Updated: May 12 2021, 7:47 ET
COVID is a perfect weapon and shows how biowarfare could quickly bring the world to its knees , according to a former military chemical weapons expert.
Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon spoke out after it was revealed Chinese scientists had probed weaponising coronaviruses five years before the start of the pandemic.
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Chinese scientists reportedly considered weaponising coronaviruses back in 2015Credit: EPA
The colonel does not believe Covid is man-made weapon - but it demonstrates the threat of what could happen if a biological agent was released by an enemy state or terrorist group.
He exclusively told The Sun Online: I was not at all surprised by the report about China.
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SHADOWY ATTACKERS
Inside DarkSide ransomware gang as Russian hackers claim they didn’t mean to cause chaos with Colonial Pipeline attack
Updated: May 13 2021, 10:06 ET
THE Russia-based hacking group DarkSide claims they didn t mean to cause chaos with the Colonial Pipeline attack and pledged to approach its targets differently in the future.
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DarkSide released a statement on Monday taking credit for the hackCredit: Twitter/DarkTracer : DarkWeb Criminal Intelligence
After the FBI named the group as the culprits behind the attack, DarkSide published a statement to the dark web.
Updated: May 11 2021, 15:18 ET
CONGRESSWOMAN Ilhan Omar has slammed Israel’s airstrikes on the Gaza strip as “terrorism” as her fellow Squad member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also offers her support for Palestinians.
Omar commented on Monday after the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza reported that nine children were among 20 killed by Israeli airstrikes.
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One victim was younger than ten while another 65 people were injured.
“Israeli airstrikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism,” Omar tweeted in response to the news.
“Palestinians deserve protection. Unlike Israel, missile defense programs, such as Iron Dome, don’t exist to protect Palestinian civilians.
“It’s unconscionable to not condemn these attacks on the week of Eid,” she added, referencing the Muslim holy week.