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abdou sanneh <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 6 Apr 2002 02:11:14 -0800
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Dave I read about Dr death in the January issue of
New-African magazine on his germ project with South
African military but I think the matter is in court.We
cannot draw conclusion until proof guilty by South
African court.I hope the white judge will not be
racist with his judgment because there are lots of
evidences.Aparthid is just like Zionism is racism.I
belief in the school of thought that stated that
HIV/AIDS endemic in south Africa was a tool of
biological warfare of the racist regime.
--- Dave Manneh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> =====================================
> Here is another article on Dr Death.
>
> Regards
>
> Manneh
> ============================================
> SA's Dr Death says germ project based on
> U.S.programme
>
> By Nicole Mordant
>
> JOHANNESBURG, Oct 6 (Reuters) - South Africa's
> "Doctor Death", the
> mastermind behind an apartheid-era germ and chemical
> warfare campaign
> against blacks, said the project was based on a U.S.
> government biological
> and chemical programme. In short excerpts from a
> filmed interview shown to
> Reuters, Wouter Basson said that he had slipped into
> the United States to
> gather information ahead of the launch of South
> Africa's secret chemical
> weapons project in 1982.
>
> The 49-year-old cardiologist, interviewed last
> Friday in a Pretoria
> guesthouse by a freelance film-maker, began a
> lengthy trial on Monday for
> charges ranging from 200 murders to drug-dealing and
> fraud. He was out on
> bail.
>
> In his quest for details on chemical warfare, Basson
> said he posed as a
> draft dodger to ingratiate himself with U.S. human
> rights organisations in
> possession of secrets on the U.S. programme which
> they were working to
> destroy.
>
> "I slowly started to develop a picture of how the
> whole U.S. chemical and
> biological warfare programme was organised," said
> the balding Basson,
> dressed soberly in a dark suit and tie.
>
> He said U.S. air force and army sources unwittingly
> provided the apartheid
> regime with details on how the programme was
> organised, who was involved,
> and what weapons were used.
>
> He also scoured Britain, Western Europe and went
> behind the Iron Curtain to
> get what he needed to make deadly weapons for the
> white minority regime.
>
> The top-secret programme, code named Project Coast,
> produced toxins that
> could, in theory, have killed millions of people.
>
> "I must confirm that the structure of the project
> was based on the U.S.
> system. That's where we learnt the most," he said.
>
> American film maker Andrew Jones, who said he was
> negotiating with a number
> of foreign television networks for rights to the
> interview, said Basson had
> told him that he had received death threats from
> American secret agents.
>
> The state's case against Basson, which is expected
> to take two years to
> hear, accuses him of complicity in secret
> apartheid-government plans to
> murder top African National Congress fighters now in
> President Thabo Mbeki's
> government.
>
> In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman asked to comment
> on Basson's story said
> "We would highly question this man's story. We have
> safeguards in place that
> would prevent any such things from occurring."
>
> CHILLING MURDER CHARGES
>
> The 250-page indictment charges him with making
> poisoned medicines and beer
> used to kill opponents of the white minority
> government, which was voted out
> of power in South Africa's first all-race elections
> in 1994.
>
> In one chilling account, he is accused of supplying
> muscle relaxants that
> made the victims' lungs collapse. They were used on
> 200 operatives of the
> South West African Peoples Organisation, fighting
> Pretoria's occupation of
> Namibia. Their bodies were dumped into the sea.
>
> Evidence from other scientists, some of them
> Basson's former colleagues who
> will testify against him to get immunity from
> prosecution themselves, have
> placed him at the centre of South Africa's chemicals
> programme, a charge he
> does not deny.
>
> "I was certainly involved in the whole of the
> project. I can't deny that. I
> was the guy who had fingers in the whole pie, the
> one guy that put the
> picture together," Basson said.
>
> There are also allegations that a plot to make black
> people infertile was
> part of the chemicals programme that extended beyond
> South Africa's borders
> to it neighbours Mozambique, Swaziland, Angola and
> Namibia. REUTERS
>
>
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