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AMERICAN GULF WAR VETERANS ASSOCIATION.
EDUCATE YOURSELF
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KNOWLEDGE IS YOUR POWER
POWER TO THE PEOPLE !
If you are a truth seeker, a researcher, writer,
active-duty military or law enforcement, Gulf Veteran or veteran of any war, a
constitutionist, American Patriot, radio Host, reporter, owner of an
informational health, vaccine, or any website - ANYWHERE in the world, read on.
YOU are going to prove something to yourself.
Perhaps you've been listening to radio shows, surfing the web and your eyeballs
falling out of their sockets. You are overwhelmed and burned out. Maybe you are
a 9/11 researcher, or just plane-Jane SusieQ home-maker with your 1.2 children
and Volvo in the driveway.
You are asking yourself - why should you be concerned
about a war which took place 15-years ago, after all, what about 9/11-WTC, the
Gulf War is old news and besides, there are so many websites about Iraq, Gulf
War Syndrome issues, what's the big deal here? Glad you are asking.
So you begin to understand, every act of tyranny and
oppression that has
advanced since 1990 is routed in and from Desert Storm, or the triune symbology;
Desert
Shield,
Desert
Storm,
Desert
Saber - the blood sacrifice
and reigning in of the New World Order.
Now if you want to do something about Chemtrails,
forced Vaccinations, Mandatory mental health screening, Drugging pre-school age
children, The Patriot Act, 9/11, etceteras, this is where you start - this is the
key.
Rather than you having to believe what you read, how
about "knowing", so start here by proving to yourself that there is a MASSIVE
WORLD CONSPIRACY
to conceal evidence and truths you
should know about.
There are hundreds of books written about the Persian
Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, Gulf War Syndrome, Gulf Illness, to include
movies-videos, radio shows into the thousands of thousands, speakers at
preparedness expos and the like, and not a single one of these "worldwide"
refers to the name; Peter Kawaja (Habib Peter Kawaja), and every one of
these books and "experts" or radio show hosts claim to have done research.
So if you find out that EVERY one of these (worldwide)
is a deception and disinformation, every radio show host, every speaker or
person holding themselves out to be "knowledgeable" on the subject or have done
research - would you not be in shock and awe? What would it take to steer every
writer who has authored a book, every speaker, every talk-show host, every
journalist WORLDWIDE? The information would have to be so
damaging, it would have to parallel the statement made to Peter Kawaja in 1991 by the Financial Times
(London) and ABC-Nightline producers; "we do not wish to topple the entire
UNITED STATES government".
For years you've been listening to broadcasts like Art Bell, now Coast to Coast,
Jeff Rense, Alex Jones, The Power Hour and a slew of others to include all
the paytriot stations like WWCR, Genesis Radio, American
Voice Radio, - ALL, much more to list, and each one of these "stations or
talk-show hosts" HAVE IN FACT covered GWS and told you they were bringing
you the truth by exposing a government cover up and presented to you, either or both; Joyce
Riley or Garth Nicolson, as well as a series of other misleader minions.
Yet none of these stations or hosts, with the exception
of Jackie Patru (Sweet Liberty) have told you about Peter Kawaja.
There have been several who have tried, like Abbie Bakaric and numerous others
(all threatened that their children would be raped/sodomized or worse - or their
shows cancelled), and most recently in 2004, someone who worked inside the Power
Hour for about a year, Linda Kennedy - who like Jackie Patru, has been censored
BY THEIR STATIONS - and these radio stations claim to be patriotic and
American or Christian (but not).
WHY would every radio host DELIBERATELY misrepresent
the truth, hide it from you and present to you an alternative storyline? It
isn't that they did not know about the subject matter or that they never heard
about Peter Kawaja, it is that they all (like all the book authors) made a
conscious decision to mislead you and commit TREASON against America.
This is the tip of the iceberg. I have not yet
laid my charges ( BUT WILL BE DOING SO IN UPCOMING INTERNET WAR CRIMES
TRIALS ON
ATG radio), but surely at this point you have to ask yourself if this
is true or not, and you must want the answer or you are brain dead.
HOW can you prove it to yourself?
Here's how: Take
the position as-if you are going to write a book. You have decided you want to
write a book about Desert Storm and Saddam's WMD. You know nothing, you
have no background, you are not a veteran, you are a college student doing this
research.
Start at this point; January 1990,
before Desert Storm
and work your way through searches through to 1991, then of course you can do a
further check from 1991 through today.
You will be amazed that you will not find any Gulf War
information from, or the names of, Nicolson or Riley mentioned in ANY newspaper,
radio, or TV - until 1995 right after the Murrah Building bombing.
BUT - you will find mainstream media information on
Peter Kawaja and the PIT plant in Boca Raton, Florida. Here is your first
reality check eye opener. Although much of the news articles are no longer
available, there are enough left which can be found and all document that the
key-main person appearing in newspapers (see below) such as Miami Herald, Palm
Beach Post, Dallas Morning News (and a slew of others) as well as on
ABC-Nightline with Ted Koppel, and the Financial Times of London is; yes - PETER
KAWAJA.
Now you are asking yourself, self - if before and
during the Gulf War, mainstream press and TV covered WEAPONS OF MASS
DESTRUCTION, and specifically, IRAQ and the arming of Iraq and Saddam's WMD, and
in untold numbers of these media stories was the name of Peter Kawaja, how
is it that if he was talked about in so many news articles, that he
"disappeared" or was MADE TO DISAPPEAR from history when every "researcher" who wrote
books about Desert Storm or Saddam from 1991 to present, NEVER MENTIONED Peter
Kawaja.
Yet these same authors, radio show hosts, et al,
all told you they did research, they investigated the information and you should
buy their book or their video, or listen to their shows and buy their products
to support their radio shows and to help veterans. (puke).
Once again, it is not that all these researchers did
not find my name, it is that they deliberately misled you all these years!
EVERY ONE OF THEM, and they still continue to mislead you today, so they have
their books published-sold, or so they can be touted as "knowledgeable" by
and be on of the cult who are protecting the perpetrators-enemies of America.
Below is just ONE search I performed on January 26,
2005. But since these newspapers or the search company charges for
each document, to retrieve them in full, how about you helping yourself and
America (and the world) by donating some money to my
AGWVA group and I will buy
the articles and publish them on this website. My search string was; Peter
Kawaja and GWS. You can use similar; Peter Kawaja and Desert Storm (or WMD,
or PIT, etc).
[ also do yourself a favor - as I stated, try and find
ONE article in the entire world on Garth Nicolson or Joyce Riley - as relates to
GWS, prior to 1994/1995. You cannot - they do not exist, never did. ]
$500.00 should get us enough documents. These few
headers below are from the results which were 200 pages each containing 25
headers, so what you see below is the tip of the iceberg.
NOW YOU WILL BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND - there is an ongoing
conspiracy to conceal holocaust mass murder war crimes, and most all the people
you have been trusting as your source of truth - are liars and deceivers elite.
This page will
be updated with more information.
Please spread the word about this website.
Help yourself and help America.
Peter Kawaja - KEEPING THE FAITH!
http://www.dswcc.com/JoyceRiley.htm < one audio file.
Documents:
Sample-1,
Sample-2,
Sample-3
American Gulf War Veterans Association: P.O. Box
213, Fellsmere, FL 32948.
SEARCH RESULTS MADE ON JANUARY 26, 2005
| 62. |
The
Palm Beach Post - September 20, 1990
DEADLY CYANIDE GAS EASY TO MAKE BUT CHEMICAL EXPERTS SAY BOCA FIRM'S
BYPRODUCTS WON'T KILL GIS |
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Converting the byproduct of a cherry
flavoring oil into hydrogen cyanide, a deadly gas used in World War I
and the Nazi gas chambers of WWII, is a simple process known to most
graduate chemistry students. Federal officials are investigating whether
the byproduct-- ferric ferrocyanide-- made its way from a local flavor
manufacturer to chemical weapons producers in the Middle East. Although
U.S. chemical weapons experts consider the compound an archaic weapon, a
London paper has...
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| 60. |
The
Dallas Morning News - September 17, 1990
Partners say Iraqi used firms U.S. technology may have gone to Libya |
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Dr. Ihsan Barbouti appeared the model
of the international venture capitalist. From his headquarters in London
at 74 Sloane, he traveled freely from Europe to South America and the
United States. He held companies in Italy, Germany and Liechtenstein and
bank accounts in Paris, Switzerland and Uruguay, according to court
records and interviews. Most of what he owned carried the imprint of IBI,
for Ihsan Barbouti International. The logo, he often said, was meant to
evoke the image of...
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| 89. |
The Palm
Beach Post - September 15, 1991
TREAT OR TREASON? RUMORS FLY ON BOCA FLAVORING FIRM |
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In the year since a Boca Raton cherry
flavoring plant was linked to an international chemical weapons plot, wild
speculation and active investigations have done little to produce answers.
The factory, financed by Iraqi-born businessman Ihsan Barbouti and
operated by Boca Raton flavor and fragrance entrepreneur Louis Champon,
produced natural cherry flavoring made from the crushed pits of stone
fruit, such as apricots. A byproduct of the process was ferric
ferrocyanide, a harmless...
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| 76. |
St.
Petersburg Times - January 27, 1991
Iraqi tied to poison gas, military parts smuggling |
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Federal prosecutors who suspect an
Iraqi businessman smuggled poison gas supplies to Iraq also charge he sold
military spare parts to Libya while a trade embargo was in effect. Details
of Ihsan Barbouti's Libyan arms deal were disclosed Friday in a forfeiture
hearing before U.S. District Judge Stanley Marcus. Federal prosecutors are
seeking to seize an $800,000 commission paid to a middleman in the deal.
In a parallel case in New York, prosecutors have moved to forfeit the...
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| 61. |
Houston
Chronicle - NOVEMBER 22, 1991
Feds seek to halt Iraqi family from interfering with inquiry |
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Citing national interests, the U.S.
Department of Justice is seeking to restrain an Iraqi family and their
attorneys from using litigation to interfere with an investigation of
alleged illegal exports to Iraq and Libya. Federal prosecutors are to
argue before U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes today that Dr. Ihsan
Barbouti's family is using litigation in state court "to harass and
intimidate federal witnesses. "The Customs Service is investigating
allegations that Barbouti and...
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| 61. |
Rocky
Mountain News (CO) - February 1, 1991
U.S. FIRMS HELPED IRAQ BUILD UP ARSENAL WESTERN NATIONS PROMOTED TRADE
DURING THE 1980S |
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In the war against Iraq, the United
States and its allies face a powerful military arsenal that is largely of
their own making. From the mid-1980s until Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2,
the U.S. and other Western countries knowingly and unknowingly aided
Saddam Hussein's program to build one of the world's most powerful
arsenals. Companies from Unisys Inc. in Minnesota to a tiny
cherry-flavoring factory in Florida may have played a role in Saddam's
schemes. Sometimes the...
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Star
Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities - January 14, 1991
U.S. to blame for Iraq's arsenal of weapons |
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If it comes to war against Iraq, the
United States and its allies will face a powerful military arsenal that is
largely of their own making. If Iraq uses biological or chemical weapons
against American troops, several U.S. and German companies deserve blame
for making it possible. Should the Iraqis fire missiles at U.S. forces,
U.S.-designed systems may guide them to their targets. And some of the
warheads on those missiles may carry a "Fuel Air Explosive"...
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| 91. |
Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA) - September 16, 1990
IRAQI'S FLORIDA PLANT HAS POISON GAS LINK |
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The Iraqi architect of a Libyan
chemical weapons complex invested $5million in a Florida cherry flavoring
plant in an apparent effort to stockpile and export cyanide compounds that
could be used as toxic weapons. Former associates of Dr. Ihsan Barbouti
said the Iraqi financier used his investment to establish a front through
which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide - and the technology to
produce it - to the control of Middle Eastern countries identified by the
U.S. government as...
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Miami
Herald, The (FL) - September 16, 1990
FLORIDA PLANT LINKED TO PLAN TO EXPORT CYANIDE TO IRAQ |
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The Iraqi architect of a Libyan
chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Boca Raton cherry
flavoring plant in an apparent bid to export cyanide to the Middle East, a
newspaper reported today. Two former associates said financier Ihsan
Barbouti, now deceased, used the plant to establish a front through which
he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide and the technology to produce it
in quantity, The Dallas Morning News reported. The former associates said
Barbouti sought to export...
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| 90. |
San Jose
Mercury News (CA) - September 16, 1990
CYANIDE EXPORT SCHEME REPORTED |
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The Iraqi architect of a Libyan
chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Florida cherry-flavoring
plant in an apparent bid to export cyanide to the Middle East, the Dallas
Morning News reported today. Two former associates said the late financier
Dr. Ihsan Barbouti used the Boca Raton plant to establish a front through
which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide and the technology to
produce it in quantity, the newspaper reported. The former associates said
Barbouti sought to...
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| 90. |
Boston
Globe - September 16, 1990
IRAQI ALLEGED TO TRY EXPORT OF US CYANIDE TO MIDEAST |
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DALLAS -- The Iraqi architect of a
Libyan chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Florida cherry
flavoring plant in an apparent bid to export cyanide to the Middle East, a
newspaper reports in today's editions. Two former associates said deceased
financier Dr. Ihsan Barbouti used the Boca Raton plant to establish a
front through which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide and the
technology to produce it in quantity, The Dallas Morning News reports. The
former associates...
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| 90. |
Rocky
Mountain News (CO) - September 16, 1990
FLA. PLANT IS LINKED TO POISON ARMS IRAQI ARCHITECT REPORTEDLY TRIED TO
EXPORT CYANIDE |
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The Iraqi architect of a Libyan
chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Florida cherry-flavoring
plant in an apparent bid to export cyanide to the Middle East, a newspaper
reported in today's editions. Two former associates said deceased
financier Dr. Ihsan Barbouti used the Boca Raton plant to establish a
front through which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide and the
technology to produce it in quantity, the Dallas Morning News reported.
The former associates said...
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| 90. |
The Tampa
Tribune - September 16, 1990
Iraqi architect's Florida plant tied to poison gas; export of chemical
feared |
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BOCA RATON -- The Iraqi architect of a
Libyan chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Florida
cherry-flavoring plant in an apparent effort to stockpile and export
cyanide compounds that could be used as toxic weapons. Former associates
of Ihsan Barbouti's said the Iraqi financier used his investment to
establish a front through which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide --
and the technology to produce it -- to the control of Middle Eastern
countries identified by the...
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| 89. |
The Daily
Oklahoman - September 18, 1990
Florida Plant Reported Used to Export Cyanide |
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DALLAS (AP) _ The Iraqi architect of a
Libyan chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Florida cherry
flavoring plant in an apparent bid to export cyanide to the Middle East, a
newspaper reported in Sunday's editions. Two former associates said
deceased financier Dr. Ihsan Barbouti used the Boca Raton plant to
establish a front through which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide
and the technology to produce it in quantity, The Dallas Morning News
reported.Barbouti...
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| 87. |
The
Dallas Morning News - October 12, 1990
U.S. agents seize $3 million from Iraqi's account |
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Federal agents have seized $3 million
deposited in a bank account by a mysterious Iraqi broker who, the
government claims, violated federal law by shipping aircraft parts from
the United States to Libya. The late Ihsan Barbouti, the London-based
architect who had designed the chemical weapons plant in Rabta, Libya,
wired the $3 million to Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. in New York to
finance the illegal export of the aircraft parts, according to a federal
seizure complaint filed in New...
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| 87. |
Miami
Herald, The (FL) - September 18, 1990
AGENTS SCOUR BOCA FACTORY FOR CYANIDE CHEMICALS LINKED TO LIBYAN
SHIPMENTS |
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Three U.S. Customs agents searched a
Boca Raton chemical plant Monday for clues to the whereabouts of seven
cyanide- filled barrels allegedly shipped to Germany for use in a Libyan
chemical weapons plant. The agents, who spent about 45 minutes rifling
through papers in what was left of a flavoring and fragrance plant,
refused to comment on the investigation. They had met earlier Monday with
the company's owners. "We're just one phase of it," said William Biossat,...
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| 87. |
The
Dallas Morning News - September 16, 1990
Iraqi's Florida plant tied to poison gas Export of chemical feared;
U.S. investigates |
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BOCA RATON, Fla. -- The Iraqi
architect of a Libyan chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a
Florida cherry flavoring plant in an apparent effort to stockpile and
export cyanide compounds that could be used as toxic weapons. Former
associates of Dr. Ihsan Barbouti's said the Iraqi financier used his
investment to establish a front through which he could export deadly
hydrogen cyanide -- and the technology to produce it -- to the control of
Middle East countries identified by...
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| 86. |
The Palm
Beach Post - September 30, 1990
BOCA MAN SHRUGS OFF DEBTS, TIES TO IRAQ BOCA BUSINESSMAN SHRUGS OFF
IRAQ TIES AND MONEY PROBLEMS |
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* More than a dozen lawsuits in New
Jersey accuse him of dodging debts for such items as laboratory supplies,
rent, even magazine subscriptions.* He has alienated his 14 siblings.* And
now U.S Customs agents are investigating his ties to an Iraqi businessman
who designed a chemical weapons manufacturing plant in Libya.Today,
Champon's...
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| 86. |
The
Dallas Morning News - September 17, 1990
Partners say Iraqi used firms U.S. technology may have gone to Libya |
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Dr. Ihsan Barbouti appeared the model
of the international venture capitalist. From his headquarters in London
at 74 Sloane, he traveled freely from Europe to South America and the
United States. He held companies in Italy, Germany and Liechtenstein and
bank accounts in Paris, Switzerland and Uruguay, according to court
records and interviews. Most of what he owned carried the imprint of IBI,
for Ihsan Barbouti International. The logo, he often said, was meant to
evoke the image of...
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| 73. |
Boston
Globe - September 16, 1990
IRAQI ALLEGED TO TRY EXPORT OF US CYANIDE TO MIDEAST |
|
| |
DALLAS -- The Iraqi architect of a
Libyan chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Florida cherry
flavoring plant in an apparent bid to export cyanide to the Middle East, a
newspaper reports in today's editions. Two former associates said deceased
financier Dr. Ihsan Barbouti used the Boca Raton plant to establish a
front through which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide and the
technology to produce it in quantity, The Dallas Morning News reports. The
former associates...
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| 70. |
The
Dallas Morning News - September 17, 1990
Partners say Iraqi used firms U.S. technology may have gone to Libya |
|
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Dr. Ihsan Barbouti appeared the model
of the international venture capitalist. From his headquarters in London
at 74 Sloane, he traveled freely from Europe to South America and the
United States. He held companies in Italy, Germany and Liechtenstein and
bank accounts in Paris, Switzerland and Uruguay, according to court
records and interviews. Most of what he owned carried the imprint of IBI,
for Ihsan Barbouti International. The logo, he often said, was meant to
evoke the image of...
Purchase Complete Article, of 4228 words |
| 68. |
The
Dallas Morning News - September 16, 1990
Iraqi's Florida plant tied to poison gas Export of chemical feared;
U.S. investigates |
|
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BOCA RATON, Fla. -- The Iraqi
architect of a Libyan chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a
Florida cherry flavoring plant in an apparent effort to stockpile and
export cyanide compounds that could be used as toxic weapons. Former
associates of Dr. Ihsan Barbouti's said the Iraqi financier used his
investment to establish a front through which he could export deadly
hydrogen cyanide -- and the technology to produce it -- to the control of
Middle East countries identified by...
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| 66. |
Miami
Herald, The (FL) - September 16, 1990
FLORIDA PLANT LINKED TO PLAN TO EXPORT CYANIDE TO IRAQ |
|
| |
The Iraqi architect of a Libyan
chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Boca Raton cherry
flavoring plant in an apparent bid to export cyanide to the Middle East, a
newspaper reported today. Two former associates said financier Ihsan
Barbouti, now deceased, used the plant to establish a front through which
he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide and the technology to produce it
in quantity, The Dallas Morning News reported. The former associates said
Barbouti sought to export...
Purchase Complete Article, of 563 words |
| 66. |
San Jose
Mercury News (CA) - September 16, 1990
CYANIDE EXPORT SCHEME REPORTED |
|
| |
The Iraqi architect of a Libyan
chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Florida cherry-flavoring
plant in an apparent bid to export cyanide to the Middle East, the Dallas
Morning News reported today. Two former associates said the late financier
Dr. Ihsan Barbouti used the Boca Raton plant to establish a front through
which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide and the technology to
produce it in quantity, the newspaper reported. The former associates said
Barbouti sought to...
Purchase Complete Article, of 569 words |
| 63. |
The Daily
Oklahoman - September 18, 1990
Florida Plant Reported Used to Export Cyanide |
|
| |
DALLAS (AP) _ The Iraqi architect of a
Libyan chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Florida cherry
flavoring plant in an apparent bid to export cyanide to the Middle East, a
newspaper reported in Sunday's editions. Two former associates said
deceased financier Dr. Ihsan Barbouti used the Boca Raton plant to
establish a front through which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide
and the technology to produce it in quantity, The Dallas Morning News
reported. Barbouti...
Purchase Complete Article, of 754 words |
| 59. |
Rocky
Mountain News (CO) - September 16, 1990
FLA. PLANT IS LINKED TO POISON ARMS IRAQI ARCHITECT REPORTEDLY TRIED TO
EXPORT CYANIDE |
|
| |
The Iraqi architect of a Libyan
chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Florida cherry-flavoring
plant in an apparent bid to export cyanide to the Middle East, a newspaper
reported in today's editions. Two former associates said deceased
financier Dr. Ihsan Barbouti used the Boca Raton plant to establish a
front through which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide and the
technology to produce it in quantity, the Dallas Morning News reported.
The former associates said...
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| 58. |
Houston
Chronicle - OCTOBER 21, 1990
Real estate holdings tied to Iraqi, son U.S. probes Houston deals |
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A late Iraqi businessman - accused of
designing a chemical weapons plant and illegally exporting aircraft parts
to Libya - and his eldest son appear to have invested tens of millions of
dollars in high-profile Houston commercial real estate. Money for the
purchases has made its way to Houston through Dr. Ihsan Barbouti - an
alleged Libyan arms broker whose son, Haidar Barbouti, 23, continues to
acquire property and conduct business here, according to former business
associates who have...
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| 56. |
Miami
Herald, The (FL) - September 18, 1990
AGENTS SCOUR BOCA FACTORY FOR CYANIDE CHEMICALS LINKED TO LIBYAN
SHIPMENTS |
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Three U.S. Customs agents searched a
Boca Raton chemical plant Monday for clues to the whereabouts of seven
cyanide- filled barrels allegedly shipped to Germany for use in a Libyan
chemical weapons plant. The agents, who spent about 45 minutes rifling
through papers in what was left of a flavoring and fragrance plant,
refused to comment on the investigation. They had met earlier Monday with
the company's owners."We're just one phase of it," said William Biossat,...
Purchase Complete Article, of 704 words |
| 50. |
The Tampa
Tribune - September 16, 1990
Iraqi architect's Florida plant tied to poison gas; export of chemical
feared |
|
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BOCA RATON -- The Iraqi architect of a
Libyan chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Florida
cherry-flavoring plant in an apparent effort to stockpile and export
cyanide compounds that could be used as toxic weapons. Former associates
of Ihsan Barbouti's said the Iraqi financier used his investment to
establish a front through which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide --
and the technology to produce it -- to the control of Middle Eastern
countries identified by the...
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| 49. |
The San
Diego Union - September 16, 1990
Toxic weapons said goal of cherry plant investor |
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BOCA RATON, Fla. -- The Iraqi
architect of a Libyan chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a
Florida cherry flavoring plant in an apparent effort to stockpile and
export cyanide compounds that could be used as toxic weapons. Former
associates of Dr. Ihsan Barbouti's said the Iraqi financier used his
investment to establish a front through which he could export deadly
hydrogen cyanide -- and the technology to produce it -- to the control of
Middle Eastern countries identified by...
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| 47. |
Miami
Herald, The (FL) - September 23, 1990
IRAQI BUSINESSMAN LINKED TO LIBYAN PLANE PARTS DEAL |
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Iraqi businessman Ihsam Barbouti,
linked to the alleged exportation of a cyanide solution from a Boca Raton
firm to Libya, may also have been trying to ship $3 million worth of
highly advanced airplane parts to the Mideast country. Barbouti, architect
of a chemical weapons plant in Rabta, Libya, sued a Greek parts dealer in
Dade County Circuit Court in 1989 for allegedly failing to ship the parts
as promised. "The parts involved in this transaction were United States
origin aircraft...
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| 46. |
Owensboro
Messenger-Inquirer (KY) - December 16, 1990
support for troops, war quite different |
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U.S. Sen. Wendell Ford's position on the role of U.S. troops in the
Mideast should dispel any notion that support for the troops
automatically translates into support for war. Like most Americans, Ford
feels for the individual men and women stationed in Saudi Arabi. But he
opposes a war initiated by the United States. Marvin Peter, who started
''Lights on the Ohio'' in Evansville, Owensboro and Henderson, also
understands the distinction between support for the...
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Salt Lake Tribune, The (UT) - November 16, 1990
Utah Peace Efforts Aim To Prevent Gulf War |
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Local peace organizations are
answering the Persian Gulf crisis with a letter-writing campaign and
meetings with the Utah congressional delegation aimed at keeping the
situation from snowballing into a war. Leaders of various groups say
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Habib
Peter Kawaja
http://www.google.com/search?q=Habib+Peter+Kawaja&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=
0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
INOCULATIONS: THE TRUE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION CAUSING VIDS ...
We have found a true leader in Habib Peter Kawaja. If you
do nothing, before long
highly trained Special Operations commandos with state of the art weaponry
...
These charges also surround covert counter-terrorism activities
in a lawsuit (go to www.agwva.org/mission.htm) brought by Peter Kawaja and the
International Security Group, Inc., (1994) as Plaintiffs v. various [named]
Agents (agencies/US attorneys etc) of the U.S. Government and 100 John Does
(Bush Administration), and will also be submitted to the People of the United
States and the World in the aforementioned internet trial to be conducted in the
Spring of 2005. The charges laid in Kawaja's suit have never been refuted by the
accused. Instead, the United States Government made a determination to appoint
the US Attorney's Office to represent the Defendants, thereby admitting to the
criminalities (and guilt). This decision to appoint "government" attorneys and
the U.S. Attorney's Office to represent the Defendants was made after an initial
response to the Plaintiff (Kawaja) filing Suit, and places these individuals,
sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and defend against
terrorists (whether foreign or domestic) into the defendant’s box as well.
INOCULATIONS: THE TRUE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION CAUSING VIDS
(VACCINE INDUCED DISEASES) (AN EPIDEMIC OF GENOCIDE) by Rebecca Carley, M.D.
Court Qualified Expert in VIDS and Legal Abuse Syndrome January 2005 “One basic
truth can be used as a foundation for a mountain of lies, and if we dig down
deep enough in the mountain of lies, and bring out that truth, to set it on top
of the mountain of lies; the entire mountain of lies will crumble under the
weight of that one truth. And there is nothing more devastating to a structure
of lies than the revelation of the truth upon which the structure of lies was
built, because the shock waves of the revelation of the truth reverberate, and
continue to reverberate throughout the Earth for generations to follow,
awakening even those people who had no desire to be awakened to the truth.” (by
Delamar Duvaris as written in the preface of “Behold the Pale Horse” by William
Cooper).
The most heinous, bone chilling and evil piece of this puzzle
has been revealed to the world by an American hero named Habib Peter Kawaja, who
worked in the late 1980’s as a security and counter terrorism expert for the
United States government (a service for which he has been rewarded with the
murder of his wife, torching of his home, issuance of a War Powers Act search
warrant to (they thought) confiscate all his evidence, illegal IRS liens on all
subsequent income, and multiple attempts on his own life, all funded by YOUR tax
dollars). Please go to www.agwva.org/mission.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Research Agenda Development
http://www.google.com/search?q=Habib+Peter+Kawaja&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=
0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
The Betrayal of Americans continues
THE ULTIMATE VETERANS
DAY INSULT - 1990
EVIDENCE SEIZED FROM PETER KAWAJA AT GUNPOINT
SO THE NEW WORLD ORDER-NEOCONS COULD SLAUGHTER AMERICANS
AND COVER UP HOW & WHY, STILL TO THIS VERY DAY
LOOK AT THE DATE THEY CAME TO CONCEAL THE EVIDENCE
(on the seizure document below for the war powers act warrant)
11-11-90
now read the numbers right to left
9-1-1

NOW LOOK BELOW
- Happy Veterans day (not), the non-thanks of an UN-grateful Nation, or
the betrayal of Veterans by the same neocons in power from Gulf-I to Gulf II.
NOTICE please; they refer to the VETERAN, not as a veteran, he is a
NON-person, a "man", a "chiropractor".
This is what the zionist-masonic-illuminatti CONtrollers think of Americans,
they HATE Americans,
and a veteran is nothing more than cannon-fodder, an expended shell casing. It
is cheaper and
easier to recruit = LIE to a newbie coming into the service to dazzle them with
power and guns,
go kill for your country, than to reload/take care of veterans who have served,
"been there - done that"
because most veterans know the horror of war and the lies of how the nation
(doesn't) "support service-members"
after they have served their masters purpose.

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Agents arrest man in threats

By Tory Brecht
Inspectors from Federal Protective Services — a branch of the Homeland
Security Department — arrested a Bettendorf chiropractor Friday accused of
making harassing phone calls to the Department of Veterans Affairs office in
Des Moines.
Kenneth C. Tennant, 45, 3447 Magnolia Court, remained in the Polk County,
Iowa, jail late Friday afternoon, charged with third-degree harassment.
Although it is a state charge — and a misdemeanor — Federal Protective
Service, or FPS, personnel were involved because the VA office is a
federal facility, said special agent Wil Calvey.
The FPS provides law enforcement and security services to more than 1
million tenants and daily visitors to all federally owned and leased
facilities nationwide, according to its mission statement. FPS focuses
directly on the interior security of the nation and the reduction of crimes
and potential threats to federal facilities.
Calvey said two inspectors from Des Moines had been investigating Tennant
after receiving complaints from the VA office.
“He had been harassing them for the past three years,” said Calvey. “We were
looking at the messages and while there were no direct threats, the language
was abusive and derogatory and seemed to be getting worse.”
Proactive measures
The specific nature of the calls, or a dispute between Tennant and the VA,
was not divulged by FPS officials or the VA.
Calvey said the elevated threat of terrorism, coupled with a better
understanding of workplace violence, have led the service to take a more
proactive approach to dealing with harassment.
“We are trying to
nip these things in the bud rather than let them escalate into a greater
problem,” he said. “When you let things go, and people are not punished,
they get worse and you have an increased chance of an incident where someone
is injured or killed.”
Tennant will be prosecuted by the Polk County Attorney’s office, not in
federal court, Calvey added. His bond was set at $325.
Tennant works at American Family Chiropractic, 1530 State St., where he
shares an office with three other chiropractors. One of the doctors, who did
not wish to give her name, said she was surprised by the charges and was not
aware Tennant had a dispute with the VA.
According to federal court records, Tennant filed a lawsuit in 1998
disputing a denial of disability insurance benefits and Supplemental
Security Income. After a two-year legal battle, the U.S. Court of Appeals
Eighth Circuit upheld the denial.
Tory Brecht can be contacted at (563) 383-2329 or
tbrecht@qctimes.com
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“We are trying to nip
these things in the bud rather than let them escalate into a greater problem,”
he said. “When you let things go, and people are not punished,
they get worse and you have an increased chance of an incident where someone is
injured or killed.”
Fatherland
Security's - PATRIOT ACT is to MAKE (tag) Americans as Terrorists, NOT to
protect Americans!
THOUGHT POLICE - "nip things in the bud"? = they assume
you WILL BE a
terrorist because you are unhappy
about something, so to make sure they nip it/you in the bud = Terrorize YOU and
let you know they can come and
arrest you without due process, to make sure you are terrified of them so you
shut your mouth and go along
to get along. Welcome to NAZI-AMERIKA, where veterans are terrorists, so what
does that make civilians?
Let me tell you - ENEMY COMBATANTS, you have no rights in GULAG AMERIKA.
Bring back Hitler, he was a saint compared to these vile (shadow) creatures who
have captured and control
our American government.
"The worst is yet to come - if Americans do not wake up........" penned
in 1994,
by Peter Kawaja, title;
THE SADDEST CHAPTER OF
AMERICA'S HISTORY

When you hear anyone (especially those neocons) say; Muslims, Arabs, the French
Fries, Vietnamese "people" etc - hate us because of our freedoms, you know it is
a freakin lie. The ones (elitists) that HATE us are the ones who want to enslave
us, control us, use us.
Peoples of a nation don't hate us, some may envy us if they "think" we are
better off, but that does not equate to hate. Most Europeans laugh at us as they
know we are fools for thinking we are free. The HATERS are those elitists who
want us under their control and hate those of us who stand for a free America.
If you volunteer to serve in the armed services, that is how they know who has
the guts to defend America (the rest who do not volunteer are already under
control) and they don't like that you see, they now know "who" to hate and who
to make sick, who to use to go kill other innocents around the world so you
become their tool to enslave others, and when the haters are finished using you,
they show their hate and contempt and fear of you by making sure you are
medicated by the VA and never receive enough compensation to buy more than you
need to merely exist/to just get by. You live out your miserable life being mad
at/blaming someone from another country that may have tried to defend themselves
and shot back at you when you went to invade them, maybe blow up your tank
and you are wounded - so your anger is misguided. It is those who told you that
you have enemies that hate your freedom and want to come here to kill you who
are your deceivers and who HATES YOU.
HOW DO
PSYCHOPATHS,
FASCIST
TYRANNICAL DICTATORS, EMPERORS, KINGS, PRESIDENTS RULE?
Madison-about World War:
A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not
long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against
foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home. Among the Romans, it was a standing maxim to excite a
war, whenever a revolt was (uncovered) apprehended. Throughout all
Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending
(the homeland), have
enslaved the (very) people (at home).
An enlightened civilian population
where free speech exists is a threat to a dictatorship. A call to arms to
"defend" the fatherland is given and those who are patriotic and who would
"bear arms" to defend their freedoms and system of belief rush to sign up. The
King creates enemies in far away places to send his armies who if remained at
home and their spirit not broken (as-is done in the military so we accept
absolute commands-orders without question) would be a threat to the king and
already armed to stop tyranny by the king. A twofold agenda is accomplished -
conquering nations to steal-plunder their assets for personal gain of the king
and his merry men, and those soldiers (of our nation) who are killed in combat
are no longer a threat to the king at home.
The others kill the king's enemies,
and come back home one day severely mentally traumatized and are drugged for the
rest of their lives and too ashamed to admit they killed innocents for no good
reason, keep quiet and never bite the hand that feeds them their "pension"
(service connected rating-disability). Whoever else makes it back home
without an arm or a leg, or needs a plate in their head or the like, are now
dependent on the king and his VA. This way the king eliminates free
thinkers and doers, those who originally would have been a threat to the king
because those are the men and women who would not allow their countrymen to be
subdued by any enemy,
foreign or domestic!
The others who do not "sign up" to go
to war are the weak-meek (passive) of mind and spirit and would never challenge
the king and the king knows this - he merely needs to feed the sheeple at home
what they need to hear via the king's media, to keep them pacified and
supporting the king. This passive (nutritionally empty tap-drinking Fluoridated
water) sheeple support the king's bidding and will force their children into
service to the king, to go kill the king's enemies because the king's media
tells the sheeple that those foreigners over there - hate us.
And so it is - round and round we go,
generation after generation, we sacrifice our FINEST to the service of the king.
The king keeps his system in place to "find out" who of our youth could become a
threat to him, kills off our best young to accomplish his (not our) goals, we
make more babies in the Matrix, more cannon fodder for the king to sift
through and find who are "a few good men (and women)", not to defend our
nation, but to make sure those are the ones to be used then eliminated,
to break their will, destroy their minds, to make them guilty and complicit of
mass murder to such extent, they become weak as the sheeple and no threat to the
king and his evil merry men CONtrolling the rest of the nation as slaves in a
massive open air prison, where the sheeple as sheep - do not even know they are
enslaved and being fed and grown for one purpose only, to serve the king, to one
day be food for the kings men, and never to be free.
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Get at the young from birth to destroy their immune system and brain functions
by mandatory or scare tactic Vaccine (slow poison/death) programs - make sick,
con-trol for life, and kill off people
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Mandatory active-duty military vaccine programs (under the guise of prevention
in case the enemy does...)
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Blood transfusions to spread diseased defective tainted genes (when there is
better than blood alternative)
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Compulsory Mental Health Screening (S1390) and forced psychotropic drugging of
children, even pre-school
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Nationwide testing/screening every "healthy" man-woman-child (without a reason),
the entire population of a nation under the guise of a "health service" delivery
system (to deliver drugs to the entire nation) as-in New Freedom
Initiative.
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Poisoning at same time making passive the population with Fluoride in sending us
back sewage water to drink from pipes
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Nutritionally deficient foods which do not feed our brain nor cells (to keep us
sickly, in need of paid services, passive)
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Not allowing the population to seek natural herbal and other such remedies, but
incarcerating us for same
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Doctors with a State License (to kill with "protection" from the State) who dish
out prescription drugs that harm us
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Poisoning the air with factory-vehicle emissions/pollution for profit and
deliberate chemtrails
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Poisoning the plants-vegetables-fruits with insecticides which we ingest
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Turning animals in cancerous meat we eat, so they can produce more puss tainted
eggs, milk, mad-cow to feed us
YES - THE WORLD HATES US BECAUSE OF OUR FREEDOMS
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Subject: Welcome to Nazi America
Peter
Keep
preaching the truth. Welcome to Nazi America. I wish I had heard of you many
years ago. You are a man of truth.
God bless
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Bush is the
most dangerous President in American history
The World is on the
Precipice of a nuclear/terrorist catastrophe because Bush,
possessed by a Messianic Complex -“We will end world tyranny”-
is incapable of understanding the extreme nuclear and terrorist
danger he has put America in
“I’m the Commander see, I do not
need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing
about being the President … (I) don’t feel that I owe anybody an
explanation.”
--
President Bush, to the National Security Council
Underneath his
mano-a-mano posturing
(“Bring ‘em on!”) Bush is a deeply
insecure, frightened little man possessed by a
Messianic Complex with all its delusions and fantasies as a
compensation to his lifelong fear he’d never be the man his
father was. Bush, a “Mama’s Boy,” was called “The Chosen One,”
through his childhood by his mother.
Bush’s irrational refusal to ease
the nuclear tension and negotiate one-on-one with North Korea
until Jong Il caves into his demands is a result of Bush’s
deep-seated need to prove his manhood – escalating, not
lessening, the world’s danger.
An absolute proof that Bush’s
mental illness has put him out of touch with reality, including
the real danger of North Korea having nuclear bombs, is Bush
appointing Bolton as Ambassador to the UN one of the most
mentally ill, fascist authors of The Bush Doctrine who has
viciously vilified the UN and who is the author of the extreme
hard line Bush has taken against North Korea which has caused
Jong Il to race to develop nuclear weapons.
Jong Il refers to Bolton as “blood
sucking scum.” And this appointment is supposed to defuse the
nuclear crisis with North Korea? It is insane to think so.
Just when world pressure was
causing Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, Bush’s
narcissistic need to take the spotlight and prove his manhood by
demanding Syria get out immediately, “I will accept no half
measures,” was equivalent to pouring gasoline on the Lebanese
crisis. The next day well over a half a million
anti-American/pro-Syrian Lebanese, furious that Bush was trying
to dictate how they should run their country, flooded the
streets demanding Syria stay and pushing an extremely dangerous
and explosive situation to the brink of a civil war, all because
of Bush’s sickness and inability to understand that with
quiet diplomacy this crisis could have been peacefully solved.
Bush’s delusion that people tremble when he speaks and will
unilaterally obey him is what has brought the world to this
brink of chaos and nuclear catastrophe.
For the safety of the entire
world, we cannot impeach Bush soon enough.
“Bush thinks war is a videogame,
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The Photo of Lady Liberty
BEHIND BARS
hangs in/on a US court-room wall
THEY TELL YOU - TO YOUR FACE
YET YOU STILL DO NOTHING
Crucell and NIH Sign 21.4 Million Ebola Vaccine
Manufacturing Contract
Thursday April 14, 2005, 4:17 pm
LEIDEN, Netherlands, April 14, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Dutch
biotechnology company Crucell N.V. (Euronext:CRXL) (Nasdaq:CRXL)
announced today that it has signed a manufacturing contract with the
Vaccine Research Center (VRC), part of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
for the manufacture of vaccines against Ebola infections.
Under the terms of the contract, Crucell will manufacture up to ten
batches of clinical material of the PER.C6(r)-based Ebola vaccine in its
own manufacturing facility. These materials will be used for Phase I and
early Phase II clinical studies in humans. Crucell will receive up to
21.4 million (US$ 27.6 million) from the VRC for the manufacturing of
these clinical lots.
"We are pleased to have continued the expansion of our relationship
with the VRC on the development of this novel vaccine
against bioterrorism,"
said Crucell's Chief Scientific Officer, Jaap Goudsmit.
{see Kawaja: The Saddest Chapter of Americas
History is now being written-1994}
About Crucell
Crucell N.V. is a biotechnology company focused on developing
vaccines and antibodies that prevent and treat infectious diseases,
including Ebola, influenza, malaria, West Nile virus and rabies. The
company's development programs include collaborations with Sanofi
Pasteur for influenza vaccines, the U.S. National Institutes of Health
for Ebola and malaria vaccines, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Walter Reed
Army Institute of Research and New York University for a malaria
vaccine. Crucell's products are based on its innovative PER.C6(r)
technology, which offers a safer, more efficient way to produce
biopharmaceuticals. The company licenses its PER.C6(r) technology to the
biopharmaceutical industry on a mostly non-exclusive basis. Licensees
and partners include DSM Biologics, GSK, Centocor/J&J and Merck & Co.,
Inc. Crucell is headquartered in Leiden, The Netherlands, and is listed
on the Euronext and NASDAQ stock exchanges (ticker symbol CRXL). For
more information, please visit www.crucell.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve
inherent risks and uncertainties. We have identified certain important
factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those
contained in such forward-looking statements. For information relating
to these factors please refer to our Form 20-F, as filed with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission on February 27, 2004, and the section
entitled "Risk Factors". The company prepares its financial statements
under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States
(U.S. GAAP).
Click here for a PDF version of this press release: http://hugin.info/132631/R/989152/148350.pdf
CONTACT: Crucell N.V.
Leon Kruimer
Chief Financial Officer
Tel. +31-(0)71-524 8722
l.kruimer@crucell.com
For Crucell in the U.S.:
Redington, Inc.
Thomas Redington
Tel. (212) 926-1733
tredington@redingtoninc.com
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Feds at loss
on how flu strain got to labs
By KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal officials are still at a loss to
explain how a potentially deadly strain of influenza could be sent
to more than 4,000 labs around the world.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is operating
under the presumption that the H2N2 strain was purposefully
included in the panels designed to test the labs' proficiency in
identifying viruses.
"I'm sure it was not an inadvertent use," said Dr. Julie
Gerberding, CDC director, "because it would be almost impossible
to believe that they didn't know they were dealing with H2N2."
The samples were sent, beginning in September, as part of a
testing process that measures a laboratory's proficiency in
detecting various strains of influenza. The College of American
Pathologists directs the testing and contracted with Meridian
Bioscience Inc., a company based in Cincinnati, to distribute the
test panels.
| The organization has a policy
of excluding micro-organisms that can harm people
from the test panels. Dr. Jared Schwartz, an
officer with the organization, said Meridian thought
it had sent an ordinary flu strain, meaning a strain
for which there are vaccines readily available. He
said Meridian found the virus in 2000 in a "germ
library" that had come from another company.
Meridian executives were traveling and not
available to comment, spokeswoman Brenda Hughes
said.
Gerberding said she believes the strain was
included in the test kit because it grows well and
can be easily manipulated in the lab yet "without
really considering that even a test strain in a
panel could potentially cause a hazard, not only to
the workers in the lab but to the people in the
community."
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likelihood of the virus getting out in the public is
remote, and that there are no signs anyone has
contracted it. "If an unusual virus had emerged,
we would have known it by now," Gerberding said.
Still, she said, the agency was intent on
ensuring that every sample shipped to more than
4,000 labs in 18 countries or territories had been
destroyed.
The World Health Organization's influenza chief,
Klaus Stohr, said he was "relatively confident" most
of the samples outside the United States would be
destroyed by Friday.
Canada, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore have
destroyed their samples, while Japan was doing the
same, WHO said. Taiwan and Germany announced they
had destroyed all their vials.
The germ, the 1957 H2N2 "Asian flu" strain,
killed between 1 million and 4 million people. It
has not been included in flu vaccines since 1968;
anyone born after that date has little or no
immunity to it.
Gerberding said the CDC would work with the
pathologists and other organizations to establish
better guidelines for proficiency testing.
Congressional action is also possible.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a
heart-lung surgeon, said the shipments underscored
"the need to bolster America's domestic and global
public health infrastructure."
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., said the virus
shipments raises concerns about how they could be
used by terrorists.
"We need a strong system to be put in place to
limit the access to these materials and reduce the
potential for an accidental or an intentional
release of pathogens that pose a serious health
hazard," Markey said in a letter to Michael Chertoff,
the secretary for homeland security.
Mike Osterholm, director of the Center for
Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the
University of Minnesota, said he agreed that
Congress should review how the strain was so easily
distributed.
"We can't have this happen," Osterholm said. "Who
needs terrorists or Mother Nature, when through our
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11.04.2005 / Passenger information:
Disease Control Center Hoping Data Will Help Stop Epidemics
As part of a new pilot program Delta Air Lines will
provide the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with
electronic passenger data that might help stop the spread of
infectious diseases such as SARs and influenza.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told a
congressional panel that the information would allow health
officials to more quickly notify and advise travelers who might have
been exposed to illnesses or biological agents. Passenger lists are
currently sent electronically to the Customs Bureau which checks to
see if any potential terrorists are aboard flights bound for the US.
The CDC wants access to the same lists but only for flights coming
from places with an outbreak of an infectious disease or for those
that carried a passenger later found to be infected.
Privacy advocates warn that safeguards are needed to protect the
information. Marcia Hofmann, an attorney for the Electronic Privacy
Information Center, told the Associated Press the government is
seeing that massive amounts of data can be useful for any number of
purposes. “There need to be some regulations or restrictions on how
airlines can share passenger information like this,” she said. |
Deadly Flu Strain Shipped Worldwide
Officials Race to Destroy Samples
By Rob Stein and Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
A dangerous strain of the flu virus that caused a worldwide
pandemic in 1957 was sent to thousands of laboratories in the United
States and around the world, triggering a frantic effort to destroy
the samples to prevent an outbreak, health officials revealed
yesterday.
Because the virus is easily transmitted from person to person
and many people have no immunity to it, the discovery has raised alarm
that it could cause another deadly pandemic if a laboratory worker
became infected, officials said.
As a result, health authorities were urgently working to make sure all
samples are destroyed and to closely monitor anyone who may have come
into contact with the virus for signs of illness, officials said.
"This virus could cause a pandemic," said Klaus Stohr, the
World Health Organization's top flu expert. "We are talking about a
fully transmissible human influenza virus to which the majority of the
population has no immunity. We are concerned."
Although no infections have been reported, and the chances of
infection are probably low, the potential consequences are so grave
that urgent steps were necessary, he said.
"If a laboratory accident were to occur, a person could
become infected. If that happened, that person would likely fall ill
and he or she could infect somebody else. And that could mark the
beginning of a global outbreak," Stohr said.
WHO is working with the federal Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention in Atlanta and other national health agencies to
contain the situation, he said, adding that "the level of concern
about this virus is very high."
The virus, known as an H2N2 strain, killed 1 million to 4
million people worldwide in 1957 and 1958, including about 70,000 in
the United States. Because the virus has not circulated in the wild
since 1968, anyone born after that would have no natural immunity to
it. Since then, the virus has been kept only in high-security
biological laboratories.
The problem arose when a private company, Meridian Bioscience
Inc. of Cincinnati, sent a panel of virus samples to about 3,700
laboratories, some in doctors' offices, to be tested as part of
routine quality-control certification conducted by the College of
American Pathologists. An additional 2,750 laboratories, all in the
United States, received the samples as part of other certification
processes and were asked to destroy them, CDC spokesman Dan Rutz said.
The panel samples usually include only
strains of the flu virus that are relatively benign, Stohr said. "We
would consider this an unwise and unfortunate decision," he said.
The 3,700 samples were sent out beginning last fall,
primarily to labs in the United States, although 14 were in
Canada and 61 were in 16 other countries, Stohr said.
"The people who are handling this are extremely
experienced in dealing with potentially dangerous pathogens,
and we have no reason to believe that there were any
breaches," Rutz said. "But there's always a concern about a
virus to which a sizable part of the population has no
immunity, and we're interested in seeing to it that it's
neutralized as quickly as possible."
The mistake came to light March 25 when the
National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, identified the virus. "They were doing
this routine testing and identified this virus and
said, 'This shouldn't be here,' " Rutz said.
Canadian officials notified WHO and the CDC on
Friday.
"We have requested that additional
measures be taken -- that the laboratories have to
acknowledge receipt of the message in written
form, to confirm that they have destroyed any of
these samples, and that they would monitor their
laboratory staff for any respiratory disease,"
Stohr said.
Robert G. Webster, a flu expert at St.
Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis,
called the incident "a terrible, terrible
mistake."
"I have been telling WHO for a number of
years that this is a dangerous virus that is still
out there in more labs than they know," he said.
"This may alert WHO and Homeland Security and
whoever wants to know that each and every H2N2
sample from 1957 needs to be rounded up and locked
down."
Neither the College of American
Pathologists nor Meridian Bioscience was aware
that the virus being shipped was the deadly 1957
strain, said Jared Schwartz, a pathologist and
spokesman for the college. The college asked the
company to ship a Type A strain of virus, he said,
and Meridian's paperwork indicated that this
strain was benign.
"For reasons I don't understand and
Meridian doesn't understand, the documentation
they had was incorrect," he said, adding that the
source of the mislabeling was unclear.
Meridian may have obtained the strain
from another company that had misidentified it, he
said. Even had Meridian known it was the deadly
H2N2 strain, Schwartz said, current federal
guidelines would have allowed the company to ship
it. He said that neither the college nor the
company was aware CDC was considering whether to
reclassify the strain as too deadly to ship.
Schwartz said a mechanism is being
established to require anyone shipping pathogens
to notify the CDC about what strains of virus are
involved.
William J. Motto, chairman and chief
executive of Meridian Bioscience, said he had no
comment last night.
___________
The U.S. has been preparing
for a flu pandemic since the 1980's and in earnest for the past five years. The
Pandemic Flu Plan is in place and ready to be implemented, including a CDC
public information campaign heightening fear of flu and recent recommendations
that infants, children and adults get flu vaccinations every year. All that is
missing is a strain of flu that will trigger a government declared "emergency"
and allow an "Emergency Use Authorization" under Project Bioshield legislation
which can set the stage for mass use of unapproved vaccines or vaccines used for
unapproved purposes. The fate of the human race is in
the hands of the NWO Globalist Neocon Zionists,
unless Americans respond publicly. Join
us in the march on Washington this July.
now see excerpt from:
THE SADDEST CHAPTER OF
AMERICA'S HISTORY
A
nationwide/worldwide panic is going to be created, of such magnitude, that it
will threaten our very existence. This same government will then step in to
offer a solution, they will have "an antidote"
(VACCINE), BUT, only those who
will accept the Medical ID (national id/CHIP) will be treated, all others
will be considered a danger and threat to society, hunted down, and imprisoned
or killed. Americans will welcome this solution, will turn-in their
neighbors and friends in order to survive themselves. They are preparing you for
what they already know and have planned. It is not by an accident of
nature, or terrorist attack, it is by purposeful planning, and it is HERE. (Penned
in 1994-by Peter
Kawaja).
Scientists Scramble to Destroy Flu Strain
By EMMA ROSS and MARILYNN MARCHIONE
By EMMA ROSS and MARILYNN
MARCHIONE
AP Medical Writers
04/13/05
Scientists around the world were
scrambling to prevent the possibility of a pandemic after a
nearly 50-year-old killer influenza virus was sent to thousands
of labs, a decision that one researcher described as ``unwise.''
Nearly 5,000 labs in 18 countries,
mostly in the United States, were urged by the World Health
Organization to destroy samples of the dangerous virus because
of the slight risk it could trigger a global outbreak. The labs
received the virus from a U.S. company that supplies kits used
for quality control tests.
``The risk is low and we've
taken appropriate action,'' said Dr. Nancy Cox, chief of the
influenza branch at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in Atlanta.
Her counterpart at WHO, Klaus
Stohr, agreed but said, ``If someone does get infected, the
risk of severe illness is high, and this virus has shown to be
fully transmissible.''
The germ, the 1957 H2N2 ``Asian
flu'' strain, killed between 1 million and 4 million people.
It has not been included in flu vaccines since 1968, and
anyone born after that date has little or no immunity to it.
The WHO said Tuesday that there
have been no reports of infections in laboratory workers
associated with the distribution of the samples and that ``the
risk for the general population is also considered low.''
Still, the decision to send out
the strain was described by Stohr as ``unwise'' and
``unfortunate.''
The CDC learned Friday that test
kits prepared by Meridian Bioscience Inc. of Cincinnati
contained the virus. The company makes kits for at least four
groups that help labs do proficiency testing, which involves
identifying viruses to check a lab's quality controls or to
acquire certification.
The largest of those groups, the
College of American Pathologists, said it had sent 3,747 kits
to various labs starting last year and ending in February.
Dr. Jared Schwartz, an official
with the pathology college, said Meridian was told to pick an
influenza sample and chose from its stockpile the deadly 1957
strain, which it had received from a ``germ library'' in 2000.
Other test kit providers also
used the strain. Schwartz identified them as Medical Lab
Evaluators, the American Association of Bioanalysts and the
American Association of Family Practitioners.
Officials at Meridian could not
immediately be reached for comment late Tuesday after business
hours.
Most of the labs that received
the test kits were in the United States, Stohr said. Fourteen
were in Canada and 61 samples went to labs in 16 countries in
Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America, according to
the WHO.
Some of the labs outside the
United States have already incinerated their samples, he said,
and WHO hoped the rest of the vials would be destroyed by
Friday. The health agency would not name the other countries
whose labs received the samples.
The kits contain blind samples
that labs must correctly identify to pass the test. The
influenza virus included in the kits typically is one that is
currently circulating or has recently circulated.
A Canadian laboratory detected
the 1957 pandemic strain on March 26 in a sample that was
later traced to a test kit.
The WHO notified health
authorities in countries that received the kits and
recommended that all samples be destroyed. The College of
American Pathologists asked labs to incinerate the samples
immediately and confirm their actions in writing.
The virus' presence in thousands
of labs focused fresh attention on the safe handling of deadly
germs - an issue that led to toughened U.S. rules after
anthrax was sent in the mail in 2001, killing five Americans.
Cox said officials strongly
doubt someone deliberately planted the dangerous germ. ``It
wouldn't be a smart way to start a pandemic to send it to
laboratories because we have people well trained in
biocontainment,'' she said.
But Stohr said the test kits are
not the only supplies of the 1957 pandemic strain sitting in
laboratories around the world. ``The world really has to think
what routine labs should be doing with these samples they have
kept in the back of their fridges,'' he said.
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Since 1991 Peter Kawaja told you it is coming to your door
Vaccination status WILL BE an INTEGRAL part of the medical data stored on the
electronic national ID card, linked to obtaining a driver's license. Without the
card or proof of receipt of federally recommended vaccines listed on the card, a
citizen will not be able to function in US society, including being able to get
a passport, health insurance, enter a hospital or ride on a train or airplane.
Those who are genetically vulnerable to reacting to vaccines, will have to
choose between risking vaccine injury or death and being able to drive or be
treated in a hospital emergency room.
THE SADDEST CHAPTER OF
AMERICA'S HISTORY

IS NOW BEING WRITTEN
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document]
........THIS INFORMATION WILL SHOCK, SURPRISE, AND SADDEN YOU,
BUT YES, THE WORST IS YET TO COME IF AMERICANS DO
NOT WAKE UP.
A
nationwide/worldwide panic is going to be created, of such magnitude, that it
will threaten our very existence. This same government will then step in to
offer a solution, they will have "an antidote"
(VACCINE), BUT, only those who
will accept the Medical ID (national id/CHIP) will be treated, all others
will be considered a danger and threat to society, hunted down, and imprisoned
or killed. Americans will welcome this solution, will turn-in their neighbors
and friends in order to survive themselves. At the same time, this instrument
WILL permanently, publicly SUSPEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THESE united
STATES, to allow United Nations Rule (controlled by the shadow - Serpent
People), a
One World Government. AMERICA
& THE WORLD WILL BE ENSLAVED.
They are preparing you for
what they already know and have planned. It is not by an accident of
nature, or terrorist attack, it is by purposeful planning, and it is HERE.
Penned in 1994 By: Peter Kawaja
NOW EIGHT YEARS LATER:
Welcome to
HOMELAND SECURITY
- Perpetual Global War of Terror


Power We Didn't Grant By Tom Daschle 23 Dec 2005 "In the face of
mounting questions about news stories saying that President [sic] Bush
approved a program to wiretap American citizens without getting warrants,
the White House argues that Congress granted it authority for such
surveillance in the 2001 legislation authorizing the use of force against al
Qaeda... As Senate majority leader at the time... I can state categorically
that the subject of warrantless wiretaps of American citizens never came up.
I did not and never would have supported giving authority to the president
for such wiretaps... Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote [on
the use of military force], the administration sought to add the words 'in
the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text.
This last-minute change would have given the
president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas --
where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the
United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see
no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for
additional authority. I refused." [And, as a consequence of his refusal,
*someone* (from the Bush bioterror team?) sent Daschle weapons-grade anthrax
spores in October 2001. See:
Riddle of the spores By George Monbiot 21 May 2002. "The letter
received by Senator Tom Daschle contained one trillion anthrax spores per
gram: a concentration which only a very few US government scientists, using
a secret and strictly controlled technique, know how to achieve. It must,
moreover, have been developed in a professional laboratory, containing rare
and sophisticated 'weaponisation' equipment. There is only a tiny number
of facilities - all of them in the US - in which it could have been
produced."]
From the
people who brought you FEMA:
US uses live bird flu viruses in vaccine experiment 18 Dec 2005
In an isolation ward of a Baltimore hospital, up to 30 'volunteers' will
participate this April in a bold experiment: A vaccine made with a
live version of the most notorious bird flu
will be sprayed into their noses. [The Bush bioterror team is in a hurry
to get the pandemic party started, in order to implement a full-blown police
state. Dictator Bush needs to justify his warrantless eavesdropping and to
insure re-authorization of the Patriot Act.]
CLG Newsletter editor: Lori Price,
General Manager. Copyright © 2005, Citizens For Legitimate Government ® All
rights reserved. CLG Founder and Chair is Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.
An Incomplete Picture
Despite promises that hospitalizations after anthrax vaccinations would be
reported, the Pentagon withheld data on more than 20,000 cases.
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-71613sy0dec04,0,6004666.story?page=1&coll=dp-widget-news
December 4, 2005
First of four parts
BY BOB EVANS
bevans@dailypress.com 247-4758
The Pentagon never told Congress about more than 20,000 hospitalizations
involving troops who'd taken the anthrax vaccine, despite repeated promises that
such cases would be publicly disclosed.
Instead, a parade of generals and Defense Department officials told Congress and
the public that fewer than 100 people were hospitalized or became seriously ill
after receiving the shot from 1998 through 2000.
They also showed Congress written policies that required public reports to be
filed for hospitalizations, serious illnesses and cases where someone missed 24
hours or more of duty.
But only a sliver of those cases were reported, while the rest were withheld
from Congress and the public, records obtained by the Daily Press show.
Critics of the vaccine, veterans' advocates and congressional staffers say the
Pentagon's deliberate low-balling of hospitalizations helped persuade Congress
and the public that the vaccine was safe.
Keeping the actual number of illnesses secret contributed to a shorter list of
government-recognized side effects for the drug, giving patients and physicians
a false idea of what might constitute a vaccine-related illness or problem.
Doctors are expected to know the full list of side effects and alert federal
drug safety officials whenever they see a repeat of those symptoms.
Repeated evidence of the same adverse side effect after a vaccination is one of
the most telling signs of a systematic problem with a drug or vaccine, as
opposed to a coincidental relationship, vaccine safety experts say.
During the Daily Press' investigation of the vaccine and its effects, the
newspaper found three cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - ALS, or Lou
Gehrig's disease - that the military hadn't reported. The disease destroys
muscles and nerves, is always fatal and rarely hits people younger than 45.
One of the three cases involves Navy Capt. Denis Army of Virginia Beach. Army
died in 2000, after developing symptoms less than a week after his first anthrax
vaccination - and a few days before his 45th birthday. His widow filed the first
public acknowledgement of his death and its temporal connection to the vaccine
this year. That occurred after she talked to a Daily Press reporter and learned
that she could file a report with the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting
System, or VAERS.
SAILOR'S DEATH NOT REPORTED BY MILITARY
Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Kristin Shemeley died of ALS in 2001, at 29. Her
symptoms began about two months after her third shot, a sworn legal document
detailing her illness says.
Before Shemeley died, she spent 14 months in Walter Reed Army Medical Center in
Washington, where she was regularly visited by high-ranking military officers,
said her mother, Ginger Shemeley of Quakertown, Pa. She says her daughter
repeatedly told those generals and admirals that she was suffering because of
the vaccine and even pleaded with one of them to stop giving it to troops.
Several of those generals and admirals had promised Congress that such cases
would be publicly reported to VAERS.
The military never filed a VAERS report on Kristin Shemeley. Ginger Shemeley
filed one after her daughter died.
Col. John Grabenstein, director of the military's vaccine agency, said no one
from the military intentionally misled Congress or the public. He said the
20,765 hospitalizations merely followed vaccinations in time, without documented
proof of a cause-and-effect relationship.
He said a statistical analysis showed that those who'd been vaccinated weren't
more likely to be hospitalized or likely to seek medical treatment than those in
the military who hadn't been vaccinated from 1998 through 2000.
Some medical experts say this approach doesn't adequately address the problems
of many people who report illnesses after anthrax vaccination. That's because
the approach is limited to comparing rates of illness involving one symptom or
disease - instead of the complex combination of symptoms and illnesses that many
veterans report after getting their shots.
The data that the Daily Press used to document the underreporting of
hospitalizations came from a report that Grabenstein supplied in response to the
newspaper's request. It's never been made public until today.
An Incomplete Picture
Despite promises that hospitalizations after anthrax vaccinations would be
reported, the Pentagon withheld data on more than 20,000 cases.
December 4, 2005
It covers 1998 through 2000, when the Pentagon did detailed evaluations every
three months to compare hospitalizations, clinic visits and medical treatment
data for those who'd been vaccinated, compared with troops who hadn't. This
quarterly analysis stopped and hasn't been done since, Grabenstein said.
The practice of not reporting all hospitalizations continues.
Quarterly analysis of the vaccine's effects ended just as the nation's only
manufacturing site for the drug regained its license. That was in 2002, after
federal inspections found many safety and other problems that prompted a
shutdown and renovation that began in early 1998.
The company's current manufacturing techniques provide greater potency compared
with earlier versions of the drug, said the Government Accountability Office,
Congress' investigative arm. The manufacturer, BioPort Inc., says there's no
difference in the drug made since 2002 that might cause health problems.
TOP GENERAL NOT TOLD MONITORING TO END
The decision to discontinue the quarterly health monitoring program means that
the biggest gap in research about the vaccine remains: There are no systematic
long-term studies of the health of those who've taken the drug. Most studies
that the Pentagon cites as support for the vaccine's safety involve monitoring
that lasted days to a few months.
None lasted as long as five years, the minimum length of time recommended by a
nationally recognized panel of scientists assembled by the Institute of Medicine
in 2002. The institute is a nonprofit organization that provides expert advice
to Congress and other government agencies.
After the quarterly reviews of the vaccine's effects stopped, more than a
million troops were forced to take the vaccine - until a federal judge ruled
last year that the drug had never been adequately licensed for protection
against anthrax use in warfare.
He ordered the military to make vaccination voluntary. The Pentagon is appealing
that ruling. Lawyers argued the case Thursday, and a decision is expected by
February.
VACCINE MONITORING STILL IMPORTANT
Grabenstein said he decided to halt the quarterly studies after consulting the
chairman of the Institute of Medicine panel and its staff, and with doctors
affiliated with the military. He acknowledged that he didn't consult the general
who ultimately was responsible for the anthrax program.
The chairman of the institute panel, Brian Strom, said he didn't recall what was
discussed at the time about the quarterly reports. But he said, "I think they
should continue to be using it," in case there's a problem.
Another panel member, Linda Cowan, said she's sure the committee expected
quarterly reviews to continue and pointed to a number of the panel's
recommendations and findings that she said clearly contradicted Grabenstein's
interpretation of its report.
Strom and Cowan emphasized that they thought the vaccine was still safe.
Beth Clay isn't so sure. She directed the staff of Congress' House Government
Reform Committee investigation into the anthrax vaccine from 1998 to 2001. She
continued working on the subject as a congressional staff member through 2003,
after her Republican boss was no longer chairman of the committee.
Clay said the military's decision not to report all the hospitalizations gave
the public and Congress a rosier picture of the vaccine than it deserved.
"We were never given this data," she said. "Had we seen this, the committee
would have had significant questions" and would have demanded more information
about the program.
After reviewing the report obtained by the Daily Press, Clay said it raised
several questions about the vaccine's safety. She said Congress was never told
about the detailed level of data in the report but was assured regular
monitoring of the vaccine and its health effects would continue.
Terminating the quarterly reviews would seem to break those promises, she said.
"It's just appalling that they didn't keep up with this," she said.
LINK BETWEEN VACCINE, HOSPITALIZATIONS?
An Incomplete Picture
Despite promises that hospitalizations after anthrax vaccinations would be
reported, the Pentagon withheld data on more than 20,000 cases.
December 4, 2005
Steve Robinson is executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center, a
lobbying and advocacy group for veterans. He said he was stunned when he learned
that the reviews had stopped: "They track the flu vaccine and not the anthrax
vaccine, which is totally crazy to me."
He said discovery of the hospitalization data showed that the Pentagon couldn't
be trusted to monitor the vaccine's safety.
"You can't let Enron investigate Enron, and you can't let DOD (the Department of
Defense) investigate DOD," he said. "We work with the people who have been hurt
by this vaccine every day."
No one knows how many, or how few, of the 20,765 hospitalizations are directly
attributable to the vaccine. Ruling out certain illnesses, such as broken bones
or injuries from falls or other accidents, might appear a safe bet. But military
doctors have documented cases where broken bones and other injuries from falling
were the result of vaccine-induced loss of consciousness affecting the nervous
system - sometimes beginning months after vaccination.
The difficulty of figuring out what's related and what isn't is why safety
officials encourage people to file reports even if they're not sure.
WHY PENTAGON DIDN'T FILE HOSPITAL REPORTS
Still, medical experts consulted by the Daily Press said it's unlikely that the
vast majority of the 20,765 hospitalizations resulted from the vaccine. They
said that if all hospitalizations had been filed with VAERS, it would have
overloaded the system and caused problems for experts trying to analyze the
data.
Grabenstein said those were among the reasons that the full number of
hospitalizations was not reported. Another reason, he said, was that
examinations of the data showed that if there were adverse effects from the
vaccine, they were so infrequent, they weren't detectable by statistical
analysis. Doing this type of analysis - instead of simply reporting the
incidents to VAERS - provided a more definitive look at the health effects of
the vaccine, he said. As a result, "we decided not to file" public reports about
all hospitalizations, he said.
Those considerations weren't relayed to Congress or the public.
During the years covered by the hospitalization report obtained by the Daily
Press, dozens of sick veterans who'd received the shot went to Capitol Hill,
complaining of various health problems. Some got the shot for the 1991 Persian
Gulf War, in which the vaccine had its first widespread use. Others were members
of the military forced to take the shots under a mandatory program that began in
1998.
Their complaints had common themes: Fatigue. Chronic pain in joints and other
symptoms of arthritis. Tingling in their feet, arms and hands. Mental lapses.
Often, more than one of the symptoms were present, making diagnoses difficult.
Sympathetic doctors testified that these complaints were indicative of
autoimmune problems, in which the body's natural protective mechanisms go
haywire and start attacking healthy cells and tissue. The doctors said that
could result if the vaccine overstimulated the vets' immune systems. The vaccine
primes the system to develop protection against anthrax.
Bewildered and sometimes-angry members of Congress asked how many vets were
affected. Pentagon doctors and generals used the cases reported to VAERS - fewer
than 100 hospitalizations or other "serious events" from 1998 to 2000 - or said
the number was so small, it couldn't be detected.
VACCINE REPORTS ARE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE
The two sets of numbers for how many hospitalizations followed the shot come
from a comparison of two sets of data kept by three federal agencies.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention maintain the only database open to public inspection, VAERS. VAERS is
the nation's first line of defense in identifying possible problems with
vaccines after they've been licensed, said Susan Ellenberg, who led the FDA's
efforts to monitor vaccine safety from 1993 to 2004.
During congressional testimony before the House Government Reform Committee's
Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations
in July 1999, Ellenberg explained how and why the system worked.
VAERS was established to help identify and head off problems once a vaccine is
licensed and more people are taking it, she said. The few hundred people
typically involved in vaccine or drug testing and licensing trials can't mimic
the diversity of age, race, gender and other biologic variables encountered once
the vaccine gets widespread public use, she explained.
Reports to VAERS by civilian doctors and hospitals are mostly voluntary, based
on suspicion of a connection between an illness or injury and a vaccination,
Ellenberg told Congress.
Doctors and others are encouraged to file a report, known as a VAERS-1, even
when they aren't sure there's a cause and effect, she said. That's because VAERS
requires as many reports of problems as possible, so experts can identify
possible patterns and investigate further, she said.
An Incomplete Picture
Despite promises that hospitalizations after anthrax vaccinations would be
reported, the Pentagon withheld data on more than 20,000 cases.
December 4, 2005
GENERALS' TESTIMONY PROMISED REPORTS
During the same congressional hearing, Lt. Gen. G. Robert Claypool - then the
deputy assistant secretary of defense for health operations policy - assured
Congress that military doctors, hospitals and medical officials were filing
VAERS-1 forms, too.
And, he said, they were expected to report even more cases than civilians -
including all hospitalizations.
"The duty to report adverse medication events has been codified for many years,"
Claypool testified. "The joint regulation requires submission of a form VAERS-1
for all adverse events resulting in more than 24 hours of lost duty time or any
period of hospitalization. These requirements represent a higher standard than
in comparable civilian community health care settings."
There was no mention that the word "all" didn't mean all hospitalizations.
Two months later, Lt. Gen. Ronald R. Blanck, then the Army's surgeon general and
the top Pentagon official responsible for the anthrax vaccine program from 1998
to 2000, gave similar assurances to Congress.
He said, "We have a reporting system that when either of those two criteria are
met, that is, either a patient is hospitalized following an anthrax immunization
or misses duty because of it for greater than 24 hours, we have an active
reporting system. That must be reported to us. We, in turn, report it to the
Food and Drug Administration, and they have a group that reviews those
reactions."
Clay and other congressional aides say these assurances came in private, too.
"We had lengthy conversations that they were supposed to report," she said.
But the numbers reported were very low. And the Pentagon stuck with them for
years to persuade the public that the shot was safe.
In December 2003, Pentagon officials conducted a news conference to rebut a
judge's ruling that the shots had been given illegally and that troops had been
used as "guinea pigs." Grabenstein was asked whether he had "any data on the
numbers of people who have had bad adverse reactions to the vaccine and would
have required hospitalization."
He said that only 69 hospitalizations had been reported to VAERS for the anthrax
vaccine from 1998 through 2000. A panel of civilian experts had analyzed each,
he said, and decided that 11 were results of the shot. The 69 cases were "a
complete, exhaustive list of what was reported," Grabenstein said.
Grabenstein told the Daily Press that his statement wasn't misleading. He said
no one should expect all hospitalizations after vaccination to be reported to
VAERS - despite the Pentagon's written policies - because the number included
cases unrelated to the vaccine, sometimes years after vaccination.
He said, "The simple answer is it's so obvious, it's never appeared in the
memo."
NO EXCEPTIONS NOTED IN POLICY MEMOS
The memo, "Policy for Reporting Adverse Events Associated With the Anthrax
Vaccine," serves as the standing order for all military personnel. It reads:
"For the purposes of reporting anthrax vaccine adverse events, a Form VAERS-1
must be completed and submitted using service reporting procedures for those
events resulting in a hospital admission or time lost from duty for greater than
24 hours or for those events suspected to have resulted from contamination of a
vaccine lot."
The memo lists additional circumstances requiring a report, but nothing that
would permit excluding hospitalizations after vaccination. It refers to the
Pentagon's formal regulations, which don't include the exclusions that
Grabenstein cited.
The data on all hospitalizations after anthrax vaccination comes from the
Pentagon's Defense Medical Surveillance System, or DMSS. This computerized
tracking system pulls medical records for every shot, clinic visit,
hospitalization or other instance of medical treatment for active-duty military
personnel.
Experts in health care and statistics say it's one of the most important medical
databases in the world. That's because of its precision, its millions of
patients, and the diversity of drugs and vaccines used by the armed forces. By
design, it's more complete and accurate than VAERS. Unlike VAERS, its data isn't
open to the public.
EXPERTS: NO EXCUSE FOR SECRET DATA
The Institute of Medicine report that Grabenstein cited as supporting the
vaccine's safety and his decision to end the quarterly monitoring program also
says the DMSS database should be open to researchers outside the government,
with precautions to protect the privacy of individuals' health records.
This hasn't been done. Grabenstein said the military had not been able to figure
out how to protect individuals' health records and make it work.
Strom of the institute panel and other experts say it should not be that
difficult. "There's no excuse," he said. "We use these kinds of data sets in
Medicaid and Medicare data all the time. There are technological solutions."
Cowan, another member of the panel, said the institute's recommendation was
based, in part, on the military saying it couldn't afford all the analysis that
the data was good for: "That way, you get the most of what the American people
have invested in."
Strom said keeping the data from the public only bolstered the perception that
the military was hiding the truth about the vaccine.
Walter Schumm is a professor of family studies and an expert on statistical
methods at Kansas State University. He said he and other researchers would love
to get the DMSS data. He's a retired Army colonel who's spent more than a decade
using statistical analysis to examine the vaccine's safety - after friends and
others in uniform began complaining about health problems after the shots.
Schumm has used other data made public on the anthrax vaccine to publish several
scientific papers that poke holes in the safety assertions made by Pentagon
doctors and researchers.
Good science involves people with different approaches to the same problem
having a chance to test their theories, Schumm and others say. Their findings
might cement the safety assertions, he said, but no one knows for sure until the
military loosens its hold on the facts and data.
He said, "If you let independent people have the data, you risk losing control.
In combat, letting things get out of control gets people killed, so loss of
control is a very sensitive issue. I'm just sure they're trying to protect their
program."
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