US Army Patents Biological Weapons Delivery System

Hmmmm.... were we looking in the wrong country for Weapons of Mass Distraction????? Well, we always knew that the US government was happy to ignore and sidestep any laws or treaties that it found to be inconvenient...






Austin and Hamburg (8 May 2003) - The United States Army has developed and patented a new grenade that it says can be used to wage biowarfare. This is in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention, which explicitly prohibits development of bioweapons delivery devices.

US Patent #6,523,478, granted on February 25th 2003, covers a "rifle launched non lethal cargo dispenser" that is designed to deliver aerosols, including � according to the patent�s claims - �crowd control agents, biological agents, [and] chemical agents...�

The development of biological weapons delivery devices is absolutely prohibited - �in any circumstance� - by Article I of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, to which the US is a party. There is no exemption from this prohibition, neither for defensive purposes nor for so called non-lethal agents.

�The development of weapons for biological payloads produces great uncertainty about the US commitment to the Biological Weapons Convention.� says Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project US, �Thirty four years after the US renunciation of biological weapons, the Pentagon is back in the bioweapons business.�

www.sunshine-project.org...

It is allowed because in the article it says non lethal.

Dragon.

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......did someone say hipocrasy?????

[Edited on 3-9-2003 by omega1]