Oil-for-Food a Failure From the Start? (Saddam bio labs, to put sarin in perfume bottles)

FoxNews ^ | Feb. 11, 2005 | FoxNews

[MizSterious]

Most perfumes are not sealed like food is, either. It would be easy to buy some inexpensive but well known brands and lace them with something.

Of course, some of those inexpensive brands have seemed fairly poisonous even without anything added...

[MizSterious]

You are right. A lot of the country quit looking at their mail for a long time.

Also, for low-tech terrorism, consider the two snipers who paralized a good portion of the east coast for weeks. Point being, it doesn't seem to take a lot to spook the public. A spooked public usually isn't a "shopping" public.

[Indy Pendance]

Not really, they used soda cans and lunch boxes in Japan. Sarin Poisoning on Tokyo Subway

[snip]

"The nerve gas sarin was released in commuter trains on three different Tokyo subway lines by a terrorist cult group. Sarin was concealed in lunch boxes and soft-drink containers and placed on subway train floors. It was released as terrorists punctured the containers with umbrellas before leaving the trains. The incident was timed to coincide with rush hour, when trains were packed with commuters. Over 5,500 were injured in the attack."

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[drt1]

"Of course, some of those inexpensive brands have seemed fairly poisonous even without anything added..."

You've got it there. Ever been trapped in an elevator with someone laced with this stuff? Ugh!

[drt1]

"A spooked public usually isn't a "shopping" public."

Especially when they are stoked to a frenzy of what is, likely, irrational and usually ultimately unfounded panic by a 24/7 MSM.

[pieces of time]

LOL. Dems and Hollywood could use the fashion show line along with their no WMD mantra. It always irritated me that old media latched onto the no WMD stockpiles in David Kays report and didn't bother to mention that he also said Saddam was more dangerous than we originally thought.

[HAL9000]

Sarin in perfume bottles? What an idiot that I didn't finish the novel five years ago.

It needs a catchy name, like "Eau d'Saddam".

[mewzilla]

Here's a link to the website of that conference in Munich this week, the one Rummy's attending.

Guess who's getting a medal?

[aculeus]

Excellent find.

Bump for more attention.

[FairOpinion]

"Next Saturday, when Kofi Annan will be presented the first edition of the new “peace plaque”, it will mean much more than a piece of pure silver changing hands; the Secretary-General of the United Nations will receive a symbol meant to represent the opportunity of creating peace through open dialogue. "

http://www.securityconference.de/konferenzen/2005/medal.php?menu_2005=&menu_konferenzen=&sprache=en&




This is an outrage!

[griswold3]

This can't be true!! I heard Terry McAuliffe say Sadam had NO WMD's just this morning.

[FairOpinion]

I think the Democrats should be taken on a tour of Saddam's labs, but even if they saw them with their own eyes, they would still say, that those things don't count.

Saddam was merely experimenting with "perfumes" and he thought sarin may have a pleasant smell and we wouldn't let him develop his commercial interests.

[honest2God]

5,000 injured, about a dozen killed, that is not the several thousand cited in the article. Aum shinrikyo tried using sarin again by blowing out of a van, and that didn't hurt anyone but themselves. Getting a hold of chem/bio agents is not the most difficult part, it is weaponizing it. These numbers citied are not realistic. Chem/bio weapons are a threat, but this article is hype. The definitive book on the topic is Toxic Terror by Johnathan Tucker. Also take a look at www.cns.miis.edu.

Also, the question of Iraq's WMD was the extent of the programs after 1991. Be honest about this, there is too much spin on both sides.

[Cindy]

That's a good question.

There has been so many nasty and hoax items sent to public and private people I have lost track.

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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18024233.700

http://www.google.com

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22sprayed+an+unknown+substance%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22poisoned+perfume%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22chemicals+in+perfume%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0

[kizzdogg]

self mark

[LowOiL]

Another Self Mark...

[Mo1]

. It always irritated me that old media latched onto the no WMD stockpiles in David Kays report and didn't bother to mention that he also said Saddam was more dangerous than we originally thought.

I wonder if they actually read the report

Hmmm ... how did Tommy Franks describe it in his book ? ... it was like a dismantled pistol sitting on the table just waiting for it to be put together

[Lady Heron]

Depends on the quality???

[MindBender26]

Forget Sarin. Forget any chem.

Go Bio with one tester bottle, with a heavy duty respiratory infectious agent, with say about a 48 hour incubation period, a 72 hour mild symptoms but very contagious stage, then a 12 hour death cycle.

No one would ever trace it.

One woman switching tester bottles in 3 stores in greater NYC. Disaster.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"5,000 injured, about a dozen killed, that is not the several thousand cited in the article."

Are you saying that you would not mind being in the injured or killed group? Are you saying that if this happened near you that you would not be terrorized?

Talk about being honest. BE HONEST HERE.