Jordan King says WMD Vx gas attack stopped. Al Qaeda/Syrian connection suspected.

WABC Radio | 4/19/04 | John Bachelor

[playball0]

WABC's radio's Bachelor & John Loftis (sp) reporting Syria gave Iraq's chemical WMD to AlQaeda. Captured trucks in Jordan with chemicals with Vx attack would have killed 20,000.

[ahadams2]

you wrote "Bugspray for humans"

dunno if you were being sarcastic, but that happens to be very nearly the case - at least here in the United States. Insecticide intended for use against, say mosquitoes, is a very, very diluted nerve agent.

[thoughtomator]

They'd be fools... they'd waste all their expensive gas, it would be incinerated. That's why the first WTC attack had six dead instead of 6,000, because the cyanide mixed in was incinerated.

[RWR8189]

but how do you prove it? the only way is if Assad admits to it, like Quaddafi. then its game, set, match for Bush. but how do we get Assad to do this?

Easy, just tell him that if he doesn't cooperate, he'll end up like this:

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

No argument per se. But I find it difficult to believe that, with our surveillance capabilities, and with our control of Iraq over the past year, we do not have a GREAT DEAL of evidence of what WMD went where. For some (tactical? political?) reason, GW has chosen to hold off on disclosing this for now. But this certainly would not prevent a few persuasive phone calls to Abdullah. Time to, as GW says, "cough them up".

[RWR8189]

but how do you prove it? the only way is if Assad admits to it, like Quaddafi. then its game, set, match for Bush. but how do we get Assad to do this?

Easy, just tell him that if he doesn't cooperate, he'll end up like this:

[oceanview]

according to Loftus - this kind of VX gas "assembly" can withstand 4000 degrees, so it can survive the heat of a truck bomb.

[null and void]

Here's hoping they are slow learners.

[Bogey78O]

Yea, VX was intended to be a super-bugspray, I believe. Turned out to be league's worse than anything they had planned.

[Jewels1091]

Doesn't that stuff have it's own DNA??? Can't they tell what country this stuff comes from by it's signature??

[Allan]

They'd be fools... they'd waste all their expensive gas, it would be incinerated.

No.
According to Loftus
this is another reason why it looks like nerve gas.
Nerve gas can withstand high temperatures.
High explosives reacha temperature of 3500 degrees.
Nerve gas does not incinerate until temperatures above 4000.
The explosion would create a large cloud.
There were 3 trucks of high explosives
one of nerve gas.

[thoughtomator]

Whoah.. that's very bad.

[xrp]

1251.396672052619 miles.

[Allan]

that may need some clean up.

Al Qaim is the town at the syrian border
where the material came out of Iraq before the war.

I was making a fast transcript.

To be more precise
the nerve gas was transported across the Al Qaim crossing
in January-February 2003.

[Allan]

ping

[Fitzcarraldo]

Can't they tell what country this stuff comes from by it's signature??

I suppose by trace chemical analysis.

[Eurotwit]

No sarcasm, just a cold accurate description of what VX is.

[PureSolace]

I see nothing in the wires about this yet... As soon as I see it in print, I'll blast a link to the post.

[Fitzcarraldo]

They've probably had to quarentine this stuff deep in the desert.

[Dr Snide]

Gas from Syria? What are the odds that VX from Syria is NOT related to Iraq, slim to none. Which of course means that not only was Bush right in his assertion that Iraq had such weapons but was also willing to give them to al queda. Of course we all know there are no connections between Iraq and al queda (sarcasm alert) so obviously because of George Bush's illegal war al queda has VX now because he f'ed it up so bad (John Kerry Weasel logic prediction).

On a serious note it means that terrorist with WMD from Syria (either as a stopping point or point of origin) were attempting to attack American Soil (embassy) and that ladies and gentelemen is a clear act of war on the part of Syria unless they can do some MAJOR explaining as to why those WMD's are not theirs and even then they will be on shakey ground. I can hear the Michael Moore's already Bush is starting another war just in time for the election, blame America, etc, etc.

[oceanview]

still, I will agree that its would be very difficult logistically to move that stuff into a position where it could be dumped in quantity in London or Paris. But its not impossible.