Sarin Gas Found in Iraq

[DocFrance]

Ack, whatever. The data I find on the web is all over the place. I get everything from 1700mg as a lethal dose to a fraction of that.

Anyway, any chemist worth half his salt could make sarin. Here, a BBC journalist and a London University student did exactly that.

Still, I don't see any reason to completely dismiss this as evidence. On the other hand, this isn't exactly a smoking gun.

[Doomgaze]

There's still the matter of delivering it - lobbing it at Tel Aviv, asssuming you could get it there, would probablly kill 30 people at most. It's not like they're walking around with 2 million syringes.

[DocFrance]

There's still the matter of delivering it - lobbing it at Tel Aviv, asssuming you could get it there, would probablly kill 30 people at most. It's not like they're walking around with 2 million syringes.

What, you haven't heard of the PLAN (People's Liberation Army of Needles)? Very deadly.

OOC:	Happy Birthday, by the way.

[The Captain]

I had the "good" fortune to be in NYC a few days ago when they ran a chemical weapon attack exercise in a few subways. I was shocked at how chaotic this rehearsal went, and it makes me shiver to imagine what might occur if the real thing did indeed happen.

Take care all.

[Big D]

There's still the matter of delivering it - lobbing it at Tel Aviv, asssuming you could get it there, would probablly kill 30 people at most. It's not like they're walking around with 2 million syringes.

Sarin is extremely deadly; the liquid form vapourises quickly and is extremely lethal. The Tokyo subway terrorist attack back in the mid-90s used sarin gas. A single drop of the liquid form is enough to kill a considerable number of people. One would simply need to drop a tiny vial or a plastic blister of the stuff in a busy, confined corridor and wait for a passerby to tread on it. It's really horrific.
One breath of that stuff, and you're through, basically. It prevents muscles from relaxing, so every time your muscles contract, they don't expand again. Lungs, heart, digestive tract, limbs... it truly seems like one of the worst ways to lose one's life.

[Nemesis the Warlock]

We all knew Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons. Do you have any idea how many Kurds he murdered with them? Bush should know, because his father abandoned his former allies, and left Saddam in power so his son could deal with them. Why do you think Uday Hussein is known as Chemic Ali by the Kurds?

The real shocker is that everyone knew there are chemical weapons, yet the allied forces can't find them. They seem to be busy killing civilians at wedding parties.

[The Captain]

Ouch, I just read about that too. However, there have been reports that this "wedding party" was in the middle of a desert with pitched tents and machine guns, so I'm not sure what to believe now.

Take care all.

[Nemesis the Warlock]

Let's hope it's not true.

The BBC said 40 civilians were killed, many of them women and children. An American military spokesman (didn't catch name or rank) said they had credible 'intelligence' it was a military target. Could be another case like the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, or the Iranian passenger plane.