Relating to the post I made on the 22nd regarding the alleged Al Quaeda plans for chemical weapons, the Guardian reports allegations that the ‘discovery’ of an Al Quaeda biological weapons programs was leaked to the press to justify the deployment of a large force of 1,700 British troops into Afghanistan, the largest British force in the region since the Gulf War.
A Pentagon official told The Observer there was no intelligence to support claims from London that al-Qaeda was developing biological weapons in the Shah-e-Kot area. ‘I don’t know what they’re saying in London but we have received no specific intelligence on that kind of development or capability in the Shah-e-Kot valley region – I mean a chemical or biological weapons facility,’ said an official in the Army department in Washington. …
Of course, the media leaks about labs, no matter how fantastic, only buttress the US line.
Doubts about the story surfaced almost immediately after it was published, as US officials first expressed bafflement and then denied any such lab had been found. Some speculating to the New York Times that the story might have been planted to justify the deployment of the marines. British intelligence, Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office sources denied any knowledge of the lab.
The only evidence of a biological weapons laboratory was the discovery last December of an abandoned, half-finished building containing medical equipment, near the Taliban’s former power base of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. This had been reported previously.
The US is desperate to have active associates in their comical ‘war’. They need to give the appearance that a coalition really exists even though it is obvious that the US is involved in a unilateral enterprise that has nothing whatsoever to do with the WTC attacks.
Related:
- Media Continue to Fight Pentagon Over War Access So much for Freedom of the Press.
- FBI Debunks Hijackers’ Anthrax Link But, leaks affect public opinion, so the job is done.