South Africa's "Dr Death"

I was looking at BBC's site to get an international perspective on the Katrina tragedy when I came across this shocker. Dr Wouter Basson, head of "Operation Coast," the South African apartheid government's "secret" biological and chemical warfare program is free after a 30-month trial.

Here's some of the stuff "Dr. Death" was accused of:

• "Operation Coast" sought to create "smart" poisons, which would only affect blacks, and hoarded enough cholera and anthrax to start epidemics.


• Naked black men were tied to trees, smeared with a poisonous gel and left overnight to see if they would die. When the experiment failed, they were put to death with injections of muscle relaxants.


• Weapon ideas included sugar laced with salmonella, cigarettes with anthrax, chocolates with botulism and whisky with herbicide.

Despite calling 153 witnesses, the court was unable to put this guy away.

Oh, this is the best part -- South Africa's biological warfare program was developed with the assistance of British and United States intelligence services.

Were these two governments using South Africa to field test these bio weapons in case they needed to exterminate their own blacks?

The South African research is surely in the hands of these two governments, right?

That's just great.

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