[avacado]

"Former U.N. weapons inspectors told ABCNews.com that vials of phosgene had also been used by inspectors in Iraq to help calibrate air sampling instruments."

I'm calling BS on that statement! I am no expert, so FReepers please correct me, but phosgene is not used to calibrate air sampling equipment. There is air sampling equipment designed to DETECT phosgene.

I think this is the MSM pulling a fast one.

[drzz]

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=4e4R1tDm1DQ

[penelopesire]

“I think this is the MSM pulling a fast one.”

I think the weasals at Unmovic and the UN are ‘pulling a fast one’!! I can find no mention of phosgene or carbonyl cloride(it’s chemical name in any of the weapons reports ever submitted to the UN so far. I am still looking though.

[jveritas]

That is surprising to me as well.

[KarlInOhio]

If you had a piece of equipment that measured the concentration of phosgene in the air, I could understand that you might need samples with a known concentration of phosgene to calibrate it. Snap in your 1 part per million sample and make sure your equipment reads it as 1 ppm instead of 2 ppm.

However no one has told what concentration of phosgene was in the vials found at the UN.

[tobyhill]

The media is spinning every way they can waiting to see what the sheeple buy. The chems were logged as being found in 1996 from an operational chemical storage depot. The mandate for Saddam to destroy his WMD was well before 1996 so it doesn’t really matter what year it was made, it was found but not all was found. I helped decommission a chem depot in Europe in early 90s and none of what we had was less than 20 years old but was still highly potent and still subject to use.