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To: cynwoody
Sounds less than impressive to me. Sodium cyanide plus hydrochloric acid is just the old reliable San Quentin recipe.

I agree to a point. I doubt they could manufacture a strong enough toxin and method of dispersion to cause huge numbers of casualties. It would probably be more like the Aum attack in Japan where many got sick, but the actual deaths were low, due to poor quality homemade nerve toxin and crude dispersal methods.

This, on the other hand, would be a different story. I know the chemical shells found in Iraq are after the planned attack, but that really isn't my point. People like to say there were no WMDs, but there were. After that, they say there were no stockpiles to justify the invasion. Well....a single drop of this type nerve toxin can kill. There are a lot of drops in 17 shells. People would rethink 'stockpile' if something like this were ever realeased in a NYC metro station.

Chemical Munitions In Iraq (July 2004)

45 posted on 06/17/2006 9:55:22 PM PDT by edpc
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To: edpc
There are a lot of drops in 17 shells.

Very true...but drops don't make for very good television so it went largely unreported.
55 posted on 06/18/2006 9:10:41 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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