U.S. building germ warfare center?

:wtf: We are ruled by madmen!

US Begins Building Treaty-Breaching Germ War Defence Centre
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2006-08-01 01:44. Evidence
By Julian Borger, Guardian / UK

Construction work has begun near Washington on a vast germ warfare laboratory intended to help protect the US against an attack with biological weapon, but critics say the laboratory's work will violate international law and its extreme secrecy will exacerbate a biological arms race.

The National Biodefence Analysis and Countermeasures Centre (NBACC), due to be completed in 2008, will house heavily guarded and hermetically sealed chambers in which scientists simulate potential terrorist attacks.

To do so, the centre will have to produce and stockpile the world's most lethal bacteria and viruses, which is forbidden by the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Three years before that treaty was agreed, President Richard Nixon halted the production of US biological weapons at Fort Detrick in Maryland. The same military base is the site for the new $128m (£70m), 160,000 sq ft laboratory.

The green light for its construction was given after the September 11 attacks, which coincided with a series of still-unsolved anthrax incidents that killed five people. The department of homeland security, which will run the centre, says its work is necessary to protect the country. "All the programmes we do are defensive in nature," Maureen McCarthy, director of homeland security research and development, told the Washington Post. "Our job is to ensure that the civilian population of the country is protected, and that we know what the threats are."

The biological weapons convention stipulates that the signatories must not "develop, produce, stockpile, or otherwise acquire or retain" biological weapons, and does not distinguish between offensive and defensive intentions.

A presentation given by Lieutenant Colonel George Korch said the NBACC would be used to apply "red team operational scenarios and capabilities" - military jargon for simulating enemy attacks.

Some analysts say the extraordinary secrecy surrounding the project will heighten suspicions of US intentions and accelerate work on similar facilities around the world.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/13439

This country has become a rogue nation.....because of the * cabal....

These are sad, sad days.

now. And there have been 30 documented accidents/incidents involving environmental releases, containment and security breaches, missing samples, and exposure and infection of personnel occurring at bioresearch labs since 1985.

Exerpt from an article on bioterrorism preparedness for neurologists:
http://www.neurologyreviews.com/mar06/bioterrorism.html

PHARMACEUTICAL AND GOVERNMENT RESEARCH INITIATIVES

Hollis-Eden, along with dozens of other pharmaceutical companies, aims to tap into additional Project Bioshield funds and has used extensive lobbying and public relations strategies to bring its case before lawmakers and the general public. Since passage of Project Bioshield in 2004, the US government has distributed about $1 billion of the $5.6 billion it allocated for the stockpiling of drugs and vaccines for combating injuries sustained from terrorist attacks.

Competition for the Bioshield funds extends beyond industry to academia and to government research institutions. The Bush administration is also using the funds to develop its bioweapons program in at least three government and university labs—the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah has developed anthrax for use in testing biological defense systems; the CDC in Atlanta handles live smallpox, and research is ongoing at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and in Hamilton, Montana.

The federal government gave final approval in February to Boston University’s bid to build a high-security research laboratory that will work with some of the deadliest viruses and bacteria, such as Ebola, anthrax, and plague. The $128 million center is expected to be completed in 2008.

Kentucky and Tennessee are currently competing for a $451 million federal bioterrorism research lab project. Funded by the Department of Homeland Security, the lab would also be another highly secure site with a Biosafety Level 4 designation and be among a growing number of institutions researching bioterrorist threats, foreign animal diseases, and other emerging public health threats.

Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Council for Responsible Genetics, and the National Academy of Sciences are among the scientific groups that have expressed concerns about the United States’ research and development of weapons-grade germs. Some have warned that the initiative could be perceived as "development" of biological weapons, in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention. Others question the safety of such facilities and the impact on public safety, should any of the deadly toxins escape from laboratories.

The Council for Responsible Genetics lists 30 incidents involving environmental releases, containment and security breaches, missing samples, and exposure and infection of personnel occurring at bioresearch labs since 1985. The mistakes include the disappearance of anthrax and Ebola viruses from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in the 1990s. The 2001 anthrax attacks are believed by the FBI to have been caused by a scientist with access to a government laboratory.

Very disturbing.

They blow up buildings.

Al Quaeda is being used an excuse for the power-hungry people in the Bush Admin who want the US to have even more weapons.

They claim its for reaserch ya right

When you're experimenting with germs that could wipe out millions of people, you've got more than research on your agenda. Sick mofos.

Went over like a lead balloon.

from their NY lab. We need this crap in the DC area? No!

He was a veterinary microbiologist and a Major in the Army. He started out inspecting meat for the US armed forces. He was in England in the latter years and worked on germ warfare. He would not talk too much about what he did or what they discovered.

I don't think the US has too much to gain by implementing such a program. It seems to me to be a ruse for much more nefarious reasons. The Bush cabal doesn't do ANYTHING at face value. There must be an alternative reason for them doing this.

The opposite always seems to be true whenever they give a reason for doing anything.