US Army's Gay Sex Bomb

Chemical weapons experts in the US army investigated producing aphrodisiac chemicals to induce rampant homosexuality amongst enemy soldiers, the New Scientist revealed this week.

The "love bombs' were intended to deliver a "distasteful but completely non-lethal blow' to morale by making troops "sexually irresistible to each other' and were tested in 1994 alongside other chemicals which delivered halitosis and excessive flatulence (apparently to help detect undercover enemies and spies).

While Pentagon official Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate told the BBC the love bombs were never developed significantly, the project shared similarities with a similar secret weapon programme developed by the apartheid era South African military, who produced over 900kg of top quality ecstasy as a non lethal weapon (worth over US$200 million).

Top scientist Johan Koekemoer told South Africa's the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1998 that he personally manufactured the MDMA for notorious chemical warfare programme Project Coast, under the direction of the even more sinister Dr Wouter Basson (also known as Dr Death). Dr Basson was later controversially acquitted by the Commission, though not before he accused the US of using hallucinogenic weapons against Iraq in the first Gulf War.

"I had good reason to believe that America used a BZ variant against Iraq during the Gulf War," Dr Basson said in court. "Analysis of video material showing surrendering 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," he claimed. (Ananova) Tags