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More Info on the WMD Shells from FOX
Except from Fox News report on WMD shells - hattip to Human Events... -Snip- Previously reported materialIraqi Scientist: You Will Find More Gazi George, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist under Saddamâs regime, told Fox News he believes many similar weapons stockpiled by the former regime were either buried underground or transported to Syria. He noted that the airport where the device was detonated is on the way to Baghdad from the Syrian border. George said the finding likely will be the first in a series of discoveries of such weapons. "Saddam is the type who will not store those materials in a military warehouse. Heâs gonna store them either underground, or, as I said, lots of them have gone west to Syria and are being brought back with the insurgencies," George told Fox News. "It is difficult to look in areas that are not obvious to the militaryâs eyes. Iâm sure theyâre going to find more once time passes," he continued, saying one year is not enough for the survey group or the military to find the weapons. Saddam, when he was in power, had declared that he did in fact possess mustard-gas filled artilleries but none that included sarin. "I think what we found today, the sarin in some ways, although itâs a nerve gas, itâs a lucky situation sarin detonated in the way it did ... itâs not as dangerous as the cocktails Saddam used to make, mixing blister" agents with other gases and substances, George said. Artillery shells of the 155-mm size are as big as it gets when it comes to the ordnance lobbed by infantry-based artillery units. The 155 howitzer can launch high capacity shells over several miles; current models used by the United States can fire shells as far as 14 miles. One official told Fox News that a conventional 155-mm shell could hold as much as "two to five" liters of sarin, which is capable of killing thousands of people under the right conditions in highly populated areas. The Iraqis were very capable of producing such shells in the 1980s but itâs not as clear that they continued after the first Gulf War... Nerve gases work by inhibiting key enzymes in the nervous system, blocking their transmission. Small exposures can be treated with antidotes, if administered quickly. Antidotes to nerve gases similar to sarin are so effective that top poison gas researchers predict they eventually will cease to be a war threat. I hope they are talking about something better than Atropine and 2PAM Chloride injectors. I have seen many a crashing patient on ER receive Atropine, but they always flatline anyway. Maybe Dr. White has some more encouraging news. Posted by: Super Hose 2004-05-19 |
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