Article

2004-10-10 Iraq-Jordan

Duelfer report describes Zarqawi's pursuit of chemical weapons

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-10-10 3:20:08 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 incorrect amounts of the precursors and inadequate processes
Sounds like somebody is trying cookbook recipies. Fortunately the sort of person that would be able to sucessfully produce a militarily useful quantity and deploy it effectively can usualy find more productive employment elsewhere. Given the problems these guys have with plain old explosives (Is it the red or the blue wire, Ahmed?) the thought of adding (insert favorite persitant agent here) is for me distressing only because of the numbers of potential (relatively!) innocent bystanders involved.

Still, its good that our side got ahead of the curve here. NBC suits are uncomfortable to operate in.

Posted by N Guard 2004-10-10 8:01:05 AM|| 2004-10-10 8:01:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Another factor is that chemical and bio-weapons are the other two legs of the WMD 'triad'. The US has the option to respond in kind whenever WMD are used against itself or its allies.

I'm under the impression that the US has eschewed chemical and bio-weapons. If so, that leaves one other kind of weapon, and the US has quite a few of them.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-10-10 8:42:50 AM|| 2004-10-10 8:42:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The US has no bio weapons. The US has been destroying chem weapons stocks under the Chemical Weapons Convention and all stocks are supposed to destroyed by 2007. The US may be behind schedule (extensions are in the treaty) since we may be pacing destruction of our stocks with the FSU's stock destruction. The FSU is behind schedule.

Posted by ed 2004-10-10 12:40:34 PM|| 2004-10-10 12:40:34 PM|| Front Page Top

09:26 dennisw
09:26 dennisw
01:07 Ebbinesh Hupinerong1733
09:26 dennisw
09:26 dennisw
04:29 Thriger Clusing2422
04:36 Thriger Clusing2422
16:27 Frank G
16:11 Ibraheem
11:48 lex
09:18 Robert Crawford
09:12 2b
09:11 2b
09:07 Mike Sylwester
08:58 2b
08:55 2b
01:01 Zenster (not Gluper Hupeating3882)
00:56 Zenster (not Gluper Hupeating3882)
00:55 Jack
00:48 Stephen
00:12 polyamorous moonbat
00:07 mojo
23:54 A. Bungfodder
23:48 A. Bungfodder