Buharry, greetings and thanks for forwarding this piece to us. It's really a mouthful and with time and persistence, we shall unearth the mystery of our lifetime, called HIV/AIDS. Let's keep educating each other, for it's the key to solving this human problem. On a lighter note, how's your family? I hope all's well and you'll are enjoying your newest member. Chi Jaama Joe Sambou >From: MOMODOU BUHARRY GASSAMA <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Fwd: AIDS: a U.S.-made monster? >Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:28:14 +0200 > >Hi! > I promised to post some articles on the AIDS conspiracy theory. Here >they come. Enjoy. > > Buharry. >____________________________________________________________________ > >The US Government created the HIV Virus!! > >AIDS: a U.S.-made monster? >------------------------------------------------------------ > >PREFACE >In an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of "Top Secret", >Prof >J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made >disease, >originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, >Maryland. >Top Secret is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and >is >considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action >Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names >column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and >which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article, >named >"AIDS: US-Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," >is >lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology and is dotted with >footnotes. >The following is my humble attempt to encapsulate its highlights. It is >recommended that all interested read the original, which is available at >some >bookstores, or can be ordered for $3.50 from: > >Top Secret/Geheim Magazine P.O.Box 270324 5000 Koln 1 Germany > >AIDS FACTS >"The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name >(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the Segals, "has been traced >back >to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also called >'helper cells`, which play a regulatory role in the production of >antibodies in >the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number of functional >T4- >cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot be produced and the >defenseless patient remains exposed to a range of infections that under >other >circumstances would have been harmless. Most AIDS patients die from >opportunistic infections rather than from the AIDS virus itself. > >The initial infection is characterized by diarrhea, erysipelas and >intermittent >fever. An apparent recovery follows after 2-3 weeks, and in many cases the >patient remains without symptoms and functions normally for years. >Occasionally >a swelling of the lymph glands, which does not affect the patient's >well-being, >can be observed. > >After several years, the pre-AIDS stage, known as ARC (Aids- Related >Complex) >sets in. This stage includes disorders in the digestive tract, kidneys and >lungs. In most cases it develops into full-blown AIDS in about a year, at >which >point opportunistic illnesses occur. Parallel to this syndrome, disorders >in >various organ systems occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of >which range from motoric disorders to severe dementia and death. > >This set of symptoms, say the Segals, is identical in every detail with the >Visna sickness which occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (Visna means >tiredness >in Icelandic). However, the visna virus is not pathogenic for human beings. > >The Segals note that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through >sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and non- sterile hypodermic needles, >the >infection has spread dramatically. During the first few years after its >discovery, the number of AIDS patients doubled every six months, and is >still >doubling every 12 months now though numerous measures have been taken >against >it. Based on these figures, it is estimated that in the US, which had >120,000 >cases of AIDS at the end of 1988, 900,000 people will have AIDS or will >have >died of it by the end of 1991. It is also estimated that the number of >people >infected is at least ten times the number of those suffering from an acute >case >of AIDS. That in the year 1995 there will be between 10-14 million cases of >AIDS and an additional 100 million people infected, 80 percent of them in >the >US, while a possible vaccination will not be available before 1995 by the >most >optimistic estimates. Even when such vaccination becomes available, it will >not >help those already infected. These and following figures have been reached >at >by several different mainstream sources, such as the US Surgeon General and >the >Chief of the medical services of the US Army. > > > > > > > > > Say the Segals: "AIDS does not merely bring certain dangers with it; it >is >clearly a programmed catastrophe for the human race, whose magnitude is >comparable only with that of a nuclear war." They later explain what they >mean >by "programmed," showing that the virus was produced by humans, namely Dr. >Robert Gallo of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. When >proceeding to prove their claims, the Segals are careful to note that: "We >have >given preference to the investigative results of highly renowned >laboratories, >whose objective contents cannot be doubted. We must emphasize, in this >connection, that we do not know of any findings that have been published in >professional journals that contradict our hypotheses." > >DISCOVERING AIDS >The first KNOWN cases of AIDS occurred in New York in 1979. The first >DESCRIBED cases were in California in 1979. The virus was isolated in Paris >in >May 1983, taken from a French homosexual who had returned home ill from a >trip >to the East Coast of the US. One year later, Robert Gallo and his >co-workers at >the Bethesda Cancer Research Center published their discovery of the same >virus, which is cytotoxic, i.e poisonous to cells. > >Shortly after publishing his discovery, Gallo stated to newspapers that the >virus had developed by a natural process from the Human Adult Leukemia >virus, >HTLV-1, which he had previously discovered. However, this claim was not >published in professional publications, and soon after, Alizon and >Montagnier, >two researchers of the Pasteur Institute in Paris published charts of >HTLV-1 >and HIV, showing that the viruses had basically different structures. They >also >declared categorically that they knew of no natural process by which one of >these two forms could have evolved into the other. > >According to the professional "science" magazine, the fall 1984 annual >meeting >of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was >almost >entirely devoted to the question of: to what extent new pathogenic agents >could >be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the Segals, AIDS >was >practically the sole topic of discussion. > >THE AIDS VIRUS >The Segals discuss the findings of Gonda et al, who compared the HIV, visna >and other closely-related viruses and found that the visna virus is the >most >similar to HIV. The two were, in fact, 60% identical in 1986. According to >findings of the Hahn group, the mutation rate of the HIV virus was about a >million times higher than that of similar viruses, and that on the average >a >10% alteration took place every two years. That would mean that in 1984, >the >difference between HIV and visna would have been only 30%, in 1982- 20%, >10% in >1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the Segals, "that at this time >visna >viruses changed into HIV, receiving at the same time the ability to become >parasites in human T4-cells and the high genetic instability that is not >known >in other retroviruses. This is also consistent with the fact that the first >cases of AIDS appeared about one year later, in the spring of 1979." > >"In his comparison of the genomes of visna and HIV," add the Segals, >"Coffin >hit upon a remarkable feature. The env (envelope) area of the HIV genome, >which >encodes the envelope proteins which help the virus to attach itself to the >host >cell, is about 300 nucleotides longer than the same area in visna. This >behavior suggests that an additional piece has been inserted into the >genomes >of the visna virus, a piece that alters the envelope proteins and enables >them >to bind themselves to the T4-receptors. BUT THIS SECTION BEHAVES LIKE A >BIOLOGICALLY ALIEN BODY, which does not match the rest of the system >biochemically. (emphasis mine) > >The above mentioned work by Gonda et al shows that the HIV virus has a >section >of about 300 nucleotides, which does not exist in the visna virus. That >length >corresponds with what Coffin described. That section is particularly >unstable, >which indicates that it is an alien object. According to the Segals, it >"originates in an HTLV-1 genome, (discovered by Gallo-ED) for the >likelihood of >an accidental occurrence in HIV of a genome sequence 60% identical with a >section of the HTLV-1 that is 300 nucleotides in length is zero." Since the >visna virus is incapable of attaching itself to human T4 receptors, it must >have been the transfer of the HTLV-1 genome section which gave visna the >capability to do so. In other words, the addition of HTLV-1 to visna made >the >HIV virus. In addition, the high mutation rate of the HIV genome has been >explained by another scientific team, Chandra et al, by the fact that it is >"a >combination of two genome parts which are alien to each other BY ARTIFICIAL >MEANS rather than by a natural process of evolution, because this process >would >have immediately eliminated, through natural selection, systems that are so >replete with disorders." > >"These are the facts of the case," say the Segals. "HIV is essentially a >visna >virus which carries an additional protein monomer of HTLV-1 that has an >epitope >capable of bonding with T4 receptors. Neither Alizon and Montagnier nor any >other biologist know of any natural mechanism that would make it possible >for >the epitope to be transferred from HTLV-1 to the visna virus. For this >reason >we can come to only one conclusion: that this gene combination arose by >artificial means, through gene manipulation." > >"THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIV" >"The construction of a recombinant virus by means of gene manipulation is >extraordinarily expensive, and it requires a large number of highly >qualified >personnel, complicated equipment and expensive high security laboratories. >Moreover, the product would have no commercial value. Who, then," ask the >Segals, "would have provided the resources for a type of research that was >aimed solely at the production of a new disease that would be deadly to >human >beings?" > >The English sociologist Allistair Hay (as well as Paxman et al in "A Higher >Form of Killing"-ED), published a document whose authenticity has been >confirmed by the US Congress, showing that a representative of the Pentagon >requested in 1969 additional funding for biological warfare research. The >intention was to create, within the next ten years, a new virus that would >not be susceptible to the immune system, so that the afflicted patient >would >not be able to develop any defense against it. Ten years later, in the >spring >of 1979, the first cases of AIDS appeared in New York. > >"Thus began a phase of frantic experimentation," say the Segals. > >One group was working on trying to cause animal pathogens to adapt >themselves >to life in human beings. This was done under the cover of searching for a >cure >for cancer. The race was won by Gallo, who described his findings in 1975. >A >year later, Gallo described gene manipulations he was conducting. In 1980 >he >published his discovery of HTLV. > >In the fall of 1977, a P4 (highest security category of laboratory, in >which >human pathogens are subjected to genetic manipulations) laboratory was >officially opened in building 550 of Fort Detrick, MD, the Pentagon's main >biological warfare research center. "In an article in 'Der Spiegel`, Prof. >Mollings point out that this type of gene manipulation was still extremely >difficult in 1977. One would have had to have a genius as great as Robert >Gallo >for this purpose, note the Segals." > >Lo and behold. In a supposed compliance with the international accord >banning >the research, production and storage of biological weapons, part of Fort >Detrick was "demilitarized" and the virus section renamed the "Frederick >Cancer Research Facility". It was put under the direction of the Cancer >Research Institute in neighboring Bethesda, whose director was no other >than >Robert Gallo. This happened in 1975, the year Gallo discovered HTLV. >Explaining how the virus escaped, the Segals note that in the US, >biological >agents are traditionally tested on prisoners who are incarcerated for long >periods, and who are promised freedom if they survive the test. However, >the >initial HIV infection symptoms are mild and followed by a seemingly healthy >patient. > >"Those who conducted the research must have concluded that the new virus >was...not so virulent that it could be considered for military use, and the >test patients, who had seemingly recovered, were given their freedom. Most >of >the patients were professional criminals and New York City, which is >relatively close, offered them a suitable milieu. Moreover, the patients >were >exclusively men, many of them having a history of homosexuality and drug >abuse, >as is often the case in American prisons. 1111 > >It is understandable why AIDS broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among >men >and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the Segals. >They >go on to explain that whereas in cases of infection by means of sexual >contact, >incubation periods are two years and more, while in cases of massive >infection >via blood transfusions, as must have been the case with prisoners, >incubation >periods are shorter than a year. "Thus, if the new virus was ready at the >beginning of 1978 and if the experiments began without too much delay, then >the first cases of full- blown AIDS in 1979 were exactly the result that >could have been expected." > >In the next three lengthy chapters, the Segals examine other theories, >"legends" as they call them, of the origins of AIDS. Dissecting each claim, >they show that they have no scientific standing, providing also the >findings >of other scientists. They also bring up the arguments of scientists and >popular writers who have been at the task of discounting them as >"conspiracy >theorists" and show these writers' shortcomings. Interested readers will >have >to read the original article to follow those debates. I will only quote two >more paragraphs: > >"We often heard the argument that experiments with human volunteers are >part of >a barbaric past, and that they would be impossible in the US today... We >wish >to present one single document whose authenticity is beyond doubt. An >investigative commission of the US House of Representatives presented in >October 1986 a final report concerning the Manhattan Project. According to >this >document, between 1945 and 1975 at least 695 American citizens were exposed >to dangerous doses of radioactivity. Some of them were prisoners who had >volunteered, but they also included residents of old-age homes, inmates of >insane asylums, handicapped people in nursing homes, and even normal >patients >in public hospitals; most of them were subjected to these experiments >without >their permission. Thus the 'barbaric past` is not really a thing of the >past." > >"It is remarkable that most of these experiments were carried out in >university >institutes and federal hospitals, all of which are named in the report. >Nonetheless, these facts remained secret until 1984, and even then a >Congressional committee that was equipped with all the necessary >authorization needed two years in order to bring these facts to life. We >are >often asked how the work on the AIDS virus could have been kept secret. >Now, >experiments performed on a few dozen prisoners in a laboratory that is >subject to military security can be far more easily kept secret than could >be the Manhattan Project." > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------