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2004-05-19 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-19 1:03:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 SH: I think that they're talking about Pyridostigmine Bromide. It's been used for years to treat nervous disorders. IIRC, the Iranians first used it in the Iran-Iraq war as a nerve agent prophylactic (cheaper than gas masks, I guess), not antidote. PB has been accused as being the cause of Gulf War Syndrome.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-05-19 11:41:12 AM|| 2004-05-19 11:41:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 11A5S, as of '94, on a UNS ship threatened by chemical attack, they would issue each crew members 3 atropine auto-injectors and 2 autoinjectors of whatever 2-PAM Chloride auto-injectors to be used in between does of atropine. I think the Gulf War Syndrome was caused by something they made everybody in theater take - possibly for anthrax? I'll check your link though.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-19 3:47:20 PM|| 2004-05-19 3:47:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Gazi George's opinion seems the most likely explanation for what happened to Saddam's WMD. There will be news articles (mostly suppressed or ignored) of new WMD findings for decades to come, unfortunate Iraqi farmers and construction workers will turn up what Hans Blix never could. Probably there will be an occasional terrorist bombing in Iraq using these leftover agents. My biggest worry is that the materials spirited out of Iraq are now on their way to the US and Europe in a ship's container mixed in with thousands of others looking just like it. 5 liters is a little more than a gallon. There is no way our port security could ID something that small without an intelligence tipoff.

Posted by Tresho 2004-05-20 1:16:48 AM|| 2004-05-20 1:16:48 AM|| Front Page Top

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