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Israeli intel expert: Virus likely 'unnatural'
Washington Times ^ | By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Posted on 01/11/2021 9:41:32 PM PST by 11th_VA

Retired Israeli Lt. Col. Dany Shoham, who was among the first to suggest that the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak may be linked to China’s military research, now believes there is a strong possibility that the virus escaped from a Chinese laboratory.

Col. Shoham stated in an article published last month that the initial theory that the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic occurred naturally is coming under strong doubt by both scientists and intelligence analysts.

The former senior intelligence analyst for the Israel Defense Forces and Defense Ministry is a microbiologist and expert on chemical and biological warfare who has studied the matter.

According to Col. Shoham, the probability of human intervention in creating the coronavirus is higher than naturally occurring, spontaneous evolutionary adaptation. However, Chinese secrecy, deception and obfuscation about the virus origin are preventing spies and scientists from learning where the virus outbreak began.

“The genomic origin of the index virus (the strain that infected patient zero) has been determined to be a Chinese bat virus that underwent extensive pre-adaptation to humans, including continual transmissibility, prior to infecting patient zero,” Col. Shoham, now with the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, an Israeli think tank, wrote in a journal article.

“The open question is how, where, and when such exceptional genomic pre-adaptation took place,” he stated.

The debate over the virus origin has the potential for explosive disclosures, he said, yet intelligence agencies around the world so far have remained largely silent...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bcw; china; covid19
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1 posted on 01/11/2021 9:41:32 PM PST by 11th_VA
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RE: now believes there is a strong possibility that the virus escaped from a Chinese laboratory.

We’ve all known that for months. The only question is — was it accidentally released, or was it deliberately released?


2 posted on 01/11/2021 9:45:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: 11th_VA

lie, lie, lie...lie, lie, lie...lie, lie, lie, lie la, la, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1VUWDcp5Sg


3 posted on 01/11/2021 9:47:57 PM PST by PGalt
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RE: the probability of human intervention in creating the coronavirus is higher than naturally occurring

Remember her?

Dr. Yan Li-Meng with Tucker Carlson

She wrote two papers telling us that the virus was CREATED in a Wuhan Lab. What this Israeli expert says simply corroborates what she has been telling us since she escaped from Hong Kong.
4 posted on 01/11/2021 9:49:17 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: 11th_VA

Where is that skinny, overdressed Captain Obvious guy with the big beard and the knowing nod?


5 posted on 01/11/2021 9:50:21 PM PST by lee martell ( )
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6 posted on 01/11/2021 9:55:08 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: SeekAndFind

I believe that it was a bioweapon that would have been used if necessary by the Chicoms but sloppy procedures caused its premature release.

It could be that it was going to be used for economic destruction in the future or a work in progress that was meant to be far deadlier.

All I know is that is was made in a lab in Wuhan and was released in the most ham-handed, incompetent manner.


7 posted on 01/11/2021 9:55:31 PM PST by Crucial ( )
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To: 11th_VA

Yes the virus did escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with infected Huang Yanling. By the way, where the hell is Huang Yanling? Where is “Bat Woman?” What the . . .!


8 posted on 01/11/2021 9:57:43 PM PST by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: SeekAndFind

yep we’ve know for almost a year

and that lab got millions from fauxci’s group, about 3.7 million as those articles reported then


9 posted on 01/11/2021 9:59:32 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: GraceG

That’s him. Thank you Grace. Maybe he can get their minds right in Israel. They don’t usually need any help.


10 posted on 01/11/2021 10:00:05 PM PST by lee martell ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

wonder how long tucker will be allowed on air


11 posted on 01/11/2021 10:00:07 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 11th_VA

Gee, maybe if we go to war with China over a virus (man made or not) it will unite us all. Then everyone is happy. And as a bonus we can turn China into a communist nation along with America and the world under one UN government. It’s win win win!


12 posted on 01/11/2021 10:05:22 PM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: 11th_VA

I see that Captain Obvious was promoted to Lt. Col. Congratulations!


13 posted on 01/11/2021 10:09:07 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”)
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Anyone remember reading that the vaccine was figured out a few days after the dna genome was figured out. Sorry if I don’t have all the words right. I usually get the main concept correct. So, this is worse than we thought. President Trump better have a bunch of MOABS up his sleeve. If anybody can pull this off, it’s him.


14 posted on 01/11/2021 10:09:47 PM PST by Pigsley
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The most damning info is that this virus exhibits some novel traits difficult to explain though any evolution via natural selection and anything attributed to random mutation .

Many of these unique attributes are documented in scholarly research papers published in the last 15 years, many originating out of gain function research projects.

15 posted on 01/11/2021 10:12:01 PM PST by rdcbn1 (e)
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To: 11th_VA

NO SH!T SHERLOCK.

/caps


16 posted on 01/11/2021 10:19:30 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: 11th_VA

Well, anyway you look at it, it certainly done a number on the economies in the west and to some extend may have helped to defeat Trump along with a fraudulent election. It could have been easily a tool of biological warfare by China and so far it appeared to have worked quite well for them for this purpose, if it was done on purpose or not..


17 posted on 01/11/2021 10:26:48 PM PST by saintgermaine (THE TIME TRAVELLER )
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To: SeekAndFind

She also said it was an intentional release.


18 posted on 01/11/2021 10:30:57 PM PST by Revel
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To: SeekAndFind

You would only deliberately release it...if you had the vaccine that works. China hasn’t proven that they have that magic vaccine.

Course, there is the other scenario that some antigovernmental people in China got fed up with the system, and figured ‘what-the-hell’...let the virus take down the government.


19 posted on 01/11/2021 10:52:44 PM PST by pepsionice
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Oh yeah it “escaped”. We don’t want to accuse them of releasing it deliberately, shutting down all local travel and encouraging international travel. No, it escaped and accidentally caused the world to react as if there was a threat of mass casualties, shutting down the best economic period in modern history while America was waging a trade war, and winning. Is America going to have a trade war now?


20 posted on 01/11/2021 10:56:41 PM PST by webheart (I am now done with COVID. It was not worth the economic misery that it took to keep me from getting.)
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