First, I wasn't sure if this belonged here or in the Weapons forum. I decided on here since the weapon would seem to be the end-product of a pretty
extensive military & government project. Also, I couldn't find any threads on ATS dealing with this, but if anyone knows of any, please let me
know!
Israel and South Africa both apparently have confirmed research projects to develop gene-specific weapons (possibly continuing by Israel, discontinued
by South Africa and exposed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission). If reports are to be believed, in both cases the weapons general purpose
would be to target members of a specific ethnicity. Israel and South Africa worked together to develop their respective nuclear programs, so I'm
wondering if this too was a joint effort or more a case of parallel evolution. The US has also done some gene-specific weapons research, but not (it
seems) as extensively as the prior two countries.
The purpose of this post is to a.) bring people's awareness to this fact and invite comments, and b.) to ask if anyone knows more about this and
could post any links/info they may have?
Some websites/articles I found:
Israel
The intention is to use the ability of viruses and certain bacteria to alter the DNA inside their host's living cells. The scientists are trying to
engineer deadly micro-organisms that attack only those bearing the distinctive genes.
The programme is based at the biological institute in Nes Tziyona, the main research facility for Israel's clandestine arsenal of chemical and
biological weapons.
A scientist there said the task was hugely complicated because both Arabs and Jews are of semitic origin. But he added: "They have, however,
succeeded in pinpointing a particular characteristic in the genetic profile of certain Arab communities, particularly the Iraqi people." The disease
could be spread by spraying the organisms into the air or putting them in water supplies.
The research mirrors biological studies conducted by South African scientists during the apartheid era and revealed in testimony before the truth and
reconciliation commission.
Dedi Zucker, a member of knesset, the Israeli parliament, denounced the research yesterday. "Morally, based on our history, and our tradition and our
experience, such a weapon is monstrous and should be denied," he said.
Source: London Times, November 1998? Full article reprinted at:
www.jerusalem.indymedia.org...
Lots of info and links on all countries, but mainly Israel, here:
quantumfuture.net...
South Africa
Project Coast ground to a halt in 1988, due to corruption by Basson and
others. According to interviews with Project Coast scientists, between 1982
and 1987, Project Coast was advancing as a sophisticated program.113 Project Coast had acquired anthrax, cholera, botulinum, and other biological
agents, was planning to add a wing to RRL to produce massive amounts of anthrax, and was proceeding with genetic engineering research to produce germs
that would harm blacks and not whites.
Source: USAF Institute for National Security Studies,
www.usafa.af.mil...
United States
Past research on ethnic weapons has been rare. The last known attempt to create ethnic weapons was a widely condemned program conducted in the 1980s
by the apartheid regime of South Africa, which tried to develop an agent to selectively sterilize black women.
The new US malodorant program began in 1998 and is the first known US work on population-specific weapons since "Project Agile" in 1966. In Agile,
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) commissioned the Battelle Institute to assess the possibility of making malodorants to
specifically target Vietnamese people. Agile was short-lived and did not reach a laboratory phase.
Source: Sunshine Project,
www.sunshine-project.de...
-koji K.
[edit on 30-7-2004 by koji_K]
