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To: dynoman
It is very likely the 155mm sarin shells are binary since the one used in the IED a few years ago was.

I thought the binary ones were post-1991 production. I know we found a bunch of empty binary warheads that were produced after 1991.

89 posted on 06/22/2006 12:50:08 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton
Sarin, Mustard Gas Discovered Separately in Iraq

"The round was an old "binary-type" shell in which two chemicals held in separate sections are mixed after firing to produce sarin, Kimmitt said. He said he believed that insurgents who rigged the artillery shell as a bomb didn't know it contained the nerve agent, and that the dispersal of the nerve agent from such a rigged device was very limited. The shell had no markings. It appears the binary sarin agents didn't mix, which is why there weren't serious injuries from the initial explosion, a U.S. official told Fox News."

109 posted on 06/22/2006 1:11:33 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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