... the centre will have to produce and stockpile the world's most lethal bacteria and viruses, which is forbidden by the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Three years before that treaty was agreed, President Richard Nixon halted the production of US biological weapons at Fort Detrick in Maryland. The same military base is the site for the new $128m (£70m), 160,000 sq ft laboratory.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1833795,00.html


'New methods of attack -- electronic, "non-lethal", biological -- will be more widely available ... combat likely will take place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes ... advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.'

- the neo-con Project for the New American Century, September 2000


never heard OF the PNAC?

The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington-based
think tank created in 1997. Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one
thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of
all nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the last
remaining superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military
force to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new
socio-economic Pax Americana.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm



What We Need Is A New Pearl Harbor
author: John Pilger
On the morning of 12 September 2001, without any evidence of who the hijackers were, Rumsfeld demanded that the US attack Iraq. According to Woodward, Rumsfeld told a cabinet meeting that Iraq should be "a principal target of the first round in the war against terrorism" . . . temporarily spared only because Colin Powell, the secretary of state, persuaded Bush that "public opinion has to be prepared before a move against Iraq is possible". Afghanistan was chosen as the softer option.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2002/12/38142.shtml



Two years ago a project set up by the men who now surround George W Bush said what America needed was "a new Pearl Harbor". Its published aims have, alarmingly, come true.
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/WarOnTerror/NewPearlHarbor.asp

Thank you for this posting! This is information that needs to be widely disseminated...

You should post the complete Telegraph article as follows:

"Construction work has begun near Washington on a vast germ warfare laboratory intended to help protect the US against an attack with biological weapon, but critics say the laboratory's work will violate international law and its extreme secrecy will exacerbate a biological arms race.
The National Biodefence Analysis and Countermeasures Centre (NBACC), due to be completed in 2008, will house heavily guarded and hermetically sealed chambers in which scientists simulate potential terrorist attacks."

If you had Hezbollah and Al Quaeda busy trying to attack you with the stuff would this not be a sensible measure?

It is difficult to understand why there always has to be some sinister, cunning plot. No doubt such plots do exist but the vast majority of the time everything is actually what it appears to be - KISS.