Just Testing: Is the U.S. Government making anthrax bombs in Utah?

[Starfury]

I'm not sure how reliable the Salt Lake City Weekly is, but this article is fraggin' scary! It mainly focuses on biowar testing at the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Grounds in the Utah desert and how US research and funding have rapidly increased since 9/11.

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Dugway had long been known to experiment with deadly agents. In spring 2003, for example, the base advertised for help brewing up paralysis-inducing botulinum toxin, as well as Ricin, plague, rabbit fever, food poisoning, the horse disease glanders and all manner of nerve agents including the Nazi-invented tabun and soman.

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The requests for fermentors were the clearest sign yet that a huge build-up of U.S. biowar research, begun after 9/11, was coming to Utah. Dugway, long home to the nation’s biodefense testing, reports a 60 percent increase in its workload since the attacks on the World Trade Center and, late last year, readied plans for construction to double testing again.

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A cursory review of Bush’s 2007 budget request released early February shows $7 billion in dedicated bioterror funding. That compares with about $750 million spent before 9/11. Hammond calculates that if off-the-books “black budget” spending is included, the United States is already spending up to $8 billion per year on biodefense.

The same people who told us Saddam had weapons of mass destruction believe an attack on the United States with chemical or biological weapons is a dire threat. To justify experiments that a few years ago were generally considered off-limits for defensive purposes, the Department of Homeland Security has resorted to reinterpreting the Biological Weapons Convention, said Alan Pearson, director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s biological and chemical weapons program.

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http://www.slweekly.com/article.cfm/justtesting

:scared:

[teryang]

1. The anthrax attacks after 911 revealed BWC already breached

...by the US.

[niallmac]

2. Just remember if all the livestock die in a 100 mile radius of Dugway...

it's probably Clintons fault.

(The operations at Dugway Proving Ground were classified for most of the 20th century. In March 1968, following a VX nerve agent experiment, 6,000 sheep died in Skull Valley and Rush Valley. )