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To: goldworldnet who wrote (193404)	10/18/2001 10:08:50 AM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Iraq's chemists bought anthrax from America (Filed: 18/10/2001) Saddam's bio-warfare scientists were trained in Britain and sent off for bacteria by mail order, reports Roger Highfield THE intelligence community has focused on Iraq as a possible source of the anthrax used in the bio-terrorist attacks in America. If Iraq is the culprit, it is likely that Saddam Hussein would have used one of 21 strains of the anthrax bacterium which his scientists bought by mail order from America in the 1980s. In a further irony, most of the leading scientists in the Iraqi bio-warfare programme, including its project chief, Rihab Rashida Taha, were trained in Britain. In 1995, three years before the United Nations special commission weapons inspectors were forced to pull out of the country, Iraq admitted that it had produced 2,000 gallons of anthrax. The UN destroyed most of those supplies, but officials believe that Baghdad hid four times as much as was discovered. Iraq still has the best biological expertise in the region and experts agree that, since the UN inspectors left, Saddam has been back in the bio-warfare business. Britain has played an unwitting role in arming Iraq, although a spokesman for the successor to Unscom - the UN monitoring, verification and inspection commission - said: "There is not an awful lot of difference between making vaccines and making bio-weapons - it is a bit unfair to mark those who supplied Iraq as guilty." British companies exported to Iraq large quantities of the growth media in which biological weapons are cultivated and its leading scientists were trained here. The covert biological weapons research programme was directed by Gen Amer Saadi, who obtained a masters degree in chemistry at Oxford, and Rihab Taha, who studied microbiology at the University of East Anglia, said Richard Spertzel, the UN's former chief biological inspector. Overall supervision was conducted by Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, Hussein Kamel, the director of Iraq's Military-Industrial Corp, and Ahmed Murthada, a British-trained engineer. The country's biological weapons programme is believed to have started in 1974 at Salman Pak in the al-Hazan Ibn al-Hathem Institute, where Dr Taha arrived in 1980. Five years later, Salman Pak was taken over by the Technical Research Centre and, in 1987, Dr Taha moved her team into the new al-Hakem facility at Salman Pak, where construction of facilities for production of anthrax began, among other agents. At the time of the Gulf war, Iraq later acknowledged the large-scale production of anthrax spores and to have filled 50 bombs and five missile warheads with anthrax. However, even in its "full, final and complete declaration" regarding its BW programme, submitted in September 1997, Baghdad continued to present the UN weapons inspectors with a false picture. Iraq approached Porton Down in Britain for the Ames strain of the anthrax bacterium, said Dr Spertzel. "That [request] was fortunately denied," he said. Iraq obtained much of its anthrax supply from the American Type Culture Collection. Between 1985 and 1989, it obtained at least 21 strains of anthrax from ATCC and about 15 other class III pathogens, the bacteria that pose an extreme risk to human health. One strain had a British military pedigree and three of the other strains were listed as coming from the American military's biological warfare programme. This came as a shock, said Dr Spertzel, although he added that at that time the ATCC had a policy to supply laboratories with credible reputations. The anthrax strains were ordered by the University of Baghdad and then diverted to the bio-warfare effort. Mohamed Atta, the September 11 hijacker, reportedly had encounters with an Iraqi operative in Prague as recently as April and there have been reports of meetings between Iraqi agents and associates of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. However, Dr Spertzel added that what took place in these encounters, and whether bio-warfare was discussed, was a matter of speculation. portal.telegraph.co.uk * * *

To: goldworldnet who wrote (193404)	10/18/2001 10:15:33 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

It falls in with the general global strategy. You don't send weapons or special troops to a place like Belgium. Their violation of the proposed world resolve against terrorism takes the form of some pointy-headed poltroon holding up cooperation. So you make sure the resistance is widely published in the media-and you will soon see the Belgian government "correct the problem". Denny Hastert: Waves and misses at the fattest pitch he'll ever see. Remember, Denny, the millions who have stood far more dangerous ground so that you might have the privilege to serve. Pack the gear, or head back to the rear...

To: goldworldnet who wrote (193404)	10/18/2001 10:25:30 AM
From: Rollcast...	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

In reaction to CNN's gambit to give air time to an enemy with whom the U.S. is at war, MRC President L. Brent Bozell on Wednesday released his own six questions to CNN formulated with input from the MRC's Liz Swasey and Rich Noyes. Bozell suggested: "One finds it absurd to believe that if CNN existed 60 years ago it would give an audience to Adolf Hitler or Emperor Hirohito who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor. This is truly outrageous, it is harming the war effort and it's a slap in the face to the American people." Bozell's six questions for CNN: "-- Knowing that terrorists thrive on media exposure to spread their propaganda, and that the interview was instigated by al Qaeda, why would you allow your international network to be used by a wanted terrorist and known killer? "-- Have you sought assurances from the government of the United States that this endeavor will not in any way jeopardize the war against terrorism or cause further loss of life? "-- Given that bin Laden is a liar - he first denied having anything to do with the terrorist attacks on the U.S. -- why do you think he will be honest with CNN? "-- Will you independently verify bin Laden's statements before you put them on the air? "-- If CNN had existed 60 years ago, would it have interviewed and aired comments from Emperor Hirohito, the man who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor? "-- If CNN had existed 60 years ago, would it have given a forum to Adolf Hitler to explain his hatred of Jews and Christians?" To see the MRC press release in full with Bozell's comments: mediaresearch.org