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Flashback to Perth, Western Australia, January 12, 2003

French Prove Gulf War Syndrome Caused by "Cocktail" Inoculations

Many years ago before gaining access to the Internet, I wrote a report about the most likely causes of Gulf War Syndrome. The report slowly moved around the world by snail mail, and was eventually published in four small magazines. Then I forgot all about the report for a few years, because the nightmare symptoms being suffered by Gulf War veterans in America and Britain, seemed light years away from my sleepy little backwater in Western Australia.

That was before George W. Bush decided to do the whole thing all over again, in his increasingly frantic and very public attempts to pillage Middle East oil for Wall Street. Though I am obviously powerless to prevent Bush from ruthlessly sacrificing American lives in the Iraqi desert, I can at least sound a warning designed to minimize the physical and psychological impact on servicemen before they leave for the Gulf, and after they hopefully return.

There is no doubt that the panic generated by the false “War on Terror” is already being used to coerce people into accepting “preventative medical treatment”, that in a more sane world they would instantly refuse. Most profitable by far for the pharmaceutical multinationals backing the Bush Dynasty, are inoculations forced onto service men and women by legislation. Taking the dreaded “Anthrax Shots” as an example, the manufacturer makes a net profit of $18.00 out of every single individual, a figure that has to be multiplied by 2.4 million to get a true feel for multinational profit margins.

It is a harsh fact that the Anthrax vaccine being forcibly administered to service men and women today, is the same as that included in the deadly Gulf War “cocktail” inoculations of 1990-1991. This has no meaning whatever for politicians who habitually bend forward over a desk when their masters approach from behind, but it might have some meaning for you. In the event that the multinationals manage to spark a “civil emergency” somewhere near your own home, be advised that you too will be forced to accept exactly the same untested but hugely profitable vaccine as military personnel bound for the Persian Gulf.

The direct relationship between the Anthrax shots of today and the “cocktail” of yesterday is deeply troubling, and is the prime reason for reviving, editing, and adding to this 1995 report. You might find part of the text disturbing, which is probably a very good thing. It is difficult to protect your family from government-induced harm if you are not completely alert.

“During late 1995, devastating new evidence on Gulf War Syndrome was released, providing undeniable hard scientific proof for those who have long suspected that Gulf veterans are suffering short and long-term effects of unproven anti-bacteriological warfare inoculations and anti-nerve gas tablets, forcibly administered by U.S. Army doctors in Saudi Arabia.

With thousands of U.S. veterans suffering from Gulf War Syndrome, it came as no surprise to learn in October 1995 that several hundred British veterans were suffering in the same way, with three to five new cases being reported every week. Like their U.S. counterparts, most were puzzled by the origins of the disease, which they initially attributed to oil-laden smoke in Kuwait, toxic dust from depleted uranium rounds fired by U.S. weapons, and possible contamination from expended Iraqi chemical shells in the area, fired before the Gulf War commenced.

In a startling break with tradition, one British military doctor stated that in her view, 99% of the problems could be sourced back to the anti-bacteriological warfare "cocktail" inoculations, and anti-nerve gas tablets forcibly administered to military personnel in the Gulf region at that time. In an October 1995 broadcast of the ITN TV World News from London, she further explained that all British military personnel had been provided with the same untested and unproven drugs as the Americans, from U.S. medical sources. To reinforce the point, the doctor explained that the number of British personnel suffering symptoms correlated exactly on a per capita basis with U.S. personnel. It was a controversial claim, but apparently lacking in substance.

Shattering confirmation came eleven hours later, when Australian Channel 10 television carried exactly the same story at 5 p.m., but with an extra piece tagged onto the end. The extra piece claimed that French military personnel in the Gulf region, numbering the same as the British contingent, had been prevented from taking the "cocktails" and tablets on the direct orders of the French Commander-in-Chief. The story claimed that since the end of the Gulf War, not a single member of the French military has suffered from Gulf War Syndrome, or reported any of its symptoms. One hour later at 6 p.m. when the other Australian television networks ran their news broadcasts, the awesome story with its stunning proof had vanished from sight. Nor was it reported in the Australian newspapers.

For any scientist or veteran, the fact that the French should be completely clear of Gulf War Syndrome while the Americans and British suffered huge numbers of cases verified on a direct per capita basis, has huge and horrifying implications. After all, the French ate the same food, drank the same water, breathed the same air and trudged through hundreds of miles of the same desert. They also fired similar weapons at similar targets.

So what were the additional factors that made the French unique in their ability to completely withstand the deadly Gulf War Syndrome? The truth is there were none at all, save for the experimental American "cocktail" inoculations and nerve gas tablets. What the French had done, almost by accident, was provide hard scientific proof of the direct cause of Gulf War Syndrome. This proof took the form of its large 25,000-strong contingent of French servicemen participating n the Gulf War, who in all respects constituted a valid medical “control group”.

For the uninitiated, here is an example of how a “control group” might be used in medical trials: Let us say that the manufacturer of a new “chest hair” drug wants to run a clinical trial to check its efficiency, using 500,000 men. Out of this total, 475,000 [Americans and Brits] are given the real “chest hair” pill, while the remaining 25,000 [French] are used as a control group and given only a placebo, i.e. an identical looking sugar-coated pill with no active ingredients. If at the end of the trial all men with enhanced chest hair were found in the main group, with not a single case in the control group, the new “chest hair” drug would immediately be approved by medical authorities. It really is that simple. Applying the same process in reverse, proves in definitive medical terms that untested Anthrax and botulism potions kill far more servicemen than enemy gunfire.

In an attempt to confirm this vital though very short-lived Gulf War Syndrome data, the author contacted the French Military Attaché in Australia and inquired if it was correct that the French Commander-in-Chief forbade his own personnel the untested substances. The Military Attaché was happy to confirm this, and also confirmed that not one French soldier or airman has suffered since the end of the Gulf War. It seemed to be a subject of which he was very proud, and rightly so. Perhaps it is time for U.S. and British veterans to confirm the same points with their local French consulates, before taking a very hefty legal swing at their own governments.”

On 3 October 1996, nine months after this report was first published in two small American magazines, and then brought to the attention of the White House, the prestigious New York Times suddenly added a new dimension [and thus a possible new cause for Gulf War Syndrome]. According to the newspaper, an Iraqi chemical weapons dump at Kamisiyah was bombed extensively by U.S. jets before the ground campaign, meaning soldiers could have been exposed before their assault. The New York Times did not attempt to explain why this news was being reported five years after the event, nor why it was suddenly so important to bring the matter to the attention of the American public.

Once again, affected veterans and the public settled down into a confused silence, their suspicions blunted by media-induced patriotic guilt. How dare they even imagine that caring American pharmaceutical multinationals would hurt them or their families, when all along the real culprit was obviously Saddam Hussein and his evil “weapons of mass destruction”? The Kamisiyah “link” to Gulf War Syndrome was ruthlessly exploited, with official Pentagon confirmation that the dump itself was finally destroyed on 4 March 1991 by the 37th Engineering Battalion, who “did not know” that nerve gas was stored there when they triggered the demolition charges. So, victims and public alike were coaxed into believing that American and other troops located downwind of the demolition, had been affected solely by “Iraqi” toxins.

It was truly brilliant media propaganda, but failed to take into account those incredibly annoying Frenchmen, who seemed to be everywhere in southern Iraq at the same time as the Americans and British. Proportionately speaking, the same number of “French Control Group” troops were present when Kamisiyah was bombed and finally demolished, but not one of them suffered or even reported any of the effects of “Gulf War Syndrome”. And before you ask, yes, the French did indeed trudge wearily through the same areas of southern Iraq littered with depleted uranium 238 as the Americans and British. But still there is absolutely no trace of Gulf War Syndrome in any French soldier.

It does not take a rocket scientist to work out where this report is heading. Just look at the hard facts and ignore the pathetic lobby, media, and academic hype. As already discussed, all coalition troops regardless of nationality shared the same air and water, they all walked or drove over the same terrain, and they all used similar weapons against similar targets. But what about external body protection? Did the French have vastly superior biowarfare suits that somehow magically gave them “the edge” over American and British personnel? No, they did not. The biowarfare suits worn by the French, came from exactly the same stock as those worn by the Americans and British. The only variables left at this point in the report, are the untrialled “cocktail” inoculations and the nerve gas tablets.

Under heavy media pressure in late October 2000, the retired commander of French forces in the Gulf, General Michel Roquejoffre, admitted that his men were in fact ordered to take nerve gas tablets [pyridostigmine bromide] during the Gulf War, but only for four days when mistakenly believed to be under direct chemical attack. The General pointed out that this four days of intermittent French exposure to nerve gas tablets, contrasts sharply with their continuous use for months on end by American and British servicemen. However, General Roquejoffre emphasized that at no time did he allow any French serviceman to receive the highly controversial untrialled American “cocktail” inoculation.

Rather than help the media in its never-ending quest to lay misleading smoke screens around the true origins of Gulf War Syndrome, General Roquejoffre appears to have used his statement to finally isolate and expose the real villain behind the debilitating and sometimes lethal disease. Having “admitted” that some of his troops took the nerve gas tablets during the Gulf War, General Roquejoffre has wittingly or unwittingly removed the nerve gas tablet variable, leaving only the lethal American “cocktail” inoculation, which included the untested Anthrax vaccine being irresponsibly peddled today by assorted western politicians, as the sole and scientifically proven cause of Gulf War Syndrome.

Portsmouth, England, January 25, 2003

British Servicemen Throw Deadly Anthrax Vaccine Overboard!

On 4 January 2003 a confidential copy of my updated report on the single cause of Gulf War Syndrome was sent directly to a number of military computer servers in America, Britain and Australia. With servicemen already being ordered to submit to a debilitating or lethal dose of untrialled and unproven Anthrax "vaccine" directly linked to GWS, it seemed wise to ensure that they saw the work before it was officially posted on the Internet. Web sites can be attacked all too easily, and a number of mine have been totally destroyed in the last six months.

Not long after Prime Minister Tony Blair arrogantly waved goodbye to 30,000 British servicemen departing England for the Persian Gulf aboard a fleet of Navy vessels, locals in Dorset and Devon started reporting a very strange phenomenon.

Thousands of [unused] vials of Anthrax Vaccine started washing up on their beaches. Some locals started panickng, thinking that perhaps they were being attacked by a country or countries known to have vast stockpiles of this ruthless killer - most notably America and Israel. But their heart rates came down again when Health Departmernt officials visited the areas and explained the thousands of vials on the beaches were in fact "cures in bottles".

Jim Moore, a spokesman for the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association (NGVFA), said his organization has no conclusive proof that the vaccine vials that washed up in Dorset, southern England, were thrown overboard. But Moore noted that the circumstances surrounding the vaccine find are suspicious.

"For anything to be accidentally washed overboard on an aircraft carrier is highly unusual," he said. "This gives us cause for concern and there are a lot of questions that need to be asked."

The organization said it has heard anecdotal evidence of mistiming of vaccines from current service personnel. The NGVFA believes that improperly administered vaccines might be one of the causes behind "Gulf War Syndrome," a mysterious collection of symptoms that is thought to afflict tens of thousands of veterans in Britain and the United States.

"People say you accept the risks when you sign up to join the forces," Moore said. "That's true, but the risk you accept is one of an enemy bullet or a landmine. You don't accept the risk of being a guinea pig for a vaccine, All the mistakes made in the Gulf War are being made again."

A Ministry of Defense spokeswoman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that an internal investigation into the vaccine find was underway."We wouldn't like to speculate on where the vaccine might have come from at this stage," she said. "There has been a large amount of speculation in the press and this isn't helpful. The investigation will uncover the source of the vaccine."

Peering judiciously behind the official veil, of course reveals that the only sources for the thousands of "shipwrecked" Anthrax vaccine vials were the various naval vessels that had earlier sailed reluctantly for the Persian Gulf on direct political orders.

So the British servicemen have found a way to neutralize the second most deadly danger to their lives. Now all they have to do, is to figure out a way to neutralize the most clear and present danger ever to threaten their families and themselves: Prime MinisterTony Blair

District of Columbia, United States of America, December 22, 2003

Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan Issues Temporary Injunction Against The Use of Anthrax Vaccine

In a landmark 34-page ruling on Civil Action No. 03-707 (EGS) in the District Court of Columbia, Federal Judge Sullivan has enjoined defendents Donald H. Rumsfeld et al from inoculating members of the American armed services with Anthrax vaccine, without their prior written consent. Sullivan's decision hinged on the fact that Congress, after the 1991 Persian Gulf War, passed a law banning the use of experimental drugs on military personnel without their informed consent.

The case was filed in April by "John Does" - reportedly, three military personnel and three government contractors who objected to the vaccine. There is little doubt they had good reason to do so. Claims of "safety" by the pharmaceutical manufacturers are negated by court documents, which prove that instead of the "0.2 percent side-effect rate" claimed on advisory brochures supplied to servicemen and women embarking on active duty, actual adverse reaction rates vary between 5.0 percent and a staggering 35.0 percent.

There is no way the extremely profitable pharmaceutical multinationals can dodge this one. At best, serious risks to service personnel are twenty-five times higher than 'advised' in writing, and at worst they are one hundred and seventy-five times higher than they 'advised' in writing. It is reasonable to ask who is going to pick up the health care costs of the [median] 40,000+ American service personnel who will suffer severe disabililty at some time in the future, because of this blatant deception and forced Anthrax inoculation program.

Most importantly, Judge Sullivan wrote, ""The men and women of our armed forces put their lives on the line everyday to preserve and safeguard the freedoms that all Americans cherish and enjoy. Absent an informed consent or presidential waiver, the United States cannot demand that members of the armed forces also serve as guinea pigs for experimental drugs."

At this juncture in history it is wise to ask whether obscene pharmaceutical profits for 'shareholders' was the only reason for forcing these debilitating inoculations on healthy young American service personnel. After all, by its own actions banning the use of experimental vaccines in 1991, Congress tacitly admitted that the Gulf War "Cocktail" inoculations were in large part responsible for Gulf War Syndrome.

The proof of this is simple. Despite deliberately misleading and confusing media claims that the main culprit for GWS was depleted uranium, American forces still carry and fire this noxious substance by the ton. Congress did not pass a law limiting the carriage and use of depleted uranium to those with "informed consent", nor at any time did Congress blame GWS on Iraq's "Weapons of Mass Destruction", which we now know do not exist. The "Cocktail" inoculations were the only possible candidates, and were banned by law.

The problem lies in the fact that Congress does not promulgate orders for the U.S. Military. This important task is eagerly carried out by crazed neocons including Cheney, Wolfowitz and Perle, none of whom have substantial share holding in the pharmaceutical multinationals, and all of whom know the side and long-term effects of both the Gulf War cocktails and Anthrax vaccine.

Logic therefore dictates that there must be another, more compelling reason to cripple very large numbers of the American military. There certainly is, and the real reason for this pre-meditated grevious bodily harm and manslaughter, will be fully explained in Part Two of "Fortress Americas", due to be published late December or early January.