[StormEye]

The entire story is weird. The media just reports it
matter-of-factly as if these things occur everyday.
My take is that the US Government has put out the word
to the media to suppress the story for some reason or,
OR --- it just a fabrication by the Jordanians for some reason of their own.

[StormEye]

OR maybe the "chemical" is really nuclear.
Like maybe a small, crude nuclear weapon
that could really explode. Say one that has
a yield of a few kilotons?