Posts Tagged ‘WMD’
Psychoactive Agents Research Chemical Warfare Edgewood Maryland 1950s US Army
Beginning in the mid-1950s, the U.S. Army conducted research involving thousands of human subjects on various chemical agents, including LSD, BZ and marijuana derivatives, to assess their utility for chemical warfare applications. Army doctors gave soldier volunteers synthetic marijuana, LSD, BZ and other psychoactive drugs during experiments aimed at developing chemical weapons that could incapacitate enemy soldiers. The program, which ran at the Army’s Edgewood, Md., arsenal from 1955 until about 1972, concluded that counterculture staples such as acid and pot were either too unpredictable or too mellow to be useful as weapons. One of the leading participants in that enterprise, Dr. James S. Ketchum, has published a memoir entitled “Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten.” (http://www.forgottensecrets.net/ ), a detailed autobiographical reconstruction of the Edgewood Arsenal program of evaluating possible incapacitating agents in human volunteers (enlisted men) during the 1960s. This clip is from the 1950s episode, the Unseen Weapon, from the The Big Picture documentary television program which ran on the American Broadcasting Company from 1953 to 1959. The program consisted of documentary films produced by the United States Army Signal Corps Army Pictorial Service
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President Clinton attacks Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
Statement on U.S. Led Military Strike Against Iraq
December 16, 1998
As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
The responsibility of the United States in this conflict is to eliminate weapons of mass destruction, to minimize the danger to our troops and to diminish the suffering of the Iraqi people. The citizens of Iraq have suffered the most for Saddam Hussein’s activities; sadly, those same citizens now stand to suffer more. I have supported efforts to ease the humanitarian situation in Iraq and my thoughts and prayers are with the innocent Iraqi civilians, as well as with the families of U.S. troops participating in the current action.
I believe in negotiated solutions to international conflict. This is, unfortunately, not going to be the case in this situation where Saddam Hussein has been a repeat offender, ignoring the international community’s requirement that he come clean with his weapons program. While I support the President, I hope and pray that this conflict can be resolved quickly and that the international community can find a lasting solution through diplomatic means.
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Detecting Weapons of Mass Destruction preview clip
Preview of a training program for first responders on how to conduct air monitoring and sampling at suspected WMD incidents. Examines use, advantages, and limitations of most equipment used to detect chemical, biological or explosive agents. Presents the information in a way that is easy for emergency responders to understand. Available from Emergency Film Group at www.efilmgroup.com
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Cover up: Russians dumped nuclear waste and chemical weapons on Swedish territory!
Perhaps even old soviet nuclear warheads…
My blog: http://byfanenfrandalarna.wordpress.com
To see the tv program visit this link (In Swedish from original source):
http://svtplay.se/v/1874961/uppdrag_granskning/ and click on “del 4″ from 3rd of February.
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History of Chemical Warfare
The use of poisons that could be considered chemical weapons (CW) dates to antiquity. During the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), for example, the Spartans used arsenic smoke. A millennium later at the siege of Constantinople (637 AD), the Byzantine Greeks employed “Greek Fire” – a mixture of petroleum, pitch sulfur and resins. The first modern use of CW, however, occurred during the First World War. At the second battle of Ypres in April 1915, the German army released hundreds of tons of chlorine gas. Thousands of Allied troops were killed or wounded in the gas cloud attacks, including nearly 7,000 Canadians (1,000 dead and 5,975 injured). The British war poet Wilfred Owen described the horror of seeing a fellow soldier guttering, choking, drowning, as if under a green sea of chlorine gas. Throughout the war, both the Allied and the Central Powers developed toxic chemical warfare agents and the means to deliver them. They also refined their tactical doctrines to take into account the new reality of chemical warfare. By 1918, the World War I battlefield was saturated with a variety of persistent and non-persistent chemicals, which caused casualties among troops and increased the danger and difficulty of military operations. By the end of the First World War, approximately 125,000 tons of toxic chemicals had been used, causing more than 1.3 million casualties, including more than 100,000 deaths. To this day, live rounds of World War I chemical munitions remain buried beneath the battlefields of Europe. While the consequences of the use of gas during the war – images of wounded and blinded men waiting in long lines to be given medical assistance – created in the general public a visceral loathing of chemical weapons, the development and use of CW continued throughout the twentieth century. Italian troops employed chemical weapons during their invasion of Ethiopia (1935-1936) while Japan used CW during its war with China (1937-1945). During the Second World War, both the Allied countries (including Canada) and Axis powers developed a significant inventory of chemical weapons; the lack of effective large-scale delivery systems played a part in the decision of both sides not to use them (another powerful constraint was the fear of retaliation). Egypt used chemical weapons in North Yemen (1963-1967) and both Iraq and Iran employed CW during the Gulf War (1983-1988). It wasnt until 29 April 1997, after long and difficult negotiations, that the International Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force. By banning these weapons, the Convention heralded the beginning of the work to destroy the stockpiles that had been amassed. April 29 is Remembrance Day to pay tribute to the victims of chemical warfare. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)( http://www.opcw.org/ ) is the implementing body of the Chemical Weapons Convention. The OPCW is given the mandate to achieve the object and purpose of the Convention, to ensure the implementation of its provisions, including those for international verification of compliance with it, and to provide a forum for consultation and cooperation among States Parties. This clip is from the 1950s episode, the Unseen Weapon, from the The Big Picture documentary television program which ran on the American Broadcasting Company from 1953 to 1959. The program consisted of documentary films produced by the United States Army Signal Corps Army Pictorial Service.
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Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
The purpose of this video is simply to present the facts of the Iraqi Survey Group and the conclusions of the Robb Silbermann report. Many people continue to believe that some of the intelligence regarding Iraq’s WMD was accurate, or that Iraq had a small scale weapon’s program. The Robb Silbermann report repudiates all of these claims.
Also the failure to discover WMD in Iraq has generated a cottage conspiracy theory industry among some on the Right. There are allegations that Iraq shipped its weapons to Syria, or that the Russians assisted Iraq in removing its WMD, or that Saddam destroyed his weapons right before the war, or that Iraq sought uranium from Niger. These conspiracies are false.
The story many Americans were led to believe in 2002 about Iraq stockpiling, amassing, and producing tons of deadly WMD in which to threaten the United States was fictional — a fairy-tale.
I still think the most important chapter in the WMD saga has yet to be written. How did the October 2002 NIE on Iraq end up being so terribly wrong? Did lots of bad intelligence just happen to fall fortuitously into the CIA’s lap as the Bush Administration was trying to build a case for war? Do you believe it?
More on the claim that Iraq sought uranium from Niger:
“The Iraq Survey Group also found no evidence that Iraq sought uranium from abroad after 1991. 113 With respect to the reports that Iraq sought uranium from Niger, ISG interviews with Ja’far Diya Ja’far, the head of Iraq’s pre-1991 enrichment programs, indicated that Iraq had only two contacts with the Nigerien government after 1998–neither of which was related to uranium. 114 One such contact was a visit to Niger by the Iraqi Ambassador to the Vatican Wissam Zahawie, the purpose of which Ja’far said was to invite the Nigerien President to visit Iraq (a story told publicly by Zahawie). 115 The second contact was a visit to Iraq by a Nigerien minister to discuss Nigerien purchases of oil from Iraq–with no mention of “any kind of payment, quid pro quo, or offer to provide Iraq with uranium ore, other than cash in exchange for petroleum.” 116 The use of the last method of payment is supported by a crude oil contract, dated June 26, 2001, recovered by the ISG.”
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Training Vid
Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #32
0800032 – U.S. Army Presents MF20 9811, Ivy Flats Film Report – 1962 – 17:35 – Black&White – Ivy Flats, a 1962 tactical military exercise at the Nevada Test Site, involved the detonation of live nuclear rounds fired from the Davy Crockett artillery piece. The Davy Crockett was developed to give U.S. Army units an effective nuclear capability against potentially larger units of Soviet armored forces.
The Davy Crockett, a recoilless launcher, was the third artillery piece deployed, those earlier being a l55 mm piece designed to fire a nuclear round and a 288 mm mobile piece, commonly called an “atomic cannon.” Nuclear-capable ground artillery pieces were gradually replaced by increasingly accurate, nuclear carrying missiles and aircraft.
The Ivy Flats video shows an Army exercise that was observed by visiting dignitaries, including U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and General Maxwell Taylor, a Presidential military adviser. Participating in the exercise were members of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division from Ft. Lewis, Washington.
Ivy Flats was a “battle” between a large simulated enemy armored force and a smaller U.S. force consisting of conventional artillery pieces, which could not stop the pending onslaught. U.S. Army squads then arrive in armored personnel carriers and set up the heavy (l55 mm) and light (120 mm) versions of recoilless launchers. The Davy Crockett fired a nuclear round that decimated the mock opposing force.
The Davy Crockett was deployed from 1961 to 1971. The heavy version was transported by either an armored personnel carrier or a large truck. The light version was generally carried on and fired from an Army jeep, but could be carried for a short distance and fired by a 3-man team.
The W-54 nuclear warhead in a projectile was launched by the Davy Crockett and had a subkiloton yield. The projectile was 30 inches long, 11 inches in diameter, and weighed 76 pounds. The l55 mm launcher had a maximum range of 13,000 feet, and the 120 mm could reach a distance of 6,561 feet.
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Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #56
0800056 – Enewetak Cleanup, Produced by the Defense Nuclear Agency – No date – 13:15 – Color – This video shows the actions being taken to cleanup the islands comprising Enewetak Atoll so that the previous inhabitants could return to live on some of them. The inhabitants were forced to relocate to other islands in 1948 when the United States began atmospheric testing of nuclear devices at the Pacific Proving Ground. Over the 1948-1958 time period, 43 tests were conducted on or near Enewetak Atoll.
Numerous decaying, abandoned buildings are shown that had to be demolished, while others were still suitable for use by the returning people. Homes, schools and government buildings had to be built.
The film details the radiation studies conducted to determine the extent of contamination and the uptake of radioactive particles by plants. Some parts of the Atoll would never be suitable for habitation because of the extent of contamination. One of the decontamination activities planned was removing the contaminated soil, transporting it to craters on one of the highly contaminated islands, and encasing it in concrete.
Those organizations cooperating in the cleanup effort included the Atomic Energy Commission, the Coast Guard, the Defense Nuclear Agency, and a marine biology firm.
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WMD LIES – Bush Cheney Rumsfeld etc. – THE ULTIMATE CLIP
+++FORWARD THIS VIDEO TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW – NOW!!!+++
This, my friends, is the ultimate clip regarding WMD lies – the clip we have all been waiting for. All the lies of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell compiled together, brilliantly done, with some great “extra” material.
+++This clip is now also online with Spanish subtitles – spread the message!! LINK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Am0vKUJy9U
+++Background music: THE KILLERS: ALL THE THINGS THAT I HAVE DONE+++
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ATTENTION: A shortened version without swearwords is now online – so that you can post this clip in forums in which swearwords are not allowed:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0L5ZQ1usR-w
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Thanks a lot to my friend Sally from California for bringing this clip to my attention!
Make sure that at the next elections this bunch of liars gets thrown out of the White House – forever and ever.
This clip was created by:
http://www.puppetgov.com
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By the way: In this scene when Cheney says “it’s pretty well confirmed that he did go to Prague and met with Iraqi officials”, Cheney was referring to Mohammed Atta.
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+++STAND UP, WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!+++
NOTE: You have watched this clip, and you are STILL not convinced that Bush did anything wrong? Then you should read about the already infamous, top-secret “DOWNING STREET MEMO” – exposing that the West knew very well that Saddam was NOT a threat and that the war was ILLEGAL.
Links:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article387374.ece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo
Excerpt from the Downing Street Memo (about the Cabinet meeting on 23rd July 2002):
“(…)C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime’s record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.(…)
It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran. We should work up a plan for an ultimatum to Saddam to allow back in the UN weapons inspectors. This would also help with the legal justification for the use of force.
The Attorney-General said that the desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action. There were three possible legal bases: self-defence, humanitarian intervention, or UNSC authorisation. The first and second could not be the base in this case. Relying on UNSCR 1205 of three years ago would be difficult. The situation might of course change.”
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Here is another link proving the lies:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/sidney_blumenthal/2007/09/turning_truth_into_lies.html
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