Arms to Iraq – Just who knew what would have to be the question!!

Part 1


Project Babylon – Supergun – Designed to fire CBW/WMD into Iran & Israel

Made in Sheffield UK with full British Government/MoD/DTI/MI5 Approval

We have seen so many government inquiries come and go, all of which served no purpose apart from releasing the elite of government from any wrong doings.

Have you ever asked yourself just how well they covered their tracks and who could have been implicated in knowing what was being shipped to Iraq and from where?

Ever asked yourself why certain key figures just simply died for no apparent reason?

Are you concerned that by their actions and their arrogance they continued on in their corrupt ways to fulfil their own hidden agenda and their own financial gain?

Can you believe that many of those involved are still in positions of power or are in a position to manipulate the legal system and flaunt their own self imposed authority against the best interests of the British Government and its people?

So lets turn the clock back and reflect on some of these under the table deals that went on between the US and UK Governments, the CIA, MI5, MI6, MoD and more importantly from the office of the Department of Trade and Industry and associated outlets such as the Trade and Industry Select Committee etc

It would be better to first highlight who played what role during these rather dark years and who may have been privy to some of the highly secretive information that floated around the corridors of power in both Number 10, Westminster, MoD, DTI and not forgetting the cloak and dagger brigade at MI5/MI6

I guess to be fair we would have to go back to some rather dark days that commenced in 1987 with the dealings of Matrix Churchill, a British company at the centre of the Arms-to-Iraq affair. This company had connections to the US as well as here in the UK and believe it or not was basically owned and run by the Iraqi’s.

One has to remember that illegal arms dealings have always been the mainstay of the very lucrative arms manufacturing business especially in the US. Unfortunately the US was getting a rather a bad name for itself and launched into a new policy of allowing someone else to market and distribute their products for them and in doing so stopped the finger pointing.

This new policy served two purposes it opened a floodgate of corruption/fraud by allowing political figures in the target country (in this case the UK) to fill up their own pockets or their party coffers with vast sums of illegal money.

Lets look at how Matrix Churchill got off the ground and how they eventually collapsed after the chance finding by customs officials (at the port of Teesside) of “Supergun” parts about to be loaded on a ship and addressed to Iraq.

In October 1987 TMG Engineering Ltd took over TI Machine Tools and renamed the company to Matrix Churchill Ltd (a leading British tool-maker) TDG UK (who owned 89% of TMG) was chaired by the Iraq's procurement leader, Safa al Habobi who basically controlled everything with the other Iraqi board members, who also happened to be the main investor. To make things legal and appear to be pure British the newly named company, Matrix Churchill was run by their Managing Director, Paul Henderson.

In the eyes of the public and Western governments, Matrix Churchill presented TMG as a set of European and Middle Eastern investors who bought into Matrix Churchill's vision of restructuring its company, which had been having serious financial troubles. In fact, Matrix Churchill officials knew that Iraq secretly controlled the company and that Habobi headed a large-scale, secret procurement effort for Iraq's military industries.

TMG also bought Matrix Churchill Corporation in the United States which had been a distribution agent for Matrix Churchill in the United States, and Newcast Foundries Ltd. in Britain which made castings for Matrix Churchill. TDG coordinated the activities of the group, particularly in terms of its sales to Iraq. After its purchase, Matrix Churchill group received a significant increase in business with Iraq.

The Iraqi members of the boards of directors of companies in the group were in firm control of the companies' day-to-day activities and sometimes authoritarian in their actions. Both Habobi and Fadel Jawad Khadhum, a board member of several of these companies, worked for Iraqi establishments and sometimes dictated to their British and U.S. employees’ Iraqi desires.

Because two of Matrix Churchill's senior officials provided information to British intelligence about Iraqi activities, the British government had considerable knowledge about Iraq's secret military procurement activities. However, the British government decided to allow most of Matrix Churchill's sales to Iraq. As a result, a scandal erupted after the Persian Gulf War about the role of the British government in arming Iraq. This scandal reached a crisis when the government's case against Matrix Churchill officials collapsed in November 1992. The government prosecutors developed convincing evidence that Matrix Churchill officials had deliberately deceived export control officials about the true purpose of the items exported to Iraq. However, the case collapsed because the defense was able to show that the government had known the true purpose of the exports at the time and had encouraged the exports.

It was clear right from the onset that this was a US and UK government approved operation, with a DTI monitoring mechanism and a means of exporting both US and British arms and military know how to Iraq and with the full approval of the governments and CIA/MI5/MI6.

I would like to point out that even prior to this Matrix Churchill Affair the US and UK Government were again in bed together in providing Iraq with huge amounts of munitions, arms, equipment, Chemical & Biological Warfare (CBW), WMD’s etc to support Iraq during the Iraq-Iran War (22 September 1980 – August 20, 1988)……you may find it hard to believe that the US and UK wanted to drag this war out as long as possible as it was good for business. It is also fact that the US and UK wanted Iraq to be the victor (which was not the case). It was thanks to the west’s involvement that allowed Sadam to use CBW on the Kurds and also on the Iranian Army and civilian populations.
Don’t you find it so hypocritical and evil to know that our country and the US assisted Iraq in the use CBW and WMD against the above and yet the US and UK stood firm in their (two faced) opposition towards WMD’s…..which is still to this day their justification for going to war………can you even just think that war criminal, Donald Rumsfeld even paid Sadam a visit and shook his hand……..makes you want to throw up hey?

Mr. Satanic Rumsfeld

US/UK Involvement in Chemical & Biological Warfare
History has always shown that conflict and war brings in much money, not only for the arms manufacturers and their countries balance of exports but also in private and political fraud and corruption. It would be an opportune time to see who was in office at this particular time and who may have had their hands brushed with the mighty greenback ($)

Well by now you have probably guessed who was PM at the time of the Iraq-Iran War....yes the “Iron Lady” herself dear Maggie Thatcher......who incidentally had a lot to do with CBW in the old Rhodesia and the transfer of the entire product and staff down to South Africa (some of which returned to Porton Down in the UK) ........with naturally Dr. David Kelly at the helm to oversee her instructions (poor man!!)

I cannot just leave this two faced arms trading game their because prior to Dear Maggie the previous PM James Gallaghan was also working extremely well with the US Government on illegal arms trading so we the British have a very long history of illegal arms trading and massive fraud and corruption.

Don’t you find it rather repulsive to know that when these high flying political elite leave office they are given the title of The Right Honourable – The Lord Callaghan of Cardiff or in Maggies case The Right Honourable – The Baroness Thatcher or some obscure Knighthood.........to add to this disgusting practice we have to fully understand the implications........thousands upon thousands of innocent lives have been lost to keep their conflicts and wars going, including our own servicemen and this continues on to this day with Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya.......wonder what the current PM will receive??

Ok so back to the story...other key people during the Iraq – Iran war were Michael Heseltine who was Secretary of State for Defence. Meanwhile as far as the DTI was concerned the position kept changed hands so many times under the turbulent years of Maggie Thatcher.

Eventually we come back to the period of the Matrix Churchill Affair when we still had Dear Maggie at the helm.....however things were to change dramatically over at the DTI when Nicholas Ridley became Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and who was kindly assisted by none other than John Biggs-Davison, who became Private Secretary to Ridley. It was believed around this time that Tara Andrea Davison (whom Gordon Bowden thinks was the daughter of John Biggs-Davison) joined under the umbrella of the DTI

Nicholas Ridley remained in office from 24/7/1989 – 13/7/1990 and everyone working in and around the DTI would have been well aware of the illegality of the arms to Iraq scandal.....not to mention another US raised arms company, that established itself in Scotland called Allivane, which was there purely to stop the US taking flack for being the main supplier of illegal arms. It was also fact that John Biggs-Davison was an unofficial advisor to Allivane.

We will look at Allivane in more details but let’s finish off the Matrix Churchill scam....around this same period of time we had Kenneth Warren who had been around for some considerable time in the Tory Party and being an engineer was deeply involved in some other illegal arms dealings which we will return too later in the story.

So basically by early 1990 we have Nicholas Ridley still in office (soon to be replaced by Peter Lilley), supported by John Biggs-Davison and then we have Ken Warren who was Chair of the Trade and Industry Select Committee with Ms Tara Davison who was eventually employed as an Arms Investigator.

It is clear that all of the above people would have known part, if not all, of the Illegal Arms to Iraq deal, to which the Conservative Party owes much of its financial income ( and in some cases in a private capacity).

In April 1990 purely by chance Customs Officer at Teesside seized steel pipe sections on the dockside which appeared to have a military connection with Iraq.......this in actual fact turned out to be sections for the Iraq “Supergun” that was being developed to fire CBW & WMD into Iran and even possibly Israel.

Who was trying to deceive us at the DTI when it is obvious that this is a very large gun?

It was at the end of April 1990 that Ken Warren announced an investigation (Matrix Churchill Inquiry) into “Supergun” (don’t you find it strange that such an inquiry was formed from within)......I am sure that he may well have been aware of “Supergun” prior to this event. Ken Warren was himself a director of a financial house and director of Loral a US Defence Company. He also happened to be a close friend of Stephan Kock the guy who was placed into another illegal arms company called Astra, both of whom were members of the Special Forces Club.

Stephan Kock was a master mind when it came to dealing with money, especially in regard to Iraq and his pocket was always safeguarding by the British Government as he once declared himself:

"You see, before we advance monies to a company, we always insist on any funds being covered by [Britain's export credit agency] ... We can't lose. After 90 days, if the Iraqis haven't coughed up, the company gets paid instead by the British government. Either way, we recover our loan, plus interest, of course. It's beautiful."
Kenneth Warren we have learnt was also deeply involved in the financial sector when he was the director of a financial house with links to Iraq as well as being a director of a US Defence Company as per Ms Tara Davison’s story below.

I found the following segment that described Britain’s Export Credit Agency:
Export credit agencies (ECAs) are publicly funded government agencies that provide lending and insurance to help companies compete overseas. As aid and development becomes increasingly commercialised, ECAs play an increasingly prominent role in large-scale infrastructure development projects.

Lending by ECAs quadrupled in the eight years between 1988 to 1996, to US$105 billion. Fifty-six per cent of low-income nation debt is now attributed to ECA-funded projects.

This is corporate welfare on a global scale. But don't be surprised if you haven't heard much about them — because they're not too interested in letting the public know what they do.

I guess it nice to know that with the help of the government/MoD/DTI/MI5 our taxpayer’s money is siphoned off for illegal arms dealings, especially during the above period and then after some time we actually went to war with Iraq…….the country we had supported so strongly in illegal weapons, CBW, WMD…….the same country we helped in the attack against Iran and the same country we tried to elongate the war against Iran, hoping that Iraq would win…….how’s that for being hypocritical?
Just imagine all those that participated in this evil, under the table fraud/corruption still continue in office or are acting in an advisory role to their fellow political fraudster. We will cover part of this scam in the next part when we talk about those involved in the purchase of 3 X South African nuclear bomb using tax payer’s money and then lost them!!

It is evident that, Sir Ken (as he his now known), was deeply involved in this other under the table deal when he took a rather young research office, by the name of David Cameron, from the apron strings of Maggie Thatcher to South Africa
Matrix Churchill Inquiry collapsed almost as soon as it had started and this then led to another inquiry called the Scott Inquiry which commenced after Matrix Churchill in 1992 and was released to the public in 1996. The latter deeply involved Ms Tara Davison who played a key role in providing highly secretive evidence at a private sitting. Once can only assume that there was a close working relationship between Sir Ken Warren and Ms Davison (that may even continue to this day) as she would hold vital information on the Government and DTI’s involvement in illegal arms dealings. Gordon Bowden thinks that she may be under some sort of Super Injunction and that someone like Ken Warren could well be pulling the strings!!

What I find incredible was that during this Matrix Churchill fiasco there were also some other irregularities going on....for instance Stephan Kock was a consultant to the Midland Bank who had a special section dealing with the financial side of the arms deals he also would have discussed much of his activity with Sir Ken Warren and I would have to ask the question who ordered the arrest of the Directors involved in “Supergun” and why were Customs forced to drop the charges when it was known that the parts they had found had military applications? Did Ken Warren play a significant role in watering down the Scott Report......according to Ms Davison he certainly did!!

I find it also ironic that those Directors were charged with exporting tools to Iraq for military purposes but where cleared when it was revealed that MI5 were clearly aware of these activities and the British Government were doing a sort of double deal with Iraq. Many businessmen were charged but it never got to court because they knew too much about the governments “double dipping.”

Another interesting fact is that Ministers Alan Clarke, William Waldergrave and Lord Trefgarne agreed that the guidelines for Iraq be revised (relaxed)...this change of policy was never announced to the Parliament and yet all those associated with the DTI would have known........you may even find it hard to believe that back in 1988/9 our government even allowed mustard gas and nerve gas agents to be exported to Iraq......so much for our high horse standards hey?

UK Politicians profited from most of what was going on at the time and the fact that our government awarded Iraq with billions of pounds of export credit to purchase arms.

I think we can leave it at that for the time being as this whole sordid wheeling and dealing is extremely complex and so hard to take in at any one time. However what you can look at is one page from Ms Davison’s webpage before it was shut down that shows who was involved in what..........I am sure that if Sir Ken Warren is behind or assisting Ms Davison she could well become a liability for his demise.........as they say you are never too old to end up in prison and I certainly could not think of any better place for him to end his last days.......after all he did nothing to bring this country back into respectability and like most of his elite brigade may well have taken blood money, especially in regard to the South African nuclear bombs that were illegally purchased and then stolen.

It goes without saying that by the time you have read all my articles you may well feel intensely sick at the terrible actions carried out by the respective governments that we have put in office. Add to this their determination to lead us all into a police state and to force us to succumb to the New World Order and one can only say “thank God I will be long gone.”

How the British people can take back their country from these evil satanic ruling elite is certainly not going to be easy but I am sure that justice can prevail and one can live in hope.

I find that during such moments in time the words of Ghandi can bring us all contentment.....Maybe Sir Kenneth Warren would do well to heed these words:

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.”

The next article will cover some other shonky deals that have taken place i.e. Allivane and Astra with some sudden deaths that just so happened to occur to people who knew too much!!

What this space for more slime and grime

Peter Eyre – Middle East Consultant – 18/6/2011 www.eyreinternational.wordpress.com

When will the British have a true leader?

When will the British have a government that serves the people?
When will we stop our aggressive foreign policy?
Part 1

The purpose of writing this short series of articles is to prove that for a couple of decades (or even possibly longer) we have not had a government in office that is truly representative of the people for the people. In actual fact I would go a stage further and say that they all carried out an act of treason against the constitution of the United Kingdom and caused immeasurable suffering and death to the people it represents.

These respective leaders, ministers and government embarked on a policy that not only put this country at great risk but also knowingly used weapons that were in violation of the Geneva Convention. They were not only Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) but also totally indiscriminate, resulting in the death/sickness of millions of innocent civilians, their own military forces and then crossing international borders to continue their deadly journey around the globe.

There is no question or doubt that these past and current leaders, the British Government, Ministers and the Ministry of Defence knew of the implications in using such weapons, which beyond a shadow of doubt implicates them as being guilty of war crimes, amounting to mass genocide. In order to paint this picture of deceit and treachery we must start with the current Prime Minister and work backwards.

We currently see (the not so new kid on the block) David Cameron launch himself down the same path of self destruction and one could ask what makes him any different to all those that were before him? From my perspective I can see our new Prime Minister possible turning into one of the worst ever.

So what sets this man aside from the others and what makes this particular cabinet dangerous. To find the answer to this and many other concerns one has to turn the clock back to when David Cameron was a young, up and coming, researcher for the Conservative Party under the apron strings of the “Iron Lady” herself, Maggie Thatcher. One has to see how this man with other senior members of government allowed our country to be put in grave danger all in the name of money and personal gain.

Back in 1975 all sorts of clandestine operations were taking place in South Africa ranging from a very active Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) programme and also advances in nuclear research. All of this activity was being monitored and approved by both the US and UK Governments. It was in this same year that South Africa announced that it had a pilot plant for uranium enrichment at Pelindaba. Ninety-seven pounds of enriched uranium, enough to make seven atomic bombs, was shipped to the plant by the US Nuclear Corporation of Oak Ridge, Tennessee to assist it.

From 1977 onwards the US policy to South Africa hardened. Because of its exploitation of Namibian uranium, South Africa was removed from its permanent position in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Shortly thereafter, Soviet satellite pictures showing South Africa preparing to detonate a nuclear explosive in the Kalahari Desert brought a warning from US president Jimmy Carter not to do so.

In 1979 the “Iron Lady” Maggie Thatcher came to power and progressively introduced Neo – Liberalism during her reign which many believe was the downfall of the United Kingdom. However Thatcher also became involved in some very sinister discussions, one being the trip to South Africa by her errand boy David Cameron. Our current Prime Minister at the tender age of 24 went down to South Africa on an all expenses paid jolly compliments or ARMSCOR. David was accompanied by the only technical person capable of dealing with this very controversial deal (acquisition of three battlefield nuclear bombs) non other than Ken Warren (now Sir Ken Warren) who appears to be the mastermind behind this very shonky deal which we will cover later in this series, which is in date order.

It was during the 1980 that things started to step up a notch both in the area of CBW development and also in South Africa’s under the table nuclear weapons research. It was also around this time that development of a “Super Gun” started to emerge all of which was known and supported by both the US and the UK.

Early in the war with Iran, the Iraqi government engaged world- renowned artillery expert Gerald V. Bull, whose lifetime obsession was the construction of a "Supergun," a huge howitzer able to fire satellites into space or launch artillery shells thousands of miles into enemy territory. Bull did not accomplish his dream and was sentenced and jailed for one year in 1980 for illegally selling weapons [encouraged by the CIA] to South Africa. Despite the US arms embargo he did manage to design some of the most effective artillery pieces in the world.

In April 1981 US Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, invited South African Foreign Minister, Pik Botha, to the US, and the French, British and US vetoed four UN resolutions calling for sanctions against South Africa. For the next four years South Africa could count on a more tolerant US attitude and the full support of Britain..

In September 1982, Armscor announced that its G-5 tow and the G-6 SP Gun/Tow could fire nuclear rounds if necessary, but that South Africa did not intend to use such weapons. The existence of the G5 towed artillery piece was revealed to the world and surprise was expressed that such an advanced system could be developed locally. The G6 was revealed in the mid 1980's. The G6 and G5 are built by LIW, a division of DENEL in South Africa.

It was during the Iraq – Iran War that the Iraqi government dispatched a private aircraft to Geneva to take Bull to Baghdad. So began a long association between Bull and the government of Iraq, and its then-defense minister, Saddam Hussein. Bull dealt with Iraq for almost 10 years. Iraq was one of many states with guns developed by Bull. His clients are known to include his native Canada, the United States, South Africa, Iran, Chile, Taiwan, China, and Libya.
Gerard Bull was first contracted by the Iraqi government in 1981. They desperately needed artillery to out-range the enemy in the protracted Iran-Iraq War. The association allowed Bull to yet again seek sponsorship of a space-launch supergun. Sadam Hussein liked the idea, and Project Babylon was born. Throughout the 1980's Bull's dealings with Iraq had the covert approval of Western governments, who saw Iraq as a counterweight to revolutionary Iran.
In March of 1988, Bull received a contract to build two full sized 'Project Babylon' 1000 mm superguns and one 'Baby Babylon' 350 mm prototype for a total of $25 million. The project was given the cover designation 'PC-2' (Petrochemical Complex-2). British engineer Christopher Cowley was the project manager.
The greatest concern by the international community was Iraq's arsenal of guns developed by Gerald Bull from mid-1981 until he was assassinated by what was believed to be Israeli intelligence on 22 March 1990. Two hundred of these guns, termed GH-N-45 were manufactured in Austria and were shipped to Iraq via Jordan in 1985 for use in the Iran-Iraq war. The remaining 100 were manufactured in South Africa, where they are marketed under the name G-5. The G-5 can deliver a tactical nuclear warhead, chemical shells or any NATO standard 155mm shell.

It is my intentions in this series of articles to explain just how corrupt and two faced governments can become whereby they install or support a west friendly President to carry out their own hidden agenda. In this case Saddam was one such President that had the full support of both the US and UK governments with the intention of keeping the Iraq/ Iran war running as long as possible. This next paragraph explains what was going on at the time. At a later date we would see two inquiries emerge one being the Scott Inquiry and also the Matrix Churchill inquiry both of which became a total farce and government cover – up with the latter beings scuppered by the British Government before it even got underway.

The following is an extraction of an article highlighting UK’s involvement in the supergun affair: Iraq used the petrochemical complex two (PC-2) project as a front to purchase components for Gerald Bull's super gun. Matrix Churchill was a long established Midlands based machine tool manufacturer which was purchased in 1987 by an Iraqi controlled company, TMG Engineering Ltd, which was in turn controlled by another Iraqi controlled company, Technology and Development Group Ltd (TDG). The military uses of Matrix-Churchill machines are the prime reason Iraq was interested in purchasing the company. Acquiring Matrix-Churchill gave Iraq access, not only to the machine tools, but also the computer programming, tooling, and other components needed to make a wide variety of munitions as well as other applications in aerospace and nuclear industries. The Iraqi NASSR Establishment for Mechanical Industries contracted with the company for the supply of machine tools for a project, code named "ABA", to manufacture parts for multi launcher rocket systems. In addition, supergun components were fabricated in separate parts by factories in England (Forgemasters in Sheffield), Spain, Holland and Switzerland. Acting on an anonymous tip, British Customs seized the final eight sections of the Super Gun in November 1990. The work skirted the law but remained legal, as illustrated by Britain's unsuccessful prosecution of the case, following the joint British-American sting operation that uncovered key supergun equipment transfers.
The background to this article was created to Tara Davison who dealt with intelligence matters/investigations at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and who became a whistleblower on the illegal arms trade carried out by the British Government, especially in the Middle East. When one links this scam with the nuclear weapons deal in South Africa one can clearly see that the respective leaders and their governments will do anything to either encourage conflict or to elongate a war in order to gain financial reward for themselves or their political party. I will return to some aspects of Tara Davison’s account later on in this mini series.
It should also be noted that when certain incidents happen to get into the media the leaders and their government would suddenly duck for cover and embark on covering up their tracks as soon as possible. However, sadly this also entailed the removal of key witnesses by well planned assassinations or the imprisonment of others so as not to allow the vital evidence to reach the court or a public enquiry. Three examples being the arrest and imprisonment of key British figures involved in the super gun deal, the assassination of the designer, Gerald Bull, followed by the South African nuclear weapons scam and the assassination of Dr David Kelly to protect those in high places which I will be covering in part 2 of this series.
As I have pointed out that once the media get their teeth into such scams, all hell lets loose. On such report by the BBC appeared in 1990 and said the following: Customs seize 'supergun.' Customs officers in Middlesbrough say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
Exports of parts for a weapon to Iraq would contravene British restrictions on arms sales to President Saddam Hussein's state. Eight pipes were found in crates during a search of the ship at the Teesport Docks. The length of the barrel is said to measure 40 metres (130 feet) when assembled. This would make it by far the largest gun in the world with a range of approximately 600 miles (965 kilometres). The ship where the pipes were found, the Gur Mariner, is being chartered by the Iraqi Maritime Organisation.
The main issue I am trying to raise in my articles is the fact that the leaders and governments on both sides of the pond have been and continue to pull the wool over our eyes to cover up their evil covert ways of manipulating the Geo Politics of this planet. They encourage conflict in order to become involved in areas of hostility such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia etc. They also covertly distribute arms illegally, which in some cases are used against our own forces or those of our allies. The arms manufacturing business is one of the most lucrative in the world and conflict or wars turns over huge amounts of money…….it also has the ability to increase the price of oil and gas which also props up the companies they own. One must also remember that in amongst this mass deceit are private deals going on to which they themselves benefit from or that attract huge sums of money for their own political party to enhance an election or a particular candidate. We will cover one such case later.
One point I would like to make in regard to the pre arranged assassinations of Gerald Bull and Dr David Kelly is to ask the question “Where is the true axis of evil and at what level are they prepared to go”? We all fully understand they are both linked to illegal arms deals (Super Gun and South African nukes) and that very senior politicians were implicated.. We could also ask some questions about the death of Robin Cooke (Ex British Foreign Minister) and also Michael Todd (Ex Manchester Police Chief) both of whom had some very strong views……the list is endless…….we could also add to this the crash of the Chinook helicopter that mysteriously crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland with 25 high level security and intelligence experts from Northern Ireland onboard. One should have some serious concerns that the Chinook Inquiry was a cover up by Ministry of Defence with the involvement of the DTI and the British Secret Service.
Anyway let’s get back to the main story and talk about another evil episode relating to Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW): The following is an extraction from another report regarding more government cover ups: On 11 April 1994 the ambassadors of the US and UK met with President De Klerk. According to Ambassador Princeton Lyman of the United States, who was present during these meetings, the US and UK were concerned that the South African CBW information was “in danger of being acquired by other states, in particular Libya, and that South African scientists could be recruited by these states.
Lyman recalls that after the 1994 election the US and UK waited for De Klerk to brief President Mandela. They believed that this briefing had to take place before Mandela’s inauguration. Five days before the inauguration, when the briefing had not taken place, the US “alerted Thabo Mbeki that there was a proliferation matter of great concern that we [the US and UK] would need to address
The continued trips undertaken by Wouter Basson (cardiologist and former head of the country's secret chemical and biological warfare “Project Coast”) to Libya were still a matter of concern to the US and UK. In January 1995 a third démarche was brought by the governments of the US and UK. Dr Graham Pearson, former Director-General of the UK Defence Ministry’s Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment at Porton Down, who was present during the meetings that followed, said that the intention of the démarche was to request the South African government to provide a credible CBM statement to the BTWC. He said that no comment was made about the nature of the programme and no questions were asked about it. Lyman records that the most difficult issue of the meeting was Basson’s travels to Libya and elsewhere.

It was also revealed that government bodies were united in their wish to prevent public exposure of the programme and were warned of the threat the hearing posed to foreign relations, not least because documents relating to the 1993 and 1994 démarches of the US and UK were found in the trunks. It was argued that if details of these demarches (political protests) were to emerge, trust between the three countries (US, UK and South Africa) would be severely compromised.

The government hoped for a cancellation of the hearing, or at the very least an agreement that the hearing would be conducted in camera. Neither of which were acceptable to the Commission. Finally, in a bid to reduce the potential damage the hearing could cause to foreign relations, the government insisted that a rigorous process be undertaken to identify and approve the documents which could be used in the hearing. A policy was agreed upon: not to make public any documents that could provide technical information to potential proliferators, and the documents pertaining to the démarches would not be made public.

It has often been questioned whether the South Africa programme does indeed offer internationally applicable lessons when measured against the biological weapons and/or chemical programmes of Iraq, the United States, the Soviet Union and Japan which were several orders of magnitude larger and were aimed at the development of large-scale biological weapons for conventional use.

There is evidence to indicate that the intelligence agencies of at least the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland were aware of the SADF’s interest in chemical and biological warfare and were aware of Basson’s role in the programme from the early 1980s. Despite being states parties to the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention (BTWC) these states chose not to confront the apartheid government with their suspicions about treaty violation until shortly before the 1994 elections because they were neither threatened by the programme nor had much to gain politically from calling Pretoria to account

It should also be noted that a Dr William Augerson (US deputy assistant Secretary of Defence for health resources and programmes), according to Basson’s notes, issued a statement indicating that the USA “does in fact do offensive research/have and offensive research capacity” and that “he [Augerson] states that any country with a chemical industry should be able to produce offensive chemicals.” Basson also credits Augerson with the opinion that, “chemical attack is an ideal tactical weapon against terrorist organisations”

The US and UK clearly knew enough about the South African CBW program to judge that the CBM submitted by South Africa was inaccurate (why else would they have been concerned about Basson’s contact with Libya?). Why, then, did the US and UK choose to do and say nothing to prevent the South African CBW program from continuing during the 1980s and early 1990s? The answer to this question probably lies in US policy towards South Africa during the Cold War.

To conclude: the main intention of this mini series is to reveal just how corrupt and deceitful our respective leaders, ministers and governments officials have been. It will reveal that behind the scenes it breaches UN resolutions, embargoes, illegal arms trading and frequently encourages/enhances conflict.

Both sides of the pond frequently use the term “The Axis of Evil” and yet when one gets the opportunity to investigate this spider’s web of deceit we can see the evil that’s exist deep within the corridors of power. It became clear that back in the days of Maggie Thatcher and right up to the current time that what we read about and what actually goes on is truly beyond words.

It is apparent that our respective governments and intelligence services create their many false flags to take us to war to either enhance their own position in this crazy geo political world or to control their own hidden agenda of seeking to control the world’s resources and markets and at the same time protect the drugs that play such a lucrative part in our economy.

It is also an act of treason and a breach of the Geneva Convention that our governments put not only the populations of the world at risk but also that of our military forces by using WMD’s that they knowingly contaminate with radiation nano particles.

Part two of this mini series will continue with more of this deceit when we cover detail of the loss of the South African nuclear weapons, the illegal arms trade and the manipulation of our governments by those that brush their palms with significant amounts of money. One could also include the current Naomi Campbell “Blood Diamond” cover up whereby it was a known fact that diamonds were exchanged for arms from South Africa which in turn fuelled conflict in Liberia and Sierra Leone. It should also be remembered that Charles Taylor who remains at the centre of the current War Crimes Trial was aided and abetted by the CIA in the US….now you can see just how sordid this whole arms dealing becomes. It all comes down to the fact; can you trust your leaders and their governments? We already know the answer to this question.

Keep watching this space for the truth and remember yet again those words of Ghandi: "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Peter Eyre – Middle East Consultant – 12/8/2010