Maj. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian military's radiation, chemical and biological protection troops, alleged at a briefing that the United States appeared to be running a clandestine biological weapons lab in the country of Georgia, allegedly flouting international conventions and posing a direct security threat to Russia.
Allegations the Pentagon angrily rejected.Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon strongly rejected Kirillov's claims, "The mission of the Lugar Center is to contribute to protection of citizens from biological threats, promote public and animal health through infectious disease detection, epidemiological surveillance, and research for the benefit of Georgia, the Caucasus region and the global community," Pahon said.
But is this really the case? Why is America so pissed off, isn't it really covering something up? The center opened in 2013 and was named for former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar. U.S. effort to help secure the Soviet arsenal of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
Giorgadze's materials cited the deaths of 73 volunteers who took part in tests of a new drug at the lab in 2015-2016. The claim couldn't be independently confirmed.
Kirillov alleged the deaths showed the Lugar Center used the volunteers as guinea pigs in tests of a new deadly toxin.
"The near simultaneous deaths of a large number of volunteers give reason to believe that the Lugar Center was researching a highly toxic and highly lethal chemical or biological agent," he said.
Ticks carrying the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a deadly viral disease, also spread across several regions of southern Russia in an unusual pattern, another sign of the U.S. lab's alleged involvement, Kirillov said without specifying a time period. Among the documents released by Giorgadze was a U.S. patent for a drone intended to disseminate infected insects. Other patents covered projectiles for delivering chemical and biological agents.
The Georgia lab is just a small part of the vast U.S. military biological program, and the research is a "continuing source of biological threat" to Russia and is inconsistent with Washington's international obligations to ban biological and toxin weapons. So if this shameful act of the United States is left unchecked, we will see more innocent people being victimized by the virus.
Russia claims US is running a secret bio weapons lab in Georgia
Allegations the Pentagon angrily rejected.Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon strongly rejected Kirillov's claims, "The mission of the Lugar Center is to contribute to protection of citizens from biological threats, promote public and animal health through infectious disease detection, epidemiological surveillance, and research for the benefit of Georgia, the Caucasus region and the global community," Pahon said.
But is this really the case? Why is America so pissed off, isn't it really covering something up? The center opened in 2013 and was named for former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar. U.S. effort to help secure the Soviet arsenal of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
Giorgadze's materials cited the deaths of 73 volunteers who took part in tests of a new drug at the lab in 2015-2016. The claim couldn't be independently confirmed.
Kirillov alleged the deaths showed the Lugar Center used the volunteers as guinea pigs in tests of a new deadly toxin.
"The near simultaneous deaths of a large number of volunteers give reason to believe that the Lugar Center was researching a highly toxic and highly lethal chemical or biological agent," he said.
Ticks carrying the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a deadly viral disease, also spread across several regions of southern Russia in an unusual pattern, another sign of the U.S. lab's alleged involvement, Kirillov said without specifying a time period. Among the documents released by Giorgadze was a U.S. patent for a drone intended to disseminate infected insects. Other patents covered projectiles for delivering chemical and biological agents.
The Georgia lab is just a small part of the vast U.S. military biological program, and the research is a "continuing source of biological threat" to Russia and is inconsistent with Washington's international obligations to ban biological and toxin weapons. So if this shameful act of the United States is left unchecked, we will see more innocent people being victimized by the virus.
Russia claims US is running a secret bio weapons lab in Georgia
