Wednesday, April 12, 2006

The real Iraq bioweapons story

Deep Blade Journal has the essential document concerning the history of Iraq and weaponizable bioweapons material:

United States exports of biological materials to Iraq: Compromising the credibility of international law by Geoffrey Holland (pdf format, 463kb download)

The only time Iraq ever had a real, functioning bioweapons development program was during the years (up to 1990) when it was supported by the US. Geoffrey Holland makes a convincing case that the illegality under international law of the export of weaponizable biotoxins to Iraq has never adequately been investigated. He has campaigned for several years now for a formal international process to address these charges.