[July 4th]

Cool!

[templar]

Interesting. I had no idea there was such a thing. Of course, if it was something else, I suppose we will discover what it was on some battlefield someday.

[Between the Lines]

Valium Gas Used in Raid

Putin's little helpers?

[Looking for Diogenes]

Apologies for the squished formatting.

This thread was posted on 6/12/02:
US plan to strike enemy with Valium

[mykdsmom]

Why couldn't we use this against any future highjackers, should we have a repeat performance? Supplying the pilots with O2 masks and a steel door to keep the bad guys out of the cockpit of course.

MKM

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

valium gas what a cool idea valium is absorbed rapidly in the lungs of course if you inhale to much you may just go to sleep and forget to breathe

[whadizit]

Nothing that the Russians do surprises me. Actually, if it is Valium gas, that is probably the least harmful of the gases that they have. Earlier, I heard it was nerve gas. I still do not trust the "old guard" Russians. In fact, I think their stand against U.S. taking action in Iraq is mainly because they do not want us to see all the "evil" gases, weapons, etc. that they have provided Saddam.

[gcruse]

 "They spent 30 years putting it together. We're prevented from
 doing that by treaty and executive order."

Yeah, it's honorable going through history with
one hand tied behind your back.  It'll also get
you killed when fighting martyr-prone enemies
with no scruples.  We'll learn eventually.

[coloradan]

BZ was a research focus of the U.S. Army during the Cold War at the former Edgewood Area labs near Washington.

This admission damns the FBI at Waco: They could have sedated all the Branch Davidians and gone in to arrest them. But the fact that they went in with tanks and tear gas indicates they intended all along to kill the Davidians, not rescue them. There were specops troops there, they would have known about sleeping gas.

[boris]

I have a friend (ex-OSS(!)) who says that it was well-known that the Russians had several such agents. One he called 'silver dust'. He said it could be spread in a room (presumably by some sort of 'grenade'?) and "everybody would go down like a stone" (i.e., knocked out). "Most of them could be revived," he also told me. Hmm. Not all, just most.

When I asked him if the U.S. had something similar, he clammed up.

--Boris

[He Rides A White Horse]

Experts said the Russians may have released a gas concentration of a powerful sedative like Valium

I doubt it was something like Valium.......so many other agents could have been used that would have been much faster.

[Rodney King]

They should have done something similar to what happend to Cheech and Chong at the end of "Up In Smoke".

[krb]

More "experts". Well, I'll wait and see on this one.

[anymouse]

How do you say, "Let's roll" in Russian? "Pokatili" according to Russian FReeper, Ivan Ivanov.

D@mn reporters can't bear to admit that regular civilians are capable of
defending themselves from evil preditors like these Chechen terrorists.
They have to paint them as "panicked" and "desperate."

I say these brave Russian citizens deserve medals. I suspect Russian
President Putin and the members of the Duma will agree.