On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote:
> 16.32 Isis jihadists have seized a chemical weapons facility built by > Saddam > Hussein which contains a stockpile of old weapons, State Department > officials have told the Wall Street Journal: > > Quote U.S. officials don't believe the Sunni militants will be able to > create a functional chemical weapon from the material. The weapons > stockpiled at the Al Muthanna complex are old, contaminated and hard to > move, officials said. > (*facepalm*) So we're not worried about it because they don't think they can create a "functional" weapon. As Bruce pointed out these folks have a huge level of ingenuity. My fear is that this is being viewed from a western lens... someone tells use, "that's expired" and many will throw it out. Seems to me that if they can kill any group of people with it they will. If a drug's potency goes down when it expires that doesn't mean it becomes inert. It becomes unpredictable. I'm not a chemist but I would say that if the age takes effectiveness down by a percentage (let's say a factor of 50%) a dispersal that would originally have killed 10,000 will now kill 5,000. That's supposed to make us feel better? Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some smelting to find it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371056 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
