[Peach]

Anything that would kill 20-80,000 people is a weapon of mass destruction.

There are so many threads on this that I don't remember which one but a transcript of CNN's terrorism expert was on last night and he talked about sarin gas and nerve gas as being among the 71 chemicals that were found.

[AFPhys]

I have been hampered in keeping real good track of things like this lately: I really depend on pings from good FReepers like you, RCgirl, kattracks, etc. to the most critical stories these days.

If sarin was included in the mix, I'll agree unequivocally that means the term WMD is correctly used. I was objecting only to using that term for a simple mix of chemicals such as acids and caustic agents that are commonly available (even in my own basement), and not as incredibly deadly as the chemical weapons are.

Thank you for keeping me up to date.