![]() "But we will have to go and visit some of the facilities which have been relevant in the past" and conduct "no notice inspections" at previously unknown sites. "We have a plan of action which we cannot obviously lay out in detail" Mohammed El Baradei the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said in an interview. weapons inspectors have been rebuilt and expanded by Iraq since the inspectors left the country in December 1998 on the eve of a U.S.-British bombing campaign. and British intelligence agencies maintain that these and other sites previously damaged by U.S. They are also expected to visit at least one of eight presidential compounds to test whether Iraq is willing to provide full compliance officials said. inspectors will be zeroing in on a priority list of more than 100 sites including an upgraded missile launch facility at Al-Rafah a former nuclear power plant at Al Furat and a chlorine production facility in the town of Fallujah outside Baghdad that once produced precursors for Iraq's nerve and blister agents according to U.S. inspection team has created a roadmap of more than 1000 sites that inspectors will potentially visit in their search of Iraq's suspected chemical biological and nuclear weapons arsenals. arms experts and American and British intelligence agencies over the past decade the U.N. inspection terms a team of disarmament experts will likely arrive in Baghdad on Monday to restart their surveillance cameras install their communications equipment and begin the most intrusive weapons inspection operation in modern history.Īrmed with tips and evidence amassed by Iraqi defectors former U.N. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, several of which cause respiratory diseases in humans – ranging from a common cold to Severe Acute Respiritory Syndome (SARS).UNITED NATIONS - With Iraq's announcement Wednesday that it will accept tough new U.N. The COVID-19 pandemic has been caused by a coronavirus named SARS-Co V-2 which emerged in December 2019. ![]() The document is discussed in a new book What really happened in Wuhan by The Australian investigations writer Sharri Markson which will be published by HarperCollins in September. “It’s a really interesting article to show what their scientific researchers are thinking,” he added. Mr Potter says it isn’t unusual to see Chinese research papers discussing areas that they’re behind on and need to make progress in and that doesn’t necessarily equate to action being taken. “It emerged in the last few years … they (China) will almost certainly try to remove it now it’s been covered.” “We reached a high confidence conclusion that it was genuine … It’s not fake but it’s up to someone else to interpret how serious it is,” Mr Potter told. He says the document definitely isn’t fake. Robert Potter, a cyber security specialist who analyses leaked Chinese government documents was asked by The Australian to verify the paper. Picture: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / AFP.Īmong the 18 listed authors of the document are People’s Liberation Army scientists and weapons experts. RELATED: Key detail pins China for virus leakĪ micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. “If this was a case of transmission from a wet market it would be in China’s interest to co-operate … we’ve had the opposite of that.” He also said that the document may explain why China has been so reluctant for outside investigations into the origins of COVID-19. “It begins to firm up the possibility that what we have here is the accidental release of a pathogen for military use,” added Mr Jennings. “I think this is significant because it clearly shows that Chinese scientists were thinking about military application for different strains of the coronavirus and thinking about how it could be deployed,” said Mr Jennings. Peter Jennings, the executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), told that the document is as close to a “smoking gun” as we’ve got. Released five years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it describes SARS coronaviruses as a “new era of genetic weapons” that can be “artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponised and unleashed in a way never seen before”. Titled The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons, the paper predicted that World War Three would be fought with biological weapons. ![]() A document written by Chinese scientists and Chinese public health officials in 2015 discussed the weaponisation of SARS coronavirus, reveals the Weekend Australian.
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