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Cyanide Salt Block Found in Iraq
Fox News ^ | Tuesday, February 03, 2004 | Fox News

Posted on 02/03/2004 7:30:50 PM PST by grimalkin

Edited on 04/22/2004 12:38:56 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 200401; aldhouri; alqaedairaq; ansaralislam; cbw; cyanide; iraq; iraqalqaeda; is; isis; sodiumcyanide; wot; zarqawi
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To: dep
I repeat, while Cyanide salts are a common industrial compound, the fact that our troops found it in an Iraqi safe house of Al Qaeda's poisons expert is significant.
61 posted on 02/04/2004 5:29:28 AM PST by EricT. (Californian by birth, Tennessean by choice.)
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To: churchillbuff
your thoughts? does this qualify for wmd? I don't know if a "salt lick" qualifies...
62 posted on 02/04/2004 5:30:53 AM PST by Principled
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To: grimalkin
No WMD here, only a cyanide block in ever home. Forget about chickens in every pot.
63 posted on 02/04/2004 6:11:03 AM PST by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: armymarinemom
Any experts around to say how many people that would kill?

One, if dropped.

64 posted on 02/04/2004 6:12:08 AM PST by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: tcuoohjohn
Cyanide salts are used in hundreds of manufacturing processes.

And poison specialists are common advisors in many manufacturing processes who need big blocks of poison for demonstration purposes.

65 posted on 02/04/2004 6:14:35 AM PST by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: lafroste
Now, if it had been aimed at San Fran, THAT would shut them up

No it wouldn't. We would first have to blame ourselves that we were wrong to make them angry, we would have to grovel to the UN for help and we would have to disarm ourselves to make it fair.

66 posted on 02/04/2004 6:17:32 AM PST by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: grimalkin
The Fox folks still desperately grabbing at straws, I see.
67 posted on 02/04/2004 6:20:55 AM PST by alpowolf
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To: grimalkin
Bump
68 posted on 02/04/2004 6:25:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: tcuoohjohn
Cyanide salts are used in hundreds of manufacturing processes. 18 posted on 02/03/2004 11:08:13 PM EST by tcuoohjohn (Follow The Money)

Yes, I recall working with it to temper brake components on one of my first "adult" jobs. I was 17. 3rd rate shop whose safety equipment seemed to "mysteriously" get a lot better just before an OSHA audit, and then disappear shortly thereafter. Even after several rinses, there was enough residue on the parts to sting your bare skin. I shudder when I remember that job.

CC

69 posted on 02/04/2004 6:26:38 AM PST by Celtic Conservative
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To: grimalkin
Wow, you better keep your horse away from that saltlick.
70 posted on 02/04/2004 6:36:22 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (If universities didn't teach worthless subjects, who would?)
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To: jude24
I don't think it is the amount of "cyanide" that was found nor is it the form it was found in.

I think the problem is who has the "cyanide." Zarqawi is not reasonable... his motives are not reasonable...therefore, his purpose for having the cynide is not reasonable... but threatening.

71 posted on 02/04/2004 6:37:25 AM PST by carton253 (I have no genius at seeming.)
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To: Consort
Free running cyanide salt??
72 posted on 02/04/2004 6:37:47 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (If universities didn't teach worthless subjects, who would?)
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To: InvisibleChurch
i'm thinkin that the US is going to find oodles of wmd while the "What happened to wmd intelligence?" commission is studying the problem

I don't know about oodles, but they will find WMD's.

73 posted on 02/04/2004 6:48:34 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: macrahanish #1
Nope. GWB could parachute into Pakistan, personally kill UBL, bring back his dismembered head and Fat Ted would still deny Bush his due. It's not about what Bush does, it's about who he is.

Every once in a while, I run across a succinct 'sniper's shot' of wisdom; straight to the point, and deadly accurate.

This is one of them.

74 posted on 02/04/2004 6:51:19 AM PST by Riley
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To: DallasMike
I worked with a cowboy geologist once who told me about a bootstrap gold mill he ran in northern Mexico '79-81.

He used cyanide to separate the gold from the ore. The plant had a wastewater leak that flowed into a stream. For a good 300 yards downstream of where the leak entered the stream he said the banks were littered with dead birds and small animals that drank the streamwater.
75 posted on 02/04/2004 7:06:51 AM PST by Rebelbase ( <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure put it in your tagline too!)
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To: 1Old Pro
"I don't know about oodles, but they will find WMD's"

It will happen the morning of the day the Dem's annoint John Kerry at the Convention.
76 posted on 02/04/2004 7:08:20 AM PST by Rebelbase ( <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure put it in your tagline too!)
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To: Rebelbase
It will happen the morning of the day the Dem's annoint John Kerry at the Convention.

Priceless. I hope OBL is captured alive in mid October.

77 posted on 02/04/2004 7:12:31 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro
And Saddam gives a public confession of his evils on Nov. 1st.
78 posted on 02/04/2004 7:15:58 AM PST by Rebelbase ( <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure put it in your tagline too!)
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To: grimalkin
Forget the WMDs ok. The part about removing Saddam is fine. He would have been a problem with the oil $$ about to pour into that neck of the woods.

This is about bringing 11% of the world's proven reserves online. Period. Saddam was in the way and an enemy of America.
79 posted on 02/04/2004 7:21:12 AM PST by kinghorse
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To: grimalkin
".... Zarqawi was described as a poisons expert with strong ties to the former Iraqi regime and the terrorist groups Al Qaeda and Ansar al-Islam. A Palestinian born in Jordan who fought in Afghanistan more than a decade ago, Zarqawi returned to Afghanistan in 2000 to oversee terrorist training camps, Powell told the Security Council. ....

A Jordanian.............there are no Palistinians.

80 posted on 02/04/2004 7:25:22 AM PST by DoctorMichael (Thats my story, and I'm sticking to it.)
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