No evidence Cuba working on bioweapons, expert says

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Fri, Oct. 22, 2004

No evidence Cuba working on bioweapons, expert says

BY NANCY SAN MARTIN
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WASHINGTON - Biotechnology experts who recently visited various facilities in Cuba said Thursday that while the communist nation has sophisticated technology there is no evidence to support claims it is working on bioweapons.

''We can't give Cuba a clean bill of health, but we have no evidence to support these allegations,'' said Jonathan Tucker, a senior researcher at the Washington-based Center for Nonproliferation Studies, an independent group working to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction.'

'They have the capability, but so do we,'' he told a conference focused on whether Cuba should be kept on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism. But serious concerns were raised in 2002 when top Bush administration officials warned that Havana possessed ``at least a limited, developmental, biological weapons research and development effort.''
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Tucker said the Oct. 3-7 visit to four facilities in Cuba showed the military installations were producing items such as cartilage capsules for vitamin supplements and vaccines to combat life-threatening diseases such as Hepatitis B.
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[Tempest]

1. Yet another Bush lie exposed

How many does this make now?

[pinerow]

2. Too many to count

nt

[Mika]

3. This one has been debunked..what.. 3 or 4 times now? At least.

Jeez. It just never stops.



Mr Kerry, Tear down the wall of ignorance and hate!

[Judi Lynn]

4. Jimmy Carter was invited to return to Cuba with technicians

to go over the Cuban labs to determine whether or not Cuba was making biological weapons of mass destruction when he visited there a couple of years ago.

He did go and have a look around himself at the time. He ALSO told the Cubans that right before he had made his trip to Cuba, he had asked the State Department if they believed Cuba was really involved in developing bilogical WMD, and they had told him "no."

He was p.o.'d when, the very night before he was due to arrive in Havana, John Bolton told the Heritage Foundation in a speech that the State Department suspected Cuba was developing biological weapons of mass destruction...... and he said so.

[Mika]

5. And that was after the E.U. sent their investigators.

This lie is like a floater that's hard to flush.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Ha! You know, however, they HAVE to keep repeating these claims

as it's all they've got. It's only one in their rotation of several. I suspect the next one will be the charge that Cuba is involved in human trafficking, prostitution, child pornography.

Then there's the one that Cuba is involved in terrorism. Also the one that Cuba is involved in drug trafficking, despite the fact that Cuba has offered REPEATEDLY to join together with the U.S. on a large effort to catch drug smugglers together......

Such stupid people. As you have noticed, they aren't lacking slow learners who are eager to believe them, either.