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To: JustPiper
More on germ bombs:

(eerily published on sept. 10, 2001)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,549172,00.html

Britain ordered germ bombs in cold war

Anthrax and plague bacteria tested for 'biological retaliation'


The government secretly ordered the production of 10,000 biological cluster bombs in the cold war to carry 7,000 disease-carrying bomblets towards Soviet targets, a British researcher has revealed.
The bombs, intended to contain "the most effective biological agent for the incapacitation of workers," were ordered by the government's air staff in 1946 under the project codename Red Admiral. They were due to be ready by 1957, ostensibly as retaliation in the event of a Soviet biological weapon attack on Britain.

Red Admiral was cancelled in 1954, before the bombs had been built, but not before extensive trials of toxins and viruses had been carried out using live animals on the sea off Lewis in the Hebrides, Antigua, and the Bahamas.

Recently de-classified documents unearthed by Brian Balmer, a specialist in science policy at University College London, revealed that for years after the second world war, biological weapons were seen by the defence establishment as potentially equal in destructive power and usefulness to nuclear weapons.

In one report from 1947, military strategists wrote that "botulism toxin dropped into reservoirs and the infection of natural fauna of such areas, eg rats, dogs and cats, with bubonic plague, rabies etc, are all suitable methods of attack".


4,109 posted on 12/28/2003 1:56:42 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: All
adding on to post no. 4109

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047836/posts

"Gadhafi armed al-Qaida with bio-chem weapons"
Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin (by way of WorldNetDaily.com) ^ | December 28, 2003 | Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin


Posted on 12/28/2003 4:07:24 PM PST by Jacob Kell


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi provided al-Qaida with chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction before changing heart and agreeing to destroy his arms program, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin has learned.

Libyan intelligence chief Musa Kussa told U.S. and UK spy agencies that tens of thousands of weapons had been produced at 10 secret sites in the country. Kussa has named hundreds of what he termed "sleeper" al-Qaida agents in Britain and the U.S."
4,131 posted on 12/28/2003 5:31:00 PM PST by Cindy
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To: FairOpinion
In one report from 1947, military strategists wrote that "botulism toxin dropped into reservoirs and the infection of natural fauna of such areas, eg rats, dogs and cats, with bubonic plague, rabies etc, are all suitable methods of attack".

The date of this article and this paragraph are chilling. Our government is 'so' certain we will be attacked by chem/bio, its as if they 'know' we will. Many said here when we had the string of 'viri' on many of the Cruise ships back in 2001-2002?, that it was a 'test run' for using ships to disperse bio/chem and now you find all this info on germ bombs and its being bandied around as the new catch phrase today.

4,176 posted on 12/28/2003 10:49:59 PM PST by JustPiper (Bush+Ridge=TagTeam for Amnesty! Write-In Tom Tancredo in March!!!)
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