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Cuba trading bio-chem tech with Iran, Iraq, Syria
WORLD TRIBUNE.COM ^
| June 11, 2002
| WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Posted on 06/12/2002 7:21:38 AM PDT by PoppingSmoke
WASHINGTON The United States has determined that Cuba is cooperating with such countries as Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Libya in the development of both biological and chemical weapons.
Assistant Secretary of State Carl Ford said Cuba both exports and imports weapons of mass destruction technology with Middle East rogue states. He said the United States has evidence of Cuban exports of dual-use biological weapons technology to Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya.
"So that while I'm concerned about what Cuba and its biotechnological capability may be providing other countries like Iran," Ford told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee last week, "I'm also concerned about their associations with countries that also have a chemical or biological warfare capability." U.S. officials said Libya and Syria have chemical weapons facilities and are especially interested in advancing their nascent biological weapons programs, Middle East Newsline reported.
"There can be an exchange of ideas, exchange of capabilities and [the U.S. is] watching very carefully what they're up to in Iran and Iraq, Syria, Libya, wherever else they may be talking to people," Ford said. Ford, who heads the intelligence and research section of the State Department, said Cuba has not provided technology for the weaponization of biological or chemical agents.
Cuba is a signatory to the Biological Weapons Convention. Officials said Havana possesses limited offensive biological warfare research and development capabilities, in what appears to be a violation of the treaty.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; bioterrorism; biowarfare; terrorism; war
Huuummm, President signs Bio-Terrorism bill this morning. I still do not know why we allow Castro to survive?????
To: PoppingSmoke
.......but.........but..........Jimmah Katah was just there and gave the Hero of the Revolution a clean bill of health.
To: PoppingSmoke
but but but Jimmy Carter said we had nothing to worry about!! (sarcasm off)
To: PoppingSmoke
Looks like the Axis of Evil just got another training wheel.
To: Sabertooth
I was watching 13 Days really early this morning around 4 am on Starz...never have seen it before. Costner is such an ass. Anyway, I was thinking to myself...all of this hand shaking we do with the Russians now and giving massive trade with China...we are in some big way digging our own grave.I mean this is not a new thought of mine but history speaks loud and Cuba is in no way harmless in my book.
To: PoppingSmoke
What bio-terrorism bill?
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posted on
06/12/2002 11:12:34 AM PDT
by
Mo1
To: PoppingSmoke
Assistant Secretary of State Carl Ford said Cuba both exports and imports weapons of mass destruction technology with Middle East rogue states. He said the United States has evidence of Cuban exports of dual-use biological weapons technology to Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya. Now wait a minute. If Carter told the world that Bush lied, and the Democrats want to get rid of Cuban sanctions.....who's side are they on, anyway?
To: PoppingSmoke
Cuban exports of dual-use biological weapons technology to Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya. Let's see. 10 nations will gather together in secret and destroy Babylon the Great. The country who forced political correctness on all others, the religion that places man above all other Gods. Hmmmm.
We have Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libia, Pakistan, .....
Forcing someone to think contrary to their conscience, their culture, and their beliefs creates hate. Hate creates violence. Violence creates war.
We need to get out of the UN and the PC business but fast! The left wants this countrys strength, wealth and power removed. It looks like they're getting it the hard way, and they'll lose a lot more than they planned.
"Anyone who takes the book of Revelations seriously should be considered dangerous." -- Bill Clinton.
To: Sabertooth
Looks like the Axis of Evil just got another training wheel. Interesting choice of words given the fact that -- in the wake of the Soviet Union's bump of 1000% to terrorism in the mid sixties and the Tri-Continental Conference of 1967 in Havana -- Cuba indeed was prime training ground for the global network of militant revolution.
Which revolution "does not make sense without terror" ... if the likes of Trotsky and Lenin can be believed.
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posted on
06/12/2002 12:07:12 PM PDT
by
Askel5
To: concerned about politics
"Now wait a minute. If Carter told the world that Bush lied, and the Democrats want to get rid of Cuban sanctions.....who's side are they on, anyway?"
It ain't just Democrats I am sorry to report....
To: KantianBurke
Following the move in 1993 by the State Department to place the Sudan on the list of state-sponsor terrorist nations Jimmy Carter appeared in Khartoum where he announced to one and all the State Department didn't know what it was talking about. In fact, Carter and his Carter Center did not know what THEY were talking about, and al-Qaida only benefitted from their stupidity. If Carter had stuck to curing river blindness in Africa he would be seen in a kindly light and might even have received a Nobel Prize. As it is, he is the "wrong-way Corrigen" of American politics.
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posted on
06/12/2002 2:47:00 PM PDT
by
gaspar
To: PoppingSmoke;all
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posted on
06/12/2002 5:06:09 PM PDT
by
backhoe
To: all, lavaroise, noswad, skemper
Khrushchev's pounding shoe, a 40 year strategic deception plan (launched 1961), an inconvenient KGB defector, "The Perestroika Deception" - an unheeded warning (1984), another European "armistice".... our Versailles (1989 - 1991), another Kemal (1991), The Trans-Asian Axis (1992), WTC1 (1993), OKC (1995), TWA800 (1996), Chinese $$$$ (1996), 2nd term of Slick the Red (1996), Missiles over Formosa (1996), The Fatwa (1998), Chinese $$$$$ (1999 - 2000), A near coup (2000), Testing Aracadia (2001), an ignored Axis joining (2001), 9/11 (2001), A duping misnamed as a treaty (2002).... Our "Locarno".... our utter disaster in the making
Take it or leave it, you no longer have the excuse of not having been informed.
To: belmont_mark, marmema, stavka2
Bump
To: zadomspremni
Bump
To: KantianBurke
jimmy farter...the back end of a reality detector!
To: all
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posted on
06/13/2002 6:21:36 PM PDT
by
WIMom
To: PoppingSmoke
I still do not know why we allow Castro to survive?????
If you figure that one out, please let me know.
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