The little shop of NBC Horrors-- Yellow Rain-

various websites | 10-03-01 | backhoe

[backhoe]

How soon we forget the past! Here are some links to the "Yellow Rain/bee feces" controversy of some years ago.

Note the mideast connection- and while most of these links are straightforward, a few veer in strange and interesting areas--

Mycotoxins (T2)
... be suspected if an aerosol attack occurs in the form of "yellow rain" with droplets
of yellow fluid contaminating clothes and the environment. Confirmation ...

YELLOW RAIN AND SOVIET LIES DON'T COMPARE
]]]]] YELLOW RAIN AND SOVIET LIES DON'T COMPARE [[[[[ The New York Times
12-3-88 (12/10/1988) (The writer, a former Defense Department official (1983-87 ...

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Subject: Re: "Yellow rain" From: drpao@lexicon.net.au Date: 1998/01/29 Message-ID:
<886121295.72744971@dejanews.com> Newsgroups: alt.war.vietnam,soc.culture ...

Chemical Warfare Toxins derived from from genera of fungi  ...
... compounds were used in chemical warfare by Russian troops under the name "Yellow
Rain", a claim that has been highly contested by experts. The debate rages on ...

FORWARD : News
... Russian Arsenal In Crosshairs At Baghdad. UN Reckons Iraq
Set Out to Make 'Yellow Rain' Gas. Aflatoxin-Tipped Scuds. ...

The Use of Chemical Weapons: Conducting an Investigation ...
... in light of recent examples that relied heavily on testimony. In the "yellow rain"
affair, selected statements by Hmong villagers were used as a primary ...

History of Chemical Warfare and Current Threat
... use of biological weapons. Among the most notorious of these were the "yellow rain"
incidents in Southeast Asia, the accidental release of anthrax at Sverdlovsk ...

The Devil's Brews: an Introduction
... used CW on a small scale, and the Soviet Union may have supplied the yellow rain
BW agent for use in Vietnam and Afghanistan. (It will be interesting to see ...

Trichothecene Mycotoxin
... a Bioterrorist Agent Agent: Trichothecene mycotoxin (T2) can theoretically be used
in aerosol form (yellow rain) to produce lethal and nonlethal casualties. T2 ...

[backhoe]

I just saw your name pop up- a ping to you!

[Ditto]

Bump and bookmarked.

[backhoe]

Thank you kindly- it's one more piece fitting the NBC warfare puzzle.

[Ditto]

And one that CNN studiously avoided when they hatched their Tailwind fiction a few years ago. There were indeed Chemical Weapons used in Laos --- lots of them and it was Ted Fonda's buddies who used them. CNN never told that story. Wonder why?

[backhoe]

Well, I think by that time the press- most of them, anyway- had decided "we" were the Bad Guys in Vietnam, and bore a grudging admiration for our opponents. I well remember the "swarms of defecating bees" theory that was peddled until the horrors of the Iraq/Iran war came out much later.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Oh good grief. Just when I thought I'd get in bed early for a change, now I see all these links you've posted!!! Thank god for speed reading lessons! :-)

[backhoe]

Thanks for the bump.... just be grateful I left out most of the links I found; you don't want to know what an unfiltered search for "Yellow Rain" finds.....

[HiTech RedNeck]

Couldn't hurt to unleash that kind of yellow rain upon Osama....

[backhoe]

Couldn't hurt to unleash that kind of yellow rain upon Osama....

If only we could recruit a flock of flying, urinating pigs, we'd have unconditional surrender inside of 24 hours.....

[ChaseR]

Absolutely Superb work backhoe! Thank you/bttt

[backhoe]

Thank you for the pings... and the kind words. I guess you can tell I used to write ad copy from my titles-

More seriously, while a lot of the things I cover are, naturally, subjects that interest me, I like to inform people and encourage them to educate themselves rather than rely on the filtered junk they get from the Tube or papers or magazines.

There was some excuse for being poorly informed in pre-web days- but there is no excuse now. Anyone with a phone line & computer can be a researcher at least as good as what you find in the press.

[Gritty]

Here is an excellent book on the subject.

Yellow Rain : A Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare

[ChaseR]

"...to educate themselves rather than rely on the filtered junk they get from the Tube or papers or magazines.'

BTTT

[UberVernunft]

"Yellow rain" does exist -- at least in South Florida. There are not that many big thunderstorms down here, but at least three times I have had white business shirts ruined by going in the rain for only a few seconds. Small yellow stains on the sleeves would became visible the next day. Whatever it was it would not wash out -- it almost seemed like an acid burn, but I really don't know. This happened near Fort Lauderdale.

This may not be the same "yellow rain" that you are referring to, but I thought I would mention it.

[LiberteeBell]

I like to inform people and encourage them to educate themselves rather than rely on the filtered junk they get from the Tube or papers or magazines.

Your efforts are appreciated!

[backhoe]

Thank you kindly- there's more generalized information here:

Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare- Survival Skills, Pt. II

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/896674/posts
Lethal Legacy: Bioweapons for Sale
Washington Post ^ | 04/20/03 | Joby Warrick and John Mintz
Here are some older files of mine:
-The Poor-Boy Nuke-- Bioterrorism***
The little shop of NBC Horrors-- Yellow Rain-

From the past:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/748153/posts
More Dead Scientists - Being A Microbiologist Is Dangerous To Your Health
Devvy.com ^ | April 21, 2002 | Devvy Kidd

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/678144/posts
Scientists' deaths are under the microscope
The Globe and Mail ^ | Saturday, May 4, 2002 | ALANNA MITCHELL