Expert: Chlorine Attacks Hard to Stop (AP)

[Eugene]

Expert: Chlorine Attacks Hard to Stop


Tuesday March 20, 2007 3:46 AM

By MIKE CORDER

Associated Press Writer

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A chemical warfare expert said Monday the
chlorine gas-loaded weapons used by Iraqi insurgents amount to “chemical
dirty bombs” and will be hard to stop.

However, the insurgents so far appear only to have access to a rudimentary
and inefficient method of spreading the gas - blowing it up in suicide
bombings.

Jonathan Tucker, a visiting Fulbright fellow at the German Institute for
International and Security Affairs, said there is little that can be done
to stop the attacks because chlorine, which is used for water purification
across Iraq, is so widely available.

“They can try to limit access to chlorine ... but given the black market
situation that would be difficult to do,” he said in a telephone interview
during a visit to The Hague.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6493677,00.html

[wildbilln864]

1. Man that's so disturbing.

Chlorine gas is easy to make. Even by accident as I found out one day when doing some cleaning.
Get our men and women(and my nephew) out of Iraq now goddamn it! :banghead:

[Quantess]

2. Sounds horrifying. (eom)

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Boy, that's the damned truth...

It took the city of South Charleston West Virginia about 75 years to stop the ones FMC used to cause!

Chlorine gas is as bad as it sounds too. It tears you up quickly. If you've ever lived or worked around where they make Chlorine...you probably already know how bad it is. Far worse than the riot control gasses, like CS, or Tear Gas. I've been in it several times and it ain't funny stuff. The blood gas test that they do at the hospital after you're exposed to a bad dose of Chlorine gas, hurts real bad too.