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OB OY Le VEN? IRAN NUKE DOCUMENT WAS FORGED t Gero Hitter, of the Department of Haematology, Oncology and Transfusion Medicine at Charity University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, has developed a breakthrough treatment to remove all traces of HIV in patients. The cure was first U: intelligence has \ concluded that the document published on 14 December by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former CIA official. Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, claims that the US had nothing to do with forging the document and that Israel is the primary suspect. The sources do not rule out a British role in the fabrication. This is not the first time that Giraldi has been tipped off by his intelligence sources on forged documents. In 2005, Giraldi identified Michael Ledeen, the extreme-right-wing former consultant to the National Security Council and the Pentagon, as an author of the fabricated letter purporting to show Iraqi interest in purchasing uranium from Niger. That letter was used by the George at The cure was first reported in early February 2008 by physicians from Germany at the 15th annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, USA. The New England Journal of Medicine finally published a report in its 12 February 2009 issue. The case and cure in question, a 40-year-old American working in Berlin, had been HIV positive for 10 years. The patient's HIV infection had been under control for four years with a conventional treatment regimen. When the patient developed leukaemia, however, Hiitter deliberately chose a stem cell donor who had a gene mutation known as CCR5-delta32, rather than using the best-matched donor. Va W. Bush administration to bolster its alse case that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons program. Giraldi also identified officials in he Office of Special Plans who orged a letter purportedly written by Hussein's intelligence director, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, to Hussein himself, referring to an Iraqi intelligence operation to arrange for an unidentified shipment from iger. Source: Inter Press Service, 28 December 2009, http://tinyurl.com/y8qgc95) Hiitter remembered research first observed in 1996 that found that certain gay men in the San Francisco area remained uninfected with HIV in spite of engaging in risky sexual activities. It was later discovered hat those men had the CCR5- delta32 gene mutation. The patient's stem cell transplant was a success, even though the patient had to have a second stem cell transplant (from the same donor) when his leukaemia relapsed. The patient has been off HIV drugs or two years, shows no detectable signs of HIV in his blood, bone marrow, lymph nodes, intestines or brain, and has a normal T-cell count. ‘Source: BaldwinCountyNow.com, 27 May 2009, http://tinyurl.com/kvtshg) BEEN USED uP. WE'VE Got sust /———. ONE LEFT..... a satiate nt “4 V sy \A IO (SF NAME COMBINATION HAS WEBSITE DOMAIN NAME ane 6 * NEXUS HIV CURE IGNORED FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com