Skip to comments.
Iraq can make chemical weapons that penetrate U.S. protective gear
Associated Press ^
Posted on 11/17/2002 2:48:44 PM PST by RCW2001
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:37:59 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
[history]
WASHINGTON - Iraqi scientists know how to make chemical weapons that can penetrate military protective clothing, and Iraq imported up to 25 metric tons last month of a powder that is a crucial ingredient to such ``dusty'' weapons.
Iraq told the United Nations the powder was destined for a pharmaceutical company that a former weapons inspector says was ordered by President Saddam Hussein before the 1991 Persian Gulf War to work on chemical and biological weapons.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: colloidal; fumedsilica; silicondioxide
1
posted on
11/17/2002 2:48:45 PM PST
by
RCW2001
To: RCW2001
Wasn't it revealed that the Anthrax sent around the US was a highly sophisticated strain that was combined with silicon dioxide?
2
posted on
11/17/2002 2:54:23 PM PST
by
Bogey780
To: RCW2001
We should try by military tribunal and execute the Iraqi "scientists" who developed these weapons.
To: Bogey780
Yep.
4
posted on
11/17/2002 2:59:27 PM PST
by
Dog
To: RCW2001
If they use this stuff against our troops, and Bush is the man I think he is, it'll be the end of Iraq.
To: RCW2001
Back in the '60s, I saw powder so fine it would leak out of a sealed Mason Jar.
Big deal.
Just igniting the powder while suspended in the air (like an explosion in a grain elevator) would be a more effective weapon.
6
posted on
11/17/2002 3:09:56 PM PST
by
mfulstone
To: Paleo Conservative
Also try by military panel the stupid U.N. officials who approved the shipment. F****** U.N.
7
posted on
11/17/2002 3:10:34 PM PST
by
ex-Texan
To: RCW2001
"...If Iraq made and used a powdered form of its deadliest nerve agent, VX, it could kill U.S. troops dressed in full protective gear..."
Not if we kill them first...
8
posted on
11/17/2002 3:13:32 PM PST
by
error99
To: Bogey780
THE US has nukular weapons that will disentigrate Iraq and all of its chemical weapons
To: Enemy Of The State
And all of its spell-checkers, too.
10
posted on
11/17/2002 3:31:45 PM PST
by
boris
To: All
11
posted on
11/17/2002 3:40:16 PM PST
by
Sparta
To: RCW2001
Relax, folks, the article is BS, written by another graduate of our educational system.
Fumed silica has been used for many decades in hundreds of products. The most homely one is the anti-caking agent in free-flowing table salt.
Fumed silica is a nanophase material consisting of "Strings" of 18 nanometer baeds, about 220 nanometers in length, and made by burning an organosilicon. It is used in paints, glues, rubbers, dairy creamers, etc..etc, and is no "Miracle ingredient". Yes, you can adsorb bad things on it, or on clays, like bentonite, but _everyone knows this_.
It is Not News.
To: Gorzaloon
I feel better now.
13
posted on
11/17/2002 4:08:54 PM PST
by
error99
To: RCW2001
but.. but they dont have any chemical weapons
To: RCW2001
Iraq can make chemical weapons that penetrate U.S. protective gear
U.S. can make exploding weapons that can penetrate Iraqi bunkers.
15
posted on
11/17/2002 4:12:42 PM PST
by
Barnacle
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
but.. but they dont have any chemical weapons </> Ooops. I forgot that!
To: Gorzaloon
I don't understand the technology behind the dust. The molecules of nerve gas are surely smaller than the dust particles, no? How does the dust help the gas penetrate?
To: HangThemHigh
The molecules of nerve gas are surely smaller than the dust particles, no? How does the dust help the gas penetrate? It helps it linger longer, and they hope it will get into fasteners and seams, where is can lurk away from bleach, etc.. Also it might be possible that a dispersion of dust of that size will disperse better than an aerosol.
But the story is really no big deal. I just think there is a shortage of real news about the War on Terrorism, for good reason. So the press is starved and will print anything to look like they are on top of things.
To: RCW2001
You would have to release a concentration thousands of times stronger than normal to up the exposure past a suit's seams. We can hope they are stupid enough to burn up their entire supply in one strike. Heck, you are more at risk of being hit by the skud making the delivery than getting a suit leak that bad.
Shortly after the skud strike, Bagdad and Babylon ceases to exist. Great victory, for the Kurds that is.
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson