-Caveat Lector- www.worldnerdaily.com The one that got away? By JR Nyquist ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com There has apparently been an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in the Russian town of Oblivskaya, near Rostov. A newspaper in Riga has reported on the epidemic, which has infected 136 persons, leaving six dead. Supposedly local police officers stopped a car that was transporting jars said to be filled with "pesticide." This was a sick joke on the police officers. The "pests," in this case, were innocent human victims. The pesticide appears to have been a deadly virus. The Russian police officers were offered samples of the pesticide. The first victim of the epidemic was a young woman who sprayed the "pesticide" on the garden of a leading police official. A little girl exposed to the liquid also fell sick and died. In both instances death came quickly, within 24 hours. High fever and internal bleeding are among the symptoms. Microbes of this kind, which include the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses, can sometimes liquefy internal organs. This results in a "bleed out." If the illness reaches this stage, the patient goes into shock and dies. In the Oblivskaya outbreak, local medical authorities confirmed the cause as Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. There was a previous outbreak in Russia around 1968. The disease is usually spread by ticks. Local Russian medical authorities are saying the situation in Oblivskaya is under control. All things considered, it is doubtful whether the disease was started by pranksters with jars filled with "pesticide" as alleged in the Riga newspaper. Stories of this kind often appear in "former" Soviet countries whenever an unusual event occurs. What is not fanciful, however, is the Russian Defense Ministry's attempts to harness hemorrhagic fever as a weapon of war. Between 1988 and 1992 Dr. Ken Alibek labored as first deputy chief of Biopreparat, Soviet Russia's state pharmaceutical agency. Though it appeared innocent enough on the surface, Biopreparat wasn't about medicine as much as it was about a new kind of warfare. Biopreparat's secret mission was to develop and manufacture weapons made from viruses, toxins, and bacteria. The Viruses Alibek's group worked on included those that cause hemorrhagic fever. In fact, one of Alibek's researchers accidentally infected himself, and was quickly isolated. But there was nothing they could do for him. The doomed scientist kept a diary, held himself together as long as possible, recorded the effects of the disease day by day, and died in agony. Why do such viruses -- like Ebola and Marburg -- interest Russian military science? According to C. J. Roberts of the CDC in Atlanta: "We have nothing to use against these viruses." The problem with anthrax and small pox -- from a military standpoint -- is that inoculations exist. Bubonic plague is a more complicated weapon, requiring special conditions to work effectively. But imagine the creation of a new superplague, derived from one of the viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever. Wouldn't this be the most potent biological weapon of them all? In 1992, when Dr. Alibek defected to the West, he revealed that Russia's biological warfare stockpiles included hundreds of tons of anthrax, dozens of tons of Bubonic plague, and dozens of tons of small pox. A single ton of dry biological material of this kind can infect and kill a hundred thousand people. But according to more recent defectors, Russia now has something more effective. In March 1994 the London Sunday Times reported that Russia had developed a superplague. And this new virus has no known antidote. By weight it is said to be more effective than anthrax, bubonic plague, or small pox. The Times reported that 440 pounds of dry biological material composed of the superplague virus could kill half a million people. The Russian biological warfare project of the 1980s was described by Dr. Alibek as a "clandestine empire of research, testing, and manufacturing ... spread out over 40 sites in Russia and Kazakhstan." This project was shut down by President Boris Yeltsin in 1992. But the closing down of Biopreparat was a ruse. The project started up under a new cover, and its monstrous work continued as before. We know of this because of two Russian defectors who fled to Great Britain. The question which should be uppermost in all our minds is: Why would the Russian Defense Ministry insist on developing such a horrible weapon? What purpose could such a weapon possibly serve? President Nixon ordered the destruction of America's stockpile of lethal biological material in November 1969. Today America is not threatening Russia with such weapons. Why, then, does Russia continuously strive for a biological warfare capacity that could effectively ravage the whole of the United States? The context of this lethal preparation, by the way, is a nuclear arms reduction process that proposes a future U.S. nuclear arsenal of only 3,500 weapons. Russia and America put away their nuclear weapons, but Russia secretly builds up its biological stockpile. This is a dirty game and it's time the American people demanded action from the president and Congress. Given the deceptive methods used to fool us about Russia's preparations for mass murder, we should consider all treaties with Russia null and void -- especially the ABM Treaty. And we should move rapidly to build a ballistic missile defense to protect the American people. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- J.R. Nyquist is a WorldNetDaily contributing editor and author of 'Origins of the Fourth World War.' 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