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To: U S Army EOD
THIS FACT is also being ignored:

Mustard, cyanide said found in Euphrates: TV report

US Marines found cyanide and mustard agents in high concentrations in the Euphrates River near Nasiriyah in Iraq, television network MSNBC reported on Friday, citing a briefing from Marine officials.

The agents were found during routine tests conducted to ensure the water being used is safe, MSNBC said.

No other networks could immediately confirm the report.

Mustard gas produces painful, long-lasting blisters and often leads to blindness, while cyanide kills by preventing blood from transporting oxygen.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s825238.htm


This is one place where the WMD ended up. The rest in Syria, buried in Iraq, who knows where else.


60 posted on 12/06/2003 6:26:53 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
There are tons of mustard gas on the bottoms of lakes in France around places like Verdun right now still from WWI. The stuff just goes to the bottom and stays there. It would not be picked up trying to test the water near the surface. This is especially true if the mustard gas in Iraq is still in some type of container.

I have a small scar on my arm that is almost 40 years old from mustard gas. They used to put a 10% strength the size of a pinhead on us during training to show us what it would do. We also got to decontaminate some of it, they put it in three different places and we used procedures on two of them. One we left alone. The blister came up and it took about two months for the sore to heal over. After they found out the stuff stays in your system, they changed the lesson plan.
61 posted on 12/06/2003 6:33:59 PM PST by U S Army EOD (When the EOD technician screws up, he is always the first to notice.)
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