Antaletriangle
10-22-2008, 11:06 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7681743.stm
What are the possible connotations to this?
Could they be planting 'sleeping nukes/biowarfare'; are the powers that be fully aware of what may await the U.K. in the near future?
Scientists from Porton Down have been deployed in the UK a "number of times this year", the government's head of counter-terrorism has told MPs.
The lab mainly specialises in nuclear and biological warfare but the reason for the deployments is not known.
Brigadier Chip Chapman told a committee of MPs he could not go into details for national security reasons.
On the broader question of whether the UK was prepared for a major incident, Lord West confessed he did not know how many hospital beds could be made available in the event of an emergency of the order of 10,000 deaths.
But he said the Department of Health "would know" the figures and plans would be coordinated by the government's emergency planning committee Cobra.
cont. on link above.
What are the possible connotations to this?
Could they be planting 'sleeping nukes/biowarfare'; are the powers that be fully aware of what may await the U.K. in the near future?
Scientists from Porton Down have been deployed in the UK a "number of times this year", the government's head of counter-terrorism has told MPs.
The lab mainly specialises in nuclear and biological warfare but the reason for the deployments is not known.
Brigadier Chip Chapman told a committee of MPs he could not go into details for national security reasons.
On the broader question of whether the UK was prepared for a major incident, Lord West confessed he did not know how many hospital beds could be made available in the event of an emergency of the order of 10,000 deaths.
But he said the Department of Health "would know" the figures and plans would be coordinated by the government's emergency planning committee Cobra.
cont. on link above.