Cyanide Salt Block Found in Iraq

Fox News ^ | Tuesday, February 03, 2004 | Fox News

[grimalkin]

WASHINGTON

[InvisibleChurch]

i'm thinkin that the US is going to find oodles of wmd while the "What happened to wmd intelligence?" commission is studying the problem

[EricT.]

Not only WMD, but also Al Qaeda running around Iraq before the war started. Will Ol' Teddy the Swimmer acknowledge any of this?

[Sacajaweau]

This can't be. There are no bad things or bad people in Iraq. The Gulf war and the Iran-Iraq war was a mirage. This is probably just a camel salt lick.

How many people would a 7 lb Cyanide block kill?? More than 100??

If you threw it in a local water supply tank..would it contaminate it enough to kill a local populous??

[explodingspleen]

Mmm. . . saltlick. . .

[armymarinemom]

That's a pretty big salt lick. Any experts around to say how many people that would kill?

[arasina]

Ping in case you didn't see this.

[BOBWADE]

ping

[zook]

C'mon, people. We know that this must have been part of the Iraqi metal treatment experiments that ran in conjunction with their weather balloon program.

[ErnBatavia]

Fox News' Bret Baier and Ian McCaleb contributed to this report.

...and there the media coverage ended.

[netmilsmom]

What's up with that?
Perhaps it was deemed fake like every other thing they have found.

[Williams]

So finding this cyanide, and the ricin program, don't count for exactly what reason??

[cripplecreek]

It should be clear by now that the only weapons of mass distruction that liberals will recognize are those in stockpiles covering hundreds of acres. Unfortunately stockpiles of an agent like ricin or anthrax can fit in the area of a couple of sqare feet.

[goodnesswins]

I'm thinkin' there will be lots of WMD's found, oh, about late October, 2004.....LOL.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Per my Merck Index...re: Sodium Cyanide.. "...violent poison! (their excl mark) LD (lethal dose for 50% of a given population) 15mg/kg in rats = .015gr/kg. Rats are not men (but some men are rats) Ergo a gram and a half would kill 50% of 220lb men. Potassium Cyanide 10mg/kg fatal to half a population. 7 lbs x 454 gms/lb KCN is potentially 317,800 50% fatal doses. So yeah, could do some damage in a water supply. Maybe not in LA's water supply with bazillions of gals of water, but in a small city-wide supply, yep.

[TaMoDee]

Any college Qual/Quant Lab Course student uses NaCN.

This amount of NaCN is NOTHING!!

[js1138]

In a related story, democrat presidental candidate J F Kerry said the threat was overblown.

[tcuoohjohn]

Cyanide salts are used in hundreds of manufacturing processes.

[dawn53]

No, it was fertilizer, yeah, that's the ticket, it was fertilizer.

[Quix]

Sounds like AT LEAST

IN THE DIRECTION OF

a WMD, to me!