Indonesia’s Health Minister has suggested that the United States may be involved in a conspiracy to use the bird flu virus to develop biological weapons.BBC related interview 20080220-am08-birdfluconspiracy.mp3 (mpegmedia.abc.net.au)
The extraordinary allegation is included in a new book, endorsed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, which describes Indonesia’s fight to assert its ownership of its virulent strains of avian influenza.
Concerns over that issue prompted Indonesia last year to stop sharing virus samples with the World Health Organization as Jakarta correspondent Geoff Thompson reports. http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2008/s2167325.htm
Project for a New American Century (September 2000) & Persons associated with the PNAC
"... advanced forms of biological warfare
that can “target” specific genotypes may
transform biological warfare from the realm
of terror to a politically useful tool."