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To: TigerPaw who wrote (229745)2/21/2002 5:39:20 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
It doesn't change anything. You misrepresented the actual content of the articles, pretending that it was all much ado about nothing. That is why I brought up other alternatives, like having grabbed the wrong substance, because it is pretty clear the intent was there. That they may have made a mistake does not mean it was a trivial arrest.

By the way, even assuming your chemistry lessen is correct, and that it is potassium ferrocyanide, you can infer nothing about how much gas they might ultimately have generated. There was no lab, so it is possible there is a lab elsewhere, or that they were just beginning to pull things together, and would have procured more later. Overall, you have precisely no idea yet of how big a threat they might have been......



To: TigerPaw who wrote (229745)2/25/2002 6:45:46 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
Hi TigerPaw; Re Potassium Ferrocyanide. Yeah, most people I asked said that they wouldn't mind drinking water with KFe(CN)2 (or whatever the formula is). So why did the newspapers report it? You'd think that it would have been ignored, since the threat was so weak.

-- Carl