http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5dumpoct30,0,986529.story?coll=all-news-hed&track=mostemailedlink
From The Morning Call -- October 30, 2005
"Army secret surfaces: Deadly chemicals at sea"
"Millions of pounds of unused weapons of mass destruction were dumped in oceans before Congress banned the practice in 1972. The threat is still out there, and may be growing."
By John Bull
Special to The Morning Call
First of a two-day series
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Daily Press investigation also found:
These weapons of mass destruction virtually ring the country, concealed off the coasts of at least 11 states: six on the East Coast, including New Jersey and Maryland, two on the Gulf Coast, and in California, Hawaii and Alaska. Few, if any, state officials have been informed of their existence.
The chemical agents could pose a hazard for generations. The Army has examined only a few of its 26 dump zones, and none in 30 years.
The Army can't say exactly where all the weapons were dumped from World War II to 1970. Army records are sketchy, missing or were destroyed.
More dump sites probably exist. The Army hasn't reviewed records from the World War I era, when ocean dumping of chemical weapons was common."
Note: The following post is an exact quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513132/posts
Rio drug kingpin slain after 2-day reign
Reuters ^ | 31 Oct 2005
Posted on 10/31/2005 10:56:05 PM PST by ncountylee
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A Rio de Janeiro gangster who claimed the throne of a drug kingpin killed on Saturday was himself slain after only a two-day reign, shanty town residents said on Monday.
Police were looking for corpses of the gangster Orlando Rodrigues, known as Soul, and four henchmen after being tipped off the killings were the result of a power struggle for control of the drugs trade in Rio's biggest slum, Rocinha.
"All the information comes from the residents of the slum. So far no bodies have been found and we cannot confirm the deaths, but search will continue," a police spokesman said.
Slum residents are often the primary source of information about murders in the shanty towns that are not regularly patrolled by police, who say these reports rarely prove wrong.
According to local media, witnesses said intense gunfire broke out in Rocinha before dawn on Monday though it was not clear if that was when he was killed, for sporadic shooting has been heard since Saturday.
Quoting residents, Agencia Estado news agency said Soul was killed on the orders of two of his own men, known as Nem and Joca, who had now assumed control after the "coup d'etat".
Police have occupied Rocinha to search for the corpses.
Police killed Soul's predecessor, Erismar Moreira, known as Bem-Te-Vi, early on Saturday morning after raiding Rocinha to arrest him.
(Excerpt) Read more at alertnet.org ...
Now, we have a reason for all the mystery deaths of the fish, in time there is a chance the containers have split open.......
Do these dumped containers have anything to do with the reports of too much mercury in fish?
Do you recall a year or more ago, we had a report of bullets in crushed clam shells for driveways?
As I recall, they were large ones not small.
The below, is from page 2 of the chemical weapons dumped at sea in post #4867...it is "The rest of the story".
Granny
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"It was the first ocean-dumped chemical weapon to
make its way to shore in the United States.
It was pulled up with clams in relatively shallow water only 20 miles off the coast of Atlantic City. The
Army had no idea chemical weapons were dumped in the area.
Most alarming: It was found intact in a residential driveway in Delaware.
It had survived being dredged up and put through a crusher to create cheap clamshell driveway fill
sold throughout the Delmarva Peninsula in Delaware and Maryland."
Thanks for the note. Interesting.
Folks if you have not read all 6 pages in the link at 4867,
then you will want to do so, no matter where you live, if near the ocean, you could be exposed to these chemicals.
There is to be a second part, it was due on the 31st of October, but I could not find it, if you do please bring back the url. Pretty please.
It does explain some of the blistered dolphins and other fish and people who have been burned by the chemicals.
It appears that the whole _______world went out and dumped all the weapons they could find and wanted to get rid of.
It will give you something to think about.
It appears that the site is in Pennsylvania.
Bump!