage biowarfare abroad unless you can protect your civilian population from either retaliation in kind, or blowback, or both.” Under Project BioShield, Homeland Security is spending $5.6 billion to stockpile vaccines and drugs to fight anthrax, smallpox, and other bioterror agents. The project had been marked by delays and operational problems and on December 12th last year Congress passed legislation to pump another $1 billion into BioShield to fund three years of additional research by the private sector.
Boyle said evidence the U.S. has super-weapons-grade anthrax was demonstrated in the October, 2001, anthrax mail attacks on Senators Thomas Daschle(D-S.D.) and Patrick Leahy(D-Vt.) The strain of highly sophisticated anthrax employed has allegedly been traced back to the primary U.S. Army biological warfare campus at Ft. Detrick, Md.
The attacks killed five persons and sickened 17 others.
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Dr. Francis Boyle, PNAC and race-selective biowarfare
"“Obviously, someone working for the United States government has a stockpile of super-weapons grade anthrax that can be used again domestically for the purposes of political terrorism or abroad to wage offensive warfare,” Boyle said." Dr. Francis Boyle has a JD and a PhD from Harvard, and has published 10 books; if he's a kook, he's an extremely intelligent and accomplished one. http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html#Boyle Article 12/13/06: "The real culprits behind the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress were most likely US government scientists at the army's Ft. Detrick, MD., bioterrorism lab according to a former government biological weapons legislator and University of Illinois Professor. Dr. Francis A. Boyle says the FBI covered up these facts and has also quite clearly stated that he doubts the official government story that 19 arabs with boxcutters perpetrated the attacks of 9/11. "I believe the FBI knows exactly who was behind these terrorist anthrax attacks upon the United States Congress in the Fall of 2001, and that the culprits were US government-related scientists involved in a criminal US government bio-warfare program," Boyle says in his new book Biowarfare and Terrorism. Boyle goes on to inquire, "Could the real culprits behind the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, and the immediately following terrorist anthrax attacks upon Congress ultimately prove to be the same people? Could it truly be coincidental that two of the primary intended victims of the terrorist anthrax attacks - Senators Daschle and Leahy - were holding up the speedy passage of the pre-planned USA Patriot Act ... an act which provided the federal government with unprecedented powers in relation to US citizens and institutions?" http://infowars.net PNAC- Rebuilding America's Defenses http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf The Bush Administration is loaded with PNAC members. On pg 51 of "Rebuilding America's Defenses", they say about their dream of a world dominated by US military power, "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor" On pg 63 they say "Information systems will become an important focus of attack, particularly for U.S. enemies seeking to short-circuit sophisticated American forces. And advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool." The context here is that we need to defend against race-selective biowarfare, meaning we need to research how to do it- but terrorist organizations don't have the resources to do this, and as Susan Wright analyzes (below), there is not much evidence this is a real threat. The US does have the resources, and is putting billions of dollars into researching bioweapons, including for offensive purposes. Does anyone trust these neocon nutjobs to tell the truth, and to obey US laws and the Constitution- after all the lies they've told about 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Katrina and Iran? Taking BioDefense Too Far by Susan Wright http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/p3464422k6j454jq/fulltext.pdf Impeach now! by Better World Order (4 articles, 568 quicklinks, 39 diaries, 1111 comments [56 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Dec 4, 2007 at 10:49:04 AM  (0+)
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There already IS an OPEN-AIR program -- LOOK UP!
What is THIS THEN?! Does ANYONE want to comment on the OPEN-AIR PROGRAM of SPRAYING CHEMTRAILS ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY? Internationally?!!! You Pilots up there, commercial or military -- what's up? 'Cause it is raining down on YOUR families, too! How about you military guys who load the stuff? How about you military guys who transport the stuff? How about anyone associated with the manufacturers telling us what they're spraying above our heads? Those who LOOK UP see it almost daily, even on weekends! Anyone? Anyone at all want to blow a whistle? THIS IS OPEN AIR TESTING, AND IT COULD VERY WELL BE CONTAINING BIOLOGICALS. It's a freaking secret program that no one wants to acknowledge, and most people seem to not even notice. It's right in front of their eyes for goodness sake! People ARE getting sick. Weather patterns ARE being manipulated. This story is just starting to get some ink and attention. Let's hear more about it?! Words & Actions are sure to make a U-Turn by boomerang (0 articles, 7 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 556 comments [215 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Dec 4, 2007 at 5:33:41 PM (0+)
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Biological Weapons Testing
Very interesting. Take a look at this info I recently came across. Mycoplasma Experiments Conducted at the Texas Department of Corrections "The beginning of the story concerns my search for answers for my son's illness ...It was in January of 1998 when I met a woman... A friend of mine introduced me to her through the Huntsville Item newspaper articles from 1994. It seemed that there was a Huntsville Mystery Illness in our area. by Angry Peasant (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 25 comments) on Thursday, Dec 6, 2007 at 9:15:30 AM (0+)
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Reply: Link to above
http://www.garynull.com/Documents/Arthritis/Mycoplasma_Experiments.htm And here: Los Alamos National Laboratory postponed release of aerosolized Bacillus globigii spores My name is Candace Brown and I want to voice my objection to the planned release of aerosolized Bacillus globigii spores at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The release is intended to study the effectiveness of the bio-warfare detectors. However, if the Bacillus globigii spores are aerosolized and released in the atmosphere it will then become an unauthorized human experimentation upon the citizens of New Mexico. These citizens have not consented to partake in a Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and Los Alamos National Laboratory experiment. http://www.gulfwarvets.com/candace.htm And here: by Angry Peasant (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 25 comments) on Thursday, Dec 6, 2007 at 9:18:02 AM (0+)
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