Carter clears Castro. (Correction, Please!).ITEM: Former President Jimmy Carter, visiting Cuba, denied that Havana was trying to develop or transfer weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or . Carter said MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company on May 13th, "also suggested the claim, made by a top State Department official [John Bolton], was timed to coincide with his landmark trip to Cuba." CORRECTION: Bolton's remarks on Cuba were hardly unique. Back in March, Carl Ford Jr., assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, told a congressional panel that Cuba has an "offensive biological warfare biological warfare, employment in war of microorganisms to injure or destroy people, animals, or crops; also called germ or bacteriological warfare. Limited attempts have been made in the past to spread disease among the enemy; e.g. research and development project." Havana, said Ford, has "provided dual-use biotechnology to rogue states." Bolton himself noted that President Clinton's Defense Secretary William Cohen For other persons named William Cohen, see William Cohen (disambiguation). William Sebastian Cohen (born 28 August 1940) is an author and American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. in 1998 had publicly expressed concern for "Cuba's potential to develop and produce biological agents, given its biological infrastructure...." This is not merely theoretical. Ken Alibek, former head of the Soviet biological weapons program, told the Miami Herald that he personally taught Cuban scientists much of what they know about weapons of mass destruction. In his book Biohazard bi·o·haz·ard n. 1. A biological agent, such as a virus or a condition that constitutes a threat to humans, especially in biological research or experimentation. 2. , Alibek wrote that after Moscow's technology transfers, "Cuba had one of the most sophisticated genetic engineering labs in the world, capable of the advanced weapons research we were doing on our own." Even Canada, notoriously soft on Castro, knows the score. As the Canada Security Intelligence Service reported in 1996: "Cuba has been a supply source [to terrorist groups] for toxin and chemical weapons." It's a mite mite, small, often microscopic chelicerate that, along with the tick, makes up the order Acarina; it is also related to spiders. The unsegmented mite body is typically oval and compact, although a few, mostly parasites, are elongated and wormlike. improbable that Ottawa would say this six years ago just to spoil Jimmy Carter's trip. |
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