To: Enchante
They could still be used as IED's couldn't they?
3 posted on
06/22/2006 12:52:33 PM PDT by
moose2004
(You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
To: moose2004
"They could still be used as IED's couldn't they?"
I would strongly suspect YES, though I certainly don't know. The article does refer to such unspecified modifications that could still make them dangerous.
6 posted on
06/22/2006 12:54:10 PM PDT by
Enchante
(General Hayden: I've Never Taken a Domestic Flight That Landed in Waziristan!)
To: moose2004
Yes, But they are not " weapons of MASS destruction".
They are not nukes, or anthrax, or huge bombs.
It is a a bit like saving fire works from 10 years back.
They can still burn you, but may not blow your hand off.
I find this to be election year wanna be politics.
To: moose2004
Question is, "Would this guy want 10-15 of them in his living room?" As an Officer in the Chemical Corp, I took basic at Ft McClelland/Ft Rucker (God bless the WACS) Ala and were constantly warned to not sit on the groud in certain places as you'd get blisters from their WW1 mustard gas testing.
19 posted on
06/22/2006 12:59:01 PM PDT by
edzuk
To: moose2004
They could still be used as IED's couldn't they?
That might be tough. A while ago, about 2004, that happened, some terrorist found and improvised a mustard shell as an IED. It didn't work because mustard gas is binary, it's in two parts that mix together when the shell is fired. The spin on the shell provides the mixing necessary to generate the gas. If you just try and set it off, you won't get any mixing. The terrorist probably didn't know what he had.
On the other hand if you did know what you had, and opened the shell to extract the components without somehow killing yourself, you could have yourself a nifty little weapon.
24 posted on
06/22/2006 1:00:07 PM PDT by
MAexile
(Bats left, votes right)
To: moose2004
"They could still be used as IED's couldn't they?" Yes they could be so used and this needs to be passed along.
To: moose2004
The IED's being used at this time explode. Chemical agent munitions are a dispersive type, where there is no explosive warhead, but a venting device for the agent. They could still be used for insurgent attacks though, if the area is a controlled environment, say a Bazaar, or (think about this one) a subway system.
91 posted on
06/22/2006 2:40:40 PM PDT by
Tinman73
(Human nature requires We forget the terrible things We see. A truly intelligent person remembers it)
To: moose2004
They could still be used as IED's couldn't they? YES!
100 posted on
06/22/2006 3:14:25 PM PDT by
airborne
(Satan's greatest trick was convincing people he doesn't exist.)
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