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ANOTHER DOOMSDAY CLOCK IS TICKING, TICKING
Foreign Correspondent
Inside Track On World News
By International Syndicated Columnist & Broadcaster
Eric Margolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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ANOTHER DOOMSDAY CLOCK IS TICKING, TICKING
By Eric Margolis
June 20, 1999
Geneva -- US and European intelligence agencies are reporting
mounting evidence that Russia and China have massively violated
the 1972 Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, and subsequent
international and bilateral agreements to control biowarfare
weapons.
The convention, signed by 169 nations, prohibits development,
production, acquisition, stockpiling, transfer, or use of chemical
and biological weapons. All signatories with biowarfare arsenals
are pledged to eliminate such weapons over ten years. While Russia
and China appear to have ceased adding to their huge stockpiles of
chemical weapons, both are developing new strains of highly lethal
biological toxins.
According to Ken Alibek, a former deputy director of the Soviet-era
top-secret biowarfare program, who defected to the west, Russia
never ended its offensive biological warfare research. Alibek
claims Russia has stockpiled many hundreds of tons of anthrax and
plague, as well as smaller quantities of smallpox, Ebola and
Marburg virus, and toxins designed to attack plants and animals.
Russia is also developing a new strain of `invisible' biowarfare
agents, known as `bioregulators,' that destroy the body's immune or
neurological systems.
The highest-ranking defector from Russia's biowarfare program ever
to come west also claims that in 1985 former Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev secretly authorized a five year program to develop
weaponized germs and viruses, some of which were mounted on
mulitple warheads of the large SS-18 ICBM targeted at North
America. Alibek also asserts China, which claims to have abandoned
biowarfare production and eliminated stockpiles, is producing
haemorrhagic viruses at Lop Nor in Central Asia, and suffered two
major accidents in the late 1980's that killed hundreds of people.
Many toxins being developed in Russia have been biologically
engineered to resist antibiotics, notably a super-strain anthrax
that is apparently impervious to the anti-anthrax inoculations now
being given to NATO troops.
Alibek and other Russian defectors also confirmed the Soviet Union
used chemical and biological weapons in Afghanistan from 1980-1989.
While covering the war there, I saw numerous cases of grave
injurious and death inflicted on the Afghan `mujihadin' by
mysterious Soviet weapons. After being sprayed by a fine chemical
mist, or exposed to gas, people would turn black and die; bleed
profusely from all body orifices; choke and vomit; or become
disoriented and dazed. Bodies of the some of the victims would
putrify almost immediately.
The Soviets also employed `glanders,' a highly contagious horse
disease, to kill the animal transport used by the resistance, and
ergot fungus to destroy wheat. None of the biowarfare agents used
by the USSR in Afghanistan, save `glanders,' have ever been
identified by western scientists. The west, while scourging Iraq
for using chemical weapons against Iran and its rebellious Kurds,
chose to ignore employment by the USSR of more toxic, sophisticated
agents in Afghanistan.
Western protests over Russia's current germ warfare projects, and
demands for inspection of its four, major active biowarfare labs,
have been rebuffed by Russia. The Clinton Administration,
influenced by the strongly pro-Russian Strobe Talbot, has
repeatedly rejected demands by Congress to cut off billions in US
aid in order to pressure Moscow into ceasing its illegal biowarfare
programs. Europe, which also bankrolls the Yeltsin regime, has
been similarly negligent in pressing Moscow on this vital issue.
Some of the 60,000 scientists and technicians formerly employed in
the Soviet biological warfare establishment have reportedly been
employed by Iraq, Israel, Iran, Syria, and Serbia, all of which
already have extensive arsenals of biowarfare weapons. India may
also have received substantial Russian aid to develop its growing
biowarfare capabilities.
Alibek testified to the US Congress he defected after learning
that while the west had virtually eliminated its toxic arsenals,
Russia was not only continuing Soviet biowarfare programs, but
accelerating them, with 2,000 scientists alone working on new,
genetically engineered strains of anthrax at a top secret island
base in the Aral Sea. He claims such toxic agents have little
tactical military value and are of use only as mass terror weapons
designed to compensate for Russia's and China's relative
backwardness in conventional military systems.
These terror agents are being produced in a very large complex at
Kirov, east of Mocow; Compound 19 at Ekaterinburg in the Urals;
Sergeiv Possad outside Moscow; and at a new complex at Strizhy,
close to Kirov. The laboratory at Ekaterinburg, formerly
Sverdlovsk, was the site of a massive accidental release of
anthrax in 1979 that killed or injured over 1,000 people.
According to the 1990 US-Russian Bilateral Destruction Agreement,
the two powers were to reduce their respective chemical stockpiles
to 5000 tons each by 2002. In 1996, Russia has backed off even
this agreement, citing financial problems. The UN was supposed to
take over supervision of biowarfare weapons destruction and
implementation of the 1972 treaty, but it has failed dismally to
enforce the agreements, or even to protest egregious violations by
Russia, China, and other signatory states.
The west has destroyed or significantly reduced its stocks of
chemical agents, and ceased biological warfare research. Russia
and China continue to develop such weapons. The former balance of
terror has become unbalanced, as `friendly' regimes in Moscow and
Beijing not only violate international law but threaten all mankind
with their relentless development of high-tech germ warfare.
Copyright: E. Margolis, June 1999
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