| TheTip.org |
| Polls | Members | Refer | Forums | Write for TheTip! | Home | Impeach Bush |
Impeach George Bush
CIA Involved in Iraqi Bio Weapons Program
Rumsfeld was contradicted on the stand before the Senate when he denied knowledge of the transfer of Weapons-Grade Biological Elements to Iraq during the Reagan Era.
Source: TheTip, 2002-10-01
Candidate: Donald Rumsfeld
As previously reported in The TIP, the US provided Iraq technology for its
biological and chemical weapons while Iraq was at war with Iran in the 1980s.
Senator Robert Byrd, D-W. Va questioned Defense Secretary Donals Rumsfeld
about his knowledge of the germ transfers that took place under his nose
while he was President Ronald Reagan's Middle East Envoy n 1983. Rumsfeld
denied any knowleldge of the affair.
"I have never heard anything like what you've read," Rumsfeld told Byrd. "I
have no knowledge of it whatsoever, and i doubt it. Rumsfeld assured Byrd he
would check Defense Department and other governmental records for evidence of
the transfers.
Jonathan Tucker, a former U.N. biological weapons inspector said he believed
the S had to be "naive" not to think Iraq would use the specimens as weapons.
"I don't think it would be accurate to say the United States government
deliberately provided seed stocks to the Iraqis' biological weapons programs"
he said. ''But they did deliver samples that Iraq said had a legitimate
public health purpose, which I think was naive to believe, even at the
time.''
The Centers for Diseas Control and Prevention did send samples directly to
Iraqi sites known by U.N. weapons inspectors as biological weapon sites.
The transfers were made in the 1980s while the US supported Iraq in it's war
against Iran and the Ayatollah Khomeni. The Senate first heard of the
transfers in a 1994 CDC report to the Senate Banking Committee.
This is not the first time that US foreign policy has come back to bite
future administrations. But this may be the first time the sequence of events
leading to a possible war with a former ally has been made a part of the
Senate record. "The disclosures put the United States in the uncomfortable
position of possibly having provided the key ingredients of the weapons
America is considering waging war to destroy, said Byrd as he entered the
documents into the Congressional Record this month. ''Are we, in fact, now
facing the possibility of reaping what we have sown?'' Byrd asked Rumsfeld
after reading parts of a Newsweek article on the transfers.
Government invoices read like a shopping lists for biological weapons
programs. One 1986 shipment from the American Type Culture Collection based
in Virginia included three strains of anthrax, six strains of the bacteria
that make botulinum toxin and three strains of the bacteria that cause gas
gangrene. Iraq later admitted to the United Nations that it had made weapons
out of all three.
The company sent the bacteria to the University of Baghdad which U.N.
inspectors found had been used as a front to acquire samples for Iraq's
biological weapons program.
The CDC also sent shipments of germs to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission
and other agencies involved in Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.
It sent samples in 1986 of botulinum toxin and botulinum toxoid - used to
make vaccines against botulinum toxin - directly to the Iraqi chemical and
biological weapons complex at al-Muthanna, the records show.
The records show the CDC also sent samples of a strain of West Nile virus to
an Iraqi microbiologist at a university in the southern city of Basra in 1985.
Add a comment to this Message in our Forums.
While you're at it, check out our forums too!
User Originated Comments:
From: Jesus is Lord of lords
2004-09-28 13:53:29
you need to listen to the spirit. please repent
of your sins and do tne right thing. your
politics do not line up with your "faith." please
trust the lord of heaven and earth. do his will.
i thessalonians 5:16-18. thank you have a
wonderful day.
From: r0ck3r
2004-03-04 13:06:30
d00d inf0warz.c0m iz a ub3r 1337 site iz th4t ur
momz on th3r3 cuz th3y r hawt
From:
1999-11-30 00:00:00
infowars.com
From:
1999-11-30 00:00:00
infowars.co,
Related News
| Collateral Damage, Repression, Whatever | |
| Rumsfeld Spills the Beans | |
| Rumsfeld Knew | |
| Rumsfeld "Depends On What the Definition of "IS" Is." | |
| Rumsfeld = War Criminal | |
| Army Delays Retirements for Some Units. | |
| Seymour Hersch did the work | |
| When the New York Post turns on Rummy... | |
| Soldiers' Warnings Ignored | |
| Rumsfeld - More Troops Please | |
| Suicides Plague Iraqi Troops | |
| Taliban Back | |
| Iraq Guerilla War - Rumsfeld | |
| Rumsfeld Defines "Guerilla" | |
| UN Inspectors - Secret Service Sado-Masochists? | |
| 10 Million March to Stop War February 15 |
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
owned by TheTIP.
[ Skip Next | Next | Random Site | List Sites |Previous ]
NEWS | ACTION | RESULTS | POLLS | MEMBERS | SEARCH