[avacado]

--- I googled Sodium cyanide, and found no healthful use for it on the Wikipedia listing, unless Iraq is big into mining. It's one of the most rapidly-acting poisons. ---

Saddam had a past history of using sodium cyanide to manufacture the chemical weapon called tabun.

--- Avacado, good catch. I checked out the PDF and couldn't find quanities listed anywhere. Is there any way of finding that out, I wonder? ---

Countries could freely export to Iraq anything on List A that is less than 10% solution and if more than that concentrate then they were supposed to submit a form to the UN. I believe a company in Finland exported sodium cyanide to Iraq in 2002 without submitting a form to the UN. And since the program was handled by the Oil-for-Food program, we all know how honest that operation was.

[Allegra]

I just love it when pleasant, well-mannered people like you join FR. You make it what it is today. And you earn exactly the welcome you get.

Have a lovely day.

And lighten up a little.