http://www.dawn.com/2001/07/28/int5.htm

US USED HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS AGAINST IRAQ, SAYS SPY
Dawn (Pakistan), 28th July

PRETORIA, July 27 (AFP): Wouter Basson, the spy and mastermind behind the
apartheid government's chemical warfare programme, claimed on Friday the
United States had used hallucinogenic weapons against Iraq during the Gulf
war.

Basson told the Pretoria high court television footage shot during the war
showed clearly that elite Iraqi troops who surrendered en masse were under
the influence of hallucinogens. He said their faces were expressionless,
their pupils were dilated and they were drooling at the mouth - typical side
effects of a particularly dangerous type of hallucinogenic drug.

Basson, a former military officer, was testifying about the 1993 destruction
of hundreds of kilograms (pounds) of drugs such as cocaine, Mandrax and
Ecstasy, manufactured or bought by the South African army for use in crowd
control. He told the court: "Analysis of video material showing surrendering
(Iraqi) troops emerging from their underground bunkers show that they had
dilated pupils, were drooling and had vacant stares."

"It appeared like the clinical profile of a BZ variant. The variant was also
tested in laboratory animals in South Africa but it was stopped because it
caused permanent damage to the subject. "I had good reason to believe that
America used a BZ variant against Iraq during the Gulf War."

Basson said BZ was a hallucinogenic which altered a person's ability to act
rationally. It could either make somebody completely passive or
uncontrollably aggressive, to the point where he would attack his own
colleagues, he said. Basson is facing 46 charges ranging from murder to
fraud for acts allegedly committed while he was a high-ranking member of the
apartheid-era military.

Dubbed "Dr Death", he was the mastermind behind the regime's secret
programme to develop biological and chemical warfare capabilities and this
week testified that he had bought a zoo to research the use of animal
hormones to control crowds.