-Caveat Lector-
August 9, 1999
The one that got away?
There has apparently been an outbreak of
hemorrhagic fever in the Russian town of
Oblivskaya, near Rostov. A newspaper in
Riga has reported on the epidemic, which
has infected 136 persons, leaving six
dead. Supposedly local police officers
stopped a car that was transporting jars
said to be filled with "pesticide." This
was a sick joke on the police officers. The
"pests," in this case, were innocent human
victims. The pesticide appears to have
been a deadly virus. The Russian police
officers were offered samples of the
pesticide.
The first victim of the epidemic was a
young woman who sprayed the "pesticide"
on the garden of a leading police official.
A little girl exposed to the liquid also fell
sick and died. In both instances death
came quickly, within 24 hours. High fever
and internal bleeding are among the
symptoms. Microbes of this kind, which
include the deadly Ebola and Marburg
viruses, can sometimes liquefy internal
organs. This results in a "bleed out." If the
illness reaches this stage, the patient goes
into shock and dies. In the Oblivskaya
outbreak, local medical authorities
confirmed the cause as Crimean-Congo
hemorrhagic fever. There was a previous
outbreak in Russia around 1968. The
disease is usually spread by ticks.
Local Russian medical authorities are
saying the situation in Oblivskaya is under
control. All things considered, it is
doubtful whether the disease was started
by pranksters with jars filled with
"pesticide" as alleged in the Riga
newspaper. Stories of this kind often
appear in "former" Soviet countries
whenever an unusual event occurs. What
is not fanciful, however, is the Russian
Defense Ministry's attempts to harness
hemorrhagic fever as a weapon of war.
Between 1988 and 1992 Dr. Ken Alibek
labored as first deputy chief of
Biopreparat, Soviet Russia's state
pharmaceutical agency. Though it
appeared innocent enough on the surface,
Biopreparat wasn't about medicine as
much as it was about a new kind of
warfare. Biopreparat's secret mission was
to develop and manufacture weapons
made from viruses, toxins, and bacteria.
The Viruses Alibek's group worked on
included those that cause hemorrhagic
fever. In fact, one of Alibek's researchers
accidentally infected himself, and was
quickly isolated. But there was nothing
they could do for him. The doomed
scientist kept a diary, held himself
together as long as possible, recorded the
effects of the disease day by day, and died
in agony.
Why do such viruses -- like Ebola and
Marburg -- interest Russian military
science? According to C. J. Roberts of the
CDC in Atlanta: "We have nothing to use
against these viruses."
The problem with anthrax and small pox
-- from a military standpoint -- is that
inoculations exist. Bubonic plague is a
more complicated weapon, requiring
special conditions to work effectively. But
imagine the creation of a new
superplague, derived from one of the
viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever.
Wouldn't this be the most potent
biological weapon of them all?
In 1992, when Dr. Alibek defected to the
West, he revealed that Russia's biological
warfare stockpiles included hundreds of
tons of anthrax, dozens of tons of Bubonic
plague, and dozens of tons of small pox. A
single ton of dry biological material of
this kind can infect and kill a hundred
thousand people. But according to more
recent defectors, Russia now has
something more effective. In March 1994
the London Sunday Times reported that
Russia had developed a superplague. And
this new virus has no known antidote. By
weight it is said to be more effective than
anthrax, bubonic plague, or small pox. The
Times reported that 440 pounds of dry
biological material composed of the
superplague virus could kill half a million
people.
The Russian biological warfare project of
the 1980s was described by Dr. Alibek as
a "clandestine empire of research, testing,
and manufacturing ... spread out over 40
sites in Russia and Kazakhstan." This
project was shut down by President Boris
Yeltsin in 1992. But the closing down of
Biopreparat was a ruse. The project
started up under a new cover, and its
monstrous work continued as before. We
know of this because of two Russian
defectors who fled to Great Britain.
The question which should be uppermost
in all our minds is: Why would the
Russian Defense Ministry insist on
developing such a horrible weapon? What
purpose could such a weapon possibly
serve? President Nixon ordered the
destruction of America's stockpile of
lethal biological material in November
1969. Today America is not threatening
Russia with such weapons. Why, then,
does Russia continuously strive for a
biological warfare capacity that could
effectively ravage the whole of the United
States?
The context of this lethal preparation, by
the way, is a nuclear arms reduction
process that proposes a future U.S.
nuclear arsenal of only 3,500 weapons.
Russia and America put away their
nuclear weapons, but Russia secretly
builds up its biological stockpile. This is
a dirty game and it's time the American
people demanded action from the
president and Congress.
Given the deceptive methods used to fool
us about Russia's preparations for mass
murder, we should consider all treaties
with Russia null and void -- especially the
ABM Treaty. And we should move
rapidly to build a ballistic missile defense
to protect the American people.
J.R. Nyquist is a WorldNetDaily
contributing editor and author of
'Origins of the Fourth World War.'
� 1999 WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
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