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To: PowderMonkey
Ohhh! A mysterious tube-like structure. Huge gas bottles. Coupled with the source, the story is simply not believable. Seems to be told by people who have no idea what chemical weapons even look like

A chemical weapon can be in any form. Naturally, it's handier if it is packaged for end user; however a simple gas cylinder with a grenade around the valve will kill just as well.

Additionally, if the gas is distributed in unmarked, generic cylinders then it's harder to associate it with any specific source - like Saudi Arabia, for example.

I tend to think If insurgents were being supplied with this stuff, it would be in the form of artillery shells, mortar rounds, or perhaps rockets.

Rebels, as I understand, don't have much of artillery or missiles. What they have may use a wrong caliber. Saudis are armed with US weapons; Syria is armed with USSR's weapons. The rebels' sort of delivery technology would be a junky Toyota pickup, loaded with a few of those gas cylinders and a small explosive charge, driven by a suicide bomber. Another option is to leave the chemical weapon behind during a retreat and activate it remotely, once the enemy forces are in range.

78 posted on 08/31/2013 8:33:38 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: Greysard
Be sure to watch the video in comment #54.
80 posted on 08/31/2013 8:36:00 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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