2002 Document: Request For 500 KG Of SODIUM CYANIDE A Precursor For A Chemical Weapon (Translation)

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[MAexile]

I'm a chemist.

1. Name of material: Nitric Acid. Unit: Liter. Quantity: 600. Origin: Iraqi.

2. Name of material: Third Oxide of Chrome. Unit: KG. Quantity: 500. Origin: English/Chinese.

3. Name of material: Dye . Unit: KG. Quantity: 25. Origin: Western.

4. Name of material: HCL. Unit: Ton. Quantity: 15. Origin: Iraqi.

5. Name of material: Hylite Zinc. Unit: KG. Quantity: 500. Origin: Western.

6. Name of material: SODIUM CYANIDE. Unit: KG. Quantity: 500. Origin: Western.

17. Name of material: SULFURIC ACID. Unit: Ton. Quantity: 30. Origin: Iraqi.

Let's see. Sodium Cyanide (NaCN) and dilute Sulfuric acid (H2SO4) is what you use in the gas chamber. Mix well and you get hydrogen cyanide.
Third oxide of chrome, I think is Cr2O3, but I don't know what you could use it for. I'll have to check...

Dye could be anything.

Hylite Zinc. Don't know what this is either. Translation prob.? I'll try google and see what happens.

[jveritas]

I mentioned in my original post that NaCN can have civilian applications but in the hands of Saddam regime it can always be used to produce Chemical Weapons.

[condi2008]

Do you have any mortal enemies and/or are you or have you ever been a swarthy mid-easterner?

[MJY1288]

What does this have to do with Immigration?? /sarcasm OFF

Great work, You are the best

[SittinYonder]

Don't know if this is helpful or not. I've been searching for a list of banned items and it includes lots of stuff (including pencil erasers of all things), but this is a link to the UN resolution that describes the import/export mechanism in place for Iraq.

http://www.fas.org/news/un/iraq/sc/sc6137.htm

I suppose it's possible some of this stuff is dual use, but not when the military is requesting it!

[eyespysomething]

Info:

HCN is evolved when metal cyanides such as NaCN or KCN are treated with acids. This is one method by which prisoners in US jails are executed - they are strapped into a chair in a sealed, airtight room, and concentrated acid is dropped onto a large amount of a metal cyanide salt.

KCN is "Potassium Cyanide". From the CDC FactSheet on Cyanide :

* Hydrogen cyanide, under the name Zyklon B, was used as a genocidal agent by the Germans in World War II.
* Reports have indicated that during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, hydrogen cyanide gas may have been used along with other chemical agents against the inhabitants of the Kurdish city of Halabja in northern Iraq.

[SittinYonder]

If you come up with anything interesting, please ping me.

Thanks.

[jveritas]

LOL :) We should input keyword "immigration" for this thread, may be it will attract more freepers :)

[jveritas]

Thanks eyespy.

[Doctor Stochastic]

It was also used in the US in gas chambers I think.

[SpaceBar]

The list sounds like the inventory for a well stocked industrial metal pickling/plating facility.

[Da Mav]

agreed. Most interesting one I've seen so far, but then I haven't tried to keep up with all of them. At some point hopefully someone will put together a definitive summary for lazy folks like me.

[jveritas]

The trip was OK, but nothing better than this great USA where we live :)

[hole_n_one]

We should input keyword "immigration" for this thread, may be it will attract more freepers

Kournikova seems to attract a lot of activity as well.

Great work, as always!

[Born to Conserve]

Can you read? Do you understand English? I said exactly what I said. If you would like to make up things and put them between my lines, then by all means knock yourself out -- but don't apply for the position of world's smartest person.

[jveritas]

Again this can have it civilian application but for Saddam Regime if they can make a weapon form a drop of water they will do so, and I am pretty sure that for them NaCN with H2SO4 is to be seen as Chemical Weapon hidden under a civilian application like metal plating.

[spunkets]

The proportions and qty. here don't indicate this was for a chemical weapon. What does this factory do and what other chem items were requisiitoned? I see plating here. Low tech, but nevertheless.

[spunkets]

CrO₃...plating.

[jveritas]

Take it easy fellow freeper and do not get angry. I am not saying that I am the smartest person and I am far from it. I just asked you a question, and I may have misunderstood what you said. Relax!

[jveritas]

Is the quantity too little or is it a lot?