Environment - U.S. Dumped Chemical Weapons at Sea - Read the Series - * Newport News 'Daily Press:' The Deadliness Below
All Things Considered, November 5, 2005 · Until the 1970s, the U.S. Army disposed of tons of mustard gas and other chemical agents off the coasts of countries around the world. Some chemicals have leaked out, causing deaths and injuries. Jackie Lyden speaks with John Bull of the Newport News Daily Press about his series on the dumping of chemical weapons at sea.
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-chemdumping-stories,0,7934774.storygallery
SPECIAL REPORT, PART 1: The Deadliness Below REQUIRES REGISTRATION October 30, 2005 BY JOHN M.R. BULL / 247-4768
In the summer of 2004, a clam-dredging operation off New Jersey pulled up an old artillery shell. The long-submerged World War I-era
explosive was filled with a black tarlike substance. Bomb disposal technicians from Dover Air Force Base, Del., were...
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-02761sy0oct30,1,7737455.story 
What's Off Virginia? 'There's No Guarantee' REQUIRES REGISTRATION October 30, 2005 BY JOHN M.R. BULL / 247-4768 - Lurking off Virginia are tens of thousands of mustard gas shells and hundreds of tons of radioactive waste in at least five ocean dump zones created by the Army decades ago. Newly released Army records show that four dumpsites containing a hodgepodge of...
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-09106sy0oct30,1,7934063.story 
These are the chemicals of warfare REQUIRES REGISTRATION October 30, 2005 MUSTARD GAS First used during World War I, mustard gas is a colorless, odorless liquid at room temperature and causes extreme blistering. The name stems from its color and smell in its impure state. It's not related to the condiment mustard in any way...
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-chemicals-desc,1,4432246.story 
'Disposing of ... Weapons Not Heavily Documented' REQUIRES REGISTRATION October 31, 2005 BY JOHN M.R. BULL / 247-4768
The Army has searched for years, but it can't find a load of deadly white-phosphorus landmines supposedly dumped in the Chesapeake Bay. The mines might be there. They might not. The Army has no records, only memories of employees who provided credible... http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-02775sy0oct31,1,2817660.story 
Why the U.S. Halted Dumping REQUIRES REGISTRATION October 31, 2005 BY JOHN M.R. BULL / 247-4768 The Army's ocean dumping of chemical weapons ended abruptly when Congress learned what had been going on and halted an operation that
could have sent a cloud of deadly nerve gas over New York City. In the late 1960s, a congressman from Buffalo, N.Y.,...
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-02776sy0oct31,1,3407485.story 
SPECIAL REPORT, PART 2: The Deadliness Below REQUIRES REGISTRATION October 31, 2005 BY JOHN M.R. BULL / 247-4768
As World War II drew to a close, the Army was faced with scant storage space in ordnance depots at home and huge chemical weapons stockpiles overseas. The solution: Dump the weapons off the coast of whatever country they were in. The result: U.S.-made..
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-02774sy0oct31,1,2227835.story 
Investigation: Army secretly dumped chemicals offshore REQUIRES REGISTRATION November 1, 2005 By JOHN M.R. BULL / Daily Press - The Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets--either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels, according an investigation by...
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--offshoredumping1101nov01,1,7298933.story 
Navy conventional weapons dumping: Unsafe dumping REQUIRES REGISTRATION November 2, 2005 BY JOHN M.R. BULL / 247-4768- A beachgoer in Rehoboth Beach walked up to a lifeguard in July with two strange objects in his hand and a stranger request on his lips. He was carrying rusty old artillery shells he found in the sand. "Can I keep them?" They were live. The Delaware beach..
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-02778sy0nov02a,1,4219276.story 
Unsafe dumping REQUIRES REGISTRATION November 2, 2005 BY JOHN M.R. BULL / 247-4768-  A beachgoer in Rehoboth Beach walked up to a lifeguard in July with two strange objects in his hand and a stranger request on his lips. He was carrying rusty old artillery shells he found in the sand. "Can I keep them?" They were live. The Delaware beach..
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-02778sy0nov02,1,7470730.story
Burnt on a barge - REQUIRES REGISTRATION - November 3, 2005 - BY JOHN M.R. BULL / 247-4768 - William T. "Tom" Brock was having a blast dumping mustard gas bombs into the Atlantic Ocean. It was the summer of 1946, a hot day somewhere off the coast of South Carolina, and he was joyfully tripping a mechanism that rolled the bombs over the side of a...
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A pneumonia outbreak has been detected in the city of Borodino (Krasnoyarsk region), announced Nina Bogalej, manager of the
pediatrics department of a local hospital. In the last several days, over 60 inhabitants of Borodino have sought medical treatment, mainly children 2-13 years of age. Approximately half the patients had fevers of up to 40 degrees Celsius [104 Fahrenheit].

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/delp-n01.shtml - "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundnce of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little" : Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 

The Anti-Syria Scam by Paul Craig Roberts - Someone should tell Condi Rice that the game is up. With the Bush administration dissolving in illegalities committed by key officials in their attempts to protect the lies that they used to justify the US invasion of Iraq, the secretary of state is trying to ramp up war against Syria.  Grasping a UN report that uses unreliable witnesses to implicate Syria in the assassination of a former Lebanese government official, Condi Rice told the BBC on October 23 that Syria’s crime cannot be "left lying on the table. This really has to be dealt with."  This is amazing for many reasons. Here is the person in charge of US diplomacy acting as if she is the secretary of war unsheathing military force. Whoever heard of an American diplomat wanting to start a war because a former Middle Eastern government official was assassinated? The UN investigator, Detlev Mehlis, has no more idea who assassinated the former official than the US knows who is responsible for assassinating the many Iraqi officials under its protection. After more than two and one-half years of war in Iraq, the US still doesn’t know exactly who the enemy is that it is fighting. Yet Mehlis blames Syria for an assassination on the strength of an informer described by the German news magazine, Der Spiegal, as a convicted felon and swindler.... http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts129.html 

 

It's Still There - Harry Reid’s so-called "stunt" on the Senate floor this past Tuesday – invoking Rule 21 to create a closed session, during which he demanded an investigation into how we were dragged to war in Iraq – brought the issue of the never-found weapons of mass destruction back into the daylight. It’s about damned time. This ball of thorns is three years old now, and we have come nowhere near addressing its roots. Recall, if you will, George W. Bush’s State of the Union address from January of 2003. In that speech, he told us that Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent (500 tons equaling one million pounds, by the way), 30,000 munitions to deliver the stuff, mobile biological weapons labs, and uranium from Niger for use in Iraq’s advanced nuclear weapons program.  The page on the White House website detailing the existence of all this stuff is still there http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/nationalsecurity/disarm.html, by the way. None of the weapons they described in such dire tones actually exist, but that page is still sitting there in all its glory.  As of Wednesday morning, 2,032 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq. 95 died in the month of September alone. More than 15,000 American soldiers have been wounded, many of these suffering permanently debilitating injuries, lost limbs and brain damage. There is no adequate accounting of the number of Iraqi civilians killed and wounded since the invasion and occupation began, but the toll easily reaches into the tens of thousands. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent. The occupation, which was supposed to result in a rain of flowers from a grateful Iraqi populace, has lasted 959 days, with no end in sight.

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