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28 Dec 2022

asserts · high · alex jones · 00:26:25

#760: December 9-10, 2003

Donald Rumsfeld and the Commerce Department gave West Nile virus to Saddam Hussein in 1984.

I will remind you that West Nile was given to Saddam in 1984 by Donald Rumsfeld and the Commerce Department.

28 Dec 2022

reports · high · dan friesen · 00:28:59

#760: December 9-10, 2003

West Nile virus shipments to Iraq in 1985 were for lab research purposes, not specifically given by Rumsfeld.

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Saddam used chemical weapons on civilians in 1984 but the shipments of West Nile were made in 1985 They weren't specifically to Saddam and they weren't made by Rumsfeld but they did happen. There was an Iraqi scientist who had previously been a researcher in Fort Collins, Colorado who received shipments of West Nile presumably for lab research purposes.