Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:19:31 -0600 (CST) From: Dennis Grammenos <dgrammen-AT-prairienet.org> Subject: M-I: Manufacturing Consent -- NYT War-mongering:Biowarfare this is worth reading . . . It's Francis Boyle--U of Illinois Law professor, international law expert, radical public intellectual activist and his communication with NY Times reporter. PLEASE FORWARD ---------- Forwarded message ---------- "Boyle, Francis" <FBOYLE-AT-LAW.UIUC.EDU>: Dear Friends: Today's New York Times has a scare-piece entitled Iraq's Deadliest Arms: Puzzles Breed Fears, co-authored by Judith Miller. Attached is the correspondence between us in conjunction with the preparation of this article, where Miller asked my for assistance beforehand. As you can see for yourself, she had obviously read my Testimony to the United States Congress in support of the legislation which I authored, the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, as well as my comments about how hypocritical and duplicitous the charges made by the United States government against Iraq were, especially in light of outstanding US biowarfare programs. I then proceeded to send her all of my e-mail postings on this subject that have been generally put on the internet in circulation and in particular on the Abolition Caucus site. She was aware that I was the Author of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, and I offered to go on record about US biological weapons programs, as indicated in my correspondence to her below. I also offered to go on record as to the legal and criminal accountability of United States government officials for providing weapons-specific biological agents to Iraq. And yet despite this mass of information that I forwarded to her at her explicit request, there is not one word about the United States biological weapons program that I analyzed in my Testimony and numerous other posts, and I am certainly not mentioned at all in this article. That shows you the way the mainstream news media work in the United States of America, including and especially the New York Times, which has been mongering for war against Iraq for quite some time. By the way, and most critically of all, she deliberately refused to point out in the article the well-known fact that former UNSCOM inspector Raymond Zalinskas admitted to National Public Radio that UN inspectors had already seen all reasonable weapons sites and had destroyed whatever potential existed. But of course that critical piece of information did not matter to the New York Times that is so hell-bent upon manipulating these biowarfare charges into manufacturing public support for more war against Iraq. I will not bother to review the article and point out all the serious distortions, half-truths, and omissions. But again, this article is nothing more than a piece of pure propaganda mongering for war against Iraq. All the news that's fit to print? Well in America, the only news deemed fit to print and make it on the television sets are those that monger for war. George Orwell had it right: In America today, war is peace;freedom is slavery;ignorance is strength; we all love big brother; and Ronald Reagan was President in 1984. Miller really works for the NEWSPEAK TIMES. Yours very truly, Francis A. Boyle Professor of International Law Author, Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 ------------- > From: Boyle, Francis > Sent: Friday, February 20, 1998 6:22 AM > To: 'Judy Miller' > Subject: RE: WMD > Importance: High > > Dear Judy: > Yes, during the past two weeks the British Press has had several > reports of these post war shipments.I have been following them on the > computer. Concerning the US shipments, if they occurred after the > effective date of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, > they were felonies punishable by life in prison. The same is true in > Britain, where their domestic implementing legislation goes back to > 1974 and provides for life in prison. Although we were parties to the > BWC, we did not make its violation a crime until 1989, though of > course there are statutes on the books that could be used to prosecute > for the violation of a treaty or other crimes if someone really wanted > to (e.g., the general federal conspiracy statute), though by now the > statute of limitations would have probably run. > Best regards, > Francis A. Boyle > Professor of Law > Author, Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 > > ---------- > From: Judy Miller[SMTP:miller-AT-nytimes.com] > Sent: Friday, February 20, 1998 6:16 AM > To: fboyle-AT-law.uiuc.edu > Subject: WMD > > Dear Professor Boyle, > I found your testimony very interesting. I'm a reporter for the > New York Times. While the American shipments of anthrax strains to > Baghdad during the Iran/Iraq war are now well known, do you know of any > equipment, media, and/or other material shipped to Iraq AFTER the Gulf > war? If so, from which countries? > Thanks for your help. > Judith Miller > > {At this point I proceed to send her all of my e-mail files on the subject of US biowarfare activities in general and also with respect to Iraq, many of which have been posted generally on the internet.} > Dear Judy: > well, that about ends it for now. I used to have a lot more > on my e-mail files here. But last spring our computer expert > inadvertently destroyed all of our e-mail files at the Law School. Oh > well. I first accused Bush et al of perpetrating a Nuremberg Crime on > our own troops for the experimental vaccines during the court-martial > Proceedings of Captain Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughan for "desertion" for > refusing to serve in the Gulf War in part because she refused to give > the vaccines in violation of her Hippocratic Oath. It was an issue in > the court-martial. She was convicted anyway, spent eight months in > Leavenworth before we could get her out, but was adopted a Prisoner of > Conscience by Amnesty International. We do have our Sakharovs and > Havels in this country. By the way, the critical point is that the > French troops resisted the vaccines and so do not have Gulf War > Syndrome. The British and American troops were forcibly inoculated and > so have come down with it. The Independent Television Station TV4 in > Britain did an extensive documentary on this in the Fall of 1993 in > which I was interviewed. It made headlines in Britain, but has not > been shown here. It is called The Dirty War. Tessa Shaw can give you a > copy. Some of the more explosive charges had to be removed because of > British libel laws--with my agreement--because they do not have a > First Amendment over there, as you well know. Hence the documentary > was watered down. But it was still explosive. Eventually, a person > working for the British Ministry of Defense publicly admitted that > there was such a thing as the Gulf War Syndrome--I read it in the > Financial Times. But here, under the corrupt influence of the > Lederberg Report.... the Pentagon is still denying it. I am willing > to go on the record with some of these things if you want. > Best regards, > Francis A. Boyle > Professor of International Law > Author, Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 > > ---------- http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+iib-site+ 11+0+wAAA+nuclear The New York Times February 26, 1998 How Iraq's Biological Weapons Program Came to Light By WILLIAM J. BROAD and JUDITH MILLER In a January day in 1995, Dr. Rod Barton, a United Nations weapons inspector with a gambler's instinct, decided to try bluffing the Iraqis. Ever since their defeat in the Persian Gulf war, they had steadfastly denied ever making any kind of germ weapons, despite much evidence to the contrary. Barton, a 46-year-old Australian biologist, did not have much in his hand -- just two pieces of paper. The documents proved nothing but were provocative: They showed that in the 1980s, Iraq had bought about 10 tons of nutrients for growing germs, far more than needed for civilian work, from a British company. "That was all I had," Barton recalled in an interview. "Not a full house, just two deuces. So I played them both." Sitting across from four Iraqi generals and scientists in a windowless room near the University of Baghdad, Barton laid the documents on the table. Did these, he asked, help refresh the Iraqis' memories? "They went ashen," he recalled. That meeting marked a turning point. In the months that followed, Iraq dropped its denials and grudgingly admitted that it had run an elaborate program to produce germ weapons, eventually confessing that it had made enough deadly microbes to kill all the people on earth several times over. . . . Among the disclosures were these: -- Just before the gulf war in 1991, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's son-in-law began a crash military program intended to give Iraq the ability to wipe out Israel's population with germ weapons, an Iraqi general told inspectors. MiG fighters, each carrying 250 gallons of microbes, were to be flown by remote control to release anthrax over Israel. One pilotless plane was flight-tested with simulated germs just before the war began, but the attack was never attempted. -- The locations of more than 150 bombs and warheads built by the Iraqis to dispense germs are a mystery, as are the whereabouts of a dozen special nozzles that Iraq fashioned in the 1980s to spray germs from helicopters and aircraft. -- On nearly all recent missions, inspectors have found undeclared "dual use" items like germ nutrients, growth tanks and concentrators, all of which have legitimate uses but can also make deadly pathogens for biological warfare. Today, despite progress in penetrating Iraqi secrecy, inspectors say they remain uncertain about most of Saddam's facilities to wage biological warfare. The inspectors have found traces of military germs and their seed stocks but none of the thousands of gallons of biological agents that the Iraqis made before the 1991 gulf war. Baghdad says it destroyed the older material but offers no proof. And the inspectors are unsure of the extent to which Iraq has solved the technical challenges of delivering germs to targets -- a problem that bedeviled other states experimenting with biological arms. Finally, the U.N. inspectors have suspicions -- but no proof -- that Baghdad is hiding germs and delivery systems. Their worries are based, in part, on a chilling calculus of missing weapons: The United Nations can account for only 25 of the 157 germ bombs that Iraq has acknowledged making for its air force. And inspectors have no idea of the whereabouts of some 25 germ warheads made for missiles with a range of 400 miles; Baghdad says it destroyed them but, again, offers no proof. Richard Butler, chairman of the U.N. Special Commission charged with eliminating such weapons, said in report after report that the uncertainties are disturbing and legion. He recently told the Security Council that the 639-page document that comprises Iraq's latest "full, final and complete" declaration, its fifth to date, "fails to give a remotely credible account" of Baghdad's long effort to make biological arms. . . . [This report is quite extensive and provides more information than found in ordinary news stories.] Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, Ill. 61820 Phone: 217-333-7954 Fax: 217-244-1478 fboyle-AT-law.uiuc.edu --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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