Buried in the NY Times article, "U.S. Agrees to Clean Up Anthrax Site in
Uzbekistan" is this. Ever since 1972 we have continued biological weapons
work under the guise of it being 'defensive.' A good recent book on this is
"Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War. Review at:
http://www.mapcruzin.com/rev_germs.htm
See the entire article at:
http://www.terraknowledge.net/news/biotech102401a.htm
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Separately, administration officials said that the Pentagon had approved a
project to make a potentially more potent form of anthrax bacteria to see if
the vaccine the United States intends to supply to its armed forces is
effective against that strain as well. Russian scientists say they first made
the superbug in the early 1990's. In 1997, the scientists say, the
genetically engineered germ appeared to defeat Russia's own vaccine, at
least in hamsters.
The project, run by the Defense Intelligence Agency, was delayed for
weeks as Pentagon lawyers debated whether the research violated the
1972 germ treaty banning biological weapons that the United States helped
champion.
Officials said yesterday that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
approved the work last week after lawyers for the Pentagon and other
agencies concluded that the project was, in fact, "fully consistent" with the
germ treaty.
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Michael R. Meuser,
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