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20024
- In 2002, Alibek told United Press International that there is concern that monkeypox could be engineered into a biological weapon. (wikipedia.org)
- General Sada and others have described the contents of the summer 2002 airlift to have been drums-some yellow-with labels on them suggesting that they were filled with chemical weapon pre-cursors, and this is consistent with the binary nerve agents that Saddam had developed where two chemicals would be combined to make a WMD just prior to its use (sometimes even combined in the warhead immediately prior to employment). (floppingaces.net)
- One of the few things that UNMOVIC did find before the invasion was that Iraq had modified some missiles to be wider so as to fit SCUD missile warheads (something that had been explicitly forbidden but carried out anyway sometime between 2000 and 2002). (floppingaces.net)
- This would be incredibly easy to destroy without a trace if dumped over side of a Russian ship in the middle of the Indian Ocean, and if there was weaponized anthrax, it would have been small enough to fit in a few suitcases and flown out on a normal civilian airliner identical to those used in the summer 2002 airlift. (floppingaces.net)
Spores9
- Voz Island, as it's known, was the primary testing ground for the Soviet Union's biological weapons program, and as such was a burial site for the stuff of our post-Sept. 11 nightmares, the garbage dump from hell: live anthrax spores, smallpox, you name it. (cnn.com)
- Anthrax is one of only a few bacteria that can form long lived spores . (wikidoc.org)
- When breathing , ingesting or getting anthrax spores in a cut in the skin , these spores reactivate themselves and multiply in their new host very rapidly. (wikidoc.org)
- The anthrax spores in the soil are very tough, can live many decades and are known to occur on all continents except Antarctica. (wikidoc.org)
- Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic grass eating mammals (ruminants) who ingest or breathe in the spores while eating grass. (wikidoc.org)
- Anthrax can also infect humans when they are exposed to dead infected animals, eat tissue from infected animals, or are exposed to a high density of anthrax spores from an animal's fur, hide, or wool. (wikidoc.org)
- Anthrax spores can be grown outside the body and used as a biological weapon. (wikidoc.org)
- but anthrax spores can be transported by human clothing, shoes, among others. (wikidoc.org)
- If a person dies of anthrax their body can be a very dangerous source of anthrax spores . (wikidoc.org)
Warfare17
- born 1950), known as Kenneth "Ken" Alibek since 1992, is a Kazakh-American microbiologist, bioweaponeer, and biological warfare administrative management expert. (wikipedia.org)
- He rose through the ranks of the Soviet Army to become the first deputy director of Biopreparat with a rank of Colonel, during which time he claimed to oversee a vast program of 40 biological warfare facilities with 32,000 employees. (wikipedia.org)
- The potential spectrum of bioterrorism ranges from hoaxes and actual use of agents by individuals or groups against others, to state-sponsored terrorism that employs biological warfare (BW) agents and delivery systems that can produce mass casualties. (medscape.com)
- Before the 20th century, biological warfare took three main forms: (1) deliberate poisoning of food and water with infectious or toxic material, (2) use of microorganisms or toxins in some form of weapon system, and (3) use of biologically inoculated fabrics. (medscape.com)
- Biological warfare became more sophisticated against both animals and humans during the 20th century. (medscape.com)
- During World War II, the Japanese operated a secret biological warfare research facility in Manchuria and carried out human experiments on Chinese prisoners. (medscape.com)
- CounterPunch commented a month later on geographic connections that bore directly on the case: "The South African media [have] been abuzz with details of that nation's former biological warfare program and its links to the CIA. (blogspot.com)
- This research brief outlines assistance that RAND provided to the OSAGWI in investigating the health effects of eight areas of possible causes of illness: infectious diseases, pyridostigmine bromide, immunizations, wartime stress, chemical and biological warfare agents, oil well fires, depleted uranium, and pesticides. (rand.org)
- This research brief outlines RAND's investigations into the health effects of infectious diseases, pyridostigmine bromide (PB), immunizations, wartime stress, chemical warfare and biological warfare (CW/BW) agents, oil well fires, depleted uranium (DU), and pesticides. (rand.org)
- This past April, under a program funded by the U.S. government and intended to secure the vast amounts of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons in the former Soviet Union, teams from the U.S. and Uzbekistan spent four weeks ridding Voz Island, once and forever, of the raw material for what the military blandly calls asymmetric warfare. (cnn.com)
- The widespread dissemination of depleted uranium by American warfare -- from Serbia to Afghanistan to Iraq -- should be an international scandal and crisis, like AIDS, and would be in a world not so intimidated by the United States. (rastafarispeaks.com)
- The use of bees as guided biological weapons was described in Byzantine written sources, such as Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise in the chapter On Naval Warfare. (wikipedia.org)
- Dembek, Zygmunt (editor), Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare Diarsipkan 2012-08-27 di Wayback Machine . (wikipedia.org)
- Endicott, Stephen and Edward Hagerman, The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea, Indiana University Press (1998). (wikipedia.org)
- Mayor, Adrienne, Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World. (wikipedia.org)
- Among them, in November 1946, was Kurt Blome, deputy health minister of the Reich, who had directed the Nazi biological warfare programme and overseen experiments on prisoners. (drb.ie)
- There scientists reported that the slides "greatly supplemented and amplified" American research into biological warfare. (drb.ie)
Mass destruction15
- The purpose of that resolution was to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. (archives.gov)
- POWELL: My second purpose today is to provide you with additional information, to share with you what the United States knows about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as well as Iraq's involvement in terrorism, which is also the subject of Resolution 1441 and other earlier resolutions. (archives.gov)
- Indeed, the facts and Iraq's behavior show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction. (archives.gov)
- This was the statement given by UK Prime Minster Tony Blair to Parliament on the threat posed by Iraq and its weapons on mass destruction. (powys.org.uk)
- Mr Speaker, thank you for recalling Parliament to debate the best way to deal with the issue of the present leadership of Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. (powys.org.uk)
- And finally (and most important) is our ability to deter and if necessary respond to a weapons-of-mass-destruction, or WMD, attack. (cnn.com)
- Some promoted the myth that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. (mltoday.com)
- How much, if any, is left of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and related proscribed items and programs? (al-bab.com)
- The United States has made clear for many years that it reserves the right to respond with overwhelming force to the use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, our people, our forces, and our friends and allies," he said. (blogspot.com)
- Today we also make clear that the United States will hold any state, terrorist group, or other non-state actor or individual fully accountable for supporting or enabling terrorist efforts to obtain or use weapons of mass destruction -- whether by facilitating, financing, or providing expertise or safe haven for such efforts," he said. (blogspot.com)
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- Nobody likes the idea of Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missiles capable of delivering their lethal warheads. (cro.net)
- Although Iraq has been subjected to an unprecedented regimen of UN inspection and destruction of strategic military programs since the end of the Gulf War in the Spring of 1991, the international community has proven incapable of learning the entire scope of the Iraqi programs for fielding weapons of mass destruction, let alone eliminate these programs as mandated by the Security Council. (cro.net)
- Rumsfeld and the Bush gang went to war over weapons of mass destruction that Hussein turned out not to have. (humorgazette.com)
- Nor should the fact that the UN is taking over the role of dealing with Iraq's so-called "weapons of mass destruction" be seen as a "lesser of two evils", let alone a reassuring development. (union-communiste.org)
Outbreak2
- The Sverdlovsk anthrax outbreak of scale. (cdc.gov)
- The West Nile Virus outbreak of 1999 made 67 people in New York City ill, and brought with it endemic anxiety. (blogspot.com)
Toxin Weapons Convention1
- VEREX: Created in September 1991 during the Third Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), VEREX was tasked with identifying measures that could be used to determine whether a state party to the BTWC is 'developing, producing, stockpiling, acquiring, or retaining' biological weapons (BW). (nti.org)
Antimicrobial1
Bacillus3
- Anthrax ( Greek Άνθραξ for coal ) is an acute infectious disease in humans and animals that is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis and is highly lethal in some forms. (wikidoc.org)
- Anthrax , caused by Bacillus anthracis , is thought to have originated in Egypt around 1250 BC. (wikidoc.org)
- Anthrax is a zoonotic infection caused by Bacillus anthracis. (medscape.com)
Causative2
- The German-American physician Anton Dilger established a secret biological laboratory in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with the intent to grow the causative agents of anthrax and glanders. (medscape.com)
- The causative agent of anthrax is B. anthracis , a nonmotile , Gram-positive , aerobic or facultatively anaerobic , endospore -forming, rod -shaped bacterium . (wikidoc.org)
Security Council8
- If the Security Council fails to do the right thing, then Bush should lead a coalition of willing allies to disarm Iraq by force without a new resolution. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- The Clinton administration chose to use military force in Bosnia in 1995 and in Kosovo in 1999 without obtaining a specific resolution from the Security Council. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- This is important day for us all as we review the situation with respect to Iraq and its disarmament obligations under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441. (archives.gov)
- Mr President, in my earlier briefings, I have noted that significant outstanding issues of substance were listed in two Security Council documents from early 1999 and should be well known to Iraq. (al-bab.com)
- Consider that it took eight weeks for the Security Council to agree on a resolution requiring Iraq to comply with existing resolutions, and that happened only after President Bush threw down the gauntlet: "Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding," he intoned, "or will it be irrelevant? (alanwdowd.com)
- Besides, the draft resolution that Bush and Blair plan to put to the UN Security Council has been designed to be unacceptable for Iraq. (union-communiste.org)
- Not only does it set stringent deadlines for Iraq to comply with any requests the arms inspectors may have, but it also gives the US (as any other member state of the Security Council) the right to direct all the activities of the weapons inspectors, including to take individuals out of Iraq "for questioning. (union-communiste.org)
- Two examples of this are the 1999 US National Intelligence Estimate on the global threat of infectious disease to the United States, and the January 2000 meeting of the UN Security Council on HIV/AIDS. (aber.ac.uk)
Inspectors10
- And to assist in its disarmament, we called on Iraq to cooperate with returning inspectors from UNMOVIC and IAEA. (archives.gov)
- We laid down tough standards for Iraq to meet to allow the inspectors to do their job. (archives.gov)
- POWELL: This council placed the burden on Iraq to comply and disarm and not on the inspectors to find that which Iraq has gone out of its way to conceal for so long. (archives.gov)
- In addition, it is fact, documented by UN inspectors, that Iraq almost immediately began to obstruct the inspections. (powys.org.uk)
- special sites, shut to the inspectors, were unilaterally designated by Iraq. (powys.org.uk)
- Because of concerns that a containment policy based on sanctions alone could not sufficiently inhibit Saddam's weapons programme, negotiations continued after 1998 to gain re-admission for the UN inspectors. (powys.org.uk)
- It was there to explain how South Africa gained the confidence of the world in its dismantling of the nuclear weapons program by a wholehearted cooperation over two years with IAEA inspectors. (al-bab.com)
- Although I can understand that it may not be easy for Iraq in all cases to provide the evidence needed, it is not the task of the inspectors to find it. (al-bab.com)
- So for five months, the UN inspectors haplessly asked Saddam to account for his known caches of "special weapons," which included 10,000 liters of anthrax, 80 tons of mustard gas, thousands of mustard bombs, and uncounted amounts of sarin and VX nerve agent. (alanwdowd.com)
- It provides, for instance, for the setting up of "no-drive" zones for Iraqi forces, in addition to the existing "no-fly" zones, which already include 2/3 of the Iraqi territory and for army units to go into Iraq with the inspectors. (union-communiste.org)
Cutaneous1
- The word anthrax is the Greek word for coal , the germ's name is derived from anthrakitis , the Greek word for anthracite , in reference to the black skin lesions victims develop in a cutaneous skin infection . (wikidoc.org)
Iraq's2
- The previous U.N. inspection process failed to uproot Iraq's prohibited weapons programs in seven years of inspections between 1991 and 1998. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- Even a bit of pro-Rumsfeld propaganda says, 'Mr. Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein did not have time to address Iraq's use of chemical weapons, but instead discussed the (oil) pipeline project and other mutual interests. (humorgazette.com)
Threat3
- The Containment of Iraq, Perception of Threat. (lu.se)
- After the war, the Iraq Survey Group scoured the country looking to answer the Unresolved Disarmament Issues and to assess the threat of WMD posed by Saddam's regime. (floppingaces.net)
- The threat of war against Iraq still stands and the content of the policy advocated by Washington and London remains the same. (union-communiste.org)
Sanctions8
- The case of international sanctions enacted against Iraq between the years 1990 and 2003 will be the focal point of this analysis where the difficulties of implementing sanctions against an autocrat will be highlighted. (lu.se)
- The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the start of the Second Gulf War induced a stream of various countermeasures against Iraq, one of the principal being different forms of economic sanctions. (lu.se)
- The sanctions against Iraq and Iran resulted in a balancing act between the two targeted states where the U.S.,A. has endeavored to perpetuate an inherent unstable regional balance. (lu.se)
- The reasoning behind the implementation of sanctions preservation of status quo as well as the disparity between intended and actual effects of the sanctions against Iraq will be the central elements of analysis in this thesis. (lu.se)
- He presided over a ruthless regime of economic sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and under the guise of the so-called No-Fly Zones in northern and southern Iraq, authorized the longest sustained U.S. bombing campaign since Vietnam. (mltoday.com)
- When Washington tried to lift UN sanctions against Iraq after the war, Paris and Moscow balked, cynically arguing that the only way sanctions could be lifted was if Hans Blix confirmed the destruction of all prohibited weapons. (alanwdowd.com)
- Recall that Paris began a concerted push to end UN sanctions on Iraq in January 1999, characterizing them as cruel to the Iraqi people. (alanwdowd.com)
- This chapter discusses the changing context of US policy toward Iraq, followed by a consideration under international law of sanctions and war threats, concluding with a criticism of the approach taken by the United States and by the United Nations over this period of more than a decade. (ratical.org)
Liters1
- Thus, by late 1997, the Iraqis were capable of transferring a few thousand liters of biological materials to new concealed sites within two or three weeks without supervision. (cro.net)
Iraqi6
- On Wednesday, the Star reminded readers that Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army killed 5,000 Kurds in a 1988 chemical weapons attack on Halabja near the end of a bloody, eight-year war with Iran. (sott.net)
- The BND thus concluded that it was "difficult to assess" the magnitude of the current Iraqi weapons program. (cro.net)
- Moreover, during 1997, Iraqi military units conducted several simulated deployments and launching of ballistic missiles of the type and range Iraq is not permitted to have. (cro.net)
- While Donald Rumsfeld was in Baghdad in 1984 to grease Saddam Hussein for oil, the Iraqi madman was whacking Iranian soldiers with chemical weapons. (humorgazette.com)
- But what is beyond doubt is that American policy toward Iraq since the ceasefire in 1991 that ended the Gulf War has violated the most basic precepts of international law, including the UN Charter , and the fundamental economic and social rights of the Iraqi people. (ratical.org)
- This is why those who are calling for the UN to take control over the Iraq issue, are at best deluding themselves that this may contain Bush's war mongering, and at worst seeking to cover up yet another full-scale attack against the Iraqi population. (union-communiste.org)
20001
- Abolition 2000: Founded in 1995 during the NPT Review and Extension Conference, Abolition 2000 is an international non-governmental global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons within a time-bound framework. (nti.org)
Lethal2
- Laurie Mylroie explained to CNN, "it takes a highly sophisticated agency to produce anthrax in the lethal form. (blogspot.com)
- Despite Baghdad's protestations, Iraq does have a small but very lethal operational arsenal of WMD and platforms capable of delivering them throughout the Middle East and even beyond. (cro.net)
20011
- At least one of the anthrax mailings came from overseas (from the text below: "In November 2001, the CDC's web site in Atlanta confirmed that a tainted letter had been sent from Switzerland to Chile , so neither of the key suspects could have possibly acted alone. (blogspot.com)
Nerve gas1
- Iraq is suspected of retaining huge stocks of anthrax, nerve gas, and other chemical and biological poisons, as well as a clandestine nuclear-weapons program. (capitalismmagazine.com)
Saddam's7
- At the end of the Gulf War, the full extent of Saddam's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programmes became clear. (powys.org.uk)
- The difference between the two-that is to say the Remaining Unresolved Disarmament Issues listed in the Duelfer Report -seems the most likely description of what was removed from Saddam's Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion. (floppingaces.net)
- Before examining this likely list of removed items, it's helpful to understand and discuss the benefits of the three different modes of transport used to remove "special weapons" and "sensitive materials" from Saddam's Regime. (floppingaces.net)
- Curious about those contradictory reports, and prodded by Star reader Bill Hynes, the ombud decided to examine how this paper covered the Halabja story 15 years ago, when Washington was tilting toward Saddam's side in the Iran-Iraq war. (sott.net)
- Faced with certain vetoes from France and Russia, a US-led coalition ousted Saddam's regime without the UN's explicit authorization, began the reconstruction of Iraq without the UN's help, and somewhere along the road to Baghdad laid to rest the notion that the UN could serve a useful purpose in the 21st century. (alanwdowd.com)
- Hence, Chirac could condemn the US-led attack on Saddam's regime because it was "undertaken without the approval of the United Nations…which is the only legitimate framework for building peace in Iraq. (alanwdowd.com)
- Somehow those humanitarian concerns lost their urgency when France's commercial ties to Iraq evaporated along with Saddam's regime. (alanwdowd.com)
Vaccine4
- tions for anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA) (CDC. (cdc.gov)
- reflect the status of anthrax vaccine supplies in the United States. (cdc.gov)
- In 1881, Louis Pasteur worked to create a vaccine for anthrax , which he was able to test with success in animals. (wikidoc.org)
- The first commercial vaccine to prevent anthrax in humans was created in 1950s. (wikidoc.org)
Afghanistan6
- We must stand with the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and other nations in the region fighting against al Qaeda and other extremists . (blogspot.com)
- Another surveillance drone deployed both in Iraq and Afghanistan, the ScanEagle manufactured by Boeing subsidiary Insitu , is plagued by similar problems. (blogspot.com)
- America's decades-long debacle in the Middle East-from the invasion, occupation and eventual choatic retreat from Afghanistan to the illegal invasion of Iraq and the rise of ISIS to the regime change operations in Libya and Syria-had been portrayed as a 'failure' of military planning. (substack.com)
- Ahmadi's death was cast as a 'tragic mistake' for which no one was to blame, just as America's decades-long debacle in the Middle East-from the invasion, occupation and eventual choatic retreat from Afghanistan to the illegal invasion of Iraq and the rise of ISIS to the regime change operations in Libya and Syria-had been a 'failure' of military planning. (substack.com)
- The scale of suffering caused by this single illness is immense and the number of deaths dwarves that of more traditional security crises such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan, or the War on Terror. (aber.ac.uk)
- The report, produced by a regional IG office established last year to keep closer watch on expenditures in Iraq and Afghanistan, says the State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security had been "highly effective in ensuring the safety" of diplomatic personnel in Iraq. (afio.com)
Terrorism4
- Terrorism Agents used to determine the biological included for final prioritization agents for public health preparedness because of the inability to predict the As part of a Congressional initia- activities. (cdc.gov)
- Identifying these priority nature of these agents and thus iden- tive begun in 1999 to upgrade national agents will help facilitate coordinated tify specific preparedness activities for public health capabilities for response planning efforts among federal agen- public health and medical response to to acts of biological terrorism, the cies, state and local emergency them. (cdc.gov)
- Given its long record of using terrorism against its own people as well as its neighbors, the United States can't afford to allow it to obtain the world's most dangerous weapons - particularly a nuclear bomb, which would be the ultimate terrorist weapon. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- Of course, to be shocked by what 'we' do is dangerous, because this can lead to a wider understanding of why 'we' are there in the first place and of the grief 'we' bring not only to Iraq, but to so many parts of the world: that the terrorism of al-Qaeda is puny by comparison with ours. (antiwar.com)
World's2
- To allow the world's leading sponsor of terror to gain the world's deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations. (blogspot.com)
- And the odds are, that if tomorrow the US embarks on a military venture against Iraq, the world's minor powers will play along with it, just as Blair pledges to do and mostly for the same reasons - in order to get some crumbs out of the loot for their own companies once the dust of war has finally settled. (union-communiste.org)
Attacks3
- They also developed a plague biological weapon by breeding fleas fed on plague-infected rats, and releasing millions of fleas in aerial attacks on Chinese cities. (medscape.com)
- The U.S. national civilian vulnerability to the deliberate use of biological and chemical agents has been highlighted by recognition of substantial biological weapons development programs and arsenals in foreign countries, attempts to acquire or possess biological agents by militants, and high-profile terrorist attacks. (cdc.gov)
- It has been a year since Sept. 11, and ten months since the death of the last victim of the subsequent, and still unsolved, anthrax attacks. (cnn.com)
Diagnosis1
- If the Pentagon had been much more forthcoming from the outset about what it knew all along about these various substances and weapons, the soldiers might have had a proper diagnosis early on and received appropriate care sooner. (rastafarispeaks.com)
Abruptly1
- InhalationaI anthrax begins abruptly, usually 1-3 days (range, 1-60 days) after exposure, and follows a biphasic course. (medscape.com)
30,0002
- But Iraq has failed to account for roughly 30,000 of such warheads. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- and over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents. (powys.org.uk)
Overseen1
- Alibek's academic performance while studying military medicine at the Tomsk Medical Institute and his family's noted patriotism led to his selection to work for Biopreparat, the secret biological weapons program overseen by the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers. (wikipedia.org)
Biohazard1
- Laboratory personnel must take level II biohazard precautions to avoid contracting anthrax from specimens. (medscape.com)
Disarm3
- If Iraq refuses to comply, the way will be cleared for the United States to disarm Iraq through war. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- France cynically sees inspections not as a way to disarm Iraq, but to disarm the United States. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- As a result, the UN passed a series of resolutions demanding Iraq disarm itself of such weapons and establishing a regime of weapons inspection and monitoring to do the task. (powys.org.uk)
Substantial1
- Biological weapons are often characterized by low visibility, high potency, substantial accessibility, and relatively easy delivery. (medscape.com)
UNMOVIC3
- The early 2003 truckloads were more vulnerable to American intelligence (as is clearly shown by the across-the-board detection of their movement by multiple sources-even the Iraq Survey Group and UNMOVIC), and so the most important and sensitive items would have been moved by a different method given the opportunity. (floppingaces.net)
- Let me begin today's briefing with a short account of the work being performed by UNMOVIC in Iraq. (al-bab.com)
- So far, UNMOVIC has not found any such weapons, only a small number of empty chemical munitions which should have been declared and destroyed. (al-bab.com)
Agents11
- The use of biological agents is not a new concept, and history is replete with examples of biological weapons use. (medscape.com)
- This was the first multilateral agreement that extended prohibition of chemical agents to biological agents. (medscape.com)
- MMWR Morb Mor- biological agents towards which the various agents to civilian populations. (cdc.gov)
- Interim guidelines for investigation of several biological agents as potential nostic needs. (cdc.gov)
- Black operations projects embedded within these aerosol missions are documented to sicken and disorient select populations with biological test agents and psychotronic mind/mood control technologies. (feedreader.com)
- Black operations projects embedded within these aerosol missions are documented to sicken and disorient select populations with biological test agents and psychotronic mind/mood control technologies.Part of what is happening in the atmosphere above us involves the Pentagon's secret space weapons program, designed for strategic, operational and tactical levels of war. (fromthetrenchesworldreport.com)
- Exposure to harmful chemical or biological agents was suspected, but the Pentagon denied that this had occurred. (rastafarispeaks.com)
- In its final report of September 24, 1993, VEREX described and analyzed 21 such measures, including but not limited to declarations of biological agents, on-site inspections, and multilateral information sharing. (nti.org)
- Because aerosols are a means for delivering chemical and biological agents, they can play an important role in weaponizing these substances. (nti.org)
- He was even getting poisonous chemicals and biological agents from U.S. companies, according to this 'Rotten' Rumsfeld bio . (humorgazette.com)
- As a result of the openings created by Rumsfeld's (1983-84) diplomatic triumphs, U.S. companies were recruited and encouraged, both covertly and overtly, to ship poisonous chemicals and biological agents to Iraq, by the administrations of both Reagan and George Bush Sr. Care packages to Saddam included sample strains of anthrax and bubonic plague, and components which would be used to develop nerve poisons like sarin gas and ricin. (humorgazette.com)
Antiquity2
- Attempts to use biological weapons date back to antiquity. (medscape.com)
- There are numerous other instances of the use of plant toxins, venoms, and other poisonous substances to create biological weapons in antiquity. (wikipedia.org)
Convention3
- Such weapons are outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) to which the United States is a party. (balloon-juice.com)
- If on the other hand the toxic properties of white phosphorus, the caustic properties, are specifically intended to be used as a weapon, that of course is prohibited, because the way the Convention is structured or the way it is in fact applied, any chemicals used against humans or animals that cause harm or death through the toxic properties of the chemical are considered chemical weapons. (balloon-juice.com)
- For that, a Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Biological and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction was created and later ratified in April of 1972, with more than 100 nations signing it, including Iraq, the United States, and the Soviet Union. (wikidoc.org)
Blix2
- Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, has ordered Iraq to begin destroying its prohibited Samoud 2 missiles. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- As Dr. Blix reported to this council on January 27th, quote, ``Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament which was demanded of it,'' unquote. (archives.gov)
Missiles7
- But even if Iraq bows to U.S. military pressure and destroys the missiles, the underlying problem will remain unresolved. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- Iraq had also been caught by the UN illegally making castings that would make rocket engines for illegal missiles. (floppingaces.net)
- Iraq was also caught making parts for SCUD missiles, and fuel that could only be used for SCUD missiles. (floppingaces.net)
- While no SCUD missiles were found, it seems very likely that these large weapons might have actually been made and either moved by ship or military transport. (floppingaces.net)
- I referred, as examples, to the issues of anthrax, the nerve agent VX, and long-range missiles, and said that such issues-and I quote myself-"deserve to be taken seriously by Iraq rather than being brushed aside," unquote. (al-bab.com)
- In January 1996, the assessment of the Israeli Military Intelligence was that within the next four years, Iraq would have ten SCUD launchers and some 150 SCUD-type missiles. (cro.net)
- Is it the long deferred payback to Israel for staying on the sidelines during the Gulf War, despite the Scud missiles being fired from Iraq? (ratical.org)
Civilians3
- The only way to use it inappropriately would be to use it on civilians, and then it STILL WOULD NOT BE A CHEMICAL WEAPON. (balloon-juice.com)
- It would be a conventional weapon used on civilians, which is bad, but no worse than lining civilians up against a wall and machine-gunning them to death. (balloon-juice.com)
- Blinken suggests that it could be, for example, a terrorist attack in Russia itself, a staged drone strike against civilians, or a staged - or even actual - sabotage using chemical weapons. (thesaker.is)
Fissile material2
- If Iraq can obtain the necessary fissile material, it could build a nuclear weapon within a year. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- A U.S. initiative to outlaw nuclear weapons and to internationalize global stocks of fissile material for use in peaceful nuclear programs which became know as the Baruch Plan. (nti.org)
Threats3
- Select Agent Rule list, 2) the Austra- related anthrax and interim guidelines for threats. (cdc.gov)
- Iraq currently faces dire threats of invasion and attack that are openly discussed by American political leaders, with alternative plans for the military operation openly debated in mainstream media. (ratical.org)
- 61 - Against Western war threats and scaremongering - Hands off Irak! (union-communiste.org)
Countermeasures1
- Active defenses use weapon systems or countermeasures to defend against an attack. (nti.org)
Comply3
- France has proposed to expand the U.N. inspection force and give Iraq more time to comply with its disarmament obligations. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- No council member present in voting on that day had any allusions about the nature and intent of the resolution or what serious consequences meant if Iraq did not comply. (archives.gov)
- In the current situation, one would expect Iraq to be eager to comply. (al-bab.com)
Prohibition1
- The CWC is monitored by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague. (balloon-juice.com)
Nuclear weapon4
- We cannot allow the Iranian regime to use negotiations to stall for time, hedge its bets and keep open an indigenous route to a nuclear weapon ," said US national security adviser Stephen Hadley. (blogspot.com)
- For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon . (blogspot.com)
- The Treaty on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone, also known as the Treaty of Pelindaba , was opened for signature in Cairo in April 1996. (nti.org)
- For additional information, see the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Treaty . (nti.org)
Invasion2
- Those costs, however, will be dwarfed in the event of a US-led invasion of Iraq. (socialistparty.org.uk)
- While the verdict is still out on a few people, many members of his inner foreign policy circle - including some who have received or are bound to receive Cabinet posts - supported the invasion and occupation of Iraq. (mltoday.com)
Detection1
- 1. At least part of the aerosol project has been dubbed Operation Cloverleaf,7 probably due to its multi-faceted operations, which include: weather modification, military communications, space weapons development, ozone and global warming research plus biological weaponry and detection testing.2. (feedreader.com)
Victims1
- The earliest documented incident of the intention to use biological weapons is possibly recorded in Hittite texts of 1500-1200 BC, in which victims of tularemia were driven into enemy lands, causing an epidemic. (wikipedia.org)
Terrorist3
- In September 1999 - as the Jerry Hauer-SAIC-Fort Detrick-USAMRIID West Nile Virus was taking hold in New York - the terrorist began working at the very same lab. (blogspot.com)
- And once Iraq has such a weapon, it could pass it on to its terrorist allies. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- Evaluation of this vulnerability has focused on the role public health will have detecting and managing the probable covert biological terrorist incident with the realization that the U.S. local, state, and federal infrastructure is already strained as a result of other important public health problems. (cdc.gov)
Program3
- Oh, and btw- if WP is a chemical weapon, Saddam DID have a chemical weapons program and you can stop calling Bush a liar about WMD. (balloon-juice.com)
- Part of what is happening in the atmosphere above us involves the Pentagon's secret space weapons program, designed for strategic, operational and tactical levels of war. (feedreader.com)
- The White House warned Wednesday that Iran must not be allowed to use negotiations over its nuclear program to "stall" the world while Tehran pursues what the West fears is an atomic weapons quest. (blogspot.com)
Militants1
- In this light, it was hardly surprising to read in The Wall Street Journal last week that "Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. (blogspot.com)
Programme2
- Indeed, Iraq denied its biological weapons programme existed until forced to acknowledge it after high ranking defectors disclosed it in 1995. (powys.org.uk)
- The reason is because his chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programme is not an historic leftover from 1998. (powys.org.uk)
Inspections4
- Ineffective inspections are worse than none at all, because they give the world a false sense of security by conveying the illusion that arms control is working in Iraq. (capitalismmagazine.com)
- It takes place on November 26 of last year, on the day before United Nations teams resumed inspections in Iraq. (archives.gov)
- Since we arrived in Iraq, we have conducted more than 400 inspections covering more than 300 sites. (al-bab.com)
- Through the inspections conducted so far, we have obtained a good knowledge of the industrial and scientific landscape of Iraq, as well as of its missile capability. (al-bab.com)
United Nations1
- The Bush administration should press the United Nations to uphold its own resolutions against Iraq, which has violated Resolution 1441 and 16 other U.N. resolutions. (capitalismmagazine.com)
Employs1
Destruction1
- Alibek used his position at Biopreparat and the authority granted to him by the first part of the decree to begin the destruction of the biological weapons to dismantle biological weapons production and testing capabilities at a number of research and development facilities, including Stepnogorsk, Kol'tsovo, Obolensk, and others. (wikipedia.org)
Toxic1
- Was this same toxic spraying done March 1999 and other times when the power was out? (blogspot.com)
Produce1
- In a time of war, the assembly line could be used to produce weaponized anthrax. (wikipedia.org)