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Pastimes : Office of Special Plans
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To: PartyTime who started this subject2/12/2004 4:32:26 PM
From: TigerPaw   of 19
 
The misinformation deptartment of special plans was always good for a laugh.

<font color=maroon>Italian police say they have arrested four Moroccans who were planning <font color=red>a chemical attack in Rome<font color=maroon>, targeting buildings which included <font color=red>the United States embassy <font color=maroon>.... It is suspected that they were intending to <font color=red>poison the water supplies<font color=maroon> in a commercial area of the capital where the US embassy is located...The four kilos of the substance in the possession of the four Moroccans is reported to be<font color=red> sufficient to poison the water supply of an entire neighbourhood<font color=maroon>, and cause dozens of deaths.
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news.bbc.co.uk

Of course it turned out that these guys were found with a chemical called Potassium ferrocyanide , used to make ink. The Bush league was always more afraid of critical press reports than chemical weapons anyway.

<font color=green>"If this substance had been put in the water network it appears that it would not have been capable of causing any damage whatsoever," said Emilio del Mese, a top government official in Rome.

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intelmessages.org

The episode did get the danger of <font color=navy>chemical weapons<font color=black> widely reported.
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