The UK and US made a 'cows ear' of anthrax deal with Saddam
A BRITISH cow that died in an Oxfordshire field in 1937 has emerged as the source of Saddam Hussain’s “weapons of mass destruction” programme that led to the Iraq war.
An ear from the cow was sent to an English laboratory, where scientists discovered anthrax spores that were later used in secret biological warfare tests by Winston Churchill.
The culture was sent to the United States, which exported samples to Iraq during Saddam’s war against Iran in the 1980s. Inspectors have found that this batch of anthrax was the dictator’s choice in his attempts to create biological weapons.
The discovery has angered some British politicians. Austin Mitchell, the Labour MP for Great Grimsby, has renewed his call, supported by 126 MPs in the last Parliament, for a UN investigation into whether Washington broke a weapons control agreement.
“It just makes them look more hypocritical than ever,”
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posted by _H_ at 11:23 pm
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:o) , you dont need to thank me , i was just being honest
H, I thought it was pretty much a given that Iraq and Iran got their bio weapons from Russia and the US?
and Germany and france to a degree , but some people still wont accept it ..
really the point of this post is more to do with the cow :o)
although we knew what happened this piece in the Times helps us to understand how it happened
as for iran , the story is a little different , i dont know of any US or UK links to supplying WMD to Iran .. but maybe i am wrong on that
How about the anthrax attacks following 9/11. They seemed to have swept that whole debacle under the rug in a hurry. It was some pretty damn transparent home grown terrorism coming from in our government.
[Urelated] Great link H.
http://www.angelfire.com/un/whereisosama/
click on osama
grrrr
'The page you are attempting to access has been removed because it violated Angelfire's Terms of Service'
what was it phishy ? i have to know now :o)
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