Ex-Military Expert on Chemical Weapons?

One of the first pieces of information to emerge was that Chris Phillips was an American ex-military expert on biological/chemical weapons.

#Chimo Suspt Chris Phillips – ex-US military expert in bio-chem weapons once married to US star gymnast Shannon Miller #ottnews #cbcott — Judy Trinh (@JudyTrinhCBC) January 21, 2015

This morning Ottawa police arrested Chris Phillips, a former military biochemical weapons expert, after receiving info from RCMP #ottnews — Matthew Kupfer CBC (@matthewkupfer) January 21, 2015

The marriage to the Olympic Gold-Medalist gymnast though, ended in an acrimonious divorce in 2004.

His LinkedIn Profile obviously does not state his military background. The US DoD has “no comment.” To quote,

The US Department of Defence can’t yet confirm anything about Phillips’ weapons background, though they told the Ottawa Sun they are investigating. Toronto Star reporter Joanna Smith reported that the Ottawa office of the US Department of Homeland Security was aiding in the investigation.

The RCMP anti-terror unit INSET was also involved in the investigation.

To quote another source:

It has been reported that Phillips was a former biomedical weapons expert for the U.S. Army. However, the U.S. military says they have no record of Phillips, though the records only date back to 1999.

He does recieve disability payments from the US Navy. To quote,

Phillips suffered an undisclosed “traumatic injury” to his feet while serving in the U.S. navy, which granted him a medical discharge, say court documents he filed in Washington state in 2011 as part of a lawsuit against a former colleague. “Phillips is rated as 100 per cent disabled by the military due to a feet condition associated with significant pain,” says the document, which Phillips himself wrote. “Phillips also receives additional disability for loss of use of both feet due to pain.” Separate documents filed as part of his bankruptcy case show he received a monthly military disability payment of $3,145 — which amounted to $87,244 between 2006 and the first four months of 2008.

Or Never Mind?

The part about him being an Ex-Military Expert on Chemical Weapons slowly started disappearing in media coverage. In its place, we see terms like “U.S. military weapons specialist.” As coverage unfolded, we also see more and more references to the rather tame-sounding “mental health issues.” Terrorism was also quickly ruled out.

Conspiracy Theorists may recall the Anthrax attacks that followed 9/11. But unlike the Anthrax attacks, here we have suspects, materials and the fuzzy outlines of a supposed plot. But thankfully, no execution. In the case of the Anthrax conspiracy, Lt. Colonel Philip Zack was caught on camera entering the Ft. Detrick lab in 1992 on an unauthorized basis. He had worked closely with US government bioengineer, Egyptian-born Dr. Ayaad Assaad, and was accused of forming a clique to harass and provoke Assaad. He left working at Fort Detrick in December 1991. Just before the Anthrax attacks that followed 9/11, an anonymous letter was sent to the military police at the Marine base in Quantico, Virginia, accusing Assaad of being a bioterrorist. The letter revealed intimate knowledge of Assaad’s background, presumably to frame Assaad. The Anthrax used in the bioterror attacks came from Fort Detrick. To date the terrorist(s) behind the attacks have not been arrested.

Connection to Dalhousie University?

Early on, we were told that Chris Phillips was a Professor at Dalhousie University?

Suspect arrested is American, ex US soldier trained in bio-chem warfare. Also a prof frm Halifax, travelled to Ottawa yday #OttNews #cbcott — Judy Trinh (@JudyTrinhCBC) January 21, 2015

CBC news has learned the man is a Dalhousie prof #cbcns — Molly Segal (@MollySegalCBC) January 21, 2015

Never Mind

Then there was a redaction.

Correction: CBC news has learned the man on custody in #Ottawa is not a prof at Dalhousie #cbcns — Molly Segal (@MollySegalCBC) January 21, 2015

Clearly, Philips was highly qualified to hold a teaching position at Dalhousie University. From his LinkedIn Profile (not to be confused with the LinkedIn Profile of another Halifax-based Chris Phillips), we know that he

Holds a bachelor of science in chemistry and biology degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

Studied medicine at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

Did his ophthalmology residency at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

Received a cornea and refractive surgical fellowship from the Boston University School of Medicine.

Studied medical and business law at Suffolk University Law School.

His current wife, Dr. Gosia Phillips legally changed her name in February 2010 from Malgorzata Ewa Klonowska. She is an assistant professor of medicine at Dalhousie University. To quote the Ottawa Citizen

His [Chris Phillips] LinkedIn profile also lists Phillips as the manager of Neurology and Sleep Medicine Associates, Inc., a business registered in Nova Scotia since 2009. According to the province’s business registry, it operates out of a home at 43 Parkedge Crescent in Dartmouth. That’s one of the locations RCMP were investigating Tuesday. Nothing of note was found at that building. However, RCMP were also at 54 Lakeridge Crescent, the first location in their investigation. Police descending on that property found a package in the garage containing hazardous chemicals, authorities said. Police also located hazardous and volatile chemicals inside a cottage on Dyke Road in Nova Scotia. Property records accessed by the Halifax Chronicle-Herald show Gosia Eve Phillips owns the Lakeridge home. She is also listed as the president of their business. She is a Harvard University graduate and neurologist who specializes in sleep medicine and is an assistant professor of medicine at Dalhousie University, according to the university’s website.

To quote,

In a statement, the company said it is “aware that a very public matter has arisen that involves her husband and we are providing support to her while she deals with this unfortunate situation.” MedSleep Atlantic said Christopher Phillips is not and has never been an employee of the company.

According to her LinkedIn profile, she is also a Physician/Consultant for Capital District Health Authority’s Sleep Clinic. She studied Medicine at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

Why Halifax?

And why did Chris Phillips choose to move to Halifax, which is a small town with not much to it except three Universities, the largest of them being Dalhousie University?

According to the Ottawa Citizen,

In the lab, where it is used to stain small samples to show up under certain types of microscopes, workers use fume hoods like the ventilation hood over a kitchen stove. [………]

Osmium tetroxide is the oxidized form of osmium, a very rare metal. Carleton University says the current price is about $700 per gram.

It is available only in small quantities, and it is possible to order it online. But given the huge quantities of chemicals discovered at properties associated with Chris Phillips, it is unlikely that such massive quantities were ordered online (If they are all related to Osmium Tetroxide). Also note that postal workers routinely snitch for the government. They would have been easily perturbed by the warning labels on the packages.

Such large quantities of the rare element Osmium, and Osmium Tetroxide, could have come from an advanced Chemistry/Biology/Medical Laboratory, which orders stuff like this by the kilogram without arousing the slightest suspicion.

An advanced Chemistry Laboratory/Biology/Medical with access to Government Funds.

An advanced Chemistry/Biology/Medical Laboratory with access to Government Funds. Part of an Institute/University with ethically challenged staff.

An advanced Chemistry/Biology/Medical Laboratory with access to Government Funds. Part of an Institute/University with ethically challenged staff, and infamous for the presence of Criminal Cabals.

An advanced Chemistry/Biology/Medical Laboratory with access to Government Funds. Part of an Institute/University with ethically challenged staff, and infamous for the presence of Criminal Cabals. In a city whose citizenry are flakier than snowflakes.

Does that sound like Dalhousie University?

My Personal Experiences as a student at Dalhousie

During my time at Dalhousie, I cam across an evil looking “Professor Emeritus” who was born in a Communist country, groomed in Soviet State Institutions and maybe even supervised the genocides that took place in the Soviet Union. In Dalhousie University, he was running “student exchange” programs in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. Such programs were usually conduits to bring Soviet spies into North America. Prior to that he, operated in the vicinity of a major NATO installation in Canada. This evil man seemed to have the complete backing of Dalhousie University when he called the Prophet of Islam a pedophile in class (to provoke me). He would later openly threaten me, informing me that my days in Canada as a free person were over. After that, I started being persecuted by Criminal Cabals among Dalhousie Faculty. They seemed to have complete access to my private Dalhousie email account, as well as my Internet activity. Later, they supposedly passed on my identity to a Canadian terrorist whom I had exposed online. This terrorist cum Canadian Intelligence operative, Beverly Giesbrecht, tried to bomb a passenger plane in 2010.

In other words, this is not a normal University. Stuff like this is quietly brushed aside as Business as Usual. The citizenry of Halifax are also just as apathetic. In 1999, a plane full of people disappeared off the coast of Halifax, supposedly diverted to a military base. Some of the purported witnesses were clearly lying as part of the coverup.

Having ex-spooks moonlight as teachers creates serious security issues for independent minded students. If you consider yourself an independent minded student, please avoid Dalhousie University and the city of Halifax for your own personal safety.

Chemical Highly Hazardous?

There is indication that the Chemical in question, Osmium Tetroxide, is highly hazardous, and has been used in a 2004 terrorist plot. To quote,

British authorities believe terror suspects arrested last week were planning to make a bomb that would include a highly toxic, easily obtained chemical called osmium tetroxide, ABCNEWS has learned. Used primarily in laboratories for research, osmium tetroxide is known to attack soft human tissue and could blind or kill anyone who breathed its fumes. According to the New Jersey Department of Health, it is a colorless to pale yellow solid with a strong, unpleasant odor. “It’s a nasty piece of work,” said Dave Siegrist, a bioterrorism expert at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in Arlington, Va. “It irritates the eyes, lungs, nose and throat. It leads to an asthma-like death, what we call a ‘dry-land drowning.’ “ Scientists say if, for example, the bomb used in the 1993 World Trade Center attack had produced such fumes, they would have wiped out the first police and rescue workers on the scene. “They become overwhelmed by fumes,” said Jerry Hauer, an expert on biological and chemical terrorism and the former director of public health preparedness at the Department of Health and Human Services, describing what could have happened. “They can go blind. This is not a benign chemical. It is very nasty.” Eight British citizens of Pakistani descent were arrested and taken into custody when 700 police raided 24 locations in and around London on March 30. Investigators say British authorities moved in when they learned from electronic intercepts the dangerous chemical was involved in the plot. They had been the tracking group’s activities for several months. According to sources, there was some indication the group in custody was targeting Gatwick airport, the British public transportation system and enclosed shopping areas. British authorities feared it had the potential to be one of the worst attacks ever against the United Kingdom

Also consider this tweet with respect to the chemicals found at Grand Desert

RCMP Explosives Disposal Unit, HRP Forensics Identification Section, HAZMAT & EHS being brought in "to further investigate the scene" #cbcns — Molly Segal (@MollySegalCBC) January 21, 2015

Or Not so Hazardous?

The Ottawa Citizen published a piece claiming that while the chemical was hazardous, it was still not bad enough to be a terrorist weapon of choice. They also dragged in some experts to support their claim. To quote,

The danger is that the gas reacts with many things, including “almost anything in the body,” said chemistry professor Richard Puddephatt at Western University in London. “The immediate effects are to the eyes, from the warning labels that I’ve seen,” he said. “It will attack the cornea, and if it’s bad it will cause blindness. It can also cause internal damage if you breathe it in.” “I don’t think it would be super-bad in the sense that it’s not a gas and so it acts relatively slowly,” he said. He was stumped as to how someone would use it as an effective weapon. “Usually it’s available in only very small quantities and so it probably isn’t something that is going to cause mass damage,” he said. “I suppose if it was thrown at you and some of it stuck on your face, the fumes would get into your eyes very quickly and so it could cause damage to individuals. But I don’t think it would cause mass casualties.”

Most media coverage avoids any reference to the 2004 terrorist plot.

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