US sells illegal arms to brutal regimes (video)

Date: 04-12-2011 11:35 am (13 years ago) | Author: Darky
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The US military is developing new genome viral agents to be used in biological warfare, and selling them to repressive regimes, a Middle East analyst tells Press TV.

“It is a touchstone of the Pentagon - they weaponize not merely chemical and nerve gas types of weapons but they have also been weaponizing genomes viral agents in level 4 and level 5 laboratories in the US,” Ralph Schoenman, an author and political analyst in Berkeley, CA, said in a recent interview with Press TV.
Schoenman further stated that the US has not only amassed a huge stockpile of biological and chemical weapons but that “they are selling to regimes…they deploy this sort of weaponry against countries they seek to destabilize.”
“The US has been supplying the Egyptian regime [with] dangerous levels of CR gas; it has been used throughout two days of protests, and the canisters are marked 'made in the USA',” Schoenman said.
At least 40 Egyptians have died in recent weeks of what medical sources in Egypt call poisonous tear gas.
Experts say that the use of such lethal chemical weapons is a gross violation of the Geneva Convention.
The US has announced that it will not be able to destroy its stockpile of chemical weapons before a final deadline required by the CWC in 2012, saying it needs at least another decade to destroy its chemical weapons.
“Any language intending to destroy the vast array of chemical weapons that the US maintains is of course simply propaganda,” Schoenman concluded.
The US is the first country in the world to develop nuclear weapons and the only one to use them.
Thousands of people were killed in August 1945, when the US bombers dropped atomic bombs on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
According to the CWC's directive, any country found to be in non-compliance will have to be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
As one of the main victims of the chemical weapons, Iran has repeatedly asked Washington to abide by the international law, calling for the removal of its stockpiles of the arms.

To watch the video see link: http://www.presstv.com/detail/213584.html


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