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Nerve Gas Scare at U.N. Headquarters
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Posted on 08/30/2007 9:26:05 AM PDT by farlander
Edited on 08/30/2007 9:46:09 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:26:06 AM PDT
by
farlander
To: farlander
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:27:17 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
To: farlander
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:27:29 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
To: farlander
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:28:15 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: farlander
Let’s see. Office equipment:
pencils
yellow legal tablets
shredder
phosgene
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.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:28:18 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: farlander
Nothing on the cable news stations. I’ve got the local ABC affiliate on now and haven’t heard anything.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:29:41 AM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: farlander
Well if they couldn’t find it in Iraq how are we suppose to believe they found it in their own building.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:30:11 AM PDT
by
usmcobra
(I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
To: farlander
weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous nerve gas, phosgene Phosgene isn't a nerve gas. It works by combining with water in your lungs and forming hydrochloric acid which damages lung tissue. It does not work on neurotransmitter chemicals.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:30:20 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
To: farlander
I’m sure there’s a perfectly logical explanation for why someone had vials of nerve gas in his/her office.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:30:36 AM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(You know a liberal has lost the argument when he calls you a Nazi.)
To: farlander
I once worked in a chemical plant that made that stuff for industrial use.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:31:58 AM PDT
by
Hydroshock
("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
To: kinoxi
Yep CNBC isn’t reporting anything ye teither but the market sold of in a hurry. Bouncing back now.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:32:32 AM PDT
by
farlander
(Try not to wear milk bone underwear - it's a dog eat dog financial world)
To: farlander
Richard Jewell’s final revenge.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:32:35 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(You being wrong & me being closed-minded are not mutually exclusive.)
To: farlander
Maybe they're just trying to get buff.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:33:40 AM PDT
by
JZelle
To: AliVeritas; holdonnow; STARWISE
Why isn’t this all over the cable stations?
Seems a newsworthy tidbit of info..
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:36:11 AM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet -Fred'08)
To: farlander
Had to look the stuff up. Sounds VERY common for industrial purposes meaning the stuff could have come from anywhere.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:36:39 AM PDT
by
Domandred
(Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
To: KarlInOhio
Well you know, the press can’t be bothered with specifics. They think chemical weapons and nerve gas are interchangeable terms.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:36:44 AM PDT
by
brothers4thID
(FDT: "Every notice that while our problems are getting bigger, our politicians are getting smaller?")
To: KarlInOhio
Bingo. When I worked in swimming pool supplies, we were warned never to mix pool chlorine with pool acid because it would create mustard gas. Phosgene has a similar composition. Both mustard gas and phosgene were used in WWI.
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:36:52 AM PDT
by
Philistone
(Your existence as a non-believer offends the Prophet(MPBUH).)
To: farlander
Maybe it’s just an exterminator ... I hear the United Nothings has a RAT infestation
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:37:16 AM PDT
by
clamper1797
(Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72-73 ... USS Midway CVA-41 VA-93 Blue Blazers)
To: farlander
And why were weapons inspectors cleaning out offices?
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:37:38 AM PDT
by
brothers4thID
(FDT: "Every notice that while our problems are getting bigger, our politicians are getting smaller?")
To: farlander
Update from abcnews.com:
The federal authorities said the office, in a U.N. building near headquarters, was being evacuated and the White House had been notified at 10 a.m.
New York police and fire officials reported to the scene around 12:15 this afternoon.
A U.N. spokesperson said a statement would be issued shortly.
Authorities said the phosgene was believed to have been discovered in Iraq and manufactured prior to 1991.
Former U.N. weapons inspectors told ABCNews.com that vials of phosgene had also been used by inspectors in Iraq to help calibrate air sampling instruments.
The former inspectors said the remaining vials were supposed to have been destroyed.
“If it is properly sealed, it should not pose much of a threat unless it is dropped,” said former New York City emergency services director Jerry Hauer, an ABC News consultant.
“They need to get it out of there and put it in a safe canister,” Hauer said. “It shows immense stupidity to have that kind of thing sitting around as a souvenir.”
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posted on
08/30/2007 9:42:57 AM PDT
by
brothers4thID
(FDT: "Every notice that while our problems are getting bigger, our politicians are getting smaller?")
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