Post by crystalriver on Apr 1, 2009 20:03:27 GMT -5
The Coming Anthrax War - Film sheds light on shadowy world of germ warfare
Posted By: Susoni
Date: Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 5:52 p.m. I remember being a little girl in school. The teachers would line us up to do Atomic Warfare drills and had some of the children so frightened that they would burst into tears.
I remember holding one girls hand and we dropped and rolled into small targets, then listening while the sirens wailed. They never let us know that it was a 'drill' until after it was over. Not that curling into a small ball was going to stop an atomic bomb from destruction.
Today's children have new threats. Ones that can not even be seen or smelled. Silent ones that will float through the air and destroy. I feel for our children and grand-children. Ours was a magical time compared to what they will endure.
Susoni (I'm not fear mongering.. I'm facing facts that sooner or later it will hit our country.. 'THEY' will make it so)
PS As soon as I find a link to the video, I will post it.
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Bob Coen talks about Anthrax War, his new documentary on biological weapons
(snip)
In 2001, an attack involving several letters laced with deadly anthrax bacteria killed five people in the U.S.
The incident prompted filmmaker Bob Coen to undertake an investigation of the shadowy world of biological weapons, their deadly history and their role today as part of a growing and profitable industry.
Coen spoke to CBCNews.ca about the resulting documentary, Anthrax War. The film, which he directed and co-wrote, will have its world premier on CBC Newsworld's The Passionate Eye on Sunday, March 29.
(snip)
It actually goes back earlier than that. I grew up in Zimbabwe when it was still colonial Rhodesia, and I came of age at the height of that war. Years later, I was working as a journalist correspondent at CNN International … got involved in covering the wars in Mozambique, Angola, the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and in my research, I uncovered that biological weapons had been used in the Rhodesian War. And, in fact, the largest outbreak of anthrax in modern history took place in Rhodesia at the height of the war … Between 1978 and 1980, there were 10,000 cases of human anthrax in the country and more than 180 deaths.…
(snip)
Well, it's a very hardy bacterium. It has a spore so … the bacterium's encased in this shell, and it can actually survive in the environment for more than 50 years in the right conditions. And it is pretty immune to ultraviolet light because of that coating … Anthrax occurs naturally. It's endemic in many parts of the world, including Africa, Russia and even parts of the United States, but the naturally occurring anthrax and the weaponized form of the bacteria are very different. When it's weaponized, it's actually milled into this very refined powder and aerosolized so that it can be inhaled into the lungs. Once it gets into the lungs, and into the bloodstream … it's invariably fatal.…
The [anthrax in the] two letters that went to the U.S. senators was highly refined. In fact, investigators and scientists … when they examined this letter … in a high-containment lab, it floated off the slide, into the air … It had been treated, refined not only [to] small particle size but treated with additives that gave it this dispersability, also [an] electrostatic charge. So, very, very sophisticated powder, and one that would require a sophisticated team of people and sophisticated equipment. It's not something that could be made in your basement.…
(snip)
One of the things that I found out was that this world of biological weapons research was really shrouded in secrecy, and there's all these skeletons in the closet that go back decades — human experimentation, secret programs, illicit programs. And it's not just in the United States — the U.K., Russia, my home continent of Africa — Zimbabwe, South Africa.
South Africa had a very small but very sophisticated and really quite horrific program that worked on developing a vaccine that would basically sterilize the black population without them knowing ...
The other thing I discovered was that it's actually quite a small world of scientists ... Until fairly recently, until really the [2001] anthrax attacks, there were not a lot of them, and they were all sort of connected and all had relations with each other … even enemies and former enemies all had links and would share science. For instance, some of these former scientists from the Soviet Union, that had probably the biggest biological programs in the 70s and 80s, went on to work with the British programs….
(snip)
And one of the things that we also uncovered was that there were an alarming number of scientists who were working with germ weapons who were turning up dead in sort of mysterious circumstances …There was certainly at least half a dozen scientists whose deaths really did not make sense … the most famous of which was David Kelly, the British weapons of mass destruction expert who was at the centre of this controversy surrounding Iraq's biological weapons, the justification used for the invasion and war. Remember, he supposedly committed suicide a few months after the beginning of the Iraq war.
But we looked into the deaths of these scientists and uncovered links and connections between these guys … Certainly, all these people were privy to very, very sensitive information.
And that was dangerous for them, you think?
Certainly, I think one has to ask that question … If one looks closely at the circumstances of some of the deaths, there are a lot of unanswered questions ...
And then [when] we were in the editing room finishing this movie in August last year, 2008, this film about the unsolved anthrax attacks … the FBI basically came and said, 'We found our culprit; we've found out the guy who did it. Unfortunately, he's just committed suicide.' And again, there are a lot of troubling questions about the FBI's case against Bruce Ivins.
Link:
Much more and photos:
www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/27/f-tech-090327-anthrax-war.html?ref
From This Link: www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=144319
Posted By: Susoni
Date: Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 5:52 p.m. I remember being a little girl in school. The teachers would line us up to do Atomic Warfare drills and had some of the children so frightened that they would burst into tears.
I remember holding one girls hand and we dropped and rolled into small targets, then listening while the sirens wailed. They never let us know that it was a 'drill' until after it was over. Not that curling into a small ball was going to stop an atomic bomb from destruction.
Today's children have new threats. Ones that can not even be seen or smelled. Silent ones that will float through the air and destroy. I feel for our children and grand-children. Ours was a magical time compared to what they will endure.
Susoni (I'm not fear mongering.. I'm facing facts that sooner or later it will hit our country.. 'THEY' will make it so)
PS As soon as I find a link to the video, I will post it.
-------------------------
Bob Coen talks about Anthrax War, his new documentary on biological weapons
(snip)
In 2001, an attack involving several letters laced with deadly anthrax bacteria killed five people in the U.S.
The incident prompted filmmaker Bob Coen to undertake an investigation of the shadowy world of biological weapons, their deadly history and their role today as part of a growing and profitable industry.
Coen spoke to CBCNews.ca about the resulting documentary, Anthrax War. The film, which he directed and co-wrote, will have its world premier on CBC Newsworld's The Passionate Eye on Sunday, March 29.
(snip)
It actually goes back earlier than that. I grew up in Zimbabwe when it was still colonial Rhodesia, and I came of age at the height of that war. Years later, I was working as a journalist correspondent at CNN International … got involved in covering the wars in Mozambique, Angola, the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and in my research, I uncovered that biological weapons had been used in the Rhodesian War. And, in fact, the largest outbreak of anthrax in modern history took place in Rhodesia at the height of the war … Between 1978 and 1980, there were 10,000 cases of human anthrax in the country and more than 180 deaths.…
(snip)
Well, it's a very hardy bacterium. It has a spore so … the bacterium's encased in this shell, and it can actually survive in the environment for more than 50 years in the right conditions. And it is pretty immune to ultraviolet light because of that coating … Anthrax occurs naturally. It's endemic in many parts of the world, including Africa, Russia and even parts of the United States, but the naturally occurring anthrax and the weaponized form of the bacteria are very different. When it's weaponized, it's actually milled into this very refined powder and aerosolized so that it can be inhaled into the lungs. Once it gets into the lungs, and into the bloodstream … it's invariably fatal.…
The [anthrax in the] two letters that went to the U.S. senators was highly refined. In fact, investigators and scientists … when they examined this letter … in a high-containment lab, it floated off the slide, into the air … It had been treated, refined not only [to] small particle size but treated with additives that gave it this dispersability, also [an] electrostatic charge. So, very, very sophisticated powder, and one that would require a sophisticated team of people and sophisticated equipment. It's not something that could be made in your basement.…
(snip)
One of the things that I found out was that this world of biological weapons research was really shrouded in secrecy, and there's all these skeletons in the closet that go back decades — human experimentation, secret programs, illicit programs. And it's not just in the United States — the U.K., Russia, my home continent of Africa — Zimbabwe, South Africa.
South Africa had a very small but very sophisticated and really quite horrific program that worked on developing a vaccine that would basically sterilize the black population without them knowing ...
The other thing I discovered was that it's actually quite a small world of scientists ... Until fairly recently, until really the [2001] anthrax attacks, there were not a lot of them, and they were all sort of connected and all had relations with each other … even enemies and former enemies all had links and would share science. For instance, some of these former scientists from the Soviet Union, that had probably the biggest biological programs in the 70s and 80s, went on to work with the British programs….
(snip)
And one of the things that we also uncovered was that there were an alarming number of scientists who were working with germ weapons who were turning up dead in sort of mysterious circumstances …There was certainly at least half a dozen scientists whose deaths really did not make sense … the most famous of which was David Kelly, the British weapons of mass destruction expert who was at the centre of this controversy surrounding Iraq's biological weapons, the justification used for the invasion and war. Remember, he supposedly committed suicide a few months after the beginning of the Iraq war.
But we looked into the deaths of these scientists and uncovered links and connections between these guys … Certainly, all these people were privy to very, very sensitive information.
And that was dangerous for them, you think?
Certainly, I think one has to ask that question … If one looks closely at the circumstances of some of the deaths, there are a lot of unanswered questions ...
And then [when] we were in the editing room finishing this movie in August last year, 2008, this film about the unsolved anthrax attacks … the FBI basically came and said, 'We found our culprit; we've found out the guy who did it. Unfortunately, he's just committed suicide.' And again, there are a lot of troubling questions about the FBI's case against Bruce Ivins.
Link:
Much more and photos:
www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/27/f-tech-090327-anthrax-war.html?ref
From This Link: www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=144319