[PhilDragoo]

from Iraq's weapons of mass casualty
Janes Islamic Affairs Analyst
30 January 2003
By Al Venter

In a submission before the House Armed Services Committee on 10 September 2002 biowarfare expert Dr Richard Spertzel, who spent years trying to uncover Saddam's secrets while heading the biological wing of UNSCOM in Iraq after Operation Desert Storm, said that there was some evidence that the Iraqis might now also have the deadliest nerve gas of all: Novichok. A product of the Cold War, Novichok is a dozen times more potent than any other agent easily penetrates all known gas masks produced in the West - Israel's included.

[George W. Bush]

Novichok

Oh, man. What a mess. I'll let the Pentagon worry about it and hope they don't.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

In a submission before the House Armed Services Committee on 10 September 2002 biowarfare expert Dr Richard Spertzel, who spent years trying to uncover Saddam's secrets while heading the biological wing of UNSCOM in Iraq after Operation Desert Storm, said that there was some evidence that the Iraqis might now also have the deadliest nerve gas of all: Novichok. A product of the Cold War, Novichok is a dozen times more potent than any other agent easily penetrates all known gas masks produced in the West - Israel's included.

Well, if Saddam is crazy enough to deliver just one of these things to Israel, then that will be the permanent end of our Iraq problem.

Anybody have any good ideas about what to do with a glass parking lot the size of California that glows in the dark?