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Cr@p! Gadhafi armed al-Qaeda with germ bombs: report
London, Dec 28. (PTI): Libyan leader Maommar Gadhafi, who recently abandoned his country's weapons of mass destruction programme, had armed al-Qaeda terror network with germ bombs, a report claimed today.
I've never heard the term 'germ bomb' before?
More on germ bombs:
(eerily published on sept. 10, 2001)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,549172,00.html Britain ordered germ bombs in cold war
Anthrax and plague bacteria tested for 'biological retaliation'
The government secretly ordered the production of 10,000 biological cluster bombs in the cold war to carry 7,000 disease-carrying bomblets towards Soviet targets, a British researcher has revealed.
The bombs, intended to contain "the most effective biological agent for the incapacitation of workers," were ordered by the government's air staff in 1946 under the project codename Red Admiral. They were due to be ready by 1957, ostensibly as retaliation in the event of a Soviet biological weapon attack on Britain.
Red Admiral was cancelled in 1954, before the bombs had been built, but not before extensive trials of toxins and viruses had been carried out using live animals on the sea off Lewis in the Hebrides, Antigua, and the Bahamas.
Recently de-classified documents unearthed by Brian Balmer, a specialist in science policy at University College London, revealed that for years after the second world war, biological weapons were seen by the defence establishment as potentially equal in destructive power and usefulness to nuclear weapons.
In one report from 1947, military strategists wrote that "botulism toxin dropped into reservoirs and the infection of natural fauna of such areas, eg rats, dogs and cats, with bubonic plague, rabies etc, are all suitable methods of attack".
