UK Government Feared Terrorists Would Weaponize Ebola: Developed Own Scenarios — Don't Know if the Heavily Censored Report Said It Already Happened in Africa

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of filamentous Ebola virus particles (blue)
budding from a chronically infected VERO E6 cell (yellow-green). (Photo from
NIAID)

By Ben Quinn
British military experts were asked to draw up guidance at the height of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa late last year on the feasibility and potential impact of terrorists “weaponising” the virus.

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The Ministry of Defence has released a heavily redacted report, prepared in October, that identified three scenarios involving the exploitation of Ebola for bioterrorism.

Ebola Within A Bioterrorism Context - UK Ministry of Defense

Ebola Within A Bioterrorism Context: Addendum

Details of the first scenario are entirely blacked out, as are most of those of the second, which is described as “logistically and technically challenging for a non-state group to undertake”.

It adds: “Clearly there are practical issues involved with such a scenario that of themselves are often not insurmountable but taken together add to the complexity of successfully undertaking this attack.”

The third scenario – details of which were also heavily redacted – was described as the “most technically challenging”.

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Jennifer Cole, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, said she wasn’t surprised the report had been drawn up. “The US and UK military have been carrying out research for some time into infectious diseases,” she said. “The fact that vaccines are so far along in development is because of concerns that the US has had about the virus being weaponized.”

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