U.S. health officials say the U.S. strain of West Nile virus is
deadlier to humans and birds than anywhere else on the
planet, except for Israel. Could West Nile be Saddam
Hussein's revenge?
WorldNet Daily and Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin report that in
most parts of the world, West Nile causes mild flu-like
symptoms. While it affects most people here that way too, it
can prove fatal and it's 100% fatal to birds. Israel was the
first place in the world where West Nile virus killed birds.
Before 1997, it made them sick, but wasn't fatal. West Nile
first appeared in the United States in 1999 in New York state
and is rapidly spreading West. During June, cases were
confirmed in Los Angeles.
Could West Nile be Saddam's revenge? The virus originated in
the Middle East. In a July 12, 1999 article in The New Yorker
magazine, Richard Preston quoted Saddam Hussein talking
about "his final weapon, developed in laboratories outside
Iraq?free of U.N. inspection, the laboratories will develop
strain SV 141 of the West Nile virus."
Saddam was friends with Fidel Castro and the U.S. has long
suspected that Cuba's extensive biological laboratories may
be producing bioweapons. In 1998, Clinton administration
Defense Secretary William S. Cohen said he was "concerned
about the use of Cuba as a base for intelligence activities
directed against the United States" and "Cuba's potential to
develop and produce biological agents, given its
biotechnology infrastructure." His office produced a report
titled "The Cuba Threat to U.S. National Security," which
said, "Cuba's biotechnology industry is one of the most
advanced in emerging countries and would be capable of
producing biological warfare agents." That same year, the CIA
released a report that warned of the dangers of a bioweapon
attack on the U.S. that would be blamed on natural causes.
In 1997, Dr. Manuel Cereijo wrote a paper titled "Castro: A
Threat to the Security of the United States." In it, he
said, "To conduct a bacteriological attack, a country or a
terrorist group does not need to have any sophisticated
means of delivery, such as a missile. A container the size of a
five-pound sugar bag can bring bacteriological materials
capable of causing over 50,000 causalities in an urban area,
depending on the flow of air and atmospheric conditions."
Researcher Jonathan F. Day says, "The sporadic appearance
of WNV is disturbing, especially its appearance in the Florida
Keys. It really appears that WN has been seeded throughout
the eastern half of the United States. I guess the question is,
by whom?"
Worst things than West Nile were produced in
Lab 257.
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