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Post by budokai01 on Jul 6, 2008 10:06:32 GMT
This is pretty low, shows how much the US think of their "allies"
THE US military planned to test deadly nerve gas on Australian soldiers in far north Queensland during the Cold War, declassified documents reveal.
The Defence and Prime Minister's office files show that the US was strongly pushing then prime minister Harold Holt's government in the 1960s to allow tests of two of the deadliest chemical weapons ever developed -- VX and GB, better known as Sarin nerve gas.
The revelation airs this morning on the Nine Network's Sunday program.
It says the top secret plan involved allowing 200 mainly Australian combat troops to be aerially bombed and sprayed with the chemical weapons.
It's understood the Iron Range rainforest near Lockhart River in far north Queensland was the likely location for the tests.
Peter Bailey, a former senior official with Mr Holt, tells the program the request caused consternation in Canberra, and as far as he knows the tests never went ahead.
But he says planning was very advanced in the US, which wanted the operation to be kept secret because the weapons were illegal under international law.
This is big news over here in Australia right now, I was pretty shocked to hear this news, makes my respect for America plummet even further downwards....and let me tell you it was pretty low before i heard this news.
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Post by baby beedle hitler on Jul 6, 2008 13:48:31 GMT
I think there's probably another side to this story, seems a little too 'good' to be true. I mean, I know this is America, but they wouldn't go that far without a good reason, would they?
On the other hand, if they didn't have one, that is disgusting. Either way, this isn't going to make America very popular internationally, even less than they were before...
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Jul 9, 2008 11:37:39 GMT
I thought it was bad enough that they constantly make "mistakes" in Afghanistan & Iraq (killing coalition troops) but this is despicable! testing gas on allies? this has gotta be bullshit surely, they wouldent go that far!
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Post by baby beedle hitler on Jul 9, 2008 18:03:55 GMT
America invented the phrase 'friendly-fire'. Silly word really, because friendly-fire isn't very friendly at all.
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Post by GREATMADMAN on Jul 30, 2008 23:30:56 GMT
That's just sick, and doesn't even sound credible, How would they go about getting the soldiers exactly?. Why not test the gas on convicts or guys on death row?
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Post by chizzles on Aug 1, 2008 7:08:22 GMT
Links or it never happened.
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Post by baby beedle hitler on Aug 1, 2008 10:27:04 GMT
Links or it never happened. ...said the US government.
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Aug 5, 2008 10:55:12 GMT
Surely they wouldent do something like that, i mean i know they are assholes but countrys like the U.S and all European countrys do honour the rules of warfare very highly, people like the Germans in WWII did not
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Post by GinfnersAddict on Aug 16, 2008 2:59:30 GMT
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Aug 16, 2008 23:36:17 GMT
Just briefly read some of it, very interesting, the CIA are a bunch of assholes
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Post by GinfnersAddict on Aug 17, 2008 1:54:42 GMT
Careful what you say! Probably reading this now!
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Aug 21, 2008 0:47:59 GMT
they can read what they like, free speech! and we are not under U.S law !
i feel sorry for that guy who hacked the U.S computer systems searching for UFO evidence, the U.S are going to fuck him over good
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Post by GinfnersAddict on Aug 22, 2008 0:26:21 GMT
Yeah his case is very interesting and the stuff he found. He hasn't a hope in hell of getting off or getting out of jail alive.
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Aug 26, 2008 1:58:29 GMT
what did he find exactly?
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Post by GinfnersAddict on Aug 26, 2008 2:40:52 GMT
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Aug 28, 2008 12:38:36 GMT
Interesting stuff!
I just saw on the news he has lost his appeal to stay in the UK and will be extradited to the US
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Post by GinfnersAddict on Aug 29, 2008 22:08:29 GMT
Well that's him screwed then!
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Sept 3, 2008 23:38:23 GMT
oh well he knew the risk he was taking
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Post by GinfnersAddict on Sept 4, 2008 0:59:29 GMT
Hardly right though that he'll more than likely get a sentence longer than some mass murdering kiddy fiddler though.
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