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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Just_Observing who wrote (15280)	3/3/2003 11:39:40 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 25898

Ouch, and only today did I hear some journalist using India as an example of peaceful change to democracy... That is, not thinking about Gandhi, but that largest bunch of ethnic and religious flow of refugees the world has seen, to Pakistan. (beats the south-north flow in the USA of the 1800s) Ouch,ouch, additionally one need to keep the different Gandhis apart..

To: Just_Observing who wrote (15280)	3/4/2003 12:39:11 AM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 25898

Reading Eric Margolis' latest editorial, this paragraph caught my eye: ... Now, I have no love for Saddam's sinister, brutal regime. The last time I was in Baghdad, in late 1990, the Iraqi secret police threatened to hang me as a spy after I discovered a group of technicians and scientists who had been secretly sent by the British government to produce anthrax and other germ warfare weapons for Iraq to use against Iran ... canoe.ca So, I dug around, and found this slightly fleshier version: <<< In 1990, on assignment in Baghdad, I discovered a group of British chemical technicians who told me – and showed me documents – that they had been employed until a few weeks earlier at Iraq's top secret Salman Pak laboratories developing or researching germ warfare weapons: anthrax, botulism, Q-fever, and tularaemia. "The British technicians said they had been secretly seconded to Iraq by British intelligence, MI6, and the ministry of defence with the objective of producing biological weapons for use by the Iraqi army against Iran. Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, waging a bloody, eight-year war. Iraq's germ warfare feeder stocks came, with full US government approval, from an American laboratory in Maryland. German firms supplied equipment and training for Iraq's chemical weapons manufacturing, in the full knowledge of the US, British, and German governments. >>> rcpbml.org.uk