Saddam Hussein's Tested Weapons on Humans

DEBKAfile ^ | 8/2/03 | DEBKAfile

[TastyManatees]

From the DEBKAfile:

CIA Adviser Kay Amasses Evidence of Saddam’s WMD DEBKAfile Updates DEBKA-Net-Weekly 118 July 25 Exclusive August 2, 2003, 10:42 PM (GMT+02:00)

... One of the most horrendous discoveries so far is the secret graveyard of convicts abused as human guinea pigs of Saddam’s illegal programs. Kay sent a special team out to Baquba, northeast of Baghdad after a collection of videotapes was discovered in Iraqi central intelligence archives, on some of which Iraqi officers talked freely with dates and locations about prisoners and detainees subjected to biological and chemical weapons experiments. Some involved toxic chemicals or gases; others were infected with germs in varying quantities, their symptoms recorded from stage to stage until their death.

At Baguba, the burial site most frequently mentione, Kay’s scouts uncovered the remains of 3,000 men and women who had succumbed to mysterious causes of death. Autopsies and forensic examinations are in progress to establish these causes.

An important objective of the whirlwind tour of Iraq carried out by deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz last month was to match up the Kay team’s findings with the administration’s PR and political strategy initiatives. The former UN inspectors’ appearances before the Senate committees this week, together with published photos of Wolfowitz visiting Iraqi mass graves, were part of the administration’s new offensive. It signaled an attempt to shift the public debate away from the questions surrounding Iraqi WMD as the justification of war and focus it on the horrors of the overthrown regime’s reign of repression, terror and human rights crimes. Stress is being laid on exposing how a criminal regime applied forbidden weapons for clandestine experimentation on incarcerated victims, the unmarked mass graves providing strong evidence of the ex-ruler’s active development and use of non-conventional weapons against his own people.

This new strategy was unveiled by US secretary of state Colin Powell, when he talked to the editorial staff of the Washington Times on Tuesday, July 22. He said:

“As more graves are opened, as more mass killings are made known and as Mr. Kay completes his work in Iraq searching for the evidence needed to make clear to everybody that we knew what we were talking about with respect to weapons of mass destruction, I think this issue of what was in the State of the Union address will fade into insignificance.”

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[TastyManatees]

I can't vouch for the authenticity of this, but the source has been right in the past. In my mind, if it is true that Saddam tested his biological and chemical weapons on prisoners, this puts Saddam up into the same league as Hitler and Tojo. I knew before that he used them on rebellious Kurds and others, but to me this is even more sinister, because not even a flimsy military excuse can be made for gassing and murdering prisoners who pose no threat. Can't wait to see this come out in the mainstream media in a few months. Tasty Manatees

[Blood of Tyrants]

This doesn't matter. Where are the WMD's NOW? (/disgusted sarcasm)

[tallhappy]

I hard about his using people as guinea pigs at least five years ago.

I remember Dennis Prager talking about it on his radio show.

[ken5050]

In case you haven't noticed..YTony Blair is on vacation, and somewhat incommunicado.....now, all of a sudden, we have these blockbuster intelligence scoops from DEBKA...hmmmm?

[mvonfr]

In case you haven't noticed..YTony Blair is on vacation, and somewhat incommunicado.....now, all of a sudden, we have these blockbuster intelligence scoops from DEBKA...hmmmm?

Are you saying that Tony Blair is the monkey that types all the Debka scoops?

[TastyManatees]

What is the story with DEBKA, anyways? I've seen unbelievable inside info on the site, and I've also seen info that was unbelievable for a reason.
Tasty Manatees