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2006-05-24 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Oztralian 2006-05-24 19:07|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Obviously amateurs. Though civilians are the optimal target for chemical weapons, their choice of weapons is based on some TV show they saw once.

There are literally hundreds of untracked industrial chemicals of extraordinary toxicity that can easily be obtained via a corrupt toxic waste disposal company.

Many of these are regularly transported in bulk in tanker trucks over major highways through population centers without notice.

The rest is easy.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-24 19:22|| 2006-05-24 19:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, amateurs. Hydrogen cyanide was effective when contained in the Nazi gas chambers (though Tehran denies it happened), but it has never been used as a field weapon (aside from possibly some Saddam experimentation), and for good reasons. I see and welcome a future full of terrorist work accidents.

"Al-Qaeda has conducted experiments on dogs and rabbits exposing them to the fumes and forcing them to die harrowing deaths."
If they knew where to look, they could find far more toxicity data than they could develop themselves, especially for the industrial chemicals. But I suspect that their experimentation has more to do with visually impressing their scientifically-ignorant jihadi masters than with actually obtaining useful data.

Posted by Darrell 2006-05-24 20:01|| 2006-05-24 20:01|| Front Page Top

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