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Home » Chem-Bio » CHEMICAL DEFENSES COULD AWAIT U.S. TROOPS

CHEMICAL DEFENSES COULD AWAIT U.S. TROOPS

Saddam may try to use his uncon­ven­tional weapons in uncoven­tional ways. Armies have tra­di­tion­ally unleashed chem­i­cal attacks on an enemy, fir­ing toxic bombs or artillery shells at oppos­ing troops. But Saddam may these poi­sons as defenses, turn­ing Baghdad neigh­bor­hoods so toxic that “few would want to ven­ture, even in pro­tec­tive suits,” reports the New York Times.
Mustard gas and the nerve agent VX “might linger on the bat­tle­field like pools of motor oil on the ground,” the paper spec­u­lates. The chem­i­cals would main­tain their potency for weeks.
“Iraq used a vari­a­tion of that tac­tic in its final offen­sives in its war with Iran in 1988,” the Times notes. “The Iraqis laid down mus­tard gas behind the Iranian forces, then bom­barded the front lines with the short-​​lived but highly toxic sarin. The goal was to drive the retreat­ing sarin-​​exposed troops into the mus­tard trap.“
THERE’S MORE: “U.S. troops found thou­sands of boxes of white pow­der, nerve agent anti­dote and Arabic doc­u­ments on how to engage in chem­i­cal war­fare at an indus­trial site south of Baghdad,” accord­ing to the Associated Press. “But a senior U.S. offi­cial famil­iar with ini­tial test­ing said the mate­ri­als were believed to be explosives.”

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  1. Silvia Teresa Osorio says:
    September 23, 2008 at 12:55 am

    I believe Mr. Sam wanted to put Samsung out of busi­ness when he stated: “She got our new” after I told him I couldn’t breath from all the bio­chem­i­cal bomb­ing tak­ing place at the Sandal Grove apart­ments in Lauderhill, Florida. Mr. Sam is Arabian, and they no longer have the same man­age­ment at the store where he was oper­at­ing from.
    A class action rose regard­ing this issue.
    People who don’t take warn­ings are peo­ple who believe that the real­ity of what’s hap­pen­ing in this war belongs in a higher intel­li­gent mind.
    They pre­fer to be a couch pota­tote hyp­no­tized by the tele­vi­sion, a war weapon invented by the Russian com­mu­nists over three decades ago that suc­ceeded to put to sleep all the Amricans with a ton of daily garbage so they can get caught by sur­prise every time they get hit.
    At this point, the impor­tant thing is not who is pay­ing or how much it cost, the impor­tant thing is to pro­tect our­selves from it.
    Why be sur­prised with a can­cer diag­nose when it can be pre­vented? Does any­one actu­ally believes nobody was going to retal­i­ate for the death of Arafat? Black giants are the oil busi­ness lead­ers of the world. How can you fight the rich­est peo­ple in the world?
    Especially when the exter­nal debt of the United States is the greates one on the planet.
    This are really mur­der­ers hap­pen­ing right now in the United States.
    Just heed the warn­ing and don’t expect a more intel­li­gent per­son to do the foot work for you.
    We are being bom­barded while sleep­ing throught AC units and ceil­ing fans. Get a tic tac alarm clock and find out what is really going on at three O’clock in the morn­ing and how they are killing us.
    The best way to fight this, is to keep the win­dows open. Use floor fans, and con­cen­trate on eat­ing only organic fruits and veg­eta­bles. This will help anybody’s IQ to deve­l­ope to a sur­vival point instead of a painful death of cancer.

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