Crimes Against Humanity: Biological Weapons / War

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"The United States has rejected a legally-binding system of United Nations inspections of suspected U.S. biological weapons facilities while at the same time accusing other countries -- including Iraq -- of developing biological weapons. Simultaneously, the United States armed forces, in direct violation of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, is actively pushing for offensive biological weapons development, despite the fact such activity is illegal and subject to federal criminal and civil penalties. . . .
"Back in the early 1970s Nixon and Kissinger chose to end the U.S. offensive biological warfare program for the essential reason that these items cannot be controlled. When people are able to work within a system of legally-sanctioned secrecy pursuing programs that would never survive the light of public scrutiny and inclusive debate, the result is precisely what we have seen and are seeing: a steady, continuing erosion of global security for all. The rejection of international cooperation in arms control and disarmament that seeks to reduce such global threats as biological, chemical and nuclear weapons -- which Bush II is pursuing with frightening determination -- does not serve the needs of humanity and our Earth. Who truly benefits from the renunciation of such international cooperation?" "

--David Ratcliffe, "U.S. Development of Biological Weapons
- Watch What We Say, Not What We Do, September 2002

U.S. Development of Biological Weapons
- Watch What We Say, Not What We Do
from Broadening Our Perspectives of 11 September 2001)
by David Ratcliffe, September 2002
Weapons of Mass Destruction--Iraq's Forgotten Bio-War,
by Ramzi Kysia, 30 Nov 2001
Faculty Lecture on Bio/Warfare/Terrorism/Weapons,
by Francis A. Boyle, University of Illinois, 18 Apr 2002
Call For A Ban On The Genetic Alteration
Of Pathogens For Destructive Purposes
by Francis A. Boyle, Jonathan King, Martin Teitel, Susan Wright
Following Iraq's bioweapons trail,
by Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times, 26 Sep 2002
Arming Iraq and the Path to War,
by John King, U.N. Observer & International Report, 31 Mar 2003
Group Says U.S. Expert Believed Behind Anthrax Attacks,
Reuters, 28 Nov 2001
Adm. Crowe, Bioport and the Put Option Activity Before 9-11,
mail from Alex Constatine, 5 Dec 2001
AMA rejects nationwide smallpox vaccinations,
Associated Press, 5 Dec 2001
Big Biotechs Target Smaller Companies,
by Paul Elias, AP, 11 Dec 2001
by Richard J. Ochs, 16 Aug 2002:
- Connecting the Dots
  and Asking Questions About the Anthrax Letters
- Learning the Wrong Lessons from the Anthrax Attacks
Hatfill Teaching Bioterrorism Course
Program At LSU's Biomedical Training Center
Funded By $11.5 Million Grant,
by Dave Altimari and Jack Dolan, Hartford Courant, 28 Jun 2002
Just three nations could have produced chemical additive in spores,
by Rick Weiss and Dan Eggen, Washington Post, 25 Oct 2001
Letter Sent to NBC Contained Anthrax,
Associated Press, 14 Oct 2001
Nevada letter tests positive for anthrax, CNN.com, 14 Oct 2001
Sen. Leahy Awaits Anthrax Results,
Associated Press, 18 Nov 2001

"What we did not know at that time [in 1985] when the Reagan people were fighting us tooth and nail is that they had also authorized at least forty shipments of weapons-specific biological agents to Iraq from the American Type Culture Collection, which is a big scientific institute. It has cultures for scientific purposes of every type of exotic disease in the world. You name it, it is there. It was clear the Reagan administration was shipping all this to Iraq knowing full well Iraq was going to develop biological weapons and use them against Iran, and yet they did it anyway. Now at the time my legislation was coming through we did not know this. . . .
"Finally, the New York Times broke the story. Yes, the United States government is violating the Biological Weapons Convention. The CIA operation Bacchus. We are developing an immune resistant strain of anthrax with DNA genetic engineering. We have developed super weapons-grade anthrax in quantities and strengths that have no legitimate defensive purpose at all. We had a bomb factory down there where we are simulating the production of biological agents. It is very clear that we are now back into the business of research and development of biological agents, in clear cut violation of the Biological Weapons Convention and my statute the Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act of 1989."

--Francis A. Boyle, "Faculty Lecture on Bio / Warfare /
Terrorism / Weapons, 18 Apr 2002

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